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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Member News

September 2020

Emily Stevenson's Work Featured in Portland Gallery


Emily Stevenson's work is featured in a bird-themed show at the Village Gallery of Art in Portland, Oregon. The show runs August 29 to September 30. The gallery is open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10am - 4pm. Stop by and see Emily's work!


May 2020
Both Laura Jaszkowski, Elaine Millar, and Bonnie Bucknam have work in the new Visions Art Museum online exhibit Shape Shifting. Take a look at the exhibit here.

February 2020

































January 2020

Personal Landscapes: A Visual Travelogue
Bonnie M. Bucknam
January 18 - April 5, 2020
2825 Dewey Road, Suite 100
San Diego, California 92106
619.546.4872
Hours : Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 4pm
Sunday Noon - 4pm
Bonnie will be having a solo exhibit at the Visions Art Museum in San Diego. The opening and artist reception is January 18 between 5 and 8pm (exact opening time not known at the time of this post). The exhibit closes April 5, 2020. Catalogs are available at the Museum Gift Shop.
Bonnie writes: 
The anthropologist in me is fascinated by other cultures. And as someone who has always been interested in geology and the history of the earth, I love seeing the variations in terrain and the spectacular shows created by natural earth processes. I create landscape and abstract works inspired by the places I have lived and the exotic countries I have visited. I try to convey my response to the character and essence of these places, the people I have visited, and the creations of cultures that have come before. My works are created from my hand-dyed fabrics. I usually compose my pieces using an improvisational style and design on the wall. Some of the piecing is quite difficult and time consuming. I have a longarm sewing machine, which makes the close machine quilting feasible and the quilting process enjoyable.
I consider myself a beginner at painting. I have experimented with acrylics and with oil and cold wax. My first few paintings for this series I undertook as color studies for the quilts I wanted to make. Over the course of working on this concept, some of the paintings have developed to be works in their own right. Recently I have been working more with oil and cold wax. I feel it suits my style and hope to develop my expertise in the medium.
In my Personal Landscapes works I have been exploring the effect of the medium on the outcome of the work. I have started with a photograph, mostly taken on my travels, and then created a painting and also a quilt inspired by the photo. I find my interpretations to be quite different in mood, size, format, and degree of abstraction, depending on the medium. The Personal Landscapes series began, unbeknownst to me, with my Reflection quilt in 2008. I have explored this idea of interpreting personal landscapes in the years since. The experiment is ongoing.
1000 Palms Oasis
c 2016 Bonnie M. Bucknam
Photo by Mark Frey 
Paper Reed
c 2019 Bonnie M. Bucknam
Photo by Hoddick Photography
Holding Back the Sahara
c 2019 Bonnie M. Bucknam
Photo by Hoddick Photography

December 2019

Material Matters
Work from the Vancouver Surface Design Association
The Cave
108 E. Evergreen
Vancouver, Washington 98660
artatthecave.com
360-314-6506
Hours: Tuesday thru Saturday, 10am-4pm
December 5 - 28, 2019
The exhibit includes fiber pieces from six members of the local Vancouver chapter of the Surface Design Association: , Mary Arnold, Bonnie Bucknam, Donna Joslyn, Sally Sellers, Sharon Svec, and Marie Murphy Wolfe. Work include several techniques: beading, quilting, shabori dye, photo printing and spray painting, basketry, and book making.


 The Installation at The Cave:















October 2019

At the invitation of former HFD member Linda Reichenbach and her Hood River guild, Pat Fifer, Jill Hoddick, and Lottie Smith were asked to provide 3D pieces for an exhibition at The Dalles Art Center. The show will be up thru Nov 16.






August 2018 


Beach Retreat in Waldport, Oregon


This past week, six of us from the SAQA/High Fiber Diet group spent 4 days in Waldport, Oregon.  We made 5 tops for my Guatemala Bound project!




We all brought scraps, sewing machines, and supplies to our wonderful on-the-beach rental house in Waldport. We literally could walk onto the sand from our deck.  The first night we took inventory of what fabrics we'd brought and identified 4 possible projects. We set up and dove in.




This was our first project. It started with several pieced blocks and a jelly roll that Pat had brought.We made 30 wonky blocks, then sized them all up with solid greens and yellows log cabin style.


Mary and Jill took on these pieced blocks with the black tic-tac-toe strips. They found fabrics to coordinated and made a stripy quilt.




Jo made a bright rail-fence-inspired kid's quilt from her various scraps.



Mary and Jill were on a roll and made another lap-size top from some precut squares.



Pat, Susan and I made this stripy quilt starting with some square-within-a-square block that I had brought with me. And Susan finished the hand binding on another quilt.



It was a productive 4 days and a wonderful opportunity to get to know one another a bit better.


Geology: Bonnie Bucknam Art Quilts
September 1 - 9 and September 24 - October, 2018
The 610 Arts Collective
Ridgway, Colorado
Reception: Evening September 7, 2018
Geology: Bonnie Bucknam Art Quilts opened August 31, 2018 at The 610 Arts Collective in downtown Ridgway, Colorado. The opening will be First Friday evening, September 7th, at the gallery. Ridgway is a small town with an active arts community. It's about 25 miles from Telluride. Stop by if you are in the area.


December 2017

TArts Exhibits in Vancouver, Washington
TArts, a small group of fiber artists including Pam Pilcher, Marie Murphy Wolf, Mary McLaughlin,
Sara Miller, Pat Fifer, Sherrie Moomey, Susan Warling, Jill Hoddick, Elizabeth Bamberger, and Jo Noble, is now represented by Aurora Gallery in Vancouver, WA. They have 12 x 12's in the Holiday Group Show until January 27th.  TArts will have a solo show there in September 2019.