out loud art
“Good Trouble”
20 x 16 silk collage on canvas
"I Want YOU !" Violence Transformed's 15th Annual Invitational Exhibit GOOD TROUBLE, Cambridge, MA April 2022 at the College Town Gallery AND "Unnatural Election" online exhibit curated by Andrea Arroyo. Also featured in OppArt for The Nation news magazine.
Limited Edition Prints Available, see Prints tab
“Beaten brutally on a bridge, an Orator for Our Age, a Congressman for the Decades
“There comes a time when you have to say something.
You have to make a little noise.
You have to move your feet.
...we have a mission and a mandate to be on the right side of history.”
John Lewis tells us, 'Get in good trouble, necessary trouble'.
Believe him, lest Bad Trouble win this day.
Detail of thread painting on silk for “Good Trouble”
Featured in OppArt for The Nation news magazine on January 6th, 2022, to commemorate the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection
“Violence Transformed” invitational exhibit of 14 artists, co-curated by Mary Harvey, Harvard Professor, Town Commons Gallery, Cambridge, MA 2022
“Treasonous Clowns”
20 x 24 paper and silk collage
“‘Treasonous Clowns’ from left are QAnon Shaman, early 20th century Knight of KKK, Proud Boy in Charlottesville and civil war confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest who executed 300 Black Union troops in April of 1864 after they had surrendered. He later became the first Grand Wizard of the KKK. This work mimics the flag raising at Iwo Jima; the clowns are standing in a 3D silk organza Declaration of Independence that is burnt on all edges.”
Featured in OppArt for The Nation news magazine on January 6th, 2022, to commemorate the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection
“Violence Transformed” invitational exhibit of 14 artists, co-curated by Mary Harvey, Harvard Professor, Town Commons Gallery, Cambridge, MA 2022
Recipient of the Anna Walinska Medal of Honor Award for Mixed Media/Collage 2021 132nd Annual Members Exhibit National Association of Women ArtistsOne Art Space Gallery, Manhattan, NYC October 16 - 23rd
“Legacy”
“Former President Trump faces off with President Biden over the Covid crisis. The virus replica casting a shadow over Trump's face. The shadow reflects the dark tragedy of over a half million deaths, many of them unnecessary had our federal policies addressed issues of PPE, testing, therapeutics, and vaccine distribution. “
40” x 30” mounted on gallery wrapped canvas
Covid ball hangs 12” in front of piece from acrylic rod attached to canvas. Artist dyed archival paper stitched onto dyed silk. Faces are textile and painted; Biden’s hair is crocheted and Trump’s is stitched using dyed batting
“Women Take Issue” Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, February, 2022
2021 “FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social an Politically Engaged Art” Reece Museum. Johnson City, TN Oct 4 - Dec 10. Juror: PBS ART21’s Michael Ray Charles
The Robert J Alphonso Award
2021 “Process” finalist, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL 5/12 - 7/3
“Legacy”
detail
of Covid ball
“100 black and white photographic scenes of the Year in Covid; the death, the hospitalization, the exhaustion, the lack of PPE, the heroic response of our tireless essential workers . The Covid virus has red, orange, and yellow spikes and dots; they are what gives the virus its name, “Corona”, which comes from the word crown in Latin. These spikes bind to the receptors on cells and allow the virus to enter the body. I have recreated these spikes with crocheted yarns and yellow dot pins.”
Covid ball is 9” of collaged black and white photos depicting Covid hospitalizations and deaths.
“Florida’s Flooded Future”
“By mid century, Florida barrier islands will be awash and abandoned; low lying coastal and Everglades areas will flood on a regular basis. We will lose our freshwater resources, our infrastructure will begin to fail, and catastrophic storm surges will increase. The fractured Greenland ice sheet melt will accelerate exponentially. By the end of the century, large swaths of Florida will be uninhabitable.
Are we ready?”
“Women Take Issue” Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, February, 2022
NAWA “Some Like it Hot” Exhibit June 15 - 8/1
Baily-Matthews Museum “H2O Exhibit” Sanibel Island, Fl 2021
“Florida’s Flooded Future: Redux”
Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, “Turf Wars” Fort Myers, FL 2019
“Florida’s Flooded Future: Redux”
30” x 24” on gallery wrapped canvas artist dye painted archival paper stitched onto dye painted silk. Jigsaw puzzle of Florida mounted on background and stitched, organza overlaid on areas that will be affected by climate change.
“Treasonous ClownsRedux”
78 x 58 x 5”
“‘Treasonous Clowns’ from left are QAnon Shaman, early 20th century Knight of KKK, Proud Boy in Charlottesville and civil war confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest who executed 300 Black Union troops in April of 1864 after they had surrendered. He later became the first Grand Wizard of the KKK. This work mimics the flag raising at Iwo Jima; the clowns are standing in a 3D silk organza Declaration of Independence that is burnt on all edges.”
