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From the archives: Embroidering decay with Itamar Yehiel
Angela Truscott: Jul 1 2025
People react to it emotionally, very differently. Some see decay, others see...
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From the archives: Invisible threads and visible truths with Shin-hee Chin
Angela Truscott: Jul 1 2025
Through the process of my work, I become myself. - Shin-hee Chin
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From the archives: Why art matters with Roberta Wagner
Angela Truscott: Jul 1 2025
Does it make your heart sing? Am I happy with it? Do I love making it? That has...
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Community Spotlight: Angela Wegner
Angela’s late - but not too late - return to art. “Every day, I feel grateful...
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Begin at your Beginning
Beginning with a self-chosen material, technique, or idea, these works reflect...
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From the archives: Stitching time with Richard McVetis
Angela Truscott: Jun 25 2025
You can’t touch time, it doesn’t exist as a physical object and yet it has this...
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Student Success Story: Anne Brooke
Anne Brooke shares her experience on how Essence of Identity with Donna Watson...
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Student Success Story: Marion Gaiss
The Art of Abstract Collage with Cordula Kagemann helped painter Marion...
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Quilted truths with Beverly Y. Smith
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Jo Wright: Jun 17 2025
My grandmother taught me that the smallest piece of fabric can hold generations...
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Painting flavour with Nicola Bennett
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Tara Axford: Jun 11 2025
I’m so passionate about flavour and colour that cooking isn’t enough. It gets...
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Community Spotlight: Lynette Warren
Meet Lynette, one of our most inspiring students. Discover how she’s staying...
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The lonely side of creativity (and how to find your way back to connection)
Feeling a bit lonely or isolated as an artist? Read our insights on the lonely...
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Printing without a pattern with Pat Pauly
Jo Wright: May 30 2025
They look like paintings from afar… and then you realise they’re quilts. People...
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Using earth pigments in your mixed media art
Earth pigments aren’t just pretty colours; they’re time capsules, stories...
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Process and discomfort Caroline Bartlett
Angela Truscott: May 27 2025
It’s the doing and the undoing and the redoing. There’s a repetition in that…...
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Student Success Story: Jocelyn Vache
“I stopped painting for several years because the materials didn’t align with...
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Memory and moment through collage with Robert Lee Davis
Nicola Rough: May 20 2025
All of these bits and pieces make up our landscape. I’m trying to present the...
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The secret life of fabric with Hannah Gartside
Angela Truscott: May 18 2025
You have to go beyond what's possible now and think about what's possible...
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Layered Fragments of Time
Exploring time as both companion and catalyst, these works reflect a layered,...
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Making through the mess with Cas Holmes and Clarissa Callesen
Angela Truscott: May 14 2025
Creativity gives us the tools even if we’re not aware of them at the time. It...
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Radical comfort with Luke Haynes
Jo Wright: May 6 2025
There’s something very tactilely, haptically human in the medium… fabric as...
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Creative healing with Karen Olson
Jo Wright: May 1 2025
I’ve never felt more alive. I connected with nature in a way I never had...
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Community Spotlight: Megan Morgan
Louisville-based Megan Morgan is a fine artist whose work explores the...
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From the archives: Transforming trauma with Theda Sandiford
Angela Truscott: Apr 15 2025
I wasn’t making art - I was trying to feel better. And then I realised other...
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From the archives: A life in colour with Carlotta
Deborah White: Apr 15 2025
I wasn’t trying to make something beautiful. I was trying to feel something...
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From the archives: Colour alchemy with Jason Logan
Angela Truscott: Apr 11 2025
The land itself has a message. I don’t think it’s something I can translate...
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Connections.
Through attentive sensing and thoughtful stitching, these works explore the...
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Student Success Story: Jeannet Kool
Despite her passion and dedication, Jeannet Kool found herself at a creative...
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Student Success Story: Jane Douglas
For Jane Douglas, a dedicated artist seeking depth and meaning in her work,...
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A-muse-ing - Student Art Exhibition
Exploring the many meanings of a muse, these works reflect thoughtful...
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From the archives: Antidotes to fast fashion with Claire Wellesley-Smith
Angela Truscott: Apr 3 2025
The only thing I would say is… Make it meaningful for you. You know, that could...
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Community Spotlight: Helga Winter
This month (March 2025), we’re shining the community spotlight on award-winning...
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Student Success Story: Diane Burch
From bits and pieces to confident composition: Diane Burch’s artistic journey...
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Stitching every day with Amanda Nadig
Jo Wright: Mar 27 2025
I have too many things in my life that I put a lot of pressure on myself with....
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Making the repurposed remarkable with Swapna Namboodiri
Tara Axford: Mar 12 2025
I truly believe that art in any form is a pure gift. When we are growing up, we...
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Threads of connection: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Angela Truscott: Mar 7 2025
In 2024, Take Two had the pleasure of filming a documentary for Haystack...
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Sewing stories with Sara Impey
Jo Wright: Mar 5 2025
Every artist must create something that is true to themselves. I think every...
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Inside the wonderland of Ricky Boscarino
Clarissa Callesen: Feb 28 2025
My master plan was never to have a master plan. I didn’t set out to build an...