May 21, 2010

Folk Art Center Focus Galley Exhibit

Folk Art Center, Milepost 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, Asheville North Carolina. The Folk Art Center Focus Gallery will feature the fiber art of Tommye Scanlin and Diane Getty April 24 - June 15.
Tommye Scanlin:  I have always loved the natural world of the southern Appalachian region where I’ve lived all my life. Many of my tapestries in the 1990s were designed with landscapes and plant life as subjects to celebrate the vibrancy of the world around me...

Diane Getty:  As a fabric artist, I work with both natural images and abstract symbols. In my naturalistic pieces, I study plants and landscapes and interpret them in fiber through painting, collage, and stitching, using stylized and idealized images...

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