May Cornucopia

 

Here it is, the May Cornucopia of useful and interesting links I found during the past month.

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Congresswoman Katie Porter is always seen on my tv with a beautiful quilt on the wall behind her. Turns out, her mom is Liz Porter (as in Fons & Porter), and the two of them have done an adorable interview Mom/Daughter video. Here's to more people with quilt appreciation in Congress, like Mazie Hirono from Hawaii with her art quilt backgrounds from Sandra Smith and Cindy Griselda.

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This is a very well done video walkthrough of the Rosie Lee Tompkins quilt retrospective show.

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Nigella Lawson does it again, after 40 years of making banana bread the same way, I may just have to switch over to this Chocolate Tahini version on occasion because it's divine.

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A great interview with textile artist Bobbi Baugh about her use of printing on various types of fabric.

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I'm looking forward to seeing what Create And Sustain does in the diverting textiles from landfills area. 

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An interesting watch: Sustainable Sewing-Repurposed Materials, I've only watched just this first part but I found it pretty useful, lots of ideas and resources.

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A fun thing to try out, do a Surface Test. I'm going to check out the PBS series The Art Assignment videos on youtube.

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Kaffe Fassett and his niece, artist Erin Lee Gafill have a new book and a museum exhibit currently showing at the Monterey Museum of Art through October. It's not the same as seeing an art exhibit in person, but they've generously posted an image gallery here of the exhibit.