A Gathering of Untold Stories

Now on exhibit at the LSU Rural Life Museum, Baton Rouge, La., through August 27. Link to driving directions on right sidebar. Photos courtesy of Lucy Landry.

Lucy Landry
Nomads
These are the travelers in search of that which is lost.
Handmade felt, paper collage, fiber



Lucy Landry
Animal Totems:
Swimming at Midnight
Sailing across the Desert
Singing in the Chorus
Every animal has a story to tell. Each has its own blessing to bestow.
Hand embroidery, African fabric


Rosemary Uchniat
Organizing Chaos
The untold story of major life changes that create chaos and an attempt to put these changes into a form that I can control


Rosemary Uchniat
Entry Point
Artist dyed/overdyed fabrics depict the untold story of the joy of coming back to art after a long absence.


Jane Olson-Phillips
Desert Song
Desert sand and glowing pieces of glass

Moon Flower Brooch
Mysterious flower with glowing tentacles

Lucy Landry
Rust Warrior
Discharge dyed fabric and rusty found object scavenged from school parking lots were the inspiration for this Mayan Warrior.
Hand embroidery, discharge dyed cotton, found objects


Susan Broussard
Louisiana Iris #2
This project began with the silk screened iris and grew from there.

Mixed Media


Corinne Watts
Jandee and Me
The inspiration for this piece was a photograph of me and my best friend, Jandee, on the playground of the L.S.U. Kindergarten circa 1952/1953. The bottom rung of the ladder was missing so we put a tricycle between the rails and used the back of the bike as our bottom step. What FUN we had!


Mary Ingalls

Separated

Nancy Hinds
Intersecting Lives

The story of our lives comes from those experiences where we cross paths or become encircled in other’s lives.

Mary Felder
Louisiana Iris
The I Nelsonii, with its delicate copper colored petals stands in the swamps and ditches of south Louisiana. Years ago I saw a water filled ditch blanketed with coppery irises along a roadside in south Louisiana. Today they are in danger of being lost forever. These were grown in my yard.

Mary Felder
Forest in South Louisiana
The center is a photo taken near Gray’s Creek in Louisiana.


Mary Felder
Cipriere 1
Cypress swamps have always fascinated me. Their beauty and mystery endure through drought, flood and sometimes fire. Stand under their canopy of leaves and feel the quiet. Egrets, herons, and slithering things call them home. Imagine what the 800+ year old cypress tree has seen. Native Americans, Spanish and French explorers, Cajuns and even old T-Rod Cheramie from La Rose may have all stopped to rest and leaned against the tree trunks for a while. These treasures must be preserved for future generation to enjoy.



Beverly Yearby
Imagine a Swamp without Cypress Trees
For many years, I have been a person who loved the fiber arts such as knitting, crocheting, sewing clothes and quilting. My needlework started as a child in elementary school.
As a child growing up, my grandmother was a quilter, but I showed no interest. Now that I have retired, I have become a lover of knitting and quilting. I have learned many quilting techniques, being a member of the quilting guilds. I take classes to perfect my work of art.
I really got interested in art quilts when I started participating in Quilt the Swamp. I still make traditional quilts, but I like using African fabric because of the beautiful bold colors. I name each of my African quilts Sampler One, Sampler Two or whatever the number might be.
When I get tired of quilting I go to my knitting. I love knitting socks, It was a dream of mine to make socks, so I challenged myself and took classes and now I have learned to make socks.



Corinne Watts
The French Quarter
This piece was started shortly after Hurricane Katrina. It was a way for me to deal with the incredible sense of loss and to celebrate the beauty of what hides behind the iron work and doors in the French Quarter.


Corinne Watts
The Corner of Calvert and Connecticut Avenue in D.C.
This mural of Marilyn Monroe covers the side of a row house in the Woodley Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. I have lived in the neighborhood for 16 years, see her every day and have never been able to find out why she is there. A classic untold story


Nancy Hinds
Earthbound: Layers
Layer upon layer, friends and family add depth to our lives.


Sally Gordon
The Ties That Bind Us
Our stories are seldom unique. Our voices are. Our willingness to tell old stories with a new voice allows us to connect and to form the ties that bind us.



Sally Gordon
Rapunzel: An Interior view
Rapunzel stands at her prison window. Does she see her jailor, her lover, or is she contemplating her escape.


Beverly Yearby
African Sampler No. 1
For many years, I have been a person who loved the fiber arts such as knitting, crocheting, sewing clothes and quilting. My needlework started as a child in elementary school.
As a child growing up, my grandmother was a quilter, but I showed no interest. Now that I have retired, I have become a lover of knitting and quilting. I have learned many quilting techniques, being a member of the quilting guilds. I take classes to perfect my work of art.
I really got interested in art quilts when I started participating in Quilt the Swamp. I still make traditional quilts, but I like using African fabric because of the beautiful bold colors. I name each of my African quilts Sampler One, Sampler Two or whatever the number might be.
When I get tired of quilting I go to my knitting. I love knitting socks, It was a dream of mine to make socks, so I challenged myself and took classes and now I have learned to make socks.


Karen Velupillai
The 168
This piece was created in memory of the 168 allied airmen from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand who were captured during WWII.
Natural hand dyed and rust dyed fabrics and photographs from my father’s estate.

Valerie Turgeon
Bayou Home: 1930-1981
A collage of 50 years in the lives of three generations in a circa 1800 bayou home

Mary Felder
In the Forest II
The swamp floor is vibrant with colors. It is painted with nuances of gold, green and brown. Vines drape and twine through the trees and across the floor accented with gold edged stones. Leaves fall, decay and provide a foundation for more growth, becoming a part of the life cycle of the forest.

