Sep 10, 2026 | About Women Artists
There’s a Problem with How Museums Talk about Craft Museums honor the techniques and materials used when it comes to paintings and sculptures. They do this by including the information on the label, they tell us this painting is by Mary Cassatt, an American...
Aug 28, 2026 | My Art & Studio
The dyes in the photo above are mud dye – the reddish one; on the right is kakishibu persimmon dye that’s been shifted to gray, and the blue is a piece of fabric that fell to the bottom of the indigo vat some unknown number of months ago! Here’s a...
Jun 29, 2026 | My Art & Studio
I couple of years ago, I took an “Art on the Meadow” workshop at Ox-Bow School of Art in Michigan. The Art on the Meadow classes are the shorter, more affordable workshops for locals, as opposed to the week-long, residential workshops. The photos above are...
Jun 26, 2026 | About Creativity
Here are two terrific books that I wish had been available years ago, each on a subject of turning things blue. One is on cyanotype and one is on shibori. Before each of these books came out, the books that existed were at the opposite ends of the spectrum: there were...
Jun 26, 2026 | My Art & Studio
I’ve just scrolled through my photos for the whole year – here we are, more than half way through the year already – looking for ideas of what to post about. The year started off with a bang, I had a solo show of cyanotypes, a micro show, also of...
Jun 26, 2026 | Sewing Resources
As a teaching artist who teaches a minimum of 3 sewing classes a week, and sometimes as many as 6 – I get asked a lot “What sewing machine should I buy?” I’m happy to answer that question, but folks don’t always like what they hear,...
Apr 1, 2026 | My Art & Studio
This blog post is to be helpful to curators putting together shows, and to collectors looking for which of my artworks are available for purchase. Eventually, this may be a whole special page on my website, and for starters, we’ll do this as a post. I’ll...
Jan 17, 2026 | My Art & Studio
Cyanotypes Large and Small Unusually, I’m in three shows at once right now, all in the near western suburbs of Chicago. I’ve just installed my solo show, “Collected Specimens,” at the Trailside Museum of Natural History. Here’s what I...
Dec 30, 2025 | Calls for Art, Micro Galleries
From the Oak Park Art League website – How small can you work and still maintain your style? After last year’s Microcosm Exhibit, you know what to expect! Think dollhouse meets fine art gallery. Can you capture your artistic vision in miniature while creating an...
Dec 30, 2025 | My Art & Studio
Here’s what’s coming in 2026 – Surprise Mail Club Membership! I’m launching a Surprise Mail Club! You’ll get something in the mail every quarter. Exactly what, you won’t know! But, here are some ideas – a 4″ x 6″...
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Hello Elaine, a while ago I was having a blah day when suddenly your healing quilts popped into my mind.…
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