Fiber Festival 2011
The featured artist this year is Ann Loveless of Quilts by Ann inFrankfort,Michigan. Ann is a quilt artist that captures the beauty of northernMichiganin her art quilts. Ann has a clothing and textile degree with an emphasis in art fromMichiganStateUniversity. She has had a love of sewing and fabric all her life and since 2005 has found her calling in art quilts. The subject matter in her quilts include birch trees, flowers, ferns, sunsets, sparkling water and many other favorite nature scenes. Her fine sense of color punctuates her designs along with using batik fabrics, yarns, tulle, angelina fiber and lots of thread for texture and depth.
Ann’s art quilt “Trillium” is currently on display at the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids as a submission for Art Prize. In the last five years Ann had 17 of her quilts accepted in national juried quilt shows around the country. Her art quilts can be seen at State of the Art Framing & Gallery in Beulah, Gallery Fifty in Traverse City, and Ward & Eis Gallery in Petoskey and on her website at www.quiltsbyann.com
Fiber Festival exhibitors are Sarah Bearup-Neal, art quilts; Heather Harris-Brady, felted accessories; Jan Hinds, fiber vessels; Stephen Kostyshyn, basketry; Bonnie Greenwald, art dolls; Cynthia Hilliard, natural yarns and gourd art; Linda Kustra, hand knit wearable’s; Krys Lieffers, hand woven rugs; Krystal Ann Miller, tapestry bags; Chris Roosien, hand painted yarn; Becky Ross and Julie Funk, felted and recycled wool items; Carol Salerno, hand woven scarves; Holly Sorenson, hand woven wall pieces; Christie Trout, coiled pine needle baskets and Barbara Waddell, mixed media fiber.
The Leelanau Community Cultural Center is sponsoring the 11th annual Fiber Festival on Friday, October 7 from 5 to 8 pm and Saturday, October 8 from 10 am to 5 pm at the Old Art Building in Leland. Artists with original fiber art will exhibit and sell their work in mediums of paper, wearable art (clothing), textile bags,weaving, art quilts, fiber sculpture, knits and yarns. Admission to the show is free.
Opening: Friday, October 7 5:00-8:00 pm
Exhibition: Saturday, October 8 10:00 am-5:00 pm
