Tag: Katharine McCormick
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Visit Katharine McCormick “Live” in San Diego!
California is open! Plan a visit to the Visions Museum in San Diego to see “Deeds Not Words” and our “Katharine McCormick: Making Her Mark.”
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We’re Zooming! Join Us for 4 Women : 4 Stories
Please join us on June 8, 2021 at 4:30pm EDT (GMT/UTC -4) as we give our presentation called “4 Women : 4 Stories” for the Maryland-DC-West Virginia Region of SAQA.
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Join Us In Canada (Via Zoom!) For 3 Women : 3 Stories
Well, we can’t travel to Canada right now, but we can at least Zoom our way there! Please join us on Feb 24, 2021 at 4:00 pm PST as we give our presentation called “3 Women : 3 Stories” for the Region of York Quilters Guild. The cost is Canadian $7. Register for the event…
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Textile Talks And The Importance of Words
We think it’s pretty obvious to our readers by now how important we think words are. They are the underpinning of our art, so when we moderated in a recent Textile Talk, which is sponsored by a consortium of fiber arts organizations, we weren’t surprised the topic arose again. Deeds Not Words The irony doesn’t…
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Katharine McCormick: Finishing Touches
We’re done! It seems like we have been working on our Katharine McCormick project forever, but it’s been closer to nine months. Today we thought we’d tell you about some of the finishing touches. There are links at the bottom of the page to all of the posts about our KDM project. Boo-boos It’s not…
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Katharine McCormick: Reading T.C. Boyle’s “Riven Rock”
This is Kris, taking on one of the last blog installments about our Katharine McCormick project. When we started our research, we learned that T.C. Boyle had written a novel, Riven Rock (1998), based on Katharine’s marriage to Stanley McCormick. We resisted reading the novel until we finished the quilt because we didn’t want it to influence our…
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Katharine McCormick: The Boa
It’s Deb again, back with more about our project for the exhibition Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. One of the reasons I love the particular photo of Katharine McCormick we used is because she’s wearing a boa. In my personal statements, I always end with this: “I’m waiting for feather boas…
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Katharine McCormick: Two Diaphragms Are Better Than One
It’s Kris, back with another post about our KDM project for the 2020 exhibition, Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. We’ve already blogged about some of the technical issues in creating this piece and some biographical information (see below for links to these posts), but today we want to put the technical and the…
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Katharine McCormick and MIT
This is Kris, back with another installment on our piece for the 2020 exhibition, Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. We chose Katharine McCormick as our subject not simply because she was so instrumental in the women’s suffrage movement; she furthered women’s rights wherever she set foot. And the first place she happened…
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Katharine McCormick: The Facelift
It’s Deb, back with the another post on our project for the 2020 exhibition, Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. In our last post about the project, we talked about how we chose the face color. This time we’ll show you how we gave Katharine McCormick a bit of a facelift. Liquify Filter…
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Katharine McCormick: Choosing A Face Color
It’s Deb, back with the next episode of our project for the exhibition Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. In Part 2, you may recall we decided to try something different and make our text collage in black and white and add the color in Photoshop. This post is about choosing the…
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Katharine McCormick: Creating A Cartoon
As promised, we’re back with more about our project for the exhibition Deeds Not Words: The Power of Persistence, Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage, which premieres in 2020. If you would like to read our first post on Katharine Dexter McCormick, click here. We usually start on our portrait projects by looking for a…
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Katharine McCormick: Making Her Mark Part 1
It’s funny how the creative process works. Multiply that by 2, and you get an idea of what it’s like for us to come up with an idea and see it to fruition. That second part can sometimes take years. We’re finally working on a piece that has been on our collective back burner for…