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Upcoming Events
“CIRCLE OF WOMEN ART EXHIBIT” Please join us for our 4th annual “circle of Women Art Exhibition” Saturday, August 25th, 4-7 INTERFIBERS DESIGN GALLERY on County road F (2 miles east off Hwy 42) Fish Creek, WI (920)868-3580
Long time friends and artists, Wendy Carpenter and Ruth Philipon have created new artwork for their forth annual “CIRCLE OF WOMEN ART EXHIBITION,” at INTERFIBERS DESIGN GALLERY. Ruth’s travels throughout Europe, Kenya, Egypt. Greece and Peru, combined with Wendy’s travels throughout Mexico and Guatemala, have been powerful influences on their creative art imagery and life.
Wendy has recreated this traditional art form by incorporating her hand-woven fabric, mix media mask form and custom mounts…thus uniting this traditional Maya art form with her contemporary fiber-art. Wendy designed a series of Maya huipil wall-hangings from various pueblos in an array of styles and colors. Wendy, renowned for integrating natural elements into her work, creates 3-D, mix media fiber wall sculpture.
Ruth Philipon, owner of Tria Gallery in Ellison Bay for 23 years, is a long standing and prominent Door County artist. After closing the gallery in 1996 she moved to Florida, but returns to Door County often to reunite with her many fellow artists and friends.
Fascinated with working in dimensional possibilities for many years Ruth now stretches the properties of paper to create optical and structural images incorporating painting and collage of landscapes, botanicals, the figurative, and the mythic. Ruth will be discussing her art work series from the Greek Island of Samos and her new botanical work inspired from her travels down the Amazon River.
The ladies had their first “Circle of Women” art exhibit in 2004, titled “Interweaving Art” in which they explored the possibilities of blending 2-D and 3-D backgrounds through interweaving paper, found objects and textiles.
"JADEITE STONE AND JEWELRY EXHIBIT"
Winter, 2007, Wendy Carpenter traveled to Antigua, Guatemala for a Spanish immersion study. Through her Spanish teacher she met, lapidary artist, Rigoberto Castro.
To the Pre-Columbia people of Mesoamerica, jadeite represented
breath, life, fertility, and power. Jadeite artifacts,
associated with rituals,
The term jade refers to two mineralogical distinct stones. One is jadeite, a silicate of sodium and aluminum. The other, nephrite, is a silicate of calcium and magnesium. Nephrite does not occur in Mexico or Central America in either an archeological context or in modern times. To date, all jade mine in Mesoamerica, as well as that found in ancient context, is jadeite. Mesoamerican jadeite not only centered in Guatemala but on a single location, the remote Motagua Valley.
All three components of jadeite-sodium, aluminum, and silica
are
The Huipil The most important item of a Maya woman’s costume is the huipil, which can be loosely described as a blouse. It is the huipil that identifies the Maya Indian as belonging to a particular village. Wendy Carpenter has recreated this traditional art form by incorporating her hand-woven fabric, tapestry mask and custom mounts…thus uniting a traditional art form with contemporary fiber-art. Wendy is designing a series of huipil wall-hangings in various styles/colors that can be seen at Interfibers Design Gallery, Fish Creek.
Interfibers
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Wendy,
owner of Interfibers Design Gallery, has created a series of
Huipil Wall hangings. The most important item of a Maya
woman’s costume is the huipil, which can be loosely
described as a hand woven embroidery blouse. It is the
huipil that identifies the Maya Indian as belonging to a
particular village.
