Born from a simple statement sent out across social media by Jen Broemel in the spring of 2021, river cloud is the result of virtual meet-ups between Jen, based in Indiana U.S.A and Jennie Johnston based in British Columbia Canada.
The exchange of pieces of fabric through the mail, evolved into influencing each other’s processes and discovering a mutual love of books and poetry which led to another exchange. Each artist selected six poems that they shared. Using their individual processes, these textile based quilt pieces evolved in each artist’s studio.
While Jen selected words from each poem to work from, Jennie underlined phrases. Jennie continued to use fabric from the initial exchange to create her poem book, Jen created her pieces with fabric scraps assembled into patterns until they felt just right.
The result of these two years of work is river cloud: poetry & stitch across the miles, consisting of: four wall quilts, two stitched books, and one poetry quilt/sound piece.
