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Carol LeBaron is a textile artist living in the mountains of East Tennessee. She has been active in the textile arts arena for over twenty-five years, specializing in signature techniques with resist dye and stitch using wool and silk with acid dyes. Her exhibitions are centered on environment and sustainable practices, creating environments that fuel health and wellbeing| Her in person and online workshops explore color, creativity, and active meditation techniques. She has taught textile arts at Rhode Island School of Design, East Tennessee State University, and Georgia State university, as well as craft schools including Penland, Arrowmont, Haystack, Pacific Northwest Arts School, Pro Chemical and Dye, as well as for various guilds and private clients. Her work has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally. Currently she divides her time between teaching and commission work.

Textile Forum Article

I used to be so inspired by Textilforum when I was at RISD as a graduate student. Now, here I am, published there. Now I can be an inspiration to students. What a gift. Textile Forum Quarter 2 2012: Resist Dyeing II

Blue Plum Festival Exhibition

This is at the Tipton Gallery on Spring St in Johnson City TN. The gallery will be open from 1-5 today during the Blue Plum festival.

Whidbey Island

wonderful memory and cant wait to go again. I loved teaching this class with Jozef.

Roan Mountain

I went to Southeast fiber educator conference . Dan picked me up and we had a picnic on roan mountain .

Come to Peters Valley in June to Create Patterns on Wool and Silk with Acid Dyes

Create Patterns on Wool & Silk with Acid Dyes Date: June 22 – 26, 2012 (5 Days) Instructor: Carol LeBaron Level: Beginner and Beyond Class Description: Come create patterns with both surface and immersion techniques on wool and silk. Beginners will learn the fundamentals of dyeing and printing protein fibers, while advanced students will have […]

12 of 12 for October 2011

twelve and twelve for October. My family was up at Squam and I was here in Stony Creek. So 900 miles apart twelve and twelve!

A sign?

I think I am being sent a sign from the universe. I just had a second inquiry on an unrelated art piece from another potential client; I always dreamed of just putting my art out into the world, I wonder if that time in my life is arriving.   I feel as if I am […]

Major Commission

I just received a major commission for three pieces to go in Las Vegas hotel. I thought I was out from under!!!

The Meaningfulness of Lives

This popped up on my email today and I wanted to share it. I am going through a lot of changes this fall professionally and in my art work. The Meaningfulness of Lives God? Conviction? Passionate intensity? What are the qualities that make for a life that matters?

Thinking about little pieces

I am reflecting on the difference between conscious and intermittent thought patterns. I thought I was just going to be able to put the small pieces of fabric together and it would turn into this amalgamated piece. But its impossible, even with the tiniest bits, not to look at the color.

Repurposed Opening

Repurposed Opening October 6 Curated by Cynthia Farnell. I will exhibit my current piece.

Learning about blogging

Learning about blogging. It seems a little complicated. I have found some wonderful blogs and wonder how to get all the links on them.

Repurpose project in progress

This is the felted wool I use in my art work, some is repurposed blankets and clothes to begin with, and now, double repurposed as being leftovers made into a new piece. Its for a repurposed art exhibit in Atlanta this fall. I have been saving these bits for years and have had this idea for […]

12 of 12 for July 2011

This was a quiet day at my folks house in Sudbury, just enjoying their company and doing ordinary things.

Innovations in St Louis

I will be exhibiting Dry Pitcher in Fiber Focus during Innovations in St Louis this fall. I hope I can go and see all my Columbia and St Louis friends.

Packing up the Luxor piece

  This is one of three in a permanent installation at the Luxor hotel in Las Vegas.It is nine feet square. I need a friend to go take a picture!  

Canning Jar Dyeing Workshop!

Canning jar dye at Peters Valley, dye yarn, roving, felt, or small shibori pieces, learn a simple easy way to work at home! A scarf in a jar! June 10-12

Summer Workshop

We will paint, print, collage and make beautiful work on wool in this exciting workshop with Carol LeBaron July 24-29!!

