Sue Reno
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Sue Reno is a fiber art
ist from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
.
Her unique art quilts include surface designs using hand painted fabrics, cyanotypes, heliographic prints and image transfers; enhanced with hand and machine quilting and beadwork. Her themes are often nature-based, using wild and cultivated plant images intermixed with various quilted piecework of often-irregular shapes. Beginning in 2008, she began incorporating architectural depictions into some of the pieces.
She was one of the first group of artists involved in the fiber art postcard phenomenon and was interviewed about this topic for the "Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories" project for The Alliance For American Quilts. The transcription and photographs are archived by the American Folklife Center
at the Library of Congress. This is the interview.
From 2011-2013, the United States Department of State
is displaying her piece The Organic Garden in the U.S. embassy in Laos.
Sue attended Franklin & Marshall College
in Lancaster, PA for three years, pursuing a degree in Religious Studies, but did not graduate.
has been hung in many juried shows including the International Quilt Festival, Quilts=Arts=Quilts at Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Art Quilts XIII: Lucky Break at the Chandler Center for the Arts
, and in museums including the State Museum of Pennsylvania
, the Museum of Fine Arts in Bishkek
, Kyrgyzstan, the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, the Bellefonte Museum, the Robeson Gallery of Pennsylvania State University
and Materials Hard and Soft. In 2010, her solo exhibit, "Transformation: The Watt & Shand Series", received critical acclaim for the chronicling of the transformation of an historic department store into the Lancaster County Convention Center
. Her most recent collection is a series titled "Flora and Fauna", which was first displayed in Fall 2010. Her next series, The Tropics is underway in 2011.
Fiber art
Fiber art is a style of fine art which uses textiles such as fabric, yarn, and natural and synthetic fibers. It focuses on the materials and on the manual labour involved as part of its significance.-Fiber:...
ist from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Lancaster County, known as the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county located in the southeastern part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of 2010 the population was 519,445. Lancaster County forms the Lancaster Metropolitan Statistical Area, the...
.
Her unique art quilts include surface designs using hand painted fabrics, cyanotypes, heliographic prints and image transfers; enhanced with hand and machine quilting and beadwork. Her themes are often nature-based, using wild and cultivated plant images intermixed with various quilted piecework of often-irregular shapes. Beginning in 2008, she began incorporating architectural depictions into some of the pieces.
She was one of the first group of artists involved in the fiber art postcard phenomenon and was interviewed about this topic for the "Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories" project for The Alliance For American Quilts. The transcription and photographs are archived by the American Folklife Center
American Folklife Center
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC was created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife" . The center includes the Archive of Folk Culture, established at the Library in 1928 as a repository for American folk music...
at the Library of Congress. This is the interview.
From 2011-2013, the United States Department of State
United States Department of State
The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...
is displaying her piece The Organic Garden in the U.S. embassy in Laos.
Sue attended Franklin & Marshall College
Franklin & Marshall College
Franklin & Marshall College is a four-year private co-educational residential national liberal arts college in the Northwest Corridor neighborhood of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States....
in Lancaster, PA for three years, pursuing a degree in Religious Studies, but did not graduate.
Media
A sampling of her techniques were demonstrated in a Simply Quilts show on Home and Garden Television (HGTV). The episode, titled Abstract Quilts from Nature, can be viewed here. The piece Tall Blue Lettuce was on the cover of Professional Quilter Magazine. Other publications have showcased her work including Machine Quilting Unlimited and Quilters Newsletter and the book Beginner's Guide to Art QuiltsExhibits
Her fiber artFiber art
Fiber art is a style of fine art which uses textiles such as fabric, yarn, and natural and synthetic fibers. It focuses on the materials and on the manual labour involved as part of its significance.-Fiber:...
has been hung in many juried shows including the International Quilt Festival, Quilts=Arts=Quilts at Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Art Quilts XIII: Lucky Break at the Chandler Center for the Arts
Chandler Center for the Arts
Chandler Center for the Arts , is located in Chandler, Arizona and is jointly owned by the City of Chandler and the Chandler Unified School District. The Chandler Center for the Arts functions dually as the home theater for Chandler High School and the arts center for the City of Chandler. The...
, and in museums including the State Museum of Pennsylvania
State Museum of Pennsylvania
The State Museum of Pennsylvania is a non-profit museum at 300 North Street in downtown Harrisburg, run by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania through the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to preserve and interpret the region's history and culture. It is a part of the Pennsylvania State...
, the Museum of Fine Arts in Bishkek
Bishkek
Bishkek , formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and the largest city of Kyrgyzstan.Bishkek is also the administrative centre of Chuy Province which surrounds the city, even though the city itself is not part of the province but rather a province-level unit of Kyrgyzstan.The name is thought to...
, Kyrgyzstan, the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, the Bellefonte Museum, the Robeson Gallery of Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
and Materials Hard and Soft. In 2010, her solo exhibit, "Transformation: The Watt & Shand Series", received critical acclaim for the chronicling of the transformation of an historic department store into the Lancaster County Convention Center
Lancaster County Convention Center
The Lancaster County Convention Center is a publicly owned convention center in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. With initial site preparation in late 2006 and completion in the summer of 2009, the Lancaster County Convention Center is one of several projects intended to help revitalize...
. Her most recent collection is a series titled "Flora and Fauna", which was first displayed in Fall 2010. Her next series, The Tropics is underway in 2011.