{"id":94,"date":"2012-04-06T04:21:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T04:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2016-11-19T05:32:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T05:32:03","slug":"funny-side-up-fiberphiladelphia-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Funny-Side Up: FiberPhiladelphia 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yup, I needed help. When the most deep and conceptual installations of FiberPhiladelphia were without cloth, let alone quilting or stitches, I started to feel waaay out of date–positively obsolete. But here and there, I found the perfect antidote: Fiber art that made me chuckle, giggle, and grin.\u00a0 Seriously,\u00a0 who says art must be serious?\u00a0 Have a good laugh, and then get inspired to make art that’s just for fun!<\/p>\n

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House of Cards (all credit cards), by Amy Orr<\/p><\/div>\n

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This piece is at the Philadelphia Alliance of Art, in Rittenhouse Square<\/p><\/div>\n

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Peering into the living room<\/p><\/div>\n

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Credit card siding, on the side<\/p><\/div>\n

Also at the Philadelphia Alliance of Art, this hilarious piece by embroidery artist Marcia Doctor; the needle gives you a sense of the scale on this one:<\/p>\n

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“Don’t Fuck with Me,” by Marcia Doctor<\/p><\/div>\n

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Formal Argument, by Diane Savona, at the Crane<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here’s the back of the award-winning piece.<\/p><\/div>\n

Part of a series of collages, by London artist Spinks, these little classical prints are warmed up by tiny knitted sweaters and hats. It’s at the Gershman Y exhibit called Mending = Art.<\/p>\n

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Random Acts of Kindness, by Spinks<\/p><\/div>\n

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Random Acts of Kindness, by Spinks<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cute, huh?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Slurp, by Jill Rumoshosky Werner, which was at the High Wire Gallery<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dots Rush In Where Checkers Fear to Tread, by Renie Breskin Adams, at KelliJane, and about 7″ x 9″<\/p><\/div>\n

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Zipperwall Quilt 2, by Bryan Day, at the Crane<\/p><\/div>\n

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Yes, those are plastic Easter eggs!<\/p><\/div>\n

Happy Easter, Happy Passover, Happy Spring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Yup, I needed help. When the most deep and conceptual installations of FiberPhiladelphia were without cloth, let alone quilting or stitches, I started to feel waaay out of date–positively obsolete. But here and there, I found the perfect antidote: Fiber art that made me chuckle, giggle, and grin.\u00a0 Seriously,\u00a0 who says art must be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-quilt","category-inspiration","category-unusual-materials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Ej5z-1w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}