Sally Ride Science

  North Star or satelite? The earth roars as it moves. Screens scream out their monetized mythologies, Everywhere.   Water and trees Sing nature's fecund harmonies. I dive in deep And swim in the dew of my lover's eyes.

 I have been invited to be the guest speaker for this year's Festival of Quilts , a fundraising event for Cunningham Children's Home in Urbana, IL.  I will be presenting my 25 min video "A Piece of Me" followed by a question/answer period during which I will show three of my quilts.  Talks will be at 10:30A and 2:30P in the Administration Lounge. Cunningham Children's Home, 1301 North Cunningham Avenue, Urbana, IL   Cunningham Children’s Home’s Festival of Quilts joins the Boneyard Arts Festival this spring as one of more than 90 galleries showcasing the arts in Central Illinois. This year Cunningham is excited to present a collection of show quilts that creatively blur the lines between conventional quilt making and fine art.

2017 | 2016  |  2014-2015  |  2012-2013 2010-2011  | 2008-2009 | 2006-2007 2004-2005  |  2002-2003  |  1999-2001 Birthday Quilts 2016 (Click on image to view larger.) Face of a Stranger (self portrait) 71 x 98 2016 “ I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph. ” -  Jack Gilbert

 As part of it's year-long focus on the role of place in quilt making, the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky will host a collection of quilts from Linzee Kull McCray's book Art Quilts of the Midwest .  I plan to exhibit One Life , as neither of my quilts featured in the book ( Venus Transit , Portmanteau ) are available for exhibit at this time. One Life, 2013 

  March 2014 I was recently thumbing through a book about weaving when I came across a design that really excited me as a potential quilt idea.  I wouldn't make the quilt in black and red, but this is just a simple way of remembering that basic concept so that I can later have the fun of choosing colors.  One thing I love about this design is that it holds together no matter how it is oriented. July 11, 2015 I'm advancing the inspiration of this found design (weaving pattern) toward one of my latest creative goals: colossal quilts. I want to make large-scale (~8' x 25') work inspired by my fascination with the patina of industrial objects (boxcars that pass by my window each day, and the fishing boats recently encountered in Bayfield, WI) July 20, 2015 Cross Quarter Embrace as imagined completed and on exhibit (projected size 8.5x24 feet): December 2015   It's early December 2015 and Iowa City's had its first snowfall.  I've embarked on creating this colossa...

Drawn from the recent book, Art Quilts of the Midwest, by Linzee Kull McCray, the quilts selected for this exhibition hint at the ways in which the Midwest’s geography, weather, people, and culture influence the work of quilt artists from the region.  The exhibition will be presented in two rotations between January 5 and May 8, 2016.   Venus Transit will be exhibited in the first rotation (January 5-March 5, 2016).  Thanks to the generous loan of collectors Stephen Kotsines and John Hecht, the IQSC will be exhibiting Venus Transit , one of two quilts of mine featured in Art Quilts of the Midwest . International Quilt Study Center, Lincoln, Nebraska Venus Transit, 2012   Pumphrey Family Gallery International Quilt Study Center Lincoln, Nebraska