Inspired by Tools of the Trade

Carnegie Art Center, Three Rivers, MI, June – August 2010
Artists take their inspiration from a host of sources internal and external, personal and universal,
sacred and profane. . . but one of the many things we have in common is a “connectedness”
with the tools that we use to explore ideas and create our work.

For this exhibition, I asked a group of Kalamazoo area artists to consider their tools in a more conscious way,
to allow their imagination to dwell on the things they use on a daily basis to create their work,
to look at the tools they may take for granted in a new way. . .

Show Statement

Liz Faust, Papermaker's Paint Kit, mixed media with papermaking fibers

Painters apply colors with paintbrushes, but papermakers embed color in their fibers and 'paint' with pigmented fiber. The bristles of each of these brushes is a fiber commonly used for hand paper making.