Eva Henneberry

Most recently exhibited at the La Conner Quilt Museum in Washington with an exhibit of new works, Chico's Dr. Eva helps to make the world a better place one stitch at a time!

Avenue 9 Gallery's exhibit opened July 28 and runs through September 30.

Tears for an Ailing Planet #3 "Habitat Encroachment"

Artist's Statement

I live life through feeling and color. Color is what attracts me and makes my heart sing. To create balance between color and texture I strive to make strong and beautiful quilts. While I love and enjoy creating aesthetically pleasing pieces, I feel truly most balanced when they also make a statement about the world I wish to help create. I believe that artists can participate actively in helping to shape a better world.

It is meaningful to me that quiltmaking is a woman’s art and heritage and that I am but one link in a tradition of women expressing their opinions and feelings in cloth, needle and thread.

In my fiber work I use fabric collage, raw-edge appliqué as well as piecing a wide variety of cloth. My highest bliss is sitting in my studio with an idea in my head, listening to beautiful music on my radio, the sewing machine humming away, and scraps of wonderful, colorful fabric all around me in the disarray of creative passion!

I am very “process oriented”; the joy and excitement for me lies in conceptualizing an idea, then putting it together, and playing with it until it is “right”. Once I am done, I am eager to move on to the next project.

One of my favorite places in the area where I live is the Gray Lodge Wildlife Area near Gridley.  Every year around Christmas, my husband and I try to go there to enjoy the chatter of many thousands of birds.  We live right in the middle of the Great Pacific Flyway, and I love hearing the honking of geese overhead in the middle of the night.  I am worried about wetlands disappearing everywhere as we develop more and more wild spaces.

This quilt was made for a competition on the title subject.  It was selected and shown in the International Quilt Exhibit  in Barcelona, Spain in 2002.  My "roots" emerge out of pictures of bombed-out Vienna, surrounded by the typical "Blaudruck" fabric from which utilitarian clothing was made in the past, now only made in one family-owned business at the Hungarian border of Austria.  This quilt was also shown in Quilters Newsletter Magazine June 2002. On the reverse are images of my family tree.  This one is not for sale but personalized commissions on this theme are available.

This quilt was started out of frustration as millions of people around the world protested and yet the war machine kept rolling.  I sent out muslin strips to friends and family around the world and as I waited for them to come back to me, I designed the quilt.  It has won two blue ribbons and last year went to Kaunas, Lithuania, for the TEXTILE 05 International Exhibit there.  It is included in their catalogue.  The quilt was also featured in Quilter's Newsletter Magazine in June 2004, p. 18, as well as in shuttle, spindle and dyepot, Issue 145, Winter 05/06, p. 35. There is a muslin strip at the gallery that you may sign.  Eventually it too will be stitched to the back of the quilt.

  In the gallery...at home..on the wall....No more war!