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Holly Brackmann

Visual Arts: Textiles

Carolyn Carleton Browe

Visual Arts: Textiles

I have been handweaving rugs and carpets for 41 years. Raised on my family’s 8th-generation farm in Connecticut, my sister and I taught ourselves spinning, dyeing and weaving with the wool from our father’s sheep. Studies in natural and chemical dyeing and weaving in the SF Bay Area broadened my knowledge and in 1980, my rug weaving studio, Carleton Designs, was launched in collaboration with my late husband, Vincent Carleton. In the last 12 years, I have also been exploring new rug designs with ikat dyeing and in pieced and stitched wool felt. Today my rugs are represented by interior design showrooms in San Francisco, Southern California, New York and Chicago. More information and images can be seen at www.carletondesigns.com or contact me directly at carleton@mcn.org.

Suzanne da Rosa

Visual Arts: Crafts, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Printmaking, Textiles; Knitting

I am a knitting historian and master lace knitter. The last 7 years I’ve been researching the earliest knitting manuals from the 1840’s cataloging, reviewing, knitting, updating and charting patterns from these early handwritten lace patterns. In 2021 I created a deck of Victorian Lace Knitting Cards to be used by knitters who want to practice their lace knitting skills, practice designing their own pieces and use them along with their favorite simple patterns to make them their own. The cards are available through my website and will be available for shipping in late January 2022. Along with the cards I’ve designed four Victorian Long Shawl knitting patterns. With this project complete, my 2022 plans are to work with these cards in different mediums than yarn and create outdoor sculptures. I would like to collaborate with other artists to combine lace knitting with other mediums. Other interests include linoleum block printing, solar plate etching and felting and to continue working with Pacific Textile Arts in whatever way I can to increase participation and encourage support of he fiber arts community in the Mendocino/Fort bragg area. Bio: suzannedarosa.com Mendocino Art Center artist in residence (2019-20) bio: https://www.mendocinoartcenter.org/air-20192020/suzanne-da-rosa

Laura Fogg

Visual Arts: Textiles, Visual Arts Instructor

Laura Fogg has been an art quilter for over twenty years. Her work is shown regularly in major quilt shows across the country, including Visions and Quilt National, and many pieces have won cash awards. Articles and photos of Fogg’s work have been published in most of the quilting magazines in the US, as well as in a number of national and international books and calendars on art quilting. She has also been featured in two documentary films (one by the American Quilters Society and the other by Lifetime TV in conjunction with the Vagina Monologues production), and appeared as a featured artist on Alex Anderson’s “The Quilt Show” in 2018. Fogg is the recipient of two art-related awards in Mendocino County- the Women’s Art: Women’s Vision award in 2008 and the Mendocino County Arts Champion award in 2012. Art keeps her busy! She is a 10-year member of the Corner Gallery and a longstanding Board member of Art Center Ukiah. She is also a devoted advocate and patron of public art. Laura Fogg has lived all of her adult life in Mendocino County, where she worked for 30 years as a teacher of the visually impaired. In that capacity she won the Schoolmaster of the Year award in 2011. She is now retired and happily watching five grandchildren grow up. Fogg was an art history major at UC Berkeley, with a minor in art, and has a Masters in Education from CA State University-San Francisco. She is mostly a self-taught quilter, though she studied briefly under Natasha Kempers-Kullen many years ago. She currently lectures and teaches art quilting classes and retreats throughout northern California and has been on the board of directors of the Arts Council of Mendocino County since April 2022. I have lived and worked in Mendocino County my entire adult life. After raising my three children I finally found the time to do art seriously. Since then I have won numerous awards in quilt and museum shows across the country and have been published in national quilt magazines and several books on art quilting. My work was also featured in the HBO documentary, “Until the Violence Stops,” which dealt with exposing and preventing violence against women around the world. I was also honored to win the Art Champion award in Mendocino County. I currently teach art quilting classes and retreats across the western US. I am open to any quilt guild, fabric store or group of individuals who want to put a class together. My current work has primarily moved from landscapes and “pretty pictures” to social, environmental and political commentary. I have discovered that through my art I have a voice, which is of primary importance to me at this time.

