Today's the Day! The 100 Fundraiser for American Cancer Society

Instructions for making a contribution and receiving one of the wonderful works of art contributed by 100 artists!

http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/FFACThe100Fundraiser.html

The 100 Fundraiser for American Cancer Society

I'm proud to raise funds for the American Cancer Society
as an invited artist for "The 100."

 

Introducing my donation for this fundraiser! 

The event opens on February 4, 2015 through Virginia Spiegel's website.

 Link here:

virginiaspiegel.com/FFACThe100Fundraiser.html

 Detail of "Vintage Silk and Pearls #4"

 

Full image of "Vintage Silk and Pearls #4".  It measures 9 x 12"

materials: vintage reclaimed kimono silk, acrylic screen printing ink, cotton thread, freshwater pearls

techniques: fused collage, Thermofax screen printing, machine quilting, hand stitched genuine freshwater pearls.

Donate $100 on February 4 and you will receive a wonderful small piece of fiber art from one of the 100 participating artists!  Go to virginiaspiegel.com/FFACThe100Fundraiser.html

A Year of Art Fundraiser to Fight Cancer!

This is my donation to "A Year of Art"

Tomorrow our 2013 fiber fundraiser to fight cancer, "A Year of Art," opens
at 10 a.m. Central.

There are two ways you can join the fun:
1.  Donate any amount and be entered in a drawing with one grand prize worth
more than $1550.

 http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/AYearofArt2013InspirationDrawing.html

2.  Bid on eleven artworks donated by Pamela Allen, Pokey Bolton, Linda
Colsh, Jane Davila, Vivika DeNegre, Jane Dunnewold, Jamie Fingal, Laura
Wasilowski, Yvonne Porcella, Karen Stiehl Osborn, and me.

http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/AYearofArtArtwork.html

Our goal is $8000 in just 8 hours.  It's crazy, I know.  But I believe we
can do it.  We have donated over $220,000 to the American Cancer Society to
fight cancer.  I know with your generous support that our total will grow to
nearly $230,000 on February 12 and 13.

Many thanks in advance,

Foto / Fiber Fundraiser Auction for the American Cancer Society

Mark your calendars!  This week is the Foto/Fiber  fundraiser for the American Cancer Society sponsored by Virginia Spiegel.  The bidding opens up on Wednesday, February 15.   I will be sending out two bonuses, and today I am giving you a closer look at the items that will be included in the bonus envelopes.

I have created a special postcard series just for this event!  I have used gelatin printed fabric and my chickadees - same thing you saw on the cover of Quilting Arts magazine.

There will be lots of other items in the bonus envelope - I have  carved a small printing block for each winner of my bonus envelopes and I have gone through my studio, selecting some hand printed fabrics, as well. 


Preview the photographs and get specific details on Virginia Spiegel's website here: http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/FotoFiber2012PHOTOS1.html

One Cause Online Art Auction Today!

ONE!

One Cause, One Wednesday, One Hundred Collages
(click the link above to visit the auction)
Today is the One Cause Art Auction! It begins at 10 Central time and ends at 4.
This is your opportunity to contribute to the American Cancer Society, while also adding to your art collection.

These are my contributions.

One Cause Interview

I am so honored to be one of the artists invited to contribute artwork to the One Cause Art Auction coming up on Wednesday, February 16. All proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society.

You can view my artist interview here.

For more details about this upcoming event, visit the One Cause Webpage.

Collage Mania II

My work has been accepted into the American Cancer Society Fundraiser: Collage Mania II.

These seven 8x10 works have been accepted into the ACS Fundraiser sponsored by Virginia Speigel - link to her website here.
They will be auctioned online starting May 5.

Each of these works has begun its life as a piece of paper destined for the garbage. My process is to tape the paper to my work surface and attack it with acrylic paints using various tools.

Sometimes - as in the pieces above and below, the paper is dyed with MX dyes before it is painted.

After the initial color has been laid down, I will go in with my hand cut rubber stamps to create a background surface. Next, I will add my screen printed images. I've been cutting interesting words and phrases from magazines, catalogs, and advertisements before I toss them. Some of these have ended up on my collages, as well.

This piece "Dream" is a wrapper from a chocolate bar. The tree image is the skeletal remains of a tree that was burned in the wildfire that swept through my neighborhood last summer.

This image is of a turkey vulture in flight. There are a number of these huge birds that hang around our place. They are graceful fliers.
This piece has a number of screen printed images as well as several different stamps. However, it is still possible to see the underlying craft store advertisement.

Can't wait till May to own one of these pieces of art? I have just opened an Etsy Store and have listed four collages from this series as well as notecards. Link to my Etsy Store here.