Have a cozy new year!

Workshop at the Airport

Today I gave a trapunto demonstration in front of my piece at the Philadelphia Airport. It was great to interact with so many people and teach them the technique. The piece will be up through February and will hopefully move to it's next site.

Coming Home mailing

I'm sending out these promotional cards on Coming Home to other exhibition venues and announcing my
workshop in front of the piece at the airport on the 19th.

Screen printed Holiday Cards

Ursinus Press Room Article

Ursinus College recently featured an article about my work and the exhibition at the Philadelphia Airport.

Bryn Mawr Pasted Couches

I pasted five couches around the Bryn Mawr campus with the help of PHD student Anna Moblard Meier. The Bulk Pickup animation and another wheatpasted couch will be on view in the Canaday Library Gallery until December, while these public pastes deal with the weather and human interaction.

Bulk Pickup Animation

 

This is the photo animation for the Bryn Mawr exhibition, titled Bulk Pickup.

POST

Come check out my studio during POST (Philadelphia Open Studio Tours) this Saturday and Sunday from noon to 6:00 PM.

Bryn Mawr Exhibition

  


 

I will be wheatpasting six couches and showing an photo animation of a garbage truck demolishing a couch in the exhibition Docu-Commencement.

Docu-Commencement

October – December, 2012

Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library

Artists’ Talk & Reception: Thursday, October 25, 2012

Bryn Mawr Special Collections staff, along with more than a dozen student ambassadors and many faculty and staff collaborators, are currently developing Docu-Commencement, an upcoming exhibition of new works by four artists whom the College hosted for 24-hour residencies spanning 2012 Commencement and move-out day. The participating artists are printmaker and textile artist/sculptor Kay Healy (Philadelphia), new media/installation artist James Johnson (Philadelphia), hand-drawn animation artist Jennifer Levonian (Philadelphia), and large-format film and digital photographer Gilbert Plantinga (New York). On Thursday, October 25, artists’ talks and a reception will mark the opening of an exhibition of selected artworks developed in response to the intensive residency period; the works will be on view in the Class of 1912 Rare Book Room in Canaday Library and elsewhere on campus.

Time-lapse video of Paradigm Gallery installation

Starter Home by Kay Healy from Jason Chen on Vimeo.

Visions and Vignettes

Installation for Visions and Vignettes at ArtWorks in Trenton, New Jersey. Reception is Friday September 21 from 5:00 - 8:00 PM.

Panoramic View of Starter Home

Uri Hershberg sent in this strange panoramic view of the closing reception at Paradigm Gallery.

Coming Home Documentation

Stuffed Radio Giveaway

Becky is in the lead with the first photo entry in the Airport Stuffed Radio Giveaway!

The person who emails me the most images of the piece will win a free stuffed transistor radio. Only one photo per day allowed!

Airport Installation

Yesterday I worked with the airport installation team to put up the piece in Terminal E. Coming Home will be on view until December and have and average of 10,000 visitors passing by everyday. The person who emails me the most images of the piece will win a free stuffed transistor radio. Only one photo per day allowed!

Paradigm Installation

Community Sewing Hours at Paradigm

Drop by and learn the trapunto sewing process at Paradigm Gallery! Community Sewing Hours are ever Wednesday through Friday from 4:00 to 8:00 PM until the end of July.

Starter Home featured in the Daily News

 

Starter Home, which opened at Paradigm Gallery on Friday, June 22, was featured in the Daily News last week. Come join me at the gallery Wednesday - Friday from 4:00 - 8:00 for Open Community Sewing hours!

Starter Home exhibition at Paradigm is featured in this week's Philadelphia Weekly. Opening reception is June 22, 6 - 10 PM at 803 South 4th Street.


Starter Home, (June 22-July 27) Paradigm Gallery is inviting the public to come out and assist printmaker and installation artist Kay Healy in constructing 350 square feet of fabric “rooms.” These “rooms” will include more than 100 hand-drawn, screenprinted and sewn furniture pieces that have been created based on four Philadelphian’s memories of their childhood homes. The exhibit opens with a reception and sewing party (6-10pm) and open community sewing hours will be held each week, Wed.-Fri. from 4-8 p.m.

Read more: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/cover-story/157325455.html?page=1&comments=1&showAll#ixzz1xJvmaG71

Studio photos

I recently had photos taken by Bernadette Dye in my studio for Philadelphia Open Studio Tours.

Fibers Thesis Exhibition

This is a selection of very impressive work by my interns from the Fibers department of the University of the Arts. I like to think that it was my influence that led them to create such incredible work!

   

Sam Anderson worked with me over the Spring 2012 semester and created these incredible installation/performance fiber pieces. Visit her website at samandersondesign.com

   

Amanda Santini worked with me in Summer 2011 and she hand embroidered found garments. Her site is amandasantini.com where you can view more of her embroidered underwear series and her lovely hair pillows, one of which I purchased for my studio.

Paige Fetchen worked with me Summer 2011 and had a number of sculptural fiber works. Someday when I have a large home gallery I plan on buying her Loveseat pictured below. Her site is paigefetchen.com.

Kitchen Wall Paper

I now have four quilted backgrounds, each 9 feet tall and between 8 and 11 feet wide thanks to the CE Faculty Enrichment Grant. The grant allowed me to work with Twin Oaks Long Arm Quilting to make the pieces.

Stove positive

I finished drawing the positive for the stove I will print on paper and fabric on Wednesday. I will first have to cut the drawing into at least three sections so I can fit it on my 30 x 40 inch screens.

Bryn Mawr Residency

This weekend I participated in an alternative residency through Bryn Mawr called Documencement. Four artists were selected to explore the campus during the commencement ceremonies, garden parties and dorm move-out process. 

We will each be making work for an exhibition in October based on the weekend. While I am unsure of my final product, below are some highlights from almost 400 photographs I took over the weekend.