I had dinner tonight with a dear friend from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design’s Women’s Art Institute that we both attended in 2007. Carolyn Halliday is a fiber artist and had so many good reports about shows she is in, and shows and grants for which she is applying. What an inspiration.
We met at the Minnesota Textile Center – a national center for fiber art. What a great resource this is for fiber artists everywhere. Wonderful library, training rooms, and a lot of knowledge of knitting, weaving, dyeing, sewing, stitching, quilting, embroidery….the list goes on. I’ve never seen anything quite like it.
Carolyn toured me through the facility and then we saw the current show – she won Best In with her pieces entitled Aphrodite’s Dilemma. Carolyn knits with metal. Her sacred forest of trees at the WAI critiques in 2007 was one of my favorites.
Here is her current work from the Textile Center show:
Side tech note: I didn’t have the Sacred Forest photo on my laptop that’s with me here in MN, but did have it in my iPhoto library on my home iMac. I went to Finder on the laptop, ported in to my home computer via “Share Screen,” found the photo in the iPhoto library and clicked on “email.” The home computer went into my email program on that unit and allowed me to enter my own email as an addressee, then sent it. It then showed up in my email box on my laptop thanks to the wonders of MobileMe. Gotta love Apple for this remote in capability. Note to all: I had to set up these permissions before I left home to allow screen sharing. I could probably click into the camera on that computer via PhotoBooth, if I wanted to see what is going on in my home garage/studio. But that might be a little creepy….