Threads of Transformation encourages artists to reflect on how preloved textiles, once carrying another story, may be given new life and meaning through the artistic process. Whether it is a family heirloom quilt or scraps from a thrift store, each piece tells a narrative of sustainability, reinvention, and artists' vision.
Jess Flegel
String of blocks no. 1-78, scrap fabric, 2024, $250
Jessyca Murphy
Please Touch Me (an interactive art piece), craft felt, 2025, $300
Carrie Cooper
Rolled Over, mixed media, 2024, $100
Carrie Cooper
Isolated Figure 9, mixed media, 2025, $250
Jo Becker
From Another World, [mock-up of final flag, currently in progress], recycled fabric and acrylic paint, 2024, $60
Jo Becker
Island Totems, Silkscreen print on recycled fabric, 2024, $45
Jess Bonin
ubiquity quilt
cardboard, waxed thread
2020-2025
$666
Kelly Sorbel
Holy Shit, I fuckin love making rugs
Elle Glasse
"What To Do In A Crisis" cloth, thread, turmeric, rose hips, coffee, green tea, acrylic paint, burlap 2024 $365
Claire Frederick
Pocket Dress; Fabric, Yarn, and Mixed Media; 2023, Not for sale
Ray Myzelle Bones
Coeur d’ Branch: in flux —2019-2024
‘Coeur d’ Branch: in flux’ was created originally in 2019 as an outdoor sculptural room and gift to my mother as she faced multiple terminal diagnoses, including stage 4 metastatic lung cancer and stage 4 congestive heart failure. Originally part of my larger ‘Cocoon’ series, dream after dream had me re-envisioning the piece as a funerary work. After her death in late 2019, my own heart suffered broken heart syndrome -a painful weakening of the heart that had me dreaming of ropes pulling on my heart and tears falling in loud crashing waves that gathered like crystalline dunes. I created knit hemp, cotton and wool ropes with heaving crystalized ‘tears’ at their ends that cascade from the Coeur d’ Branch in languid tendrils that find their resting place on the ground and ultimately a gathering place for my grief, captured in borax and textile. ‘In flux’ became the subtitle to this room as it morphs from venue to venue, stretching, reshaping, growing and contracting as my own heart did and continues to in the years since her passing. This work is designed to swaddle the viewer and invite you to share in my grief, release your own, and revere those we have lost together with sculptured tears descending from a portal to the beyond.
Upcycled and reclaimed textiles, thread, copper tubing, wool, hemp, cotton, borax, floral wire, driftwood, led lights
Price: NFS
Ray Myzelle Bones
Regeneration —2021
‘Regeneration’ is a textile sculpture I created in 2021 in the midst of the pandemic lockdowns and on the heels of losing my mother. The piece discusses the loss of the matriarchs in my life: my mother and grandmother, followed closely by the pandemic lockdowns and how that time of global isolation, grief and tears both allowed and forced me to focus deeply on healing and rebuilding my life without my elders. Borax crystals take the form of tears, jewels, and personal adornment in this piece and the base of the sculpture is the upturned crystal cake pedestal that belonged to my great-grandmother.
Hemp cordage, copper insulation, gold and turquoise crochet cotton, Icelandic wool, borax crystals, found giant barnacles, bailing wire, deer bone, my great-grandmother's vintage crystal cake pedestal.
Price: $2,500
Frankie Krupa Vahdani
Off Lemons, acrylic, cotton, inherited bandanas, cyanotype, 2024, 30 x 14.25 inches, $500
Frankie Krupa Vahdani
Green Rag Rug, artist's clothing, enamel paint, yarn, glass, glitter, beads, 2024, 25 x 17 inches, $500.00
Frankie Krupa Vahdani
Carried Around For All These Years, artists paint rags, cotton, polyester, acrylic, ink, 37 x 31 inches, $1,000