November Issue 1999
Anderson Arts Center Features Work by Senior Women Mentors
Senior Women: Creative Mentors for the New Millennium is an exhibit of works, words, and images of women quilt artists over the age of fifty. It opens at the Anderson County Arts Center Gallery in Anderson, SC, on Nov. 19 and continues through Dec. 23.
This regional exhibit, representing 16 artists from GA, SC, and NC, is the first public display of the artists connected to the national project, "Piecing a Quilt of Life." Since 1996 quilt artist Dottie Moore has collected more than 120 stories from 16 states of senior women's creative processes. Like the fabric for her quilts, " Piecing a Quilt of Life" has become a rich stash of material which is becoming a variety of creations, including this exhibit.
The exhibit reflects the choices and possibilities waiting for our discovery whenever we engage in the "process" of creativity. These senior creative women teach us that our lives are our creations, unfolding as we pick and choose, layer and unlayer, act and react. The exhibit is a testament to the profound in each of us. The women highlighted here beckon us to that place in each person where the ordinary becomes profound, where there is purpose in the process of being open to possibilities.
As we move into the new millennium and search for more imaginative ways to live, senior creative women offer us insights and possibilities for discovering the profoundness in our own lives. Through their choices and their creative acts, they have found their paths to wholeness and healing. These women represent the wise, intuitive, creative part of each of us, regardless of our age or gender. Their quilts are symbols, for the way we piece, layer, and stitch our lives.
Please join us as we celebrate the possibilities revealed through creative process.
For further information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings or call Dottie Moore at 803/327-5088.
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