EXHIBITS

LAST CHANCE! CLOSING THE STORE@MAC - The Store at MAC will close permanently on May 30. Last chance to buy from more than 30 local artists, including fiber artist Laurie Fagen. Mesa Arts Center at One East Main St., Mesa, AZ 85201 on the north side of the campus.

CAVE CREEK COLLECTIVE - Artist Laurie Fagen’s polymer clay jewelry, money clips, votives and more are available at the Cave Creek Collective, a collaborative artisan studio "where creativity and community meet" to offer artwork, art classes and more. 6070 E Cave Creek Rd, Cave Creek in the former Carefree Consignment 2. www.CaveCreekCollective.com.

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 premieres at the Louisiana State University Museum of Art through July 28 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. 

This exhibition will travel until end of 2027

The Exploratorium, San Francisco, California: December 14, 2023  (select pieces only)

Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: April 18 - September 8, 2024

New England Quilt Museum,  Lowell, Massachusetts: January 14 - May 3 2025

Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, Florida: June 16 - August 15 2025

Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, Connecticut: September 25 - January 2 2026

BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, Maryland: February 13 - April 19 2026

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

CEANGAL/CONNECTIONS  An eight-person art exhibit with four artists from Arizona and four from Ireland is now at the Chandler Museum Gallery through July 20, 2025 following an exhibit in Tullamore in 2024. It's part of the Chandler Tullamore Sister Cities Art & Culture project between Chandler and Tullamore. With my fiber art, I am one of two visual artists, with two writers, two photographers and two filmmakers. Info: www.ChandlerIrish.org  

NEW! DESERT ROSE BOUTIQUE: I now have my fiber and jewelry in the Desert Rose Art Boutique at the Superstitions Spring Mall, near Dillard’s. I have fiber art, faux stone jewelry, notecards and much more. Check out their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550087379438. 

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/

SOLD! OLNEY GALLERY EXHIBIT - “My Paradise” sold at the Olney Gallery by fiber artist Laurie Fagen. Original photograph printed on fabric, heavily thread painted. Show has closed.

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.