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Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa has purchased Priscilla Lynch’s tapestry “Wise and Foolish Virgins”.

Linda Rees has two tapestries in the Fiber Directions 2003 exhibit at the Wichita Center for the Arts, March 7-April 20. The exhibit was juried by Jason Pollen, Chair of the Art Department, Kansas City Art Institute.

Nancy Jackson of Timshel Studio Announces Weavers Of the Incarnation Triptych. It is my pleasure to announce that Joan McColgan, Marielle Snyder and Christina Rasmussen have joined me in weaving the Incarnation Triptych designed in Spring 2002. It is a large and complex project which will occupy approximately 8-feet by 14-feet of wall space when complete and has been designed specifically for my retrospective show titled INCARNATIONS opening in September 2003 at Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa, www.vesterheim.org (click “EXHIBITS”). The long image is a detail of between 5” and 9” of the left edge of Consanguine, as it appears on the loom. The smaller image is a detail from the same tapestry.

Joan McColgan of Napa, CA, is the primary weaver of 'Incarnation' (5-feet by 4-feet), the right image in the triptych. Joan began studying with me many years ago. Her first tapestry won her the HGA Award for Excellence and in the same Northern California Handweavers Conference show, she was awarded first place.

Marielle Snyder of Bainbridge Island, WA, is the primary weaver of “Consanguine” (5-feet by 4-feet), the left image in the triptych with Nancy Jackson assisting (see in-progress image below). Also a past student, Marielle assisted in weaving “Trev’s Blues” in Spring of 1997. Marielle’s work has recently been highlighted on publicity materials for tapestry shows in northern California and Washington.