Stephanie T. Hoppe

Visual Arts: Textiles

Lolli Jacobsen

Visual Arts: Textiles, Visual Arts Instructor

Ling-yen Jones

Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Crafts, Glasswork, Graphic Arts, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles, Works on paper

The Coast Highway Artists Collective (CHAC) was formed in March, 2012. The Collective includes artists working in various genres and media. Most of us live on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean, in an area called “Mendonoma,” which includes the adjacent southern Mendocino County and northern Sonoma County in California. Our gallery in Point Arena has a long art history. The building, which is easily recognizable by its red paint and bright yellow sun logo, was originally a home for a family with five children. Decades ago, the building was converted into an art gallery and was known as City Art. Many artists in the local community contributed to creating the gallery and hosting art exhibits. Years later, the gallery became inactive and stood vacant for a time. CHAC was then formed and refurbished the building to use it for year-round displays of local members’ art. Guest artists are often invited to exhibit at the gallery. Our Collective member artists take turns staffing the gallery on its open days, usually four, including weekends (see our current schedule on the Home page), so that whenever anyone visits, there will be one of our artists there to serve them. The building, with its charming garden, is oftentimes used for community events. .

Heather Law

Heather Law was raised in rural Northern California. In 2004, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Chico. After graduating, she spent several years as an apprentice at Hoyman-Browe pottery studio in Ukiah, California. From 2007-2009 she attended graduate school in Rochester, New York, at the School of American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she obtained a Master’s of Fine Art degree with a concentration in Ceramic Sculpture. Currently she is a studio production artist and small business owner in Ukiah, CA. Law’s work is a social commentary on American consumerism, personal identity through material goods, and the waste that material consumption creates in our commodity culture. Her work is a tangible and direct representation of mass consumerism/waste and her molds are a friendly reusable reminder of the importance of being aware of our carbon footprint.

Nancy MacLeod

Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Painting, Textiles

I grew up in the beauty of oak trees and yuccas in southern California’s chaparral. From the time I was a little kid, I drew and painted and made things every day. By High School, which had a fabulous art department, the format was such that I was able to take 8 art classes my senior year. The year after high school I spent studying with painters Ed Seagaitz and Jo Mahoney in Claremont, Calif. I then moved north and put myself through Calif. College of Arts and Crafts making one-of-a-kind art-to-wear garments, and graduated with distinction with a major in Fine Arts, emphasis in painting. I lived and made art in the Bay Area until 2003, when we moved to Philo, where we still live. My main goal in creating art is to make political, social and spiritual commentary in a way that is playful and fun to have around. I like to paint pictures about things I think have an important message. Some of those things are really very ugly, like war, injustice, environmental destruction- but I don’t like to paint ugly things. The idea I want to convey is often, though not always, serious. The execution is meant to be fun, playful, so as not to scare the viewer away, but to give them pause to think on it without being beaten over the head. I paint in what I call “Primitive Narrative”, or “Folk Art Fantasy”. My husband and I also make furniture together, mostly cupboards, which we call “Folk Art Fantasy Furniture”.

Gail Porcelan

Gail Porcelan gporcelan@gmail.com Autumn Postcards – Fabric I am a retired Fort Bragg teacher. I have always incorporated art in the curriculum as a way to enhance the academic work of my students with creative projects which were relevant to the topic, time period and culture we studied. I began creating my own work 20 years ago which is rooted in fiber art and mixed media collage. Window Pane Fabric (detail) My textile wall hangings are made with a variety of Japanese woven and printed fabrics. I also lean towards batiks, Aborigine and African printed fabrics and up cycled natural fabrics. The hand sewing is inspired by the sashiko tradition of using contrasting color thread (usually white) to make running stitches in patterns. I often use traditional kamon motifs (crests). The embellishments vary from handmade buttons, pebbles, shells, wood, buttons, beads, ribbon and photos printed on fabric. The smaller pieces are hand printed or hand batiked and I have been incorporating traditional Adinkra symbols from Ghana. Recently I have enjoyed making macramé bracelets often using up cycled beads. Paper Collage – Handmade Paper, 6X6 You can contact me at gporcelan@gmail.com if you are interested in any of my pieces, I have many pieces on display in my studio, a selection in Ficus and Fern in Fort Bragg and Indigo in Mendocino and on the Pacific Textile Arts website. (https://www.pacifictextilearts.org/members-work-for-sale/)

The Franklin Family

Visual Arts: Crafts, Illustration, Jewelry, Painting, Textiles

Members of the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians, Patricia Ray-Franklin along with her children, Tim (11), Joshua (9), and Sarah (6), make regalia to be worn while dancing. Patricia uses her craft to revitalize the culture of her tribe. Taught beading by her brother, Timothy Ray, Patricia has taught her children to bead. Among their many activities in the community the Franklins also dance, sing and play traditional instruments. Tim, Joshua and Sarah integrate their sense of rhythm, patterns and colors in their paintings. Patricia has been inspired by her late Aunt Bonnie Elliott, who she watched as a young girl weave baskets and make regalia. This is a unique opportunity to see dynamic art made by a family that is learning and sustaining the original cultures of Mendocino and Lake counties.

Laura Wiecek

Visual Arts: Crafts, Mixed Media, Painting, Textiles, Works on paper; Book Art

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