How an ACN Meeting lead to Support for the Ukraine
From April 3 to 6, 2022, I met Art Cloth Network (ACN) members for the first time in person at our annual conference in Austin, TX. Besides seeing wonderful art cloth, we also heard about additional group activities, some of them were new to me and I decided to join the “Art Installation” group which meets online roughly every two months. As Connie Tiegel, a founding ACN member, writes: “Art Installations are not new. Artists have been leaving them for others to find since cave paintings expressed the joy of being alive or the beauty surrounding the artist. Art Installations job is to bring awareness to certain objects or ideas.” So, in April 2022 at the ACN conference, I hand-stitched this abstracted Chamomile (National flower of Russia) and Sunflower (national flower of the Ukraine). Then, I temporarily installed them and photographed them as proof that this temporary art installation has really existed. Travel in the US and Europe provided many opportunities for photos a...