Aug. 13th 2020: "The Residency is doing well. Covid Accommodations & modification abound to keep us safe.

Here I am with a completed Rhythmistic Quilt showcased in my "Rhythmistic Smorgasbord" exhibition at the Box Factory For the Arts in St. Joseph Michigan in 2019. The center panel was painted in 1991 using source material presented to me in an African Art class in 1975 by the late Prof. Barabara Jones-Hogu at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.. The same year I started working as a Chicago Public Schools Arts Educator.

The first inner trim was done in 1995 by the late quilter/poet Mimi Hayes. The final extended quilting was completed by master-quilter, Patrick Whelan in 2018. He even hung this one and two other quilts in that Bx Factory For the Arts exhibition. That was five years after I retired from teaching at the Chicago Public Schools. Now in this Resideny I return to add more completed panels to this collection....to later be quilted.

Time often becomes part of the materials...the processes and the result in producing collaborative collections of great art. That delicate nexus of concept, techniques...styles..space...and the freedom to express all flow through yielding the finished single result. In search of appreciation!"