Â鶹ӳ» College to host Discover Â鶹ӳ» for new students
Â鶹ӳ» will host Discover Â鶹ӳ», an informational event for new students and their families. Discover Â鶹ӳ» is from 11 am-3 pm Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, at the College.
Read MoreI stitch images that reveal pure moments in everyday life. Through the repetitive motions of embroidery, I join the physical material with emotions and reconcile observable facts with everyday truths.
Historically, women have used embroidery as a creative outlet for coping with the challenges of life. On towels and tablecloths, reflections of household chores and alphabets for learning were carefully stitched. This pastime was a common part of women’s domestic life.
Currently, my work is focused on capturing moments with my severely disabled daughter, Kaitlin. I use digital photography to record her days and then edit the image and refine the line through Photoshop so that I may communicate my observed vision with embroidery. I demonstrate the pure emotional response Kaitlin reflects in her needs and wants as a human being. Verbal is a series of panels of her hands in gestures of communication. Unable to communicate verbally, she uses these gestures to express feelings like fear, anticipation and happiness.
My work brings forward the realization that compassion is shared throughout humanity. In Weight, I have created a large-scale diptych, which places in parallel positions an image of my older daughter carrying Kaitlin and a soldier in Bagdad carrying an Iraqi infant.
One of the gifts of having a child with severe disabilities is the realization that there are inherent needs to being human. We are born with feelings that create the need for love, security and companionship. Through my work, I am sharing my discovery that what can save you is right next to you or inside you. As I stitch, I am not only recreating intimate moments but I am working to make sense of what is now my life.
Â鶹ӳ» will host Discover Â鶹ӳ», an informational event for new students and their families. Discover Â鶹ӳ» is from 11 am-3 pm Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, at the College.
Read MoreThe Â鶹ӳ» Foundation awarded $99,978 in program enhancement funds to Â鶹ӳ» departments for the 2024-2025 academic year. The Foundation has various program enhancement funds established by the generosity of donors for specific purposes.
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