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Weaving up a Storm

02 Saturday Apr 2016

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After a crazy fall, I have moved my studio and settled into the Artisan’s Asylum in Somerville, MA. My individual space is small but the creativity there is BIG. As part of their lecture series and part of ARTWEEK Boston,  I am giving a lecture about my weaving and am creating a community weaving project. Just imagine a 12′ high tornado covered in electrical cords, all those old computer cables, charging stations, etc. With your help it will be amazing.

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A Community Weaving Project and talk by  Jeanne Flanagan

register @ http//artisansasylum.com/speaker-series-registration/

Empty out that drawer and bring those old land lines, modems, powercords, computer cables, electrical wires, battery chargers.

Add your digital detritus to a twelve foot  high tornado !!

Detritus donations can be dropped off @ Artisan’s Asylum if you can’t join us!

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Goddess of weaving

01 Friday Jan 2016

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In the Navajo tradition, the spider introduced them to weaving and saved a young navajo from enemies by lowering a silken rope for him to climb to safety until the enemy was gone.

My spider is 4′ high and 2′ deep, woven with treadmill tread and mounted on a rebar mobius web woven with red monofilament line

FANFare on FiberArtNow.net

20 Thursday Aug 2015

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0Watch my FANFare Webinar on the FiberArtNow.net website. See my studio with close up views of my sculptures and hear how I create my work. Thanks to National Basketry Organization who sponsored the event and thanks to FiberArtNow for creating these personal interviews that brings you into fiber arts studios.

Check it out on FIBERARTNOW.net.

Somerville Open Studios

19 Sunday Apr 2015

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Handmade shoes with mad weave insets

17 Saturday Jan 2015

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Handmade shoes, Mad weave

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I made these shoes at a class taught by NYC based shoe maker Malika Green.

 

I loved making these shoes

17 Saturday Jan 2015

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Mad weave shoes

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These shoes were fun to make and took over 60 hours. Shoe making was a lot like upholstering furniture because all the work that can not be seen makes it look like they just appeared on the sole. The first 4 days we spent fitting the last(the form the leather is fit over) to our feet
and patterning and making the upper (the part we would call the shoe). Then we spent 4 days putting all of that together and making the sole and heel. Lots of glue and leather dye.

I got to make a small mad weave inset and will certainly use leather more in my weaving work. It was very easy to work with.

On Parade

16 Thursday Oct 2014

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elephant, Harvard Square, madweave, parade

It was a beautiful day for a parade. I made a coat and tails, dressed the elephant in parade headdress and asked Red to be the pooper scooper boy. We marched down Mass Ave waving to all the party goers.

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THe Honkfest Parade is next Sunday

05 Sunday Oct 2014

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The elephant in the room takes to the streets next Sunday for the HONKfest parade in Somerville and Cambridge. The float is almost done and the tires are all inflated.

The Elephant in the room

17 Saturday May 2014

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elephant, madweave, recycled

The Elephant in the room

The Elephant in the room

 

What a cute tail.

What a cute tail.

 

Here are pictures of the madweave elephant I created from recycled treadmill treads. I built two paper elephants to get the turns and shape right. It took 6 months to create. She is 4”10 ” tall and 6 ‘ long from tail to trunk. The poem on the side is written by Gail Mazur and is still unpublished.

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