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"Entertainment came in the form of building something, whether it was clay, paint, wood or paper. We were always creating something. I can remember painting with my mother on the same canvas. She would start painting at the top of the canvas and I would start at the bottom. When I grew tired, she...

Painting came to Carrie Jacobson in 2006, when she was 50. At first, it seemed like a way to cope with her mother’s death. Then it became a way to cope with the death of her boss in the newspaper where she worked, and then, a way to cope with the elimination of the journalism job she’d thought she...

My work is about color and texture. I have been weaving fabric and making garments since 1979. I started collecting textiles in the mid 1970's. At the time, I traveled extensively in Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. The connection between hand-woven textiles and the Indian's lives and...

I have always created. Like most children, my first audience was my family, there I gained recognition and my first taste of success. I continued working in the visual arts all through college trying almost every medium. Even though I seemed destined for an art major, a fantastic opportunity...