Ancestry of Belonging brings together three artists whose works merge the age-old traditions of their chosen media with their contemporary aesthetic practices. Their works explore the gifts of understanding and growth bestowed on active participants of a cultural lineage, and how those traditions continue to provide relevant insights in a modern world.
Featuring
Colleen Maria Casey, Rose M. Barron, and Dayna Thacker
Colleen Maria Casey is a photographer, quilter, artist, business owner. Her most recent work is in creating patterns sewing and crafting.
Colleen Maria Casey is a photographer, quilter, artist, business owner. Her most recent work is in creating patterns sewing and crafting. Her craft projects and patterns embrace a new bold look at recycled and reused materials. Colleen’s Christmas ornaments and wearables, made from aluminum drink cans, are available in local shops and online around the United Statesand in her own online shop, SomeArtFabric.com.
Her sewing patterns are designed to help new to advanced quilters power through tedious piecing processes to create amazing quilt tops in very little time. Her techniques for the I Love You(r DNA) quilt are a wildly popular class she teaches for sewing guilds and the trade show circuit.
She travels the country visiting sewing, crafting and quilting shows hosting the unique and hard to find fabrics she adores for her company, SomeArtFabric.com, which is affiliated with this site, SomeArt.com.
Flower Truck, part of the series “Family” Click the image to view this portfolio.
She is most known for her stunning black and white large format photography series entitled “Family.” In this series, she explores the intimate moments of family life in southern Georgia.