My hand dyed archival paper stitched onto crinoline and mounted on canvas. All faces, hands, shoes, clown outfits are separately hand cut. Printed on 78”x 58” fleece and embellished with raccoon hat, silk KKK hood, Proud Boy collar, and Confederate neckpiece. Hangs from wall mounted rod. 2021
“Women Take Issue” Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, February, 2022
Art Center Manatee “The Promise of Spring” Bradenton, FL 2021 First Place Award
“Social Media Suction”
“An amazing 3 billion people worldwide are active monthly users of Facebook. The average person has five social media accounts and spends around 1 hour and 40 minutes browsing these networks every day. Does anyone think we are wasting our precious time?
“On The Edge”, National Association of Women Artists Juried Exhibit Art Vendue Hotel Gallery, Charleton, SC 2022
“Women Take Issue” Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, February, 2022
Reece Museum, “Fl3tch3r Exhibit” Johnson City, TN 2019
Gainesville Fine Arts, “Creativity Takes Courage” Gainesville, FL 2018
Marco Island Historical Museum’s Sandlin Gallery, FLAG Member Exhibit, Marco Island, FL 2017
Naples Art Association (formerly Von Leiberg) 68th annual Juried Member Exhibit Florida Artists Group (FLAG ) 2018
Dunedin Fine Arts Center, “Growth”, Dunedin FL 2017
SAQA Winter Journal “Something New” 2017
Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center “Art Council SW FL Biennial” Fort Myers, FL 2016
40” x 30” on gallery wrapped canvas artist dye- painted archival paper stitched onto dye painted silk, figures are painted paper over silk organza and stitched onto felt. Similar process with Facebook vacuum plus commercial bridal fabric for yellow highlights.
“Refugees Risking the Seas”
“Syrian refugees, having braved the Aegean Sea, abandon their life jackets in the shallows. Life jackets serve as a metaphor for the lives they are shedding. These refugees desperately hope to be welcomed into an adopted country to find a better, safer future for themselves and their families. The global communitys’ response is mixed.”
Marco Island Historical Museum’s Sandlin Gallery, FLAG Exhibit, Marco Island, FL 2017
Dunedin Fine Arts Center, “Growth”, Dunedin FL 2017
Center for the Arts, , “FLAG 66th Annual Juried Member Exhibit”, Bonita Spring, FL 2016
Art Center Sarasota, “What Lies Beneath” Sarasota, FL 2015
30” x 40” mounted gallery wrapped canvas
Artist dye-painted archival paper stitched onto artist dye-painted silk charmeuse. De-constructed and reconstructed Type I life jackets hand sewn in miniature by the artist.
“Earth’s Super Heroes Battle Ebola in Liberia”
“We’ve all grown up with fictional stories of Supermen and Wonder Women and how their super powers save mere mortals from certain disaster and death. But we truly do have real life super heroes among us; the doctors and support staff of Doctors Without Borders. They traverse the earth wherever and whenever needed to face down earthquakes, tsunamis, the ravages of war, and the threat of pandemic.
They work tirelessly to save mere mortals from themselves and from Mother Nature.
They are, indeed, Earth’s Super Heroes.”
33” H x 65” W
Soft Art: Cotton whole cloth dye painted, heavily thread painted background, dyed silk charmeuse clothing, glove, and boots, dyed clothes pins, quilted
Because pandemics and epidemics are fought worldwide by MSF (Medicins Sans Frontieres) under difficult stressful and temporary conditions, I have renamed this work over the years to reflect some of the many diseases and locations served by MSF.
Today, Doctors Without Border (MSF) has treated Coronavirus patients in virtually every country in the Americas to include here in the USA:
New York, Michigan, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida and Puerto Rico
Earth’s Super Heroes Battle Coronavirus in Immokalee” 2020
“Earth’s Super Heroes Battle MDR-TB in Armenia and Belarus” 2018
“Earth’s Super Heroes Battle Aids/HIV in South Africa” 2017
“Earth’s Super Heroes Battle Malaria in South Sudan” 2016
“Earth’s Super Heroes Battle Ebola in Liberia” 2015
Reece Museum international “FL3TCH3R Exhibit” , Johnson City, TN, 2017, Award “Healthcare and the Arts”
Philadelphia Convention Center “Pennsylvania Nat’l Quilt Extravaganza XXII” Philadelphia, PA, 2015
Award Blue Ribbon for Best Use of Embellishments
Denver Mart "Denver Natl Quilt Festival X", , Denver, CO 2015 Award
Trade and Convention Center "Destination Savannah" , Savannah, GA 2015
Art Center Sarasota "Fresh" a, January 29 - March 6, 2015 Award
West Palm Beach Convention Center “ World Quilt Show “FL 2015
“Cellular Skyline”
“Cell phones…………….we just HAVE to have them. Ninety percent of us own one. Fifty eight percent of us own a smart phone. Sixty percent of us check our phones for no particular reason. Forty four percent of us have slept with our cell at our bedside. Cell towers are the new skyline of our age.”
