PRESENTS

Connie Stark

Connie is a fiber artist who has creating art quilts and fabric collage for over twenty years.  Her art always begins with hand dyeing and printing on cotton and silk fabric.  The resulting colored cloth then becomes her palette.  Although the quilt is her primary medium, she also creates wearable garments such as jackets and scarves.

Connie works in series and the initial geometric abstract image is worked and altered as the series progresses.  The fabric is cut and assembled without too much preplanning.  This spontaneous design approach allows her to respond to her current moods and ideas.  Most recently, she has moved from the technique of sewing with precision, to a more relaxed collage approach as well as weaving strips of fabric to form more complex color and shape relationships.

Once the fabric piece is constructed, additional design elements are added with embroidery and quilting.  These lines of colored thread create another layer of imagery that is often subtle but very textural.

 Connie’s work is shown in numerous exhibitions throughout the region, as well as national exhibitions such as the American Quilter’s Society in Paducah, Kentucky, the Quilt San Diego Show, in San Diego, California and the Ohio Craft Museum in Columbus, Ohio.  Her studio is in her Sylvania, Ohio home.  She is a member of the prestigious Athena Art Society, of Toledo, Ohio, the National League of American Penwomen, the Fiber Forum of N.W. Ohio and she is currently is an art docent at the Toledo Museum of Art.