EXHIBITS

SAQA FIERCE PLANETS - Laurie Fagen’s art quilt “Sun with Mercury” is one of 42 pieces juried into the “Fierce Planets” show for Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), an international organization of art quilters. The show premiered at the Louisiana State University Museum and will travel until 2028. Fagen's image is a photo from an original painting by the late artist Bonnie Lou Coleman, digitally transferred to fabric and heavily thread-painted with metallic and rayon threads.

A ninth exhibit has been added! This exhibition will travel until end of 2027

BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, Maryland: through April 19 2026

Shafer Art Gallery, Great Bend, Kansas: June 12 - August 15, 2026

Farmington Museum, Farmington, New Mexico: November 28, 2026- March 27, 2027

Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, Texas: April 16 - June 6, 2027

Allen County Museum, Lima, Ohio: July 15 – November 14, 2027

MORNING JAM IN CHANDLER - Thrilled to have artwork and books at Morning Jam in Chandler, 4020 S. Alma School Rd. #3 in Chandler, on the corner of Alma School and Germann. Jewelry, earrings, nightlights, mystery books, desert magnets, sox and more! https://morningjamaz.com/

Montezuma Well, original artist photo digitally transferred to fabric, threadpainted

Mount Brandon, original artist photo digitally transferred to fabric, threadpainted

Hawaiian Petroglyphs, mixed media fiber, soy silk, silk flowers

SACRED THREADS: "Eye Contact: creating a connection," has finished its almost 5 years of traveling, and the two pieces are home. There’s a video of all the "eyes" including Laurie's two pieces on the Sacred Threads Facebook page and at https://www.facebook.com/sacredthreadsquilts/videos/380039609319034/. Laurie's blue eyes in color are at about :09 from the beginning, and in black & white at 2:54. Info: www.sacredthreadsquilts.com

PODCAST GUEST: Time Management and Flying By the Creative Seat of our Pants with Laurie Fagen and Cheryl Cocroft interviewed by Kirby Plessas at www.curiouskirby.com/

FIBER ART EXHIBIT IN PHOENIX - Three Fagen Designs pieces have been accepted in the “Ruins, Relics and Rituals” show by the Fiber Arts Center AZ opening May 1 at the Olney Gallery at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 100 West Roosevelt Street, Phoenix Arizona 85003. An opening reception, free and open to the public with light refreshments, is on First Friday Fri., May 1 from 6-9 p.m. On display through June 2026. The Olney Gallery is open to the public during Cathedral office hours: Tuesday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and parking is available at a garage north of the gallery.

LAURIE ON KAET-TV: Check out KAET-TV's Horizon show from Feb. 10, 2019 at https://azpbs.org/horizon/2020/02/fiber-art-exhibit/ or www.azpbs.org for a story about her fiber piece "Life After Death," from the "Huggernaut: Fiber Arts of Love" exhibit at the Scottsdale Civic Center Public Gallery. It's the story in fabric, beads and quilting of her journey following the passing of her husband, Geoff Hancock, eight years ago.