TEXNET 2

I am delighted to introduce a tiny part of the Textnet2 project! We are an international group of textile artists who have collaborated on a monthly basis while living apart and working alone. Many of us have never met each other in person. Juliette Eckel is the mastermind and leader of this group and has kelp us moving forward in spite of Covid cancellations. I explain my work and introduce myself bel: I’m wearing one of my wearable art dresses that has a bustle and neckline made from my grandmother’s unfinished Dresden Plate quilt pieces. My grandmother’s family came from Bremen, Germany. She was a prolific quilter. I am so grateful to be a part of Textnet2!  I live in California and met this wonderful group when they exhibited at EPM several years ago. They hoped to include an American in their international group of artists and I jumped at the opportunity. I am most known for creating wearable-art from damaged vintage patchwork that others might see as unsalvageable. I combin

  After the project  "TEXNET 1  with 7 artists from Europe, in September 2018 Juliette Eckel invited textile artists from Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia to join the project TEXNET 2. As with the TEXNET 1 project, the 20 artists worked together for two years on the theme of a  “Textile Calendar" . The basis for the work is textile material but there was also the possibility of using non-textile materials. The members of the group interacted and discuss via Facebook. Each of the artists has been working with textiles for a long time, with their respective national background and culture. For the project  Textile Calendar  the members were asked to choose a theme and two work on it depicting one textile year using their techniques, their materials and colours. The result is an extraordinary exhibition with 365 artwotks of the sizes 15x15cm and 32x15cm and 32x32cm. Additionally a second calendar was created by 12 of the artists who did large pieces of 90x150cm fo