12 Cycles Exhibit opening in San Pablo, CA, Feb 4 2023

Please join us for the opening of the exhibit “12-Cycles” at the Contra Costa College Eddie Rhodes Gallery on February 4th from 2-5 pm.

View 12-Cycles online at  https://12-cycles.art.

Westies is a group of 12 female fiber/fibre artists that was formed during the pandemic with communication through Zoom. We live in the western part of the United States and Canada and are all members of Art Cloth Network (ACN): a juried group of 30+ fiber/fibre artists from the United States and Canada (http://artclothnetwork.com). 

To get to know one another better and have a greater creative outlet during the pandemic, the Westies began the 12 Cycles challenge in January of 2021—a SUPER Round Robin. Our round-robin involved circulating and responding to a growing stack of visual ideas that arrived without verbal or written commentary or explanation. Each artist had time to develop a new idea to add to the group based only on what was sent to them, and without knowing what the final collection would be.

Exhibition: Open Space

If you are coming through the Austin Airport before May 28, 2022, please look out for this exhibit!

Upcoming Exhibition

Hope to see you there!

Art Quilting Studio Anniversary Article

See the fabulous spread about ACN's recent accomplishments.

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Article reproduced here with permission of the publisher. Please visit https://stampington.com/art-quilting-studio.

See Connie Tiegel's work in a new SAQA virtual exhibit

A new SAQA virtual exhibit, Land Art: From the Forest to Your Balcony, includes work by Connie Tiegel.

Prayer Flags for Covid, Connie Tiegel, 2020.

The ACN 20th year anniversary is featured on Create Whimsy

Click on the link to view the HUGE article highlighting many members.

https://createwhimsy.com/projects/art-cloth-network-celebrating-20-years/

“Held Harmless,” Deborah Weir

Unbound reviewed in Cape News

Terrific review of Unbound at Cape Cod 2020 https://www.capenews.net/arts_and_entertainment/unbound-exhibition-showcases-art-cloth/article_87ba9200-b356-57d7-99a3-0d6162831241.html

“Boundless,” Joy Lavrencik

See Full Circle at Textile Center

ACN’s 20th anniversary exhibit is now on display at Textile Center in Minneapolis, MN. If you’re hunkered down at home and can’t make the trip you can take a virtual tour. The show will be on view July 7 - October 10, 2020 before traveling to its next venue in Philadelphia, PA.

See all of the beautiful work in this show by flipping through the exhibit catalog on our Exhibits page.

Welcome to our new website

Technology marches on, and we recently found that our old website was no longer functioning in a way that met our needs. So, here we are with our new site, hosted on squarespace.com. 

We hope you like it. 

The new site has largely been made possible through the efforts of ACN member Linda Dawson. Great job Linda!