Passage Quilt by Sherri Lynn Wood, in memory of Georgia Marie Wood (1917 - 2003), 2004, 64"h x 78"w. Fragments of my grandmother's housecoats, Sunday dresses, and golf shirts. Made as a gift for my father.
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Current Exhibitions:
Postures: Hands and Minds
Art+Design Department, Brooks Hall Gallery, NC State University, Raleigh, NCMarch 9 - 30, 2008
Reception: Wednesday, March 19, 5 pm; Presentation: 6pm
info: 919-515-8315
Gestures of Resistance:
Craft, Performance and the Politics of Slowness
Gray Matters, Dallas, TXFebruary 20 - March 22, 2008
Reception: Friday, February 22, 6 - 9 pm
Info
Workshops and Presentations:
To schedule a workshop or presentation for your guild or organization or as a private party contact Sherri at passagequilts@gmail.com
Prayer Banners & Passage Quilts: Contexts for Bereavement
Presentation, 45 min - 1.5 hrs
This multi-media presentation will outline the five steps of making an improvisational Passage Quilt and how each step relates to a different aspect of the bereavement process. If time allows the presentation can be extended to provide a hands-on opportunity for audience participation in a prayer banner sewing circle.
Prayer Banner: REPENT / MERCY...
A communal mourning project concerning the war in Iraq.
Making a Passage Quilt
Two day workshop, 10hrs
This is a class for people in transition due to loss and/or growth. Utilizing intimate materials from everyday life, such as clothing, participants will make an improvisational quilt without rulers, templates or a predetermined pattern. This process will be the vehicle for inner work and outward expression as it reveals and orients the patterns by which we live, heal and create new passages. Suitable for all skill levels.
View a slide show of a Passage Quilt workshop at Penland School of Craft.
Improvisational Round Robin Workshop
One day workshop, 6hrs
Free your creative energy and learn the basics of improvisational quilt making, while using up your scraps. This is an improvisational twist on the Round Robin, a quilt making tradition in which several people work on each other's quilts sequentially. Suitable for all skill levels. Great idea for private parties.
View a slide show of Round Robin quilts.
View a slide show of Patti's Round Robin Menopause Party.Basting/Quilting/Binding
Half day workshop, 3hrs
Learn everything you need to know to finish your quilt. Techniques covered include basting, freehand marking, big-stitch hand quilting, tying or knotting, and bias binding. Suitable for all skill levels.
Press and Interviews:
Podcast interview with Sherri
Allyn Meredith interviewed Sherri Wood for a thesis project about the creative re-use of items and has made an audio recording available at Big Shed.
Listen to the podcast.
"Quilting to remember"
Herald-Sun article by Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell, March 9, 2005
Download PDF version of the article.