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| Photo by Virginia Spiegel (used with permission) |
On February 15 and 16, 2012, Fiberart For A Cause (FFAC) returns for
its seventh year of raising funds for the American Cancer Society with a new
online event, Foto/Fiber 2012. Ninety photographs taken by
Virginia Spiegel, Karen Stiehl Osborn and Cynthis Wenslow will be available for
purchase. Thirty-four fiber artists will also be providing BONUS Fiber
Surprises (6” x 9” bubble mailing envelopes filled with donated items such as
small fiber artworks). In addition, all ninety patrons of Foto/Fiber 2012 will
have the opportunity to win fiber art generously donated by Leonie Hartley
Hoover, Lyric Kinard, Lynn Krawczyk, Yvonne Porcella, Susan Schrott, and Mary
Ann Van Soest. The goal of the event is to raise at least $7,000 in just ten
hours to add to the $215,000 already donated by FFAC to the American Cancer
Society.
On February 15, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Central, for each
$100.00 minimum donation to the American Cancer Society, patrons will be able
to choose one of ninety photographs and a BONUS Fiber Surprise. On February 16,
from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (or until sold out), patrons will be able to choose
one photograph for a minimum donation of $50.00, but their BONUS Fiber Surprise
will be chosen at random for them.
According to Spiegel, the founder of Fiberart For A Cause, “I was
ready to mix it up with this fundraiser after fundraising and promoting fiber
with the Postcard Project, Tote Tuesday, and Collage Mania. I’m excited
to share beautiful and inspiring photos by Karen Stiehl Osborn, Cynthia
Wenslow, and myself. We are all fiber artists who are also fairly
prolific photographers. I’m even more excited to have a bit of mystery added to
this fundraiser with the BONUS Fiber Surprises. The thirty-four participating
fiber artists will be plundering their studios and sharing with donors a little
bit of themselves and their studios.”
The BONUS Fiber Surprise donors are Natalya Aikens, Frances Holliday
Alford, Pamela Allen, Liz Berg, Sue Bleiweiss, Nancy G. Cook, Jane Davila,
Vivika DeNegre, Diane Rusin Doran, Jane Dunnewold, Jamie Fingal, Leonie Hartley
Hoover, Leslie Tucker Jenison, Lyric Kinard, Susan Brubaker Knapp, Lynn
Krawzcyk, Jane LaFazio, Susan Lenz, Jeanelle McCall, Linda Teddlie Minton,
Karen Musgrave, Gail Myrhorodsky, Karen Stiehl Osborn, BJ Parady, Cate Coulacos
Prato, Yvonne Porcella. Wen Redmond, Sue Reno, Lesley Riley, Susan Schrott,
Cynthia St. Charles, Lura Schwarz Smith, Sarah Ann Smith, and Terri Stegmiller.
The donors of the BONUS Fiber Surprises were asked to make them
“wonderfully wonderful, creative, and unique.” Patrons of Foto/Fiber 2012 will
receive as their BONUS Fiber Surprise a 6“ x 9” bubble mailing envelope from
one of the participating fiber artists. The envelope may contain a small
work of art, hand painted or dyed fabric, screen printed Lutradur, vintage
kimono scraps, a small original screen for printing, dyed embroidery thread, a
small bundle of "magical" raw materials, etc.
I am proud to be a part of this effort.
