Contact: Rae Gold
Director Fiberart International 2019fiberartinternational@gmail.com
https://fiberartinternational.org/
Stephanie Sun
Marketing Manager
Contemporary Craft
ssun@contemporarycraft.org
https://contemporarycraft.org

EXHIBITING ARTISTSARTIST

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LOCATIONARTISTMax Adrian
Lees Summit, MO
Andrea Alonge
Seattle, WA
Liz Alpert Fay
Sandy Hook, CT
Jim Arendt
Conway, SC
Meg Arsenovic
Richmond, VA
Susan Avishai
Toronto, Canada
Jozef Bajus
Snyder, NY
Pati Beachley
Pittsburgh, PA
Nicole Benner
Atlanta, GA
Jeanne Bieri
Gross Pointe Farms, MI
Beth Blankenship
Anchorage, AK
Jeanne BradyLubbock, Texas
Gregory Climer
Newburgh, NY
Merill Comeau
Concord, MA
Linda Rae Coughlin
Warren, NJ
Zlatko Cvetkovic
Belgrade, Serbia
Sara Desjardins
Litchfield, NH

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Erika DiamondCharlotte, NC
Margaret Jo Feldman
San Francisco, CA
Marie FornaroRichmond, VA
Xia Gao
Okemos, MI
Jayne Gaskins
Reston, VA
Jenne Giles
Yucca Valley, CA
Luke Haynes
Kansas City, MO
Rachel HefferanFennville, MI
Christine Holtz
St. Louis, MO
Christine Joy
Bozeman, MT
Patricia Kennedy-Zafred
Murraysville, PA
Judy Kirpich
Takoma Park, MD
Layla Klinger
Tel Aviv, IsraelKaria Kolb
Warrenton, VA
Deborah Kruger
Durham, NC
Elaine Longtemps
Brooklyn, NY
Carol Milne
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Fiberart International 2019 will be held at two locations - Contemporary Craft (2100 Smallman
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Marianne Moore
Boston, MA
Carolina Oneto
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jason Ripper
Scottsdale, AZ
Michael Rohde
Westlake Village, CA
Maggy Rozycki Hiltner
Red Lodge, MT
Kristin SæterdalOslo, Norway
Etta Sandry
Montreal, Canada
Maria Shell
Anchorage, AK
Stephen Sidelinger
Venice, FLLouise Silk
Pittsburgh, PA
Adrienne SloaneWatertown, MA

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Kathy Spoering
Grand Junction, CO
Melinda K.P. Stees
Chagrin Falls, OH
Leigh Suggs
Richmond, VA
Claire Taylor
Sherwood, WI
Wendy Weiss
Lincoln, NE
Elizabeth Whyte Schulze
Worthington, MA
Dawn Williams Boyd
Atalanta, GA
Shari Wolf-Boraz
Lebanon, NH
Jayoung Yoon
Beacon, NY
Akane Yorita
Nagoya, Japan

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FIBERART INTERNATIONAL 2019 ARTWORK HIGHLIGHTS•Patricia Kennedy-Zafred (Murraysville, PA) isa storyteller who creates a visual dialogue
with the viewers using fabric, dyes,
silkscreens, and ink. The agriculturallandscape of rural America has changed
dramatically from 50% of the population lived
and worked on farms in 1900s to a mere 2%
today. Faced with economic hardship, longhours, and corporate competition, hundredsof farmers decide to leave their land everyweek. The independent family farm is anessential part of the diverse American fabric,
representing strength, tenacity, patience, andperseverance. Inspired by 1930’s U.S. Farm
Security Administration photographs,Patricia Kennedy-Zafred. American Portrait: Loss in theAmerican Portrait: Loss in the Heartland is aHeartland, 2017. Original vintage feed sacks, textile inks,
image transfer materials, cotton batting, and cotton
tribute to the American farmer.
Exhibition location: Brew House Associationthreads. (Original images courtesy Library of Congress.).
58” x 66”. Photo: Larry Berman.

Fiberart International 2019 will be held at two locations - Contemporary Craft (2100 Smallman Street)
and the Brew House Association (711 South 21st Street) in Pittsburgh, PA.

