Groundhog and Green Bean selected for "State of the Art"

 I've received word that Groundhog and Green Bean has been selected for The Studio Quilt, No. 6: State of the Art by  noted artist, critic, curator and author Sandra Sider, to be published later this year.

 The list of included artists (see below) reads like a who's-who of fiber artists and art quilters that I admire, and I'm thrilled to be included in such esteemed company.

 Groundhog and Green Bean is from my newest series, Flora and Fauna, where I am working with the skulls and bones of local wildlife.  For this piece, I started with extreme close-up photographs of the groundhog skull, taken from several angles.   Below is the view looking down into the interior of the skull:

 From that photo I prepared a transparency, which functions as a large negative for making the cyanotype print:

And here is the resultant print, which I flipped when designing the quilt.

You can track it back as a work in progress by clicking on "Groundhog and Green Bean" under labels in the right sidebar.

Here's the list of artists, with congratulations to all.

The Studio Quilt, no. 6: State of the Art

List of Artists and Quilts:

Annie Helmericks-Louder, Outlaw Jackrabbit

Aryana Londir, Compartments #1

Barbara Wills, Land Marks #36

Benedicte Caneill, Units #9: Cityscape

Bonnie Smith, View from Above

Camilla Pearce, Rustbelt Shade Garden

Carolyn Carson, Deborah’s Decision

Catherine Smith, Grey Hay

Charlotte Ziebarth, Urban Reflections #2: Lake Merritt Series

Clairan Ferrono, Darkness Surrounds Us

Deborah Bein, Roots

Deborah Fell, Witness Trees

Deborah Weir, Daylily

Denise Linet, Garden in Blue

Diane Savona, Looted Artifacts

Eileen Lauterborn, Breaking News

Erika Carter, Cradle 6

Ezther Bornemisza, Pending Matters

Gay Lasher, Abstraction I

Gloria Hansen, Lost in Illusion

Grace Errea, Le Chapeau Extraordinaire

Holly Altman, Tidal Pool After the Storm

Jamie Fingal, Apron as Personal Armor

Jean Judd, Contaminated Water #1

Jennifer Day, Old Hands

Jette Clover, White Wall 2

Jill Rumoshosky Werner, Dispensed

Jo-Ann Golenia, Push

Joan Sowada, Fall Line Up

Judith Plotner, Soul of an Iris II

Judy Langille, Splintered Forms

Julia E. Pfaff, Contours V

K. Velis Turan, Major Deegan 2

Katherine Allen, Peace Like a River

Kathleen McCabe, Protea

Kathy Nida, Primal Scream

Kim Lakin, Rio

Leisa Rich, Architects in Flux

Linda Robertus, Magnificence

Louise Schiele, Gecko

Marcia Decamp, Jet Trails #10

Margaret Brown, Alike But Not the Same

Marianne R. Williamson, Babbling Brook

Marlene Parillo, Faces

Mary Pal, Homeless Love

Mary Vaneecke, Circlesss III

Melisse Laing, Seeing the Light

Micaela Fitzsimmons, The Road Home

Nancy Cook, Kousa: A New Dogwood’s in Town

Olga Norris, Snagged

Pat Owoc, Return

Patricia Gould, Coastal Symphony

Sarah Smith, Joshua

Sheree Rasmussen, Night Wind

Sue Reno, Groundhog and Green Bean

Susan Schrott, Fiddler on the Couch

Tiziana Raveri, Unstable Balance

Virginia Speigel, Boundary Waters 51

Wen Redmond, Perception of Trees

Yael Cohen, Mystery