Author Archives: jennifer1973

As I have been a very bad blogger and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, for information on what I’m currently up to, please visit: www.facebook.com/jennifer.a.reis  

to Upper Arlington, a suburb of Columbus OH, to a visiting artist in residence for a week to assist with their community art quilt project.  More information here: https://www.facebook.com/UACommunityQuiltProject Ann Olson and I had another wonderful time at the Kentucky Folk Art Center’s Appalachian Arts and Craft event.  I am finally mastering the Paypal swiper! [...]

My good friend Juliette Montague (http://stangmont.com/StangMont_Design/Juliettes_Artwork.html) is on her way down from Columbus Ohio for our annual Appalachian Art Vacay, usually consisting of art making, domestic foolery (last year: homemade yogurt and pasta – hopefully I will learn how to make a PIE this time!), and the mandatory PEDDLERS MALL visitation. As I just signed [...]

There’s a giant pile of supplies currently in my dining room awaiting the task of being carefully “fitted” into my Fit.  It’s the first multi-day workshop road trip for the little thing, which I have named the ‘batmobile’.  I’ll be up at the Cleveland Institute of Art again, stopping in Columbus to visit family/friends en [...]

Here’s a new piece called Queen, 10″ H, embellished textile assemblage with an altered vintage “nudie” playing card.  I paint gesso over the girls and use golden liquid acrylics with some metallics.  These cards were going to be stand-alone pieces, but I think they’re more successful with a larger composition.  The textile icon is sewn [...]

Just a few updates on the workshops & exhibitions . . . 1st, I’m currently in a Kentucky textile exhibition at the Kentucky Artisan Center in Berea until early spring called “The Ties That Bind” (www.kentuckyartisancenter.ky.gov/).  They did an awesome job hanging my “Seven for a Secret Never Told” – great placement and LOTS OF [...]