A Night of Many Blessings (4-11-08)

On April 11th, a great deal of wonderful things came into my life. I've been very busy planning and working on finals so I haven't had time to blog about them. But now, a few days before I leave for California, I am catching up.


The Finn-Storey family created a new scholarship in honor of their late daughter Cathrine who also studied Textile Design at Moore. My department selected me to be the first recipient of this scholarship. Words can not describe how thankful I am for this endowment, especially at time of such economic stress.


Too add to my blessings this night, I also won the Sarah Peter Travel Fellowship for my California Proposal and my exhibit featuring 11 photographs and 3 textile prints.

Lisa Imperial and I were two of the four award recipients that night.

So, on Wednesday May 21st I head out to California for two weeks to explore the terrain and learn about a new coast. I will be visiting San Francisco, the Shasta Lakes, Yosemite, Big Sur, Los Angels, and San Diego. I intend to pass through most of California and stay in key sites of different settings with dramatic landscape and urban culture. I can not wait to see where all of this research will take me.

Contrast Pocket Progress (or Rauschenberg + Plaid + Inner Turmoil)

Timothea Canny

This is a silk screening project my classmate Timmi is working on. She is amazing. (view her blog on my favorites)

City Fabulous

Monday was such a dreary day in Philly.

This is the same graffiti print I've been working on, but in a completely different color-way.  This color-way was inspired by the pavement I walk on every day.  I plan to go back into the print and hand paint some of the shapes to look like stones.

This is my purple satin city-fabulous version.  The small shapes are printed with silver pigment and the graffiti is in gold.  I had a lot of fun pretending this was a cape when I was done printing it.

Graffiti print

Textile Room finds

Bright Philly & Screen Printing

This was such a beautiful day to be in Philadelphia. Spring has sprung.



These are all prints that I made from a photography. They are all based off the same screen print, but some of the patterns have activated backgrounds.

A detail of that one:
A sheer light green silk printed with two color dye, unregistered.
A two layered print - off-white on white - cotton, shibori-ed silk


Similar, white on gray shibori-ed silk
A detail of that print:

Another color-way, this time turned upside down. It creates a completely different feeling.

A bright color-way:
A detail: