fibers

For 2024, my theme is travel and transporting. You can travel through time, space – emotional, mental or physical. I think that travel and being transporting is a fascinating phenomena of the human experience. For me, travel allows me to connect with my Self. By using textiles and colors that I respond to deeply, I feel a great sense of connectedness and oneness. Being an “Earth” baby, many of my art pieces feature some aspect of Earth and its natural elements – land, air, wind, water, minerals, etc. As I’ve been told in the past, many of my art pieces are “soulful” and invoke a meditative energy, a sense of peace and groundedness. I would include the Earth Series in this category.

Introducing Earth

The Earth series explores the representation of the striations and rich layers found the Earth. The natural colorations and textures are infinitely abound. With Earth, I felt that pieces that used fabrics of different colors, weights, textures would be so exciting to explore.

Initial Earth pieces

The first pieces for this series were released for the 2024 RoCo 6 x 6 event for the Rochester Contemporary Art Center in New York. I have supported this event several times in the past so it was my pleasure to send my first Earth pieces there.

I was so happy to learn that both 6″ square pieces sold in the first month of the event! There were over 5,400 pieces and mine were recognized and sold. I’m really grateful and appreciative of the love and positive feedback. Rochester is a great area for art and I just love being able to support these efforts anytime I can. Check out the story here –

RoCo event Sales

https://angelaheathart.com/2024/07/02/news-earth-i-earth-ii-mini-quilt-sold-at-roco-6×6-2024/

Read the artist statement for Earth to learn all about the series here –
https://angelaheathart.com/2024/07/17/introducing-new-work-earth-series/

Like my other pieces, I have also produced a video for the series. There will be more videos so you can check out the first one here –

https://youtu.be/TftuuQ90RV4

More Earth pieces

The next set two pieces, Desert Rose I and II have been released.

The first one is available in the store here –

The second one has been sent to the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) Benefit Auction. This event runs this September to October. This is my first SAQA event and I’m so happy to make this event. I received a beautiful note from the Executive Director, Martha Sielman who commented about the beauty of the piece and that the colors and layers in it reminded her of the desert. That was a really nice acknowledgement of the piece. I think it will be successful.

I am currently sewing on more pieces in Earth and will release them shortly. So, lots more to come. 💙❤️💜