Just Add Color
Just Add Color
93” x 33 ½”
Acrylic painting
Commercial fabrics
Hand stitching
Machine Stitching
Urban landscapes repeatedly transition through a cycle of viability, decay, and regeneration. They reflect the city’s quality of life and its community values. The beautification of collective spaces blooms during times of vitality through murals, protected green spaces, public art, and other creative placemaking. Just Add Color represents the perspective of a city in transition-- a city on the edge of change. The addition of color represents the effect of creative revitalization efforts on a city. Turned on its axis, however, Just Add Color also mimics rain washing the color away, revealing the grittiness, darkness, and desperation of a space on the edge of urban decay.
Exhibition Schedule
Camouflage - SAQA Global Exhibition; juror Lorraine Roy
International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas: October 31 - November 3, 2024
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona: July 19th - September 28, 2025
Detroit Zoo, Royal Oak, Michigan: November 1, 2025 - February 15, 2026
McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture, Knoxville, Tennessee: August 20 - December 5, 2027
No Limits - SAQA Virtual Gallery permanent exhibition; juror SAQA Virtual Gallery Committee
A Sum of Its Parts - EDGE Contemporary Fiber Artists exhibition 2019; juror Maria Shell
Sunderland Gallery, Omaha, NE: September 8 - October 13, 2019
On the Edge - SAQA Oregon exhibition 2019; juror Pat Pauly
The Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon: May 3, 2019 - August 11, 2019