CSULB Fiber MFAs

Julia Barbee's show Par, Through, Fumme, Smoke. 

Tina Linville Fiber Sculpture project and Thin Skin

Jennifer Riefsneider Cipher

The most inspiring work came out of the Fiber program this year...

may days

Carol's fiber auction, Venice Pier bikers, Little Tokyo, Legoland, and my cool spare tire!

San Francisco

Attended the Craft Forward Symposium in SF last week. Beautiful Spring weather and a memorable time to be had with the CSULB fiber girls. Stunning Ruth Asawa sculptures and a view from the DeYoung Museum, House of Nanking, ACME bread company and Cafe Fanny said to owned by Alice Waters, paper flowers made on rainy days at Tail of the Yak, Carol working on her twining, display in the Mission, Lisa Congdon's collections, entering the grapevine on the 5 fwy.

Gudri at Color Loom

Gorgeous, yummy, colorful gudri (patchwork) handstitched using recycled saris at Color Loom in Berkeley.

the story of my life...

"I've been six minutes behind all day."  - Frank

Soba Making

Had the most amazing experience making soba today. Learned age old techniques of transforming buckwheat into noodles from Sonoko Sakei who is a certified soba maker, got my hands in food, slurped away on fresh yummy chewy noodles, and then cooked our soba at home for dinner. Some things are so much about the beauty of process. All the proceeds from class went to Japan. She'll be teaching at Bread Bar next.

bits of the week

Carlee's piece at LACMA, LACE studio visit to Steve Roden's air form house, Barry Zweig in a moment, blue mountains, mixing flesh tones

CSULB Fiber Shows

The Fiber Department at CSU Long Beach was out in full force in three of the five student galleries a few weeks back. My "Third Eye" doorway hanging was part of the group show along with Greg's sea creatures, Rosary's wool coat, Krista quilt from Hilary Hopkin's Fiber Dyeing last semester and three more students from her Fiber Sculpture class. The last two images are Jennifer and Noelia's solo Fiber BFA shows. Good stuff!

studio tableaux

Having fun with a newly dyed piece of indigo cloth (logwood plus 5 dips in the indigo vat!) before having to cut it up for a project.

the figure

Taking Malaika's figure drawing and painting class. 

light

Suprasensorial at the MOCA Geffen, Lukshon bathroom, and view of a friend's home on a hill