Faculty Art Exhibition

I am an art teacher at a middle school in Missouri City, TX.  The district that I work in put on an art exhibition strictly for faculty art work!  I still have most of my art packed away from the move, or it is traveling on exhibition right now, so I decided to make something new.  I love to do birds!  I am considering doing a series with "things with wings".  In any event, here is my artwork that I did for the show!  "Ramphastos Sulfuratus" (Keel-Billed Toucan)  The crazy thing is that I drew this out like three years ago, and just hadn't gotten around to painting and quilting it.  Yay, I can scratch one UFO off the list!

OURstory!

I responded for another call for entry entitled "OURstory" which will tell the stories of disenfranchised people and their fights for equal rights.  I created a 25" X 40" quilt inspired by Rosa Parks.  I chose to base my art quilt on the iconic mugshot photo of her, but I changed it up a little, by putting equal on the sign she was holding up, and in the background, I used an original thermofax screen, to "inscribe" common words and phrases from that time on the brick wall behind her.  I included words like, "colored, segregation, whites only and back of the bus" to name a few.  I am REALLY proud of the job I did quilting her face.  But, I can't post pictures of the finished product just yet.  Here is a photo my daughter took of me while I was working on it, and a small shot of the back!  More to come.......