Marco Island Historical Museum’s Sandlin Gallery, FLAG Exhibit, Marco Island, FL 2018
Dunedin Fine Arts Center, “Growth”, Dunedin, FL 2017 Coral Springs Art Museum, “67th Annual Juried Members Exhibit”, 2017
Light, Space, & Time “Citiscapes”, 2017 Award Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center “Art Council SW FL Biennial” Fort Myers, FL 2016
30” x 40” mounted on gallery wrapped canvas. artist dye painted archival paper stitched onto dye painted silk, Globes are silk organza over paper and stitched. Buildings and towers are felt and velvet.
“Mayhem in the Middle East”
“For decades I have listened to administrations from both political parties urge us to action in the Middle East to ‘protect our vital interests’.
Vital to whom? Vital to protect our homeland from foreign invaders? Vital to the education of our children? Vital to the health and well being of our citizenry? Or is it vital to protect an energy source that is, in fact,
contributing to our planet’s climate change…oil…and the companies who benefit financially from its continued use?”
THIRD PLACE AWARD National Association of Women Artists “THE PATHS WE TAKE” online exhibit March 15 - April 30
Arvada Center for Art and Humanities “Art & Conflict” Denver, CO 2017
LaGrange Art Museum "LaGrange First Annual Art Exhibit" , Georgia 2016
Reece Museum,"FL3TCH3R: Socially and Politically Engaged Art" Johnson City, TN 2015
Visual Art Center "Mayhem, Chaos, Confusion" , Punta Gorda, FL 2014
Art Center Sarasota Annual Statewide "Florida Flavor" , FL 2014
“Aftermath of
Abu Ghraib”
“Photographs taken of the atrocities committed by the US military at the Iraqi prison of Abu Ghraib in 2008 were broadcast around the world.
The tortured prisoner in my pieces is a non-military professor of theology named Ali Shalal, often referred to as “The Man Behind the Hood”. In my work, he wears the universal “V” mask of protest and rebellion superimposed on his hooded face; he represents the repercussions of the
dishonorable chapter in our country’s history.”
Permanent Collection of “The Human Rights Art Exhibit” traveling exhibit USA, Mexico, Canada
Featured in scholarly publication “Quilts and Human Rights” with a forward by Desmond Tutu
South Texas College Gallery, “Tenth Annual Human Rights Exhibition” McAllern, Texas 2015
Alliance for the Arts, Ft Myers, FL 2013
30” x 40” on gallery wrapped canvas artist dye-painted archival paper over painted silk
“Day at the Beach”
“Day At The Beach” is a plea for all of us in this country to accept war torn refugees; it is a plea to reject hatred, bigotry and fear. I stitched 340 words into this small piece, a portion reads:
‘Why do we do not rise with One United Voice of Protest when a major political figure publicly states that we should not only ban refugees but, gee, let’s go ahead and ban ALL Muslims……….all billion plus of them………..because, wow, you never know when someone fleeing death and famine and torture might show up at your doorstep with an AK 47.’”
Touchstone Gallery “Art of Engagement” Washington, DC 2017
Slocumb Gallery “Positive/Negative Curated” Johnson City, TN 2017
St Louis Artists Guild “Displacement and Migration” St Louis, MO 2017
Spinning Plate Gallery “Art Advocacy Speaks: Art for Social Change” Pittsburgh, PA 2016
Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center “Notes” Fort Myers, FL 2016
15 “ x 30” silk dupioni mounted on gallery wrapped canvas. Derwent pencils. 340 words free motion stitched on front and sides.
“I Voted !”
“On February 15, 2018, a federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian corporations for conspiracy, computer hacking, and using false information (“fake news”) to influence the presidential election of 2016. These Russians created a network of spies, funded by tens of millions of dollars, to pose as US citizens who used fake news with the intent of sowing discord about Clinton, thereby assisting in the election of Trump. Our national security advisor, General H.R McMaster, calls the evidence “incontrovertible”.
As we face another national election in 2020, Russian “bots” are working overtime to wreak havoc on all sides, to create chaos, to stifle democracy.
It is their Weapon of Choice.”
Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center
“Rumors or Reality” Fort Myers, FL 2020
35 x 35 x 1 Soft Art
Newspaper stories prited on cotton and sewn, I VOTED sticker raised with Putins Face drawn and colored with Derwent pencils, barbie doll hands , 3D Russian dancers felt on fleece
“Ghost Panther”
“A ‘ghost panther’ roams the hardwood hammock of the Big Cypress Preserve. Able to leap15 feet vertically and 45 feet horizontally, she requires 200 sq. miles to survive. We must support land acquisition, biodiversity, and increased wildlife road crossings before our panther fades into extinction. “
Lighthouse Art Center and Museum“Environmentally Engaged”, Tequesta, Award
Art Center Sarasota "Florida Flavor" Third Annual Statewide All Media Exhibit
Sarasota, FL
Soft Art 43 x 34 dye- painted silk with textural artist dyed fibers intertwined for trees. heavily quilted
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