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Gayle A. Pritchard

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in Ohio, The United States

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Arts & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Crafts & Hobbies

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Artist Biography
Working as a fiber artist for twenty five years, as well as a curator, lecturer, teacher and writer, Gayle Pritchard received a BA-Honors degree from the highly competitive College of Wooster, where she was the college's first double-major student. She majored in German and Psychology, with a double-minor in art and French. Pritchard was a Rotary Scholar at the Universities of Tour and Paul Valéry in France. She pursued additional post-graduate art training at the Quilt Surface Design Symposium in Columbus and in the continuing education program at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Fluent in three languages, her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums across the US and in Denmark, Japan & Australia.

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Working as a fiber artist for twenty five years, as well as a curator, lecturer, teacher and writer, Gayle Pritchard received a BA-Honors degree from the highly competitive College of Wooster, where she was the college's first double-major student. She majored in German and Psychology, with a double-minor in art and French. Pritchard was a Rotary Scholar at the Universities of Tour and Paul Valéry in France. She pursued additional post-graduate art training at the Quilt Surface Design Symposium in Columbus and in the continuing education program at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Fluent in three languages, her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums across the US and in Denmark, Japan & Australia.

Highlight exhibitions include those at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Ohio Designer Craftsman Best of '94 (special mention award), and Visions, a traveling fiber exhibition which opened at the Museum of San Diego. International traveling exhibitions include Ohio to Nagoya and Signatures in Fabric. Commissions include The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Quilt, the Smithsonian Craft Archives and, most recently, artwork commissioned for the Peter B. Lewis building (designed by architect Frank Gehry) in Cleveland, Ohio. She is featured in the 1997 Encyclopedia of Living Artists, was named Teacher of the Year by Professional Quilter Magazine, and Cleveland Magazine's "90 Most Interesting People". She has made several television appearances, both locally and nationally, including CNN. Historian Robert Shaw published her work in The Art Quilt, a history of contemporary quilts in America. Her work was included in Crafting Personal Shrines by Carol Owen and in Quilts of the Ohio Western Reserve by Ricky Clark. She was named an "Ohio Treasure" in 2000 by the State of Ohio at the annual CityFolk festival.

Gayle has curated the biennial Artist as Quiltmaker exhibits since 1999. The exhibit is a nationally recognized venue for art quilts held at the Firelands Association gallery in Oberlin, Ohio and is one of the oldest such exhibition venues in the country. She also co-curated Threads of Freedom: The Underground Railroad Story in Quilts in Oberlin in 2001, and hosted the symposium, Pathways and Perspectives, a panel discussion about the history and future of the art quilt movement. She has taught workshops and lectured widely on various subjects related to her medium.

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Uncommon Threads: Ohio's Art Quilt Revolution (Ohio Quilt Series)

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MOUSE HOUSE PARTY

Mouse House Party: Fill the Hole opens this Friday!

I am honored to be one of 150 artists invited to participate
in the Mouse House Party: Fill the Hole.

The exhibit opens at Current Cleveland art gallery on Friday, August 6, 2021
and was spurred by Liz Maugans and organized by her, as well.

Using an arch shapes provided by Maugans and representing a Mouse Hole, artists were asked
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Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir (For Aspiring Writers)

by Natalie Goldberg

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Midlife Medium: A Genealogist's Quest to Converse with the Dead

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Anywhere, Anytime Art: Gouache: An Artist's Colorful Guide to Drawing on the Go!

by Agathe Singer

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Gayle’s Quotes

“Value the process.”
― Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective

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“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”
― George Lois

tags: creativity

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“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

tags: home, identity, leaving, life, moving-on, past, travel

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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.”
― John McCain

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“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington

tags: dawn, light, silence

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