Leslie Marsh “Our House” Mixed media fibers, 15.5”H x 13.5”W (Framed)
“Fibrage a Trois” will be the second exhibit to grace our new gallery space at 970 Inspiration Drive, featuring the creations of three fiber artists: Fritzi Huber, Leslie Marsh & Rebecca Yeomans. Including handmade paper, hand-sewn embroidery, botanically printed textiles, explore unique path each artist has forged within the often-overlooked world of fiber art.
Join us in the gallery on Sunday, April 27th, from 2-5pm. Enjoy special refreshments, meet our artists, and enjoy live music by violinist, Shirley Lebo!
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About the Artists
Fritzi Huber, a current artist at ACME Art Studios, was born to a traveling circus family, where creativity was abundant but water scarce. Drawn to the library scents of paper and the watery process it forms from, Fritzi has become locally and internationally for her mastery of hand papermaking, which she has practiced and taught for over 45 years.
Guest artist, Leslie Marsh, creates narrative embroideries whose traditional media recall the generations of women handworkers she descends from. In addition to bookmaking and other media, Leslie also felts flora and fungi with wool fiber and threads. Leslie’s work is held in private collections across the Americas, Europe and Australia. She teaches workshops in her Hampstead home studio and at various sites across the US.
Rebecca Yeomans’ current art centers her love of nature through her study of botanical contact printmaking, infusing natural dyes into fabrics and papers. A lifelong artist who learned to knit at eight years old, Rebecca and her husband Tom moved to Wilmington, NC in 1984 where she worked as a scenic artist in the film industry before transitioning fully into artmaking. Rebecca is excited to be a part of Fibrage a Trois with her fiber friends! The pieces she created for this show were pulled from previously printed inventory due to the seasonal lack of fresh leaves. They are examples of the three scenarios she have been exploring: plant still lives, paper plant portraits, and abstract plant compositions. Her process involves intuitively and playfully embellishing a printed piece with hand stitching, collage, paint, and found objects.