These images are from the collaborative art piece, Let Freedom Ring. Artist Dia Bassett worked with 69 young artists on a collaborative fiber and mixed media installation. Read more about it here.

The Mother’s Music project is being supported by Idaho Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

For Mother’s Music, I will be leading and teaching families to create the large, mixed-media fiber installations with me. To begin, I will invite the participating families to join me in cutting the linens into long, continuous thread, which I will demonstrate and guide. We will also cut fabric into smaller geometric shapes to be used for children to paint onto before being sewn onto the weavings. The cut linens will be woven into 2 large 10 x 10 ft fiber installations to hang from 2 freestanding backdrop stands.

To participate, sign up for any day/s before the concert and bring some used fabric!

Some of the music being sung for the children’s chorus spring concert are excerpts from nursery rhymes, which may be reminiscent for many. For the Mother’s Music project, I am asking us to remember music from our childhood. What music reminds you of your mother? Did your mother sing to you?

In the final parts of this project, we will be adding color with drawing and painting on pieces of fabric which will be incorporated into the fiber installation.