."Crazy" is a 19 inch wide by seventy foot long instillation that takes its design inspiration from the wildly popular, intricately decorated, Crazy Quilts, of 1800’s America. The piece is composed of layers of thrift store clothes from the top 36 exporters to the United States. Designed to spark conversations about “Fast Fashion” and its cost to textile workers and the environment, “Crazy”is an ongoing collaboration involving participants in the “Slow Craft” of embroidery and the social aspects of a traditional quilting bee. To date I have done embroidery collaborations with children and adults in private and public settings from Cheyenne to Istanbul.
The finished piece will be installed as a monumental table runner spanning the length of several cloth covered tables. Viewers will be invited to sit and engage in table talk about the economic, environmental and personal aspects of Fast Fashion.
Follow "Crazy" and its progress on my "Studio News" blog. Read about it in this Tribune Eagle Article from 9/19/20. Watch the video from my residency at the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper WY.
If you or your group would like to be a part of this project, please contact me at [email protected]
The finished piece will be installed as a monumental table runner spanning the length of several cloth covered tables. Viewers will be invited to sit and engage in table talk about the economic, environmental and personal aspects of Fast Fashion.
Follow "Crazy" and its progress on my "Studio News" blog. Read about it in this Tribune Eagle Article from 9/19/20. Watch the video from my residency at the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper WY.
If you or your group would like to be a part of this project, please contact me at [email protected]
Crazy- A Contemporary Quilt About Fashion's Pressing Problems- crazy-project_statement.pdf
