Artist Statement
I use fabric sourced from vintage drapes dresses or just about anywhere to create hand sewn one of a kind purses. Every item is designed cutting free hand with the fabric to highlight the best features of the fabric or working around typical vintage fabric damage.. Impossible to duplicate. The bags are decorated inside with vintage photo pockets and outrside with period artifacts I collect from postcards to coins and antique millinery flowers buttons toys and more. Again endless possibilities! Each bag tells a story of the era of the fabric past style inspiration and the past use the materials were recycled from to becomes a modern bag that can be worn as a bit of collage folly artwork.
Festivals
Promenade of Art, Downtown Downers Grove Art Festival, Millennium Art Festival, Gold Coast Art Fair at Grant Park, Lincolnshire Art Festival, North Shore Festival of Art at Old Orchard, Third Ward Art Festival, Summer on Southport
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Booth Numbers
Promenade of Art: 202
Gold Coast Art Fair at Grant Park: 434
Millennium Art Festival: 30
Summer on Southport: 236
North Shore Festival of Art at Old Orchard: 50
Lincolnshire Art Festival: 173
Art at the Glen Town Center: 236
Third Ward Art Festival: 58
Downtown Downers Grove Art Festival: 8