ABOUT US

High Fiber Diet is a group of fiber artists committed to advancing their art professionally. HFD actively searches for exhibit venues, and members have the opportunity to submit work for juried group exhibitions. High Fiber Diet members challenge themselves to become more educated about art and design principles and to improve creatively on an individual basis. The group meets 7 times per year (February, April, May, July, August, October, and November) on the third Tuesday from 1:30pm – 3:30pm. Venues may change and some meetings are held online. Meetings usually include a discussion topic, updates on current and upcoming exhibits, and sharing of members' current work. For more information about the group, check the HFD blog at www.hfd-highfiberdiet.blogspot.com or contact Pam Pilcher at pilcherpam@gmail.com.


The group is affiliated with Columbia FiberArts Guild of Portland, Oregon
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To see information about other exhibits and projects our members are involved with, click on the "Member News" tab below.

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Exhibition Schedules


Can You Hear It?

HFD members are gearing up to design their art for the Can You Hear It? show for 2022. Here is the theme. 


Listen…...Can you see that noise?  Show us what you hear. Whether it is clattering silverware, a chirping wren, screeching traffic, or a marching band, interpret those sounds in such a way that the viewer can hear them just by looking.


We invite representational and non-representational interpretations for this exciting show which will be visually tied together by a small piece of fabric that will be provided by the exhibition committee and must appear and be visually identifiable in each piece. Since sound travels by waves we chose the fabric Radio Waves by Marcia Derse.


     

(Marcia Derse, Radio Waves)


The complete prospectus is located in the HFD Folder on your shared Google Drive. If you have not received some of the fabric yet, contact Pam Pilcher, pilcherpam@gmail.com   Art work will be turned in for jurying in July, 2021.



Can You Hear It? Jury Results

The exhibition committee congratulates the following artists and their artwork for being selected to the Can You Hear It? show. 

“Don’t Slam the Door On Your Way Out!”  - Jo Noble

“Being Fourteen” - Sherri Culver

“BOOM!” - Sherrie Moomey

“Cosmic Jazz” - Marie Murphy Wolfe

“It Sounded Like a Freight Train” - Pam Pilcher

“Let Me Outta Here” - Beverly Woodward

“Notes and Bars” - Mary Arnold

“Radio Waves” - Mary McLaughlin

“Red Hot Notes” - Mary Arnold

“Still Standing” - Diane English

“The Blackline” - Noelle Evans

“The Tower of Babel” - Terry Grant

“Voices of the Ancestors” - Elizabeth Bamberger

“Windsong” - Elizabeth Bamberger

“You’re On Mute” - Gerri Congdon

 We want to thank all the artists who persevered through the pandemic to create their vision of the sound in question. After this year of isolation we are all in need of time to reconnect with our community and share in each other’s artistic vision. We look forward to seeing you all at the show in Sisters in October.


High Fiber Diet Exhibit: Can You Hear It?

Jurors’ Statement

Three different jurors and three different approaches to art meant that our choices were not always unanimous, but our differences also forced us to look deeply, explain our preferences, and acknowledge our biases while choosing the artwork included in this exhibit of work by members of High Fiber Diet, a group of artist members of the Columbia Fiberarts Guild.

We sometimes struggled to discern a connection between the theme of the show and a specific piece, but we found common ground on the criteria we agreed would help us choose a strong show: the initial visual strength of the work and its subsequent ability to evoke a reaction in the viewer. We all gravitated toward pieces that drew us in through their visual impact and kept us interested by leaving space for interpretation, like a storyteller who hooks us with an arresting opening sentence then reels us in with a unique point of view and a narrative that still leaves room in the story for us. Artwork that told us the whole story in one short sentence, however finely crafted the sentence, didn’t engage our attention in the same way.

Many years ago, an art critic for the Oregonian explained his reaction to an exhibit at the Portland Art Museum by writing, “The truth is, all that matters is this: Does the work move you? Does it have integrity and power and skill? Does it suggest things beyond itself?” 

We were moved by and engaged with the voices singing, calling, and whispering to you from these gallery walls. Can you hear them?

Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer
Hilde Morin
Maria Winner


Contemporaneo - Exposicao Internacional de Arte Textil Brazil 2021


Congratulations to artist accepted to the Contemporaneo - Exposicao Internacional de Arte Textil Brazil 2021. These works will be shown in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in March and April of 2021. 

Elizabeth Bamberger - Where the City Meets the High Desert
Mary Arnold - Hot Rocks
Susan Circone - Off the Richter Scale
Pam Pilcher - Will-O'-the-Wisp
Jill Hoddick - Ode to Yvonne P
Lottie Smith - I Cant Think - It's 100!
Sherrie Moomey - Tropical Heat
Sheryl LeBlanc - Fire in the Log Yard



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