This garden was created with my stash of candy wrappers…fabric and thread. “No candy was harmed in the making of this piece!” (Hand-dyed and commercial fabrics, candy wrappers, found objects, trapped threads, tulle, machine stitched.)
Exhibition Year Archives
Garden Confection
Garden HuesPat Kroth
My garden is sometimes neglected. Fabric and thread helps me create a garden that needs no weeding, watering and is always in bloom. (Hand dyed, hand cut fabrics, improv composition, machine stitched.)
RagtimePat Kroth
Made playfully from recycled and cast-off materials, I explore the notions of need, want, excess and waste. (Hand-dyed and commercial fabrics, over-dyed recycled clothing, threads. Improv composition. Machine stitched.)
String Theory StrataPat Kroth
I find beauty in the cast-off elements that surround me. Working in an improvisational manner, I play with light, color and movement. (Hand-dyed and commercial fabrics, over-dyed recycled clothing, thread yarn, discarded fibers. Machine stitched.)
TurbulencePat Kroth
Many things cause turbulence in our lives: the economy, politics, social disparity, health, personal loss, emotional unrest, mental hardships…and the wind. (Machine stitched yarns, threads, fibers. Shaped and stiffened.)
Uncertain TimesPat Kroth
Danger and caution tape are physical barriers to keep us in/out, safe or in peril. The title refers to an often-used phrase of the last year “These Uncertain Times”. (Plastic caution and construction warning tape, bird-fencing, hand-dyed and commercial fabric. Machine stitched.)
If Not Now, When?Ronna Leibach
Inspired by a class on social justice, this was inspired by the quote from Rabbinic Sage Hillel. “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I. If not now, when?” This piece is a call for those to personally pull others out of theContinue reading “If Not Now, When?
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Water LilliesRonna Leibach
This quilt was from a workshop with Ellen Linder, focusing on landscape art quilting. (Fused, quilted.)
Savannah at DuskLinda Madigan
(Hand woven, twill variation. Cotton warp, Swedish wool weft.)