I’m thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Centrum artist-in-resident slot for November 2022 in Port Townsend, WA. Getting the residency was the first step in my grand plan to collaborate with the aquarium in the area as well as the fiber community to gain inspiration for my canvas work and to recruit more fiber folx to participate in the Community Coral Reef Project.
Back before Covid hit and I was still living in Wisconsin, I had applied to an artist-in-residency program at a lighthouse on the Great Lakes. My plan was to work on a fiber art shoreline landscape from the lighthouse and if course, it would have been glorious. The sun would have shone every day and I would have completed 18 months of work in seven days. (Or at least that’s how I felt once Covid shut everything down).
This time, I applied for the residency with my current idea of a triptych in mind. As I talked about earlier, I have been considering a Giant Squid and a Sperm Whale locked in battle in the extreme ocean depths. Now that I have received the three gigantic canvases (each are 72 x 60”) I am rethinking that design. Now that Coral Canyon is sold, I am considering making another coral reef but on a grand scale with the reef fading out to bleached on one end. The thing about Coral Canyon that I enjoyed the most was the immersive experience that it could provide even though it was only 40 x 48”. Imagine being able to walk along a fiber art reef that is 72” high and 108” long. Frankly, it has me very excited!