This exhibit marks the culmination of a year-long class dedicated to sustained inquiry into the nature of the artist's book. The class was iven at San Francisco Center for the Book and taught by Emily McVarish and Steve Woodall.
In the SFCB Gallery
June 7 - 20, 2002
Artists
Susan Angebranndt
Kate Godfrey
Rachel Higgins
Maureen J. Hilliard
Jennie Hinchcliff
Ann Marie Hovie
Linda K. Smith
Dina Tooley
Sharon Wynd
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 Linda K. Smith: One Woman's Sewing Bee
Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep within.
Bits and pieces of cloth sewn or glued together curtain the world.
Bits and pieces of knowledge skillfully intertwined make up the study
of history. Every civilization has this tradition of squirreling away
precious fragments until they are needed to construct a whole. One Woman's Sewing Bee is a collection of descriptive essays about pieces of clothing that I, the "one woman" of the title, would like to sew. These are coupled with clothing practices and beliefs, along with some secrets of clothing, all discovered in my readings on the subject. Vignettes of personal memories make up the third strand of the text. The pieces explore both the universal and the personal in the ordinary structure of clothing. One Woman's Sewing Bee is my version of how we weave the threads of our lives into a whole.
Media: laser printed on an HP Laserjet, using QuarkXPress;
sewing machine and hand-stitching throughout. Edition size: 25.
Year of completion: 2002.
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