January 6-February 9, 2025
Sanchez Art Center
1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica, CA 94044
Fri, Sat, Sun, 1-5 pm except opening Fridays
Opening reception: Friday, January 17, 2025

Testing our beliefs, our institution of Democracy is not only being challenged but threatened. Some instruct us to fear government versus celebrating all that it provides us. Citizen Joy is a national coalition of artists, arts organizations, and educators from all disciplines that are using art to  cut through the doom and gloom about politics, explore what we have (and could lose) as citizens, and energize people to do what they can do to protect democratic rights and freedoms (like voting!).

On the Wings of Freedom is a part of my Voting Rights series Make a Way isinspired by the words and actions of civil rights activist John Lewis: “we will find a way, make a way out of no way.”  I began to play with V shapes, creating V is for Voting, Barbie Votes. Here, the V’s have doubled, becoming wings, representing ‘wings of freedom.’ 

I offer gratitude for our most sacred right, the right of every citizen to vote in our Democracy.  The ‘wings of freedom’ are a reminder that we can never give up the fight to encourage access to voting for all, to eliminate restrictions, to protect those in marginalized communities, and to safeguard and increase safety nets for those who have less.

January 10 - April 16, 2025
Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum (SQTM)
306 Bradley St, Ste C, Carrolton, GA 30117-3269
Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm
$5 admission

The Art Cloth Network is an art organization of 31 textile artists from North America. We have a juried, annual, themed call for entry for member artists. Unfolding stimulated a variety of interpretations. What is revealed when a story is told, when a gift is unwrapped, and a beautiful textile is opened for all to see? Did the artists think of concepts such as evolving, growing, revealing?

Ileana’s Tree of Life and Silk Road will be a part of this beautiful show.

January 31–March 27, 2025
The Gallery at 48 Natoma
48 Natoma Street, Folsom, CA 95680
Opening reception: January 31, 7-9 pm

Throughout history artists have produced art in a variety of media and styles, each piece a unique statement reflective of the artist’s choices about subject matter, mood, technique and process. In Art Movements in Fiber, SAQA (Studio Art Quilters Association) Northern California & Northern Nevada regional artists were asked to choose an art movement (Impressionism, Cubism, etc.) or genre and explain how it has inspired or influenced their work.

Two of Ileana’s pieces will be on display, Between Waking and Dreaming and Princess Andromeda.