Client: Columbus Metropolitan Library

Overview

Permanent large scale public two dimensional textile artwork machine sewn and installed by the artist and her team.

The repurposed fabrics I amassed for the project echo the site of collection and the lived environment. For this commission, I specifically compiled materials from the local library patrons in addition to painted fabric compositions from community middle school students. Donated tee-shirts, domestic textiles and utilitarian fabrics are all repurposed and renewed. Converging together and transcending their original uses and symbolism, the fabrics incorporated in “Collecting a Rainbow” connect and build an all over pattern of a unified voice. In the patchworked whole, the fabrics become a stitched and seamless community, while symbolizing our tangible moment in time.

Goals

To create a vibrant, tactile artwork that is evocative of the community and library.

Process

For this project, I collected textiles and garments from the library community and each submission was also accompanied by a written narrative about the fabric they were donating.