The Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester RAFA Show - 2012

Our Rochester Area Fiber Artists group are holding their annual exhibition at the Arts and Cultural Council of Greater Rochester and the Opening Night was tonight.  As I have been away for so long, I just couldn't get a piece that would fit into the exhibition this year.


Besides doing art quilts, many of the group members are focusing on surface design, felted garments and other more structural forms of fiber art.  These were well represented.  This was one of my favorite pieces -- a silk and wool felted vest by Anne Fischer.  She does some spectacular work.

This garment was another of the felted vests, this one by Caris Burton who also does fabulous art quilts as well.  She usually adopts a more subdued and elegant color palette and has made a number of beautiful jackets as well.

I had more pictures but many didn't look as good as I would have liked but I wanted to include this one anyway of Mary Wieser and her piece Totally Tubular.  Mary will be doing a one woman shoe in Canadaigua this month.

This was a small lovely piece by Elaine Ross.  I believe it was called Swirling Leaves.

This was a piece by Sarah Terry called Ode to Chihuly in honor of his spectacular glass.  The photo doesn't capture its dimensionality and the wonderful beadwork that Sarah is known for.

This was a very touching piece by Julie Brandon called Wailing Wall.  Julie lost her husband very prematurely in a  horrible accident this summer and if you look closely you can see his image in this piece.


Please take the opportunity to go and see this exhibit during the month of March at the Arts and Cultural Council on Goodman St. just north of the Art Museum.