Currently on Display in the galleries at EGA’s Embroidery Museum & Resource Center in Louisville is a juried exhibit featuring work from the group Louisville Fiber and Textile Artists, also known as  LAFTA.

LAFTA is a group of about 100 artists working in all types of fiber media. This exhibit features a wide variety of styles and techniques, including embroidery, quilting, beading, collage, dyeing, paper cuts, knitting, wearables, and felting. The show was juried by embroidery artist and EGA member, Ayelet Lindenstrauss Larsen. About 45 works by 25 artists are on display now until August 22nd.

Fault Lines 1 (detail) by Kathleen Loomis; pieced cotton quilted by machine. One of Loomis’ quilts was awarded the Quilts Japan Prize at Quilt National 2009.

Monochromatic Chaos by Judy Goodwin. This piece consists of a rock which has been felted over then covered with thousands of beads.

This is one of three dolls by Laura Christensen that can be seen in the show. She used various scraps of fabric and found objects to give them a lot of personality.

This is a detail of Quench My Thirst by Joanne Weis. It features hand-printed and dyed fabric with surface stitchery. In addition to serving as chair of LAFTA, Joanne is also an EGA member.

Big Lace – Dayflower is a knitted piece created by Debbie Levine using broomsticks as knitting needles and mop cotton as yarn. This is a detail, the whole  piece is over four feet long.

Alyce McDonald created Lady Labella from clothing labels, sewing patterns, and notions. If you look closely in the mouth, you can see one of the labels Alyce’s mother sewed into her clothes when she went off to college.

For information about LAFTA or this exhibit leave a comment or email bcape@egausa.org.