Selfie

Ok this is the one that was in the paper, so, appropriate for a public venue haha

Green: The Color and the Cause

This exhibit opens this weekend in Washington, Dc. I have a piece, Dry Pitcher, in it. If you are near the area, I wish you would go! I dont think I will be able to make it there.

Avidya

Mistaking the transient for the permanent, the impure for the pure, pain for pleasure, and that which is not the self for the self: all this is avidya, lack of spiritual knowledge.

Opening Tonight

    Its at the Nelson Fine arts Center in Johnson City tn part of first friday. Earth Fare is doing the food.

Thinking of a title…

So it turns out I have a solo exhibition in Johnson City in MARCH. haha. suddenly I have to be ready its almost March. Thinking of a title….. I think I will call it Habitats. (The exhibit, I mean, this piece is Evening Wetlands, so the habitat, is an evening wetland)  

Skyline

Working on a new commission for Skyline Art Services.

106 on the hill

This is the house across the street. We are moving here and I hope to turn the other one into a studio. The landlord really wanted us to move into this one because he wanted someone who would take care of it.

Soon

found this pic of my dad from my brother, perfect for my mood tonight.

Special day

Watching the sun rise on a very, very special day. Love in my heart for everyone in my life. Grateful to be alive, I am at the Jacquard Center, getting ready to weave throws. Life is a gift.

Spirited Calligraphy Symposium

  Video of the symposium. Sogen Hirano, Spirited Calligraphy, 10/8/2010 A video of artist Sogen Hirano doing his kimono calligraphy. This is a longer video, covering from start to finish of this piece. Posted by Kim Reimann on Saturday, October 9, 2010 Here is a video of Michiko, in the live calligraphy performance Michiko Hamasaki, […]

Footprints

Commission piece entitled “Footprints” in memory of the greyhounds who were not rescued. Done for a woman who rescues them.

2011 workshop at John C Campbell

THE BEAUTY OF WOOL: RESIST EXPLORATIONS Dyeing, Felt MakingJanuary 9-15, 2011Advanced WeekInstructor: Carol LeBaronTuition: $596.00Explore resist techniques on wool and silk using acid dyes, combined with fabric collage. Learn the fundamentals of dyeing and printing protein fibers, which adapt well to shaping. Sample the textural effects of laminated felt and felt resist. Also dye wool […]

Taming the Forest

The piece as installed last year. Still need to get a good photo taken. This is in Pilesgrove, New Jersey, at my friend Denise’s home. She owns a wonderful horsefarm and breeds show horses and gets them trained, and boards them.  

Rain on the lake

Spent my first night of this year at squam last night. Peace, joy, serenity. As I walked into center harbor to do some work today, the carillon was playing a hymn in the square. All is well. The rain on the lake echoes circles of peaceful, quiet thought .

“A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world.”

“A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the resultor expression of nature, in miniature. For although the works of natureare innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of themall is similar and single. Nature is a sea of forms radically alikeand even unique. A leaf, a […]

Ice-covered Cattails

I shot this picture outside Troy, New York. I am thinking of the way Nature’s creations are presented to us daily, each with a particular light and sensibility  

Inside a Bud

“Happiness doesn’t exist on the far side of distant mountains. It is within you, yourself. Not you, however, sitting in idle passivity. It is to be found in the vibrant dynamism of your own life as you struggle to challenge and overcome one obstacle after another, as you clamber up a perilous ridge in pursuit of that which lies beyond.” […]

View in the Outdoor Studio

Here is my outdoor setup where I was dyeing And here is the work on the table inside my studio I also moved a lot of wood!!! Excellent weight bearing exercise for my bones

Dry Pitchers

Image size is 72 inches h x 56 inches wide. This is part of my new jacquard series.

Bottom of The Hill — 2009

Barn at the bottom of the hill

I walk past this red barn at the bottom of the hill by my house.  My studio is past this, I turn a corner onto the road below, and walk back to just below my house at the bottom of the hill. Every time I walk from the house to the studio there are new […]