Embroidery on linen using chain, back, running stitches, and french knots. There is a hole torn off to the left side. Stray threads are seen entering and exiting the opening.

The Center Will Not Hold

A needle felted anthropomorphic sculpture of a raven wearing a gold crown, inside the raven's body a miniature scene of a swan under a night sky.

The Story Within

A wool tapestry of a little bird in various colors of blue, standing at the edge of the seashore.  Special tapestry technique includes color gradations created by splitting the 4-ply wool strands and re-twisting them into new color combinations to then be woven into the tapestry. 

Chirpy Little Chap

experimentation with color, design, fabric, stitch.

Journey Through Stitch

A woman with three eyes looks at the viewer. Her hair is made of fabric scraps and embroidered bones. 

Set the World on Fire

The design for this bag was inspired by the subway system in Stockholm, Sweden and pulls the color palette of pastel salmon, lavender, mint and white found in the Morby Centrum underground station. This piece is a handcrafted reversible leather backpack, with diagonal pastel stripes on one side, connecting to the opposite side where the stripes are horizontal. Above the horizontal stripes showcases the architectural insignia logo for the Minneapolis based minimal leather goods brand, Montgomery Collection. This drawstring backpack cinches at the top and includes details of the stripes on one side of the pull strings. The interior is lined in grey suede, soft to the touch and will protect all of your belongings held inside. Worn on either the diagonal or horizontal side, this backpack is a functional piece of art.

Montgomery Collection No.070.3 Backpack

A felt artwork with bright fluorescent hand cut abstract shapes in the center, surrounded by swirling needle felted shapes and background using muted colors and a softer focus.

Cosmic Pond

An orange fabric background with a pink concha embroidered in the middle, and the text "Conchas" above it and "not cops" below it, embroidered in black cursive. Each corner has a different succulent in a yellow pot with a pink stripe (green round one with pink flower in the top left, green and leafy in the top right, green tall standard cactus in the lower left, and blue cactus with pink flower buds on the bottom right). It is in a dark brown, almost black, frame against a white background.

Conchas Not Cops - for the Former Dulceria Bakery

A sculpted bust of a veiled woman made from wool that looks like marble. The wind appears to be blowing the fabric against her face and the rest is billowing away from her. The veil reveals beneath the illusion of translucent folds half of her face is classicly beautiful and the other half is her skull. 

When The Veil Is Torn Away

A hat of hand stitched, hand molded cotton buckram with integrated wire foundation covered in silk velvet, nylon cording, fortune pleated satin, silk Dupioni fabric, glass beaded tassels, vintage brooches, sustainably sourced and recycled antique bird of paradise milliners feathers, cut crystal stone, 

Fortune Spirol

Cartonnage Tea Mugs suggest a season of social gathering together in different forms or individual reflections at this time. Remnants were leftover patterned fabrics from making face masks.

Summer Camp Covid

A quilt of a cardinal in an showy mountain ash tree.  The thread-painted  cardinal is on a quilted background showing leaves and framed by the branches of the tree.

Cardinal on Mountain Ash

Capricorn Goat hand tooled and textured in leather with constellation in a blue black sky.

Determination 

This is a series of heads with curly hair- all made out of sheep’s wool. Some of the wool is naturally curly. The wool was dyed in different colors and formed into the heads and hair. These are hanging on a pine tree trig to give it its three-dimensional form. 

Curly Heads

A macro view of a yellow iris against a complementary purple background painted in a watercolor Batik style on rice paper.

Memories of Summer

Outlines of figures and other screenprinted fabrics are collaged together in this composition.

Family Gathering

A flowing organic, intertwining, fuzzy vessel made of needle felted natural MN alpaca fiber.

2020 In A Clamshell

A single twisted tree growing from the rocks on the edge of Lake Superior.

Tree by the Big Lake

Sweetgrass coil basket attached to black jar lid using sinew. 

Sweetgrass Coil Basket Sewn to Recycled Jar Lid

A patchwork of diamond forms made by layers of encaustic and paper on handmade adobe tile.

rhombus

Three balls made of wool yarn that has floral patterns and bees.

Singlade Bollar Floral Bees

A piece of fabric that has a repeating pattern of irregular oval shapes. The oval shapes are white and the background of the fabric is medium-dark, soft blue. The pattern is irregular and the blue color seeps into the white oval shapes on each shape. Along each rectangle's border, there are dotted lines. 

Resist 1

A quilt with beads and embroidery showing two buildings connected by a bridge.  There is a beaded spiral in the sky. 

Bridge

Small pieces of cotton fabric designed to show a man with a glass in hand raised in a toast.
Based upon a posterized photo of my Dad at my cousin's wedding.

My Dad

An abstract art quilt inspired by the rocks, sky, and sea of the black sand beach at Reynisdrangar, Iceland.

Black Sand Beach-Reynisdrangar

A rounded box rimmed with white porcupine quills and decorated with colored porcupine quills that are in the shapes of flowers with leaves, stems and vines.

Waabigwanii-gitigaan (A Flower Garden)

A portrait of a friend's pet rabbit, a mixed media creation, started with a photograph, then little pieces of brightly colored fabric fused and sewn onto a contrasting diagonal background.



Mr. T. Rabbit

Portrait in profile of woman dressed in black.  Significant contrast between dark dress/background with light colored skin. 

Madame X

A reverent llama dressed in the traditional dress of his Holiness the Dalai Lama. 

Dalai Llama

backdrop of a white canvas 2 objects made of cotton cording covered with recycled denim are placed equidistant. Left object is black denim covered cording in an imperfect straight line , the cotton cording is peaking Out of the bottom. Right object is a range of blues and black cording jumbled in a series of knots and tangles with both end exposing the cotton cording.

2 Paths to Growth Vol 2

A rope scrap basket made of red, gold, and brown fabric scraps with geometric designs.

The Center Will Not Hold, 2019

Sandra Brick