HIGHLIGHTING THE DIVERSE TALENTS OF OUR MEMBERS IN FIBER ART
Meeting Highlights / Show and Tell
March 2025: Marilyn Henrion Program, DAFA @Dallas Quilt Show, and Project 2050 in Phoenix!
In our March program, Smithsonian-featured artist Marilyn Henrion discussed with us
her evolution as a fiber artist and mother of four through the wild ’50s and ’60s--in the very heart of a historic period in the New York art and literary scene--up to her continuing creative explorations in Texas as she approaches the age of 93.
DAFA was well-represented, as always, during the annual Quilter's Guild of Dallas show. Our booth (below, left) featured a special memorial exhibit (below, right) in honor of the late Jo Appleton.
We also had several members who were honored at the show with winning ribbons and special exhibitions:
- Individual winners:
Deborah Boschert,
Tonya Littman,
Jackie Nixon-Fulton, and
Carolyn Skei.
- Collaboration winners: The group piece
Remembering the Land,
created by seven (7) DAFA members who are also members of the North Tx SAQA group:
Ava Nell Harris, Jonquele Jones, Jackie Nixon-Fulton, Carolyn Skei, Nancy Tully, Renee Turner,
and
Cyndi Watson.
- Featured Quilt Artist: Deborah Boschert was the featured quilt artist, a great honor which highlighted her many works in a large exhibit.
Kathi Jahnke visited the Toward 2050 exhibition, held at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden, where her climate flags (and those of other DAFA members) are on display through June 1, 2025.
February 2025: Mixed-Media Madness workshops
Our members had a blast at our annual Mixed-Media Madness workshop program, which featured our three superstars Carol Regan, Lucy Miron, and Carol Kovacs.
February 2025 Member Show & Tell
Members' Publications & Awards
Jackie Nixon-Fulton's art quilt Remembrance will be featured in the Spring issue of Fiber Art Now magazine. This fused fabric collage uses a wide array of techniques, including the application of thickened dyes, silkscreens, scraping, commercial stencils, and rubbings. The silkscreen is “painted” with soy wax to create a cluster of poppies, and acrylic paint was used for highlights and for the creation of new fabric with stencils.
Jackie has been working on art quilts relating to her personal experiences with the recent fires in New Mexico, where she owns a home.
Poppies, known to many as a symbol of remembrance of World War I, have special significance in the American West as well. The poppy is the official state flower of New Mexico, and one Western-native species is prized for being unusually fire-resistant, with seeds remaining dormant in the soil bank for decades only to spring forth in the destructive aftermath of wildfires.
Members' Exhibitions, Events and Sales
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Contemporary Tapestry
Exhibition: Apr 11 - Oct 12 2025
161 Glass Street
Dallas, Texas 75207
(Free on-site parking)
You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry is a celebration of tapestry and its practitioners in the 21st century, offering a consideration of the strategies by which contemporary artists interrogate tactility and image in the age-old medium of tapestry in a current context.
Featuring works by thirty artists and designers, and organized by guest curator Su Wu, the exhibition depends, like the works that compel it, on an engagement with interstices specific to tapestry – between art and craft, the medium and the matter, and devotion and its technological mediation.
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Circular Weaving Project
Thursday, April 17, 5-8pm
Plano Haggard Library
2501 Coit Road
Plano, Texas 75075
DAFA member Beth Morgan will be presenting a circular weaving project, held at Plano's Haggard Library during the opening evening of the Library Art Experience. A special exhibit, held in celebration of the Plano Public Library's 60th anniversary, will run through Saturday.
Have a project to share? Tell us!
DAFA loves to hear what you have been working on. If you have a project to share, please email commsgroup@dallasfiberartists.org and include photos and a brief description.
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