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LUMINOUS EXHIBITION
at the Falls Church Arts Gallery
Debra Lee is thrilled to have her latest fiber art called, Happy, selected into the juried Luminous exhibition at the Falls Church Arts Gallery!
The word "luminous" meaning "full of or shedding light; bright or shining, especially in the dark" was selected by Falls Church Arts followers on social media for art-making inspiration.
See how forty-eight artists interpret 'luminous' in this all media show from August 19 through October 1, 2023. Artworks are available for purchase.
Join Debra at the opening reception on Saturday, August 19 from 7 to 9 p.m. She would love to visit with you!
Falls Church Arts is a recognized 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with a stated mission to "ensure the arts are an essential part of the cultural environment." Since its inception in 2003, Falls Church Arts has focused on the visual arts, bringing exhibition opportunities and the chance to learn, share, and grow while reveling in the joy of making, sharing, and experiencing art.
INTERACTIVE TEXTILES 101 GALLERY
AT THE TEXTILE MUSEUM
Located in Foggy Bottom of Washington, D.C., The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum opened a permanent interactive gallery called, Textiles 101 on January 27, 2018.
The Textiles 101 Gallery enables visitors to explore how fiber, color and structure influence how textiles are made and allows visitors to enter the mind of designers to discover the creative choices that influence textile design. Visitors can touch different fibers in raw and processed forms, practice various weaving techniques, examine completed fabrics, watch videos of artists at work and digitally design a new textile themselves.
Fiber artist Debra Lee was invited to create an eight-foot by 18-inch banner to illustrate the structure of looped stitches including knitting, crochet, simple looping and macrame for the Textiles 101 Gallery. Watch the video by Pamela Kaplan and Maria Helena Carey to hear about Debra's choices for the banner's design and see the steps involved to create it.
The looped banner hangs in the Textiles 101 Gallery along side of a woven banner created by fiber artist Hillary Steel and a felt banner created by fiber artist Renate Maile-Moskowitz.
TAKING THE STITCH CHALLENGE
In April 2020 Debra and several other hand-stitchers -- some new to stitching and some experienced -- accepted textile artist Julie Booth's stitch challenge to create samples for one or more articles in her four-part series called, Take the Stitch Challenge, for Quilting Arts magazine.
Julie challenged each stitcher to explore the potential of basic embroidery stitches to create interesting marks, textures and layers on fabric. Each challenge had a theme and a set of limitations. The result was a fascinating variety of stitched samples expressing the stitcher's interpretation of the theme created within the given limitations. To whet your appetite, Debra's stitch challenge samples are shown below. Click on the magazine cover to link to the Quilting Arts magazine!
