The Global Art Project (www.globalartproject.org) is a challenge given to the members of OWCA Oregon Women Caucus for arts. They asked us to make some sort of art on an 8″ x 10″ surface. Each person will create a work of art expressing their vision of world peace. The contribution can be in any medium — visual or literary art, audio or video tape – which can be sent from one person (or group) to another.
The purposes of this project is to create a work of art expressing your vision of global peace and goodwill to exchange with another person or group. OWCA will be making 10 copies of each artist work and selling them to raise funds for the project.
The artwork will be displayed in the Janovec Gallery in Portland, Oregon April 1st through 22nd 2010. They will be bundled up and sent to Tucson to be matched up with a group for exchange. OWCA will then receive a show from another group (somewhere in the world). This art can be displayed or distributed to all who sent artwork out. Each artist will be able to keep one piece.
This is how I started my piece of art work. I used a wax paper place-mate from a pub, a plastic part of the caution sign they use for construction, a symbol from the web and some fabric flowers. Click here then scroll to the bottom to comment
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I used the checked place-mat as the background and then treated it as quilt art. I fused the flowers to the background along with the other parts.The plastic “caution” part could not be fused as it will melt. I used machine stitching or quilting it hold it all together. A checkered ribbon was used for the border. This is what I ended up with as the finished piece of quilted artwork.
