Connie Blair
StatementI spent 33 years teaching art to elementary and intermediate school students outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I’ve always had a life-long love of gardening and appreciation of flowers, so during my teaching years, I had a side business drying and framing wedding bouquets. After retiring in 2008, I enrolled in bead embroidery and felting classes at the Society of Contemporary Crafts in Pittsburgh. In undergraduate and graduate school at Edinboro and Indiana Universities of Pennsylvania, respectively, my studies concentrated on various fabric processes, but never felting. My first wet felting class at the Society of Contemporary Crafts was focused on making hats. During that class, I fell in love with the felting process, and it allowed me to incorporate my love of flowers and design into a fabric technique. I expanded from wet felting into nuno techniques, which is fibers felted into an existing fabric, to make scarves. As my love of various felting processes grew, I began participating in art festivals in the Pittsburgh area selling hats, scarves, and three-dimensional flowers. I am a member of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Pittsburgh and my work is sold year round at museums and shops throughout southwest Pennsylvania. I have combined my love of flowers and felting to make accessories for anyone who wants to add a unique conversation piece to their wardrobe
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Techniques & mediaFiber arts - Felting
Education & TrainingEdinboro University
Exhibition & AvailabilityArtWorks on the Summit
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