Judy’s hobby is art quilting. The TAVA group has given Judy the freedom to experiment with many fabric treatments for indoor or outdoor projects.
TAVA: MaskParade Masks are created and worn for a variety of reasons. They can be extremely detailed or very simple. Textile Artists of Virginia (TAVA) members planned their individual masks and the respective garden setting to suit the personality and preference of each artist. TAVA was established to support each member as a fiber artist, to explore the boundaries of the medium, and to educate and increase public awareness of fiber art
Mother Nature is protecting Bob’s garden from disease wearing a mask for extra safety.
Gwen Goepel is a passionate, dedicated quilt artist enjoying a full life with six very young grandchildren, dividing her time between VA, NC, NY, CA and HI!
TAVA: MaskParade Masks are created and worn for a variety of reasons. They can be extremely detailed or very simple. Textile Artists of Virginia (TAVA) members planned their individual masks and the respective garden setting to suit the personality and preference of each artist. TAVA was established to support each member as a fiber artist, to explore the boundaries of the medium, and to educate and increase public awareness of fiber art
The beach has always been my garden, my playground, my artistic inspiration, and presently is my refuge from the Covid-19 world war.
Dr. Davis is a retired textile educator living in Floyd doing all the things she dreamed of doing while helping students achieve their greatness.
TAVA: MaskParade Masks are created and worn for a variety of reasons. They can be extremely detailed or very simple. Textile Artists of Virginia (TAVA) members planned their individual masks and the respective garden setting to suit the personality and preference of each artist. TAVA was established to support each member as a fiber artist, to explore the boundaries of the medium, and to educate and increase public awareness of fiber art
Sue Davis – Nature Never Goes Out of Style
A closer view reveals a grasshopper hidden in the pink rhododendron flowers. Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature; it will never fail you. Derwent Inktense ink pencils on cotton
Sue Davis – A Gift at My Doorstep
A blue butterfly rests on white flowers. Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. Derwent Inktense ink pencils on cotton.
Dee Ann West is a quilt artist who lives in Christiansburg and loves all that is bright and beautiful.
TAVA: MaskParade Masks are created and worn for a variety of reasons. They can be extremely detailed or very simple. Textile Artists of Virginia (TAVA) members planned their individual masks and the respective garden setting to suit the personality and preference of each artist. TAVA was established to support each member as a fiber artist, to explore the boundaries of the medium, and to educate and increase public awareness of fiber art
Dee Ann West – Flowering Birds
Inspired by the painting of birds in the fabric, six masks appear to be a shrub with birds emerging out of the foliage.
Carol is passionate about native landscaping to support pollinators and other wildlife and that commitment is reflected in her fiber art.
TAVA MaskParade
Masks are created and worn for a variety of reasons. They can be extremely detailed or very simple. Textile Artists of Virginia (TAVA) members planned their individual masks and the respective garden setting to suit the personality and preference of each artist.
TAVA was established to support each member as a fiber artist, to explore the boundaries of the medium, and to educate and increase public awareness of fiber art.
All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
Benjamin the frog is always trying to follow current trends and thought that adding a mask would make him even more handsome. The mask was made from a paper piecing pattern.
Carol Monti – All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go
Carol Monti – Parade of Gnomes
Parade of Gnomes
The yard critters donned their masks and put together an impromptu parade to show that we are all in this together. The image was inspired by my native wildflower meadow and a sense of humor.
Artist, quilt maker and teacher, Paula’s use of fiber as a creative means to communicate is intrinsic to her very being and links her to the continuum of men and women who have stitched their lives in fiber to provide warmth and nourishment for the body and soul. My hands pull weeds, connect community and stitch together thoughts and ideas to create art. Simply Elemental 2020 provides a good means to combine my love of fabric and gardening.
TAVA MaskParade
Masks are created and worn for a variety of reasons. They can be extremely detailed or very simple. Textile Artists of Virginia (TAVA) members planned their individual masks and the respective garden setting to suit the personality and preference of each artist.
TAVA was established to support each member as a fiber artist, to explore the boundaries of the medium, and to educate and increase public awareness of fiber art.
Safety Mask
Masks provide safety along with hidden benefits – a dream comes true for this flying fish.
Paula Golden – Safety Mask
“along the winds above the clouds high in the sky I always wanted to fly”
TAVA MaskParade
Masks are created and worn for a variety of reasons. They can be extremely detailed or very simple. Textile Artists of Virginia (TAVA) members planned their individual masks and the respective garden setting to suit the personality and preference of each artist.
TAVA was established to support each member as a fiber artist, to explore the boundaries of the medium, and to educate and increase public awareness of fiber art.
Kathy Sevebeck -Unexpected Nest
Unexpected Nest
On our 6 acres of land on Brush Mountain, we often find bird nests in unexpected places like the nest in this mask within the peonies.
Born with a needle in her hand, Kathy likes to do a variety of needle arts. Her quilts are often heavily embellished with beading and embroidery.
Kathy Sevebeck – Repurposed Deerfence
Repurposed Deer Fence
Although this deer fencing was put up to protect the Redbuds and Rhododendron from the deer, it served as a good way to display a variety of masks.
Born with a needle in her hand, Kathy likes to do a variety of needle arts. Her quilts are often heavily embellished with beading and embroidery.
Sevebeck – Between the Fruit and Flowers
Between the Fruit and the Flowers The wild strawberry already bearing fruit as well as the pansies were both planted a year ago and survived the winter; the mask is made from cherry fabric. Born with a needle in her hand, Kathy likes to do a variety of needle arts. Her quilts are often heavily embellished with beading and embroidery.
TAVA MaskParade
Masks are created and worn for a variety of reasons. They can be extremely detailed or very simple. Textile Artists of Virginia (TAVA) members planned their individual masks and the respective garden setting to suit the personality and preference of each artist.
TAVA was established to support each member as a fiber artist, to explore the boundaries of the medium, and to educate and increase public awareness of fiber art.
Medicinae Larva Karina
The rare tree flowers only during a pandemic – joke aside – 36 masks hang in a small pear tree and 24 pleated masks are scattered like petals on the ground.
Karin’s artwork has traveled around the US, through Europe, and Taiwan, and her international background inspires her quilts and helps her create. www.KarinTauber.com
Karin Tauber – Medicinae Larva Karina
Happily Following Executive Order 63
Three happy necessities rolled out from the woods on a calm summer day not conforming to social distancing but at least wearing masks.
Karin’s work often makes the viewer smile; she enjoys incorporating whimsical ideas in her artwork. www.KarinTauber.com
Karin Tauber – Happily Following Executive Order 63
TAVA MaskParade
Masks are created and worn for a variety of reasons. They can be extremely detailed or very simple. Textile Artists of Virginia (TAVA) members planned their individual masks and the respective garden setting to suit the personality and preference of each artist.
TAVA was established to support each member as a fiber artist, to explore the boundaries of the medium, and to educate and increase public awareness of fiber art.
Anne Panella – The Joker at the Hahn Garden
The image, which from the beginning was intended to be displayed on a tree trunk, evolved from a simple pixel outline, to a sometimes sinister looking work in progress, and finally to a colorful art quilt with a more playful expression.
Anne was inspired to make something reminiscent of the ceremonial masks that are found in many cultures and the result surprised her, not only as its expression developed, but with the body language that resulted once it was installed on the perfect tree.
