A New Day, Fiber Art, 15×18 plus hanger Patricia Ann Chaffee is a fiber artist, an award-winning writer, a published poet, and author of Synchronicity- Two Hearts, One Spirit, A Forbidden Love. She has been weaving words together most of her life as a writer and has recently discovered a passion for fiber arts. In […]
Stitched Horizons, watercolor with embroidered stitching Marion Sparago is a mostly self-taught artist and maker, living in Cheshire, Connecticut. Marion is an Assistant Dean in the School of Education at Quinnipiac University. Over the last 40 years, Marion has taken several art classes from various local municipality organizations but has also learned techniques from watching […]
Among the Pages, Lindsay Bernays Randolph studied at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (currently Arson Villa) in Nice, France and earned a BFA in sculpture. She has been involved with many aspects of the creative process across many different mediums, from paper to canvas to fiber to metal to actual products and brands. Upon […]
Brook Trout, printed and handpainted papers, 20×30 Kari tew is a multi-media artist.Her work has been seen in ceramics monthly, clay timesand country living magazine. Kari’s career began after earning her BFA in Ceramics from theMaine College of Art & Design. After graduating, she started Tolk Ceramics and ran thebusiness until starting a family in […]
Light the Darkness Joan Blade Johnson is a Hampton, Connecticut based fiber artist who exhibits nationally and internationally. She is a longtime lover of all things fiber and sells her art quilts and Eco Printed silk scarves in a number of Connecticut galleries, and at artisan and museum gift shops. Joan is a Registered Dietitian […]
Spring, strips of cloth & fancy cut cloth combined with water soluble stabilizer & machine quilted. Mounted on canvas, 12 x 12 Born and raised on an 80acre farm in Linden, Michigan, Gina Grubb Frank discovered her love of sewing at an early age while watching her grandmother work at a treadle sewing machine in […]
Gwiazda, handcut papercutting, 20×20 Gillian Jackson is a papercut artist, designer and fabricator. Gillian creates papercuttings in the Polish Folk Art tradition wycinanki, functional objects and educational interactive exhibits for the public. Although the environmental issues facing our planet often feel insurmountable, Jackson creates to ground herself in the things worth saving and make sense of […]
Murmurs, vintage American newsprint on canvas, tint, methyl cellulose, 15in h x 36in w Christopher Leo Cloutier (1960 -) is an American artist, Art/Poster restorer, and Filmmaker who has created works in his Brooklyn art space since 1983. His restoration studio, Posterfix, opened in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 2010. Chris Cloutier is known for […]
A Beautiful Unraveling, fiber and acrylic on canvas 14×20 Amy LaBossiere is an award-winning mixed-media artist whose work explores grief, healing, and emotional transformation. Working with layered surfaces that incorporate fiber, paint, found fabrics, and objects, she creates tactile narratives that investigate resilience, recovery, and human connection. Her work has been exhibited regionally and is […]
Electric Matierials, mixed media. cardboard, tissue paper, tinfoil, acrylic paint, beads and glass on canvas, 30x 24 Kate Street majored in Psychology at the University of Maine and minored in English Literature. She also has a Master’s Degree in Health and Wellness from Springfield College. Though art had always been a life-long passion, she never […]
Nesting Kim Kordonowy was an “Air Force Brat”, who grew up in many locations including Tokyo, Japan. Her grandmother, an artist, was an early inspiration, as was her mother, a seamstress and crafter. Kim received a B.S at the University of Missouri in Interior Design and worked as a professional designer and member of the […]
Time Pieces collage on canvas, 12h x 9w Molly Waite Lund is an analog collage artist who lives in Essex, Connecticut. As a self-taught artist, Lund is continuously experimenting with color, shape, relationships, and negative space. She is compelled to repurpose vintage papers as a reminder of the history that has shaped her life. In […]
Waiting for Wind, art papers on canvas, 20×20 Pat is a self-taught artist. Art has always been a part of Pat’s life, beginning at a very young age. Pat was influenced early on by her grandmother, who took painting classes and filled her basement with paintings and her brother who grew up to be a […]
Hocus Pocus, gel printed papers, stencils, acrylic paint, newsprint, charcoal, twine on canvas, 20×20 Regina Thomas’ collage and mixed media art is a mélange of visual stimuli, colors, and shapes involving different genres from the representational to the abstract. These multi-layered works portray her view of the world, never realistic, injecting her own narratives, metaphors, […]
So Windy, mixed media, 14in h x 12in w Marianne Dietz hails from Long Island, New York. She and her husband, Bob, came to Connecticut 43 years ago, settled in Madison and raised two children. Marianne worked as an Executive Assistant in the business and academic world for more than 40 years. Most recently, at […]
Owl in the Night, hand-dyed silk gauze, fine merino wool Cathy Lovell’s lifelong interest in the creative arts continues to guide her through a gratifying career as both art educator and studio artist. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire and Wesleyan University, Cathy has taught in the Newton, MA, Greenwich, CT and East […]
Welcome Spring Diana has always loved handmade items. As a child, she was influenced by many of her aunts who spent hours knitting, crocheting, sewing, and trying newly discovered arts and crafts. She was the recipient of many handmade items, which she treasured. Over the years Diana tried her hand at a variety of crafts […]
Safer Shores Joanna Kline is originally from the Boston area, but has resided in Connecticut since 1999. She studied fine art at the School for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Tufts University as well as receiving a post graduate certificate in Museum Education through Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Joanna studied the history […]
Russian Lady I. Fabric on Canvas Violet Aitken is an artist based in Cheshire, CT, whose work addresses themes of self-identity through female ancestry and the obscurity of childhood memories through time. During her time at Roger Williams University in RI, she received the Fitzgerald Award in 2023 and the Senior Excellence in Visual Arts […]
Quiet Cove, woven papers, 16×20 Diane Rubacha of Middletown earned a degree in fine art from Middlesex Community College, a degree in art education from Central Connecticut State University, and has taken workshops in painting, collage, and printmaking. Working primarily in watercolor and relief printmaking, her work depicts subjects observed locally and during her travels. […]
In Tandem. Cut Paper. 11×14 Pat Parente has spent many years as a graphic designer, working at Coleco during the exciting Cabbage Patch days as package and collateral designer and later at Aetna in Corporate Communications. Later she earned a teaching certificate and found great joy working with the math interventionist at John Wallace Middle […]
Copper Quilt, Log Cabin Style, yarn, copper wire on raw silk, 16×16 The natural world inspires Diane’s work by offering constantly-refreshed images of arresting loveliness. Tolstoy said, “Love all creation…love every leaf.” In that spirit, she uses fiber to create images that combine fragility with strength and the evanescent with the eternal. Her work includes […]
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