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WOVEN GLASS

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My art work career started primarily with silk, creating bright scarves, clothing, ties, jewelry and wall hangings. Inspired by my garden’s colors and textures. My work received awards in numerous juried shows and sold in craft galleries. I was juried into the Torrpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria,. I taught silk painting and other fiber workshops for years for Springwater Fiber Workshop and the Art League School, and created several workshops for the Smithsonian American Art Museum at the Renwick Gallery.

Fascinated by the bright glass colors, I borrowed a kiln and learned how to create glass flowers to embed in concrete in my garden. Since I sold my work in a fiber gallery, where everything had to be either fiber or a fiber technique, I started experimenting to see if I could weave glass. Around the same time, another artist also started making woven glass, but his was a very tight weave where mine is very loose using the open spaces as a design choice.