August 23, 2004: Headlines: COS - Ecuador: Art: Fiber: San Luis Obispo Tribune: An Atascadero State Hospital Artist-In-Residence, Janine Kirkpatrick discovered fiber nearly 40 years ago while working for the Peace Corps in Ecuador. She helped a women’s cooperative in the Andes Mountains make shopping bags out of straw
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August 23, 2004: Headlines: COS - Ecuador: Art: Fiber: San Luis Obispo Tribune: An Atascadero State Hospital Artist-In-Residence, Janine Kirkpatrick discovered fiber nearly 40 years ago while working for the Peace Corps in Ecuador. She helped a women’s cooperative in the Andes Mountains make shopping bags out of straw
An Atascadero State Hospital Artist-In-Residence, Janine Kirkpatrick discovered fiber nearly 40 years ago while working for the Peace Corps in Ecuador. She helped a women’s cooperative in the Andes Mountains make shopping bags out of straw
An Atascadero State Hospital Artist-In-Residence, Janine Kirkpatrick discovered fiber nearly 40 years ago while working for the Peace Corps in Ecuador. She helped a women’s cooperative in the Andes Mountains make shopping bags out of straw
The stories behind the stitches
Artists weave, quilt and sculpt textiles as a form of expression, and the results speak volumes about the creators
Jessica Yadegaran
The Tribune
[Excerpt]
Marrying Johnson’s desire for softness with Perry’s political activism, Janine Kirkpatrick, a textile sculptor, created “Border Crossing,” 100 tarlatan cloth hands sewn together and dyed using a Japanese method called Shibori. Coiled barb wire holds the hands together. The piece, featured last month at SLOAC, reflects the atrocities Iraqi prisoners faced at Abu Ghraib.
“By using fencing material in my work, I can freeze the moment and explore the fluid movement of cloth,” said Kirkpatrick, 60, of Templeton.
An Atascadero State Hospital Artist-In-Residence, Kirkpatrick discovered fiber nearly 40 years ago while working for the Peace Corps in Ecuador. She helped a women’s cooperative in the Andes Mountains make shopping bags out of straw. Simple, yes. Intoxicating? Definitely.
“I fell in love with it,” Kirkpatrick said. “I knew it was something I had to do for the rest of my life.”
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