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My indigo dyed handwoven silk landscape called Flotsam will be included in an exhibit at the De Young Museum in San Francisco called To Dye For: A World Saturated in Color - July 31, 2010 - January 9, 2011. I am so very excited to be included in this very exciting exhibit.

On August 7, 2010 I will teach a basketry workshop for the Baulines Craft Guild. Email me for more information. baulinescraftguild.org

I will teach a 3 day workshop at the Mendocino Art Center on “a Greener Indigo” August 28-30,2010.
http://www.mendocinoartcenter.org/PSS_Cart.54.LassoApp?category=180%3ATextiles&feature2=Summer&skip=10

Indigo dyeing continues to be one of my passions, and I am especially happy to share my “Greener Indigo” formula which produces no fumes and is easy and safe for studio use. This revival of an 18th Century formula is catching on with artists who want to work in a more ecological and healthier way. Join me in Mendocino!

Three of my indigo kyokechi dyed Japanese paper panels will be featured in an exhibit called Carved Board Clamp Resist Dyeing: Historical Perspective and Contemporary Application at the Univ of Nebraska Omaha Gallery in Omaha, NE in conjucnction with the TSA Symposium in October 2010. See the TSA website for more informaiton. www.textilesociety.org and www.unomaha.edu/fineart/art/unoartgallery/welcome.htm.

Several of Chuck Quibell and my collaborative works called Mended Turnings will be featured in another TSA sponsored exhibit also in Omaha this October at Hot Shops Textiles, Glass, Clay, Wood and Metal: The Interface at Hot Shops, www.hotshopsartcenter.com.

I will be giving a lecture on The Magic of Indigo for the Society for Asian Art at the Asian Art Museum on December 4, 2010 at 2 pm.

I will be giving a lecture and teaching an indigo workhsop for the San Diego Creative Weavers' Guild on February 12 and 13, 2011.

I will teach at CNCH2011, May 13-15, 2011 in Sutter Creek, CA.
http://www.cnch.org/conferences/2011-sutter-creek/

I continue to enjoy doing the collaborative series with Chuck Quibell which we call Mended Turnings. We have won awards and have been exhibited at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art and elsewhere. I find responding to Chuck’s beautiful turned wood bowls most gratifying, and he and his delightful wife, who reads French as I do, have become friends of ours through the Baulines Craft Guild.

I have been selling my baskets and woven works at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art since it moved to the new location on Yerba Buena Lane in downtown San Francisco. You can currently see several of my coiled and plaited baskets at the Museum Store. http://www.mocfa.org

I thoroughly enjoyed teaching the Textiles I class at San Francisco State University in 2007. This class covered an exploration in textile techniques including weaving, surface design, and three dimensional techniques. This was the first time in ages that a textile class is was taught in summer school at SFSU. I have continued to serve as a Teaching Assistant in the Textile Classes in the Art Department at San Francisco State University.

As a Master Member of the prestigious Baulines Craft Guild, I enjoy participating in all of their activities including annual exhibits. Please check the web site for up coming exhibits http://www.baulinescraftguild.org

As a Board Member at Large of the Textile Society of America, I look forward to several busy and stimulating years working with some extraordinary scholars and artists. Please take a look at the TSA web site and consider joining this very important organization which provides an international forum for the exchange and dissemination of information about textiles worldwide, from artistic, cultural, economic, historic, political, social, and technical perspectives.

http://textilesociety.org/ Textile Society of America 2010 Symposium is called Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyberspace. Lincoln, NE, October 6 – 10, 2010 . I'll see you there!

I look forward doing more writing, to giving more workshops on Indigo Dyeing, Shibori, Surface Design for Handweavers, and Basketry Techniques.

I have written two articles for the newly launched CNCHnet on line newsletter. Take a look at the first one at http://www.cnch.org/cnchnet/summer-2010/something-light-and-colorful-for-summer/

Finally, Please look for my review of the extraordinary 7th International Shibori Symposium (that I attended in fall 2008 in Provence, Lyon and Paris. http://www.shibori.org in Fiberarts Magazine, April May 2009, and my review of the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles exhibit of Contemporary Chinese fiber art, “Changing Landscapes in San Jose” Fiberarts Summer 2009 http://www.fiberarts.com.