Over the weekend, I went to the NC Japan Center to see their winter art exhibition, “Hard and Soft,” featuring shibori fabric art by Susan Fennell and pottery by Takuro and Hitomi Shibata. Everything was beautiful, and the artists gave talks about their journeys as artists and what had inspired their work. I was there especially to see Susan’s work. For this exhibit, she concentrated on her work with indigo, although she does also work with other colors and dyes (as you may remember from the fabric she made for me for the craft fair.) Unlike the previous exhibition I went to in the fall, when they were displaying Barb Suess’s temari, I remembered to take pictures this time! (See Barb’s own blog for pictures of her amazing temari displays.)
Shibori banners on the porch
Shibori banners on the porch, other side
Shibori hangings in the front hallway
My favorite set of hangings in the upstairs room
The eclipse was the same weekend. Coincidence?
A little bit of red, and some of the smaller pieces of pottery below.
