Cabins in the Cosmos

Name/Title

Cabins in the Cosmos

Entry/Object ID

1999.03.01

Made/Created

Artist

Lonni Rossi

Date made

1998

Place

City

Wynnewood

State/Province

Pennsylvania

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Dimensions

Height

55 in

Width

50 in

Interpretative Labels

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Artist Commentary

Label

“I am a fiber artist. With fabric and thread, design, color, texture, and form. I strive to tell stories about the possibility of beauty; encouraging the viewer to imagine something out of the realm of their own reality, thus allowing them the opportunity to dream about beautiful things. Designing and creating fabric—and using those fabrics in my art quilts—is my passion, the thing I cannot possibly be happy without doing. My art quilts usually involve a back-story, or an interpretation of legend, myth, or history. By allowing the story to become my momentary reality, my imagination takes me to another place, another time, another life. “My hope is that my fabrics and art quilts do that for the people who view them.”

Research Notes

Notes

Awards Won: RJR Best Wall Quilt 1999

General Notes

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Materials Used

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Commercial, hand-dyed, surface designed cottons; gold lamé, computer chips, aviation artifact

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Techniques Used

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Machine pieced, fused, machine quilted