Dow Jones goes to Chelsea

My Keeping an eye on the Dow Jones piece will hang at the Kathryn Markel Gallery, 529 W 20th St. in Manhattan starting this Thursday. Uncommon Threads: A Survey of Contemporary Quilts includes work by Katherine Knauer, Eliza Fernand, Violette Alby, Scott Andresen, Denise Burge, Lisa Call, Paula Nadlestern, Daphne Taylor, Eleanor McCain and Eileen Lauterborn. If you are in the Manhattan area, take a minute to see some beautiful work by a number of wonderful quilt artists.

Keeping an Eye on the Dow Jones @2009, Paula Kovarik

Make your position known.

A friend and I decided to print up some bumperstickers for people here in Memphis. I am providing downloadable artwork here (click on the image below to get your copy of the print-ready artwork) so that you too can take it to a local vendor to print some for your community. Pass it on!

bedazzled

SO taking a walk this afternoon I load up my pockets with MUST KEEP leaves. Hard to stop myself the colors are so inspiring. I put one on my scanner and zoomed in to a section. Here is what I found. ©2001, Paula Kovarik

research

I am working on the black and white quilt that has the big black spots on it and decided to do a study of cracking surfaces for the free motion quilting. Spent my afternoon walk taking pictures of cracks. Here is one that was almost exactly what I was looking for. The people at the bus stop watching me take pictures of these cracked sidewalks probably thought I was cracked myself