One map, two ways

B-PLOT collaboration in process … Here, Little India, Singapore. One map, two ways.

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I'm so honoured to be the 2016 Founder’s Award recipient for Remembering 1209 in Artist as Quiltmaker: the 17th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Quilts, now through July 31, 2016, in Oberlin, OH, USA. The show is juried by Mark Newport, head of the Fibers Department at Cranbrook and the maker of these sweatermen costumes, embroidered record covers, and other amazings.

Remembering 1209
Old Rayon/Cotton Curtain panel, Discarded Men’s White Cotton Shirt, Organic Cotton, Cotton Batting, Thread
GPS Track Recordings, Pencil Drawing, Machine Piecing, Free-motion Stitching
37 x 24
Made in Singapore
2015

Charles Counts

Untitled, by Charles Counts, made by Rubynelle Counts and members of the New Salem Community, c. 1965

source: Robert Shaw, The Art Quilt (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1997)

“Log Cabin” blocks arranged in a pattern called “Straight Furrow.” Pennsylvania. ca. 1890. Cotton. 74 x 74

from Jonathan Holstein's Abstract Design in American Quilts: A Biography of an Exhibition (Louisville, KY: The Kentucky Quilt Project Inc, 1991)

Stephen Sollins

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Elergy (Tulips), 2003 (source: Arthur Roger Gallery)

Stephen Sollins
Elergy (Tulips), 2003
embroidery and removed embroidery
49.5 x 53.25 inches