March-April Art Show: Janice Walker – Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville

Posted on February 27, 2025 Posted By: Achsah Carrier Categories: News & Views

Janice Walker Artist Statement

I make art for the challenge of seeing what I can do next with my palette of commercially printed fabrics. The originally designed works are sewn using a process similar to quilting, but are made to hang on the wall like fine art. After the initial design is constructed, I sometimes add additional color and texture with a variety of threads, machine or hand stitching, and sometimes embellishments. Nearly twenty years in, I am still in the midst of a creative exploration of the possibilities of a medium not usually part of our culture’s art heritage.

Nature is often my inspiration, but many times the fabric insists on being put together in ways abstract or unusual. Some of these pieces were made as my response to a challenge by the local Fiber and Stitch Art Collective (FSAC), of which I am a member.

I have been part of shows we have exhibited at the Create Gallery at Indoor Biotechnologies, the Gallery at Westminster Canterbury, IX Gallery as well as other locations in Charlottesville. We have also put on shows at the Virginia Quilt Museum, Piedmont Art Museum, the International Quilt Festival in Houston, the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in Hampton, and most recently at the Community Art Gallery at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond.

I am open to negotiate commissions based on my ideas or yours. Contact me at art@uucharlottesville.org