Surface design encompasses the coloring, patterning, and structuring of fiber and fabric. It involves creative exploration of processes such as dyeing, painting, printing, stitching, embellishing, quilting, weaving, knitting, felting, and papermaking. (Surface Design Association)

An original exploration of a concept, or idea, rather than the handing down of a “pattern.” I experiment with textile manipulation, color, texture and/or a diversity of mixed media put together in multiple layers held together with stitches or piercing of the layers. (Art Quilt Association)

This is cloth transformed by adding or subtracting color, line, shape, texture, value, or fiber to create a compelling surface. (Jane Dunnewold for the Art Cloth Network)

from the French coller, to glue … a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface, various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of other paper elements. (Dictionary.com)

The forming of fabric through the action of interlacing threads or yarns (by hand or through a loom). You will see a few samples of my weaving in the sewn textile collages.

The introduction of abstraction and dimensionality into fiber art. Adapting age-old techniques and traditional materials, artists working in fiber manipulate gravity, light, color, mass, and transparency to demonstrate the infinite transformations and iteration of their material. (Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, from the exhibit Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present.

In visual art, mixed media is an artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed. Assemblages and collages are two common techniques that make use of different materials including cloth, paper, wood, and found objects. Mixed media art, a visual art, is distinguished from multimedia art, which combines visual art with non-visual elements, such as recorded sound, literature, drama, dance, motion graphics, music, or interactivity. (Wikipedia)

A monoprint is a form of printmaking in which the image is made only once. Paint, ink, or thickened dye is placed on a hard surface, a gel (gelatin) plate, or a padded print table. Paper or cloth is placed on the inked plate. With your hand, a roller, brush, or baren (rubbing tool), you apply pressure to be sure the ink permeates the substrate. The material is then pulled up to reveal the printed image.

Deconstructed screen printing (or breakdown printing) is a process of applying thickened dye to a silk screen, allowing it to dry in the screen. This can include a planned “resist” on the screen to produce a pattern. The dye in the screen is activated using print paste (sodium alginate) and then printed onto fabric. Each printing of the screen is different because dye color molecules are released at different rates. The areas with thin dye deposits release and print first, while the thicker dye deposits act as a resist and release more slowly, creating a rich, textural surface. Surprising shapes, patterns and textures are produced.