Fractured Color

Mary Lou Alexander

Hubbard, Ohio USA

Glacier 2008

38" x 48"

Quilt National, 2009

Dye technique- Arashi Shibori

Inspiration: Glaciers she saw on a trip to Alaska

Ubizane Sunset , 2009

72" x 72"

Dye technique - Arashi Shibori

Inspiration: Based on a sunset she saw while in Africa.

DETAIL: Shibori 9 Patch #8 2008

 38” x 37”

Dye technique - Arashi Shibori

Inspiration: 9 patch quiltmaking techniques

For 25 years Mary Lou Harrison Alexander was a Biological Anthropologist, studying New World Primates and teaching at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. In 2001, after taking a class in shibori dyeing from Yoshiko Wada at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, she quit her tenured professorship to become a full-time fiber artist. 

Since then she has exhibited her award-winning quilts in numerous juried shows. 

Last year she was selected for Quilt National 2009: The Best of Contemporary Quilts. 

Mary Lou has contributed to Fiberarts Magazine, and in 2008 she curated a show called Depth and Breadth: Six Quiltmakers in the 21st Century for the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown OH. In October, 2009 she curated a show of quilts by Nancy Crow, also for the Butler Institute. 

See more of her work here.
p.s.   I am the proud recipient of her generous spirit. On my living room wall.

Glacier 2, 2008

22" x 36"

All photos are courtesy of ML. Alexander and C. Mauersberger