Over the past couple of weeks, the last hurrahs of summer and the start of the fall semester have brought visits from friends and some new energy in the studio.
First, a visit from Marvelous Marg and Jay (aka Mr. Higgins) and a few days off from my day job, gave Marg and I a chance to play together in my studio whilst learning how to use the computer-aided functions of my long arm quilting machine to quilt the wonderful king-size bed quilt that Marg made for me.
Marvelous Marg wearing her new "Hanna-dyed" scarf, standing next to "Lucky" (the king-size bed quilt she made for me) loaded up on the long-arm for quilting.
I love to use this machine as a giant (free hand) drawing tool when stitching on my smaller textile paintings, but that’s akin to driving it around the block at 5 mph. Thanks to my friend Kelly, our local Gammill Dealer and long-arm quilting goddess, we learned how to take this machine out for a ride on the highway and saw a little of what it can really do.
Next came a quick visit with artist friends Sandra and Claire from Minnesota. After their short stay with us, they were headed up to Estes Park where Claire had plans to do a high altitude hike which she had been training for by hiking around a large park in Minneapolis with several copies of Dwell magazine in her backpack!
Here's Sandra modeling her new "Hanna-dyed" scarf.
In the studio, my focus is 2 fold: (1.) Getting textile paintings and some holiday items created for my upcoming holiday group show at Gallery 360 in Minneapolis, MN. (2.) Making some more scarves to have available at our Hanna-Hooly Holiday open house as well as to add to my online store.
deconstructed screen print on cotton fabric (detail)
And with the start of fall semester, here at Hanna-Hooly studios we are so happy to welcome our first ever CSU student intern – Christiana Lambert!
This week, I’m pretty sure Christiana had some fun launching her modeling career, as she graciously wore over 20 scarves and posed for lots of photos. The photo above and below are actually the same piece of fabric, before and after wash:
deconstructed screen-printed cotton scarf
More to come in a future post about Christiana and this new art internship program which CSU is launching in collaboration with Beet Street as one component of the overall new AIR program.
I’m really glad to have been engaged from the start with the development of this AIR program. As a curriculum development committee member, it’s amazing to see the fruition of our work becoming a reality with the initial pilot launch of the program this fall.
And the best part has been all the new friends and colleagues I’ve come to know through being involved in the development of AIR.
Thanks for all the photos – Whew! lots going on at your studio/home! The scarves are stunning!