I created an art book, Required Reading I, for the Tampa Bay Surface Design Guild show, Tipping Point, held at the Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater Octagon Gallery in 2025. I reworked and rebound the piece for inclusion in the Florida CraftArt Members Show in January 2026. The book features a quilted cover and layered art quilts that facilitate a tactile exploration of St. Petersburg’s city streets and history. Its appendices consist of four small books – an accordion, a meandering fold, and two lotus fold. Three contain excerpts from key sources I relied on for the project and the last contains acknowledgments.
I created an interactive experience of the work that includes a gallery of images of the art book, the full text, interactive maps and links to multimedia content to allow further exploration.
I’ve continued playing with the materials from this work:
I am currently working on a series of small art quilts including one (6″ x 8″) that I submitted to the 2026 SAQA spotlight auction.
This embellished t-shirt I created for the Tipping Point reception was constructed using the Scout Tee pattern from Grainline Studio in linen from EWE in Charlottesville, Virginia.