12/13/2014
Invitation
Date: Saturday December 20, 2014
Place: Gallery M, 105 West 3rd Street, Eureka Kansas 67045
Reception at 7:00
QUILTS!
Our December show features Quilts from: Kim Eichler-Messmer
Kim grew up in Iowa. She learned how to sew in 5th grade when she made a quilt with her father’s faded out old shirts. She went on to study engineering, Spanish, Portuguese, drawing, and printmaking before taking a textiles class in 2000. Kim received an MFA in textiles from the University of Kanas in 2007. She was an Artist in Residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Kim currently lives in Kansas City where she does math daily, grows tomatoes, hugs cats, and teaches surface design and quilting in the Fiber department of the Kansas City Art Institute.
About the Quilts:
Kim creates hand-made, one of a kind quilts with a dual purpose. They are equally at home on a bed (or in a crib) or on the wall. Inspired by color theory, landscape, and gradations, I hand dye all of my own fabric. The method I use is scientific, based on a ratio of weight of dye to weight of fabric to produce accurate, reproducible colors with minimal dye waste. I use only the highest quality quilter’s cotton or Kona cotton for the tops, backs, and binding, cotton quilting thread, and 100% cotton batting that is free of chemicals, glues and resins.
Her landscape quilts are inspired by the sky in the Midwest, especially right before or after a thunderstorm.
http://kimemquilts.com/
http://www.facebook.com/eichlermessmer