Hollis Chatelain - Textile Artist

Many people ask me what I am working on, where my work is being exhibited and how I am spending my time. This is a new addition to the website that will be updated monthly with the latest things that are happening in my life.

May will be a big month for us because we are hosting a wedding. Our daughter is getting married on May 26^th and everything will take place in our garden, so we are into preparations big time!!

After the big 3-night freeze that we had here a couple of weeks ago, the leaves are finally coming back and the plants are recovering. I can never remember the leaves coming out so late. But the flowers are poking their heads through the ground, the birds are building nests and chasing each other around, the butterflies are appearing and we are rejoicing in the beauty of it all.

Enclosed you will find the May newsletter. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me.

“Hope For Our World” is finished!!!! I have to admit, there were days that I wondered if I would ever get it done. To see it, Click here
I have started painting my next piece which is a large commission. Stay tuned for more information….

May will be a month of working in the studio and preparing for the wedding. I will not be teaching until June 23 – 25 when I travel to Placentia, CA to teach for the North Cities Quilt Guild. For more information email Patt Blair.

The third week of April, I traveled to Berea, Kentucky to speak at a convocation at Berea College. The college had a small exhibit of 6 of my monochromatic pieces and I hung the newly finished “Hope For Our World” for the first time.

The exhibit called “Give and Take: The Artist – Student Dialogue” will open in Columbus, Ohio at Ohio Arts Council’s downtown Riffe Gallery from May 3rd – July 8^th, 2007. Michael James curated this show which juxtaposes the work of nine artists and their respective Quilt Surface Design Symposium student artists in order to spotlight the role that QSDS has played in the education of the contemporary studio quiltmaker. "The Gift" will be shown beside one of Caryl Bryer Fallert’s quilts . I first came to Ohio to the Quilt Surface Design Symposium in June 1993 and took a class from Caryl. She eventually became my mentor. Click here for information.

Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC has invited me to do a solo exhibit October 5 – November 17, 2007. The exhibit will be called “Antiques to Abstract” and will show 12 abstract pieces based on photographs of antiques that my son took. click here for more information.
I will also be teaching a 5-day workshop at the Mountain Laurel Quilt Guild October 1-5, 2007. For more information, contact Candace St. Lawrence click here

We now have giclee prints of “The Grandfather”, “Sahel”, “The Gift”, "Ecuadorian Girls", "Precious Water", "Fatima’s Son", "School: It’s Never Too Late to Learn"," Nature’s Gift", "Blue Men", "Burkinabe Mother" and "Untold Secrets", and they are all beautiful. click here to check out all the prints.

All of the threads that I designed for Superior Threads are for sale on the website. They are sold in packs of 25 because I have found that quilters use threads in a more unique and exciting way when they have the opportunity to “audition” a number of different colors (just like we do with fabrics) before making their final choices. click here

We have a secure system where you can order thread, fabric, prints and my artwork directly on line and pay by credit card or Pay Pal.