The Boulder Junction Public Library welcomes the public to view their September Art in the Library exhibit with artwork from fiber artist Phyllis Schuit. Her artwork will be on display throughout the library during regular business hours.
The public is invited to meet the artist during an Artist’s Reception on Saturday, September 7 from 12:30-2pm in the library. The event is free and refreshments will be served.

From the Artist: “Sometime during my 20’s, I took up knitting. After taking advanced knitting classes from a wonderful German lady, I was able to design my own patterns. That opened a limitless window of creativity, design, and color. A few years later, my husband bought me a spinning wheel and registered me in a spinning class. I really didn’t want a spinning wheel, but of course now I love my spinning wheel. I spin my dogs’ fur and use it to knit little kids’ hats. In my 40’s I bought a used four-harness floor loom and took some classes. My scarves are full of color and texture, just like my hats. I am passionate about color. There can never be too much color in my work and in my life. In my 50’s I took up painting and learned a great deal about blending colors and composition. In my 60’s I took a beginning quilting class and fell in love with fabric with its multitude of colors and designs. After I learned to stitch a straight line (I had no sewing background whatsoever), I started adding hand embroidery. I have done embroidery all my adult life, but now I incorporate my painting background. Instead of blending paint colors, I blend different colors of floss. Now I create quilted wall-hangings with embroidered birds, trees, butterflies, dragonflies and wolves that look like paintings. My wall hangings are a culmination of my fiber background. My fiber art is wonderfully creative, exciting, and fulfilling and it drives me.

A fiber artist is one who creates with fabric. The artist often cuts fabric into pieces and use the pieces to make something new. I often do that. But sometimes the fabric speaks to me, invites me to see what I can do with it and wants to remain whole. I take the fabric and its background as a starting point. I don’t cut it up, I keep it whole and embellish and enrich it in creative ways. I add new elements, such as hand-embroidered birds, trees, etc and create a new and original composition. Finally, I finish the piece with complex free motion stitching. The free motion adds so much texture, depth, and enhances the original background. The result is an original work of art far different from the fabric used as a starting point.”

For questions about the Art in the Library exhibits, the application process, or the Artwork policy, please email the library at [email protected] or call the library at 715-385-2050.