Celebrity Cruise Contempary Art Collection II

Here are some of the 3D peices

You can read a little about the collection here

 Sometimes the pieces had a tag, and other times they did not

If they had a tag, I took a picture of it

 These are made of paper

 These two were by the pools

Celebrity Cruise Contemporary Art Collection

I just got back from a Celebrity cruise with my whole family for my mom's 75th birthday.

One thing that surprised me was the large collection of art on the ship.

It turns out that Celebrity has one of the world’s largest collections of contemporary art

with over 14,000 pieces in their collection.

You can learn more about their collection in this short video.

These bustes exotiques were a main feature in between floors in the central staircase.

They are by artist Liza Lou

If you take a Celebrity Solstice cruise you can borrow an iPad and take a tour of pieces in their collection.

Journal Pieces Weeks 40-43

Wk 40, Anger

 Freemotion

  

Wk 41, Relationships

Applique, freemotion, and working on velvet for the first time 

Wk 42, Freedom

Another school year over, and how I feel about it

 Some hand stitching and beads

Wk 43, Leymah

Inspired by Noble Peace laureate who helped bring peace to Liberia

I am researching her for a larger peice for an exhibition called

Broad Changes: Women of Social Justice for

The Fiber Artists for Hope  fall exhibition

Journal Pieces Weeks 36-39

Wk 36, Buttons

One last block to re-purpose.

This is incomplete, got a li'l tired of sewing on the buttons

Wk 37, OK

I learned that sometimes you just need to say, "Ok"

Wk 38, Untitled

Playing with scraps and composition

Wk 39, Heart

I was given this screen print and I played with

color and thread painting

It was a lot of fun

The back

Weeks 31-35

Week 31, 27 eT

 Since my birthday is on the 27th, I am obsessed with the # 27.

The green swirl is the last letter of my first name, and the first letter of my last name
as I sign it in my signature

I used silk and sheers

Week 32, The 70's

This patch had been donated to me and several months ago, if not years, I had

made the patch into this small quilt

The colors and feel of the fabrics reminded me so much of my childhood

I decided to repurpose it using a variety of surface design techniques

I painted on it

Used bubble wrap to stamp patterns on it

Used paint sticks and fabric gel pens to decorate the piece

Then I appliqued some fabric, sheers, and scraps of netting

Adding final touches with some stitching

This piece was a whole lot of fun to work on.

I tried to be spontaneous and not over think any design choices

Wk 33, Peace

Artist Maggie Weiss presented a thermafax workshop at her beautiful studio

in Evanston for Illinois SDA members

Here she is running an image through the machine

This creates a screen so the image can be reproduced many times

Here we are making our prints

Maggie explains the different paints to us

I made several prints and made them into small postcards

I accidentally printed on the wrong side, so I screened a peace the correct way

This is to remind you to live with peace inside and outside yourself

Close up of stitching

Wk 34, Maneater

I had so much fun repurposing that patch (I have 3 of them) I decided to do another one.

When I was about 10 I crawled into my brother's bunk bed and decided to see what

listening to music was like. I turned on the clock radio and the song

Maneater by  Hall & Oates was playing.

I listened for a while and decided that music made no sense, a woman can't eat a man.

I turned the radio off deciding music was not for me.

I used several surface design techniques on this piece too.
I now need to have the radio on at all times and love music.