Artist Reception: Margaret Fabrizio - Call for Entry

Please join Hello Stitch and the artist Margaret Fabrizio for the artist reception of her gallery show, Call for Entry on November 16th from 2pm - 5pm.

Exhibition: November 6 - January 26, 2020

Artist Reception: Saturday, November 16, 2pm - 5pm

Call for Entry chronicles Margaret Fabrizio's multiple attempts to create art with the specific intention of entering it into juried art shows. Many were made, twelve were rejected. All of these quilts are done in the Kawandi style, which was brought to India by African slaves. They are made entirely by hand. Each of the 12 quilts is a one of a kind piece reflecting Fabrizio's indomitable spirit and verve. 

Margaret Fabrizio has a deep and exceptional history of creating art. First known as a pianist, then as a harpsichordist, Margaret Fabrizio began her study of piano 6 weeks before her third birthday, appearing in her first recital at the age of four. As a harpsichordist she has performed throughout the world and was on the faculty at Stanford University for 25 years as Sr. Lecturer, specializing in harpsichord, fortepiano, and thorough-bass.

Since 1980, she has been increasingly active in the visual arts. Her art books, collages, paintings, photographs, masks and quilts have been exhibited in the US and abroad. She has created and participated in performance art pieces and for the past 18 years she has been creating a forest environment of sculpture and landscape at her Cazadero Conservancy of Nature and Art, a remote 40-acre piece of land in Sonoma County where works of art are installed and/or created in a non-invasive manner.

Continue reading on our blog to find out more about the impetuous and inspiration behind her visits to India and her affinity with the method of quilt making that she learned there.