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Attempting to raise awareness about the paradoxical
cycle of the exploitive garment manufacture couple with theenormous problem of textile waste, Susan Avishai (Toronto,Canada) creates sculptures from deconstructed, discarded
clothing rescued from thrift shops. 85% of the cast-off clothes
end up in landfill. While industrial cycling is one solution,
Avishai wants to look at discarded clothing in a newperspective and turned them around. No Place to Hide a Dark
Heart is a fiber sculpture that speaks to our aesthetics eventhough it is made from what we throw away; the connection
with the materials and objects deepens when we recognize its
previous life or its inherent history.
Exhibition location: Contemporary Craft

Susan Avishai. No Place to Hide a Dark
Heart, 2017. Deconstructed men’s dress
shirts embedded with polymer medium,
buttons. 35” x 24” x 2”. Photo courtesy of
Susan Avishai.

•“ I believe in using what we already have and as an artist,should be leading the way with innovative and inspiring
reuse and re-conceptualization, taking what was headed forthe ignoble dump and reclaiming it — with dignity, purpose,and whimsy — as art.”

Zlatko Cvetkovic (Belgrade, Serbia) creates fiber
installations that merged textile techniques andtechnologies with objects of the popular culture. As
Cvetković explores the phenomena of ephemerality andoblivion, he experimented with records, audio-video
cassettes, and CDs to create his work. In Wave, just likein human’s everyday lives, the magnetic tapes fromaudio-video cassettes have lost their original function
and purpose, and become the material for knitting,embroidery, sewing, and for video art formations.
Exhibition location: Brew House Association“If we abide in memory, everything that we inherited,experienced, or remembered, even the traces of things
we cast aside. How conscious are we of ourselves, ofour pathways and of the signposts that help us orient
ourselves in the webs of nonsense, of memory thatenriches us, but at the same time burdens us heavily?”Zlatko Cvetković. Wave, 2018. Magnetic tapes
from audio and video cassettes. 98.5” x 90.5”
x 39”. Photo courtesy of Zlarko Cvetković.

Fiberart International 2019 will be held at two locations - Contemporary Craft (2100 Smallman Street)
and the Brew House Association (711 South 21st Street) in Pittsburgh, PA.

Fiberart International 2019 Image Sheet, p.g. 4• Meg Arsenovic (Richmond, VA) was raised at
the intersection of the Mattaponi, the Pamunkey, andthe York Rivers of the Chesapeake Bay. Most of herchildhood was spent steeped in same brackish watersthat witnessed millions of years, including thebeginnings of U.S. History. Through her work, Arsenovic
reexamines what she was and was not taught about
the area she is so familiar with and those beginnings. Inmarine safety, the orange PVC utility flags are used tosignal distress. In construction, the orange color is used
to demand attention. In Tell Tales, the orange flags areused to mark changing communication lines. Theseflags punctured in a sphere along lines of latitude andlongitude reference the act of claiming and marking
territory as it relates to both colonial andcontemporary practices.
Meg Roberts Arsenovic. Tell Tales, 2017. PVC utility flags,wood. 35” x 35” x 35”. Photo courtesy of Meg Roberts
Arsenovic.

•Exhibition location: Brew House Association

The basis of Margaret Jo Feldman’s (SanFrancisco, CA) work is exploring content
without context and the manner in whichcurrent and historical events are recounted.
The news of refugees in Europe and Africa
describe the desperate attempts by people
willing to endure dangerous crossings toescape harsh political and socioeconomic
conditions affected Feldman deeply. This
motivated her to use found images andembroidery to explore their humanity.
Exhibition location: Contemporary Craft“My intention is to create a first impressionthat reads as purely aesthetic and thenchallenge that assumption with embedded
details that hint at the human condition.”

Margaret Jo Feldman. Refugee Abstract #5, 2017. Threadon cotton. 12.25" x 13" x 2". Photo courtesy of Margaret JoFeldman.

Additional Fiberart International 2019 artist biographies are available by request.
For high-res images and photo credits, please contact: Rae Gold, Director of Fiberart International, atfiberartinternational@gmail.com or Stephanie Sun, Marketing Manager of Contemporary Craft, at
ssun@contemporarycraft.org or 412.261.7003.

Fiberart International 2019 will be held at two locations - Contemporary Craft (2100 Smallman Street)
and the Brew House Association (711 South 21st Street) in Pittsburgh, PA.