HIGHLIGHTING THE DIVERSE TALENTS OF OUR MEMBERS IN FIBER ART

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.