Into the Dyepot!!!
One of my favorite moments when I am creating is the point at which I prepare to lower the piece into the water. The clamps are all tightened. Dripping wet, the green seeping down into the white, the color in the pot waiting to infuse the next section. I look it over carefully. The edge […]
Plan:Antiplan
Plan/Antiplan/unplan/Time I find myself, in this preholiday stillness, with large piles of unrelated projects. Bills to pay, digital files, website planning, new workshops planned for 2023, Christmas decorations, bread recipe, ingredients for a turmeric-based cleansing drink—some are in my mind, some scattered around the house and studio. I think it is because basic human needs […]
Figuring stuff out is Weird
So you might wonder why there’s a shovel here. Imagine if you had all this snow and you didn’t have a shovel. What if there was no such thing as a shovel? Well, then you would have to invent the shovel. This is how I feel as I learn how to make these blog posts […]
New Beginnings
Sometimes you just have to step back and start small. Inch by inch, color changes are laid out on a grid. Precision stitching allows meditative healing.
Artist Struggles- Ken LeBaron
This journal entry from my father is such a personal story of an artist’s discouragement; it is from the artist journal of my late father. This is poignant for me as it echoes the places I enter in my own work; that struggle for vision.
Watermelon video
I love molten aluminum, ever since I watched the aluminum pours at RISD as a graduate student. So when I came across this video, I knew it would be a completely unexpected thing. To melt aluminum in the back yard, to make such a discovery- would be a very fine thing.
The cows are saying hello
hello cows
Spring Daffodils bring energy to the solar plexus chakra
There is something about this shade of yellow. Only the spring daffodils shine this light through
Student work Wire Sketch
A student sketching with wire in three dimensional gesture.
Resist Dye at Penland 2015
I taught a Resist Dye Class at Penland School of Crafts October 18-24
Moss
Horsetail moss I am pretty sure! Always so happy to see green this time of year.
Maybe Spring..?.
It always amazes me to see these on the last day of January. These brave daffodil shoots always come out at the end of January. It will be another six weeks or so before we see blossoms. Today it is snowing and I will photograph them when I go by them.
Frozen Twigs and Grasses
The little stream by my walk is an ever changing sculpture.
Vertical Frozen Mud
Who knew mud could freeze in a vertical configuration. I think it had to do with the way the water trickled down the hill. I looked at my feet when it began crunching
Student Experiments: Dominant and Subordinate
So today was the first day of 3d Design Class. These students have never made anything three dimensional; all their art experience is drawing and painting. I tasked them with bringing in things from home and/or using what they found in the classroom and experimenting with what it was like to make three dimensional drawings; […]
Secret Keeper
There is an ancient legend that trees are secret keepers. I wonder how many secrets this one has.
Texture of an Old Beech Trunk
miracles in the small things
Today on my walk there were so many tiny miracles everywhere. Every juxtaposition of color, of texture, of light is a beautiful tapestry that is ever changing.
temp still life
We have all sorts of strange stuff hanging all around. The metal is cold and the wall is cold and the light is cold.
Winter berries
Split
Nature’s patterns
Cows
I am thinking of posting a series of enigrammatic covers on FaceBook.
Red
Blackberries
Sky
Tiger Lilies
Blackberries
Blackberry picking.
Tiger Lilies
Red grasses at Heards Pond
Spring!
Blossoms
They are surviving!
Daffodils
7: Looking through
I saw a challenge of a topic of looking through and I thought the idea was fascinating I couldn’t find the challenge again but I still like the idea of the photo
Snow at Arrowmont!!!
5: Nest on a tree
3: It’s all about the light
Late afternoon on the hill the light is this color only a moment
Jimmy with my work at the Luxor Las Vegas
I love stacking wood and am proud of this stack
Worn away yet timeless.
Grief does things to the psyche. I think it rewires the hard drive.
Penland class photo
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Butterfly
Water lily
Quiet
Monarch
In Sudbury.
This was once a tree.
I went wading the other morning.
Ha!!! Would like to identify these flowers. They were in the Cove at Squam.
Fringed polygala
Repurposed at the IN(Finito) Faculty show
Shots from Slocumb Galleries IN(Finito) Faculty show album.
Peach blossoms in our yard
ProChem
I am really looking forward to Pro Chem this summer. A fantastic studio and space for you to make any new work or do projects and learn new things combining with what you are already doing. Quilters, this is made for you!
There are still openings for my Workshop Scheduled at Pro Chemical and Dye July 8-12.
We will look at resist techniques on protein fibers and learn to use acid dyes. Whether you are a weaver, felter, spinner, or dyer, you will get something great from this workshop! If you are a beginner, you will come away knowing how to use the dyes, if you are advanced, we will do in […]
The first daffodil buds of spring.
Solo Exhibit at the Customs House
May-July 2016 I will create a solo exhibit from the concept of Wetland Mitigation, at Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN.
The work at the William King Museum
Hay bales
Even though its into December, this verdant new growth is sprouting out of the hay bales.
William King Show
This is finally a better photo of two of the William king pieces
When there are so many things to do, one thing at a time can work, if I can stick to it.
New work at William king museum
My work at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas
Its a little off from the color. A kind friend took these on her cell phone. But you can get the idea of the size, scale and impact of these pieces.
Menninger Chapel Installation
finally have a picture of the installation at Menninger Chapel
Repurposed at the Best of Tennessee Craft Biennial
So this will be in the best of tennessee craft biennial. Now I need to make another one for the William King museum. I need to get back on my feet! I am losing touch with everyone!
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.
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 […]
Repurposed at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Gallery
Repurposed exhibit is on view
Major Commission
I just received a major commission for three pieces to go in Las Vegas hotel. I thought I was out from under!!!
Repurposed Opening
Repurposed Opening October 6 Curated by Cynthia Farnell. I will exhibit my current piece.
Dry Pitcher in DC
Emily took these pictures of my Dry Pitcher on exhibit in DC.
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.
Canning Dyes
We had such fun canning dyes.
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!!
Extraordinary Things
Extraordinary Things Exhibit at Arts Institute Decatur April 15 Opening
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.
Opening Tonight
Its at the Nelson Fine arts Center in Johnson City tn part of first friday. Earth Fare is doing the food.
Exhibition at Nelson Fine Arts opening this Friday, First Friday! Be there!
Fine-tuning the Luxor installation
Dan leaves for Las Vegas today to fine tune the Luxor installation. I cant wait to post pictures.
Skyline
Working on a new commission for Skyline Art Services.
Study with Carol LeBaron at Appalachian Center for Craft July 2011
Tabletop Jacquard Loom
who wants one
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.
Spirited Calligraphy
Spirited Calligraphy. I will be exhibiting two works in this exhibition.
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 […]
Integration installed
in Jamaica, Vermont, in a beautiful handbuilt house
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 .
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
Fiber: TwentyTen
On Exhibition: Past EXHIBITIONS