Lisa Ducote
Serendipity
The bundles of tissue paper and cheese cloth were intended only to dye the fabric in which they were wrapped. After opening the fabric I like the way the bundles looked all lined up, so I added stitching and beads. The unexpected

Carmen Adger
Invisible Circles Spinning from the Edge of the Earth
Throughout most of my life, I have been exposed to some form of art including drawing, sculpturing, and acrylic and watercolor painting. My years of experience and love of sewing have enabled me to appreciate quilting as a distinctive art form. My quilts capture simple shapes and graphic lines with the use of vibrant and bold colors. I enjoy using fabrics that incorporate unusual textures and impressive design. My knowledge and experience as a fiber artist has provided me with an opportunity to express my creativity through the use of fabrics, threads and beads.



Vicki Thompson
Flower Power
Inspired by a Wendy Butler Berns quilt. The flowers take me back to my teenage years of the 70’s.

Wendy L. Starn
Cornered!
In August of 2008, my son found a tiny kitten under the hood of the car, covered in grease and fleas. He cleaned her up and she won his heart, as well as the scorn of our other two cats. Boris, the black cat is determined to be Alpha male, and is also proud of his prowess at catching mice, while Moose the orange cat is the mighty hunter of lizards and bugs who’s afraid of everything. Oslo the kitten sleeps, dreaming no doubt of how best to annoy her big brothers.
The background in composed of five variations on the traditional Puss in the corner block. Background fabrics are hand-stamped by the artist. Cats are thread painted over fabric collage, and are based on photographs taken by the artist.

Lisa Ducote
Peeking Through
Searching for your place in the world is a never ending challenge which transcends all space and time.

Lisa Ducote
Mom Knows Best
True story. Yep—those are real glasses.

Melanie Borne
Free Spirit
Leaves swirl amidst hand-dyed and hand-painted cottons. A bird breaks free from the flock.

Carmen Adger

Preserve the Greening of the Swamp
Throughout most of my life, I have been exposed to some form of art including drawing, sculpturing, and acrylic and watercolor painting. My years of experience and love of sewing have enabled me to appreciate quilting as a distinctive art form. My quilts capture simple shapes and graphic lines with the use of vibrant and bold colors. I enjoy using fabrics that incorporate unusual textures and impressive design. My knowledge and experience as a fiber artist has provided me with an opportunity to express my creativity through the use of fabrics, threads and beads.

Carmen Adger
A Great Blue Heron in the Swamp
Throughout most of my life, I have been exposed to some form of art including drawing, sculpturing, and acrylic and watercolor painting. My years of experience and love of sewing have enabled me to appreciate quilting as a distinctive art form. My quilts capture simple shapes and graphic lines with the use of vibrant and bold colors. I enjoy using fabrics that incorporate unusual textures and impressive design. My knowledge and experience as a fiber artist has provided me with an opportunity to express my creativity through the use of fabrics, threads and beads.

Vicki Thompson
Rusted
Painting of fabric was a new technique for me. I then hand beaded, machine quilted and mounted the piece to a painted canvas.

Vicki Thompson
Thumbelina
One of my favorite fairy tales. This is my husband’s nickname for me when I have a clumsy moment.

Beverly Yearby
Socks
For many years, I have been a person who loved the fiber arts such as knitting, crocheting, sewing clothes and quilting. My needlework started as a child in elementary school.
As a child growing up, my grandmother was a quilter, but I showed no interest. Now that I have retired, I have become a lover of knitting and quilting. I have learned many quilting techniques, being a member of the quilting guilds. I take classes to perfect my work of art.
I really got interested in art quilts when I started participating in Quilt the Swamp. I still make traditional quilts, but I like using African fabric because of the beautiful bold colors. I name each of my African quilts Sampler One, Sampler Two or whatever the number might be.
When I get tired of quilting I go to my knitting. I love knitting socks, It was a dream of mine to make socks, so I challenged myself and took classes and now I have learned to make socks.



Wendy L. Starn
Earth, Air, Fire, Water
The masks are made of fused silk, soy and bamboo fiber, and are made on a plaster mold of my daughter’s face. Three dimensional silk fusion takes a little figuring out, but can be done!



Wendy L. Starn
Boris and Natasha, the Yin-Yang Kittens
Boris, also featured in the larger quilt, Cornered, as a kitten, sleeping with his litter-mate, the late Natasha. They were inseparable as kittens, and got into about as much trouble together as their names suggest! Background fabrics are hand-stamped by the artist. Cats are thread painted over fabric collage, and are based on photographs by the artist.



Jane Olson-Phillips
Look Through My Windows
Transparent window frames show soft textured landscapes

knotted collage

Susan Broussard/Jane Olson-Phillips
In Walked the Lady with the Alligator Purse
A fun little children's song depicts a fun activity between two friends.

Commercially dyed fabric enhanced with machine stitching and oil based fabric paint, polymer beads
(No Animals Were Harmed In the Making of This Purse)

Melanie Borne
Wine Selection: Red or White?
Vintage overdyed kimono silks and cottons suggest vineyards tucked into the French countryside.

Moonlight Bay
A sailboat glides along under a full moon rising.

Nancy Hinds
Among Friends
What can we really give to friends and family besides comfort and understanding?

Katy Prescott
In the Beginning
What happens to the world now is up to us.
Felted wool roving, hand embroidered and beaded

Midnight in the Garden
A time for quiet contemplation of the day just past and anticipation for the one just beginning
Felted wool roving, hand embroidered and beaded