PAPER QUILTS: Musings from the Mailbox

Velga Easker
January 19 - February 29, 2012 . 9am-9pm M-F

VELGA EASKER has focused on using materials associated with communication, ie., cancelled postage stamps, security envelopes, and junk mail from her mail box. She coaxes and manipulates these materials into images created within the structure of a more traditional art form, sometimes incorporating transparent overlays and hand and machine stitching.

Admiring the work of resourceful pioneer women who used scraps of fabric and worn out clothing to create visually beautiful as well as functional quilts, she echoes that early recycling spirit. Layered within these patterns are subtle connections and rhythms which are revealed upon closer inspection.

Exhibition opening

Thursday, January 19, 5:00-7:00 pm
Free and open to the public.
Murphy Gallery @ the Y

University YMCA, 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign. IL 61820

Exhibition sponsored by: Art @ the Y, an initiative of the University YMCA