I have been weaving since 1967, when I was an apprentice for two years with Rachel Brown in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. I was 23 years old. Early on I fell in love with tapestry.
Now I am 80 and have never stopped weaving tapestry. For 40 years, I focused on large tapestries, mostly on commission. I lived in San Francisco from 1970 till 2010. I earned my MA in textiles from S.F. State in 1979. In 2010 I settled in Portland. In 2004 I began to draw on the computer, in a program called Paint, and later in Procreate on the iPad. Recent tapestries woven in Portland and at Damascus Fiber Arts School come from computer drawings. Translating the vivid colors into yarns is new and delightful. I have begun to weave words into my images. I am seeing where that takes me. Still evolving, still finding new things to say in warp and weft.

Jen Fuller is a self-taught artist working with glass, with an emphasis on Pâte de Verre technique. Trompe-l’œil is French for “deceive the eye. In art, it’s a fancy term for making one material appear to be something else. Jen travels the country working with heritage gardens to harvest special plant specimens to create these 100% handmade glass sculptures. This technique is called pâte de verre, or “paste of glass”. Fine layers of colored glass powder are sifted one at a time into a handmade mold like an intricate sand painting. And when fired in a glass kiln, achieves this hyper-real glass botanical effect. Jen Fuller honed her mixed media approach to artisanship as a commercial fabricator in the 3D props departments of Adidas, Nike, and Universal Studios. Awarded an emerging artist grant from the William T Colville Foundation in 2010, Fuller built her first glass kiln, which allowed her to transform her knowledge of advanced mold making into an ongoing and boundary pushing exploration into kiln-form glass. Recreating the garden in kiln-formed glass embodies the interconnectedness of history and humanity, of nurture and nature. Each piece in this series is originally sourced from a historical space, molded in plaster, then tenderly recreated in glass one layer of colored powder glass at a time. Each Botanical honors the tenderness and fleeting life cycles of the earth; the intentional moments they were hand picked and transformed into glass by the artist; and your connection to the temporality of it all.