Our Creative Space: Mixed Media Textile Arts

Blue Chinese Peonies and Butterflies, 12"w x 8"h     One of my favorite pastimes when I was younger was exploring antique shops in search of vinta...

   As I work on new ideas and techniques, I often use a method I call “Sampling”. It is a way to work out issues I don’t have a clear understandin...

Maidenhair Fern, 18" x 24"    In my previous posts about my artist residency program on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state during the summe...

   During the summer of 2023, I attended a 3-week residency program in Washington State on the Olympic Peninsula.    

 Stephanie Fujii's work is filled with rhythm and movement.  The use of color here is very subtle but lovely. That rose shade is wonderful. Th...

   This residency program was created by Dr. Elspeth Pope, the founder and director of Hypatia in the Woods, a non-profit resource center and resid...

There are lots of opportunities out there for artists like grants, scholarships, and artist's residencies. Here is an example of one I encountered.

Find out about my cyanotype experience as I created a collection of prints to use in my textile art and what I learned along the way.

  Creating a Great Foundation   Once again my stubbornness towards giving up has paid off, but this time it came as a complete surprise to me.    ...

   Recently I was looking at the current exhibitions running at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, and I came across this intriguing painting ...

    I always avoided hand embroidering any kind of lettering because I thought it would look awful. But it doesn’t, and there are lots of amazing ...

In spite of all the trials and tribulations involved in holding an in-person conference in these times, Craft Napa turned out to be a really wonde...