Exhibition Year Archives

Reflection of the Bayou

Mary Jo Eckhart

Canvas embroidery in free form bargello pattern, bead embellishments. This is the second piece in a series of bargello and beads. I am having fun working my own patterns and colorways.

Behind the Beautiful Garden is Messy

Mary Jo Eckhart

Italian hand-dyed silks, beads accentuate hand-stitched on open-weave linen. I no longer garden due to several severe allergic reactions to poison ivy. This little garden grew easily as I played with the beautiful silks and then added beads. The back reminds me of all the behind-the-scenes labors needed to create a beautiful garden.

A Path for Reminiscing

Barbie Eich

Using silk and many layers of fabric, I took my photo & made a quilt of it. This is a computer altered photo of a path I was on. It is reminiscent of my life. Besides silk, I layered many different fabrics.

Floating Colors

Barbie Eich

As Teacher Annie Lullie taught me, I learned to use color. A no-sew technique & adding stuff completed it. “Floating Colors” just kept going; beads, yarns, stitching all got to move on the fabric.

Bubbling Fountains

Shirley B. Engelstein

Wrapping. Interlooping. Acrylic yarn with 5% metallic bound over loops created from various media including metal & duct tape on lucite bases. I would like the viewer to share my joy and excitement whenever I see the movement of water rising and falling – defying gravity over and over again.

Enchanted Forest

Shirley B. Engelstein

Winding. Mohair yarn is wrapped around linen cording. Sewing trunks & limbs onto heavy woven cotton fabric. I would like the viewer to be transported to a safe, embracing feeling symbolized by the “Enchanted Forest”.