About Regina Dunn
I am a fiber artist using mixed media. I start with white cloth and apply color and design using dyes, fabric paints, and threads. My main techniques involve painting with thickened dyes, immersing cloth in liquid dye baths, screen printing with dyes and paints, stamping and stenciling, monoprinting, fusing fabrics together, and stitching with thread.
I am driven to telling stories and expressing concepts in my art. To me, having a series of lines, shapes, colors, and textures tell a story, invoke a memory, or bring out an emotion is magic. That’s why I make art.
In my series, Transformations, I explore changes or phases we experience with the passage of time. A leaf image that appears as a focal point in some of the pieces appears to be deteriorating, which at first could be interpreted to be sad. However, when things decay, their particles go on to give life to other things, which is noble and valuable. In the Transformation series, I focus on seeing what new, wondrous things form and happen because of change.j
In my series, Magic Carpet, I focus on celebrating color and often use embroidery fragments and patterns from other countries as my starting point. I use the images from these fragments and the patterns as metaphors for other concepts.
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Background
In 2001, Regina Dunn started her artistic journey by making traditional small quilts using commercial fabrics. Shorty after that, she began using commercial fabrics to make art quilts. Dunn ventured more into the art world by attending workshops and joining art groups, trying many techniques over the years as she developed a personal style. She found successes being accepted into juried national venues including SAQA’s (Studio Art Quilt Associates) Sense of Scale exhibit in 2012 and their Balancing Act exhibit in 2015. She has also exhibited in juried shows in her home state of Florida.
In 2015, Dunn was accepted into Jane Dunnewold’s Art Cloth Mastery Class, a two and a half year program in San Antonio, Texas. Her latest works, multi-media constructions, are made from fabrics she creates using hand dyeing, printing methods, and other types of surface design. Her personal repertoire includes hand stitch.
Dunn has been involved in local projects such as getting one of her works reproduced on vinyl and wrapped around a large utility box near the main intersection in her town of DeLand in 2017. She worked on a collaboration at Stetson University to help print three large panels of silk for a multimedia exhibit on the campus in 2018.
Her style of work also includes the use of symbolism. An image of a decaying leaf represents both a sign of deteriorating and a sign of progression towards something more positive. Not only does Dunn feel a connection to the Earth, she wants to be able to express how humans relate to change, look to the past, while also looking towards the future in her art.
She is a juried member of SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates), a member of Museum of Art DeLand. She served as a Rep for the region of Florida in SAQA, She served as a planning committee member and taught several classes to a local art group, ArtsEtc. She has been published and has written articles locally and internationally. She continues to advance her craft by studying surface design techniques she favors and developing them further each year.
Exhibitions
2012 - She had a sun quilt shown on CBS Sunday Morning as a transition between two of its stories in January.
She wrote an article for the June/July 2012 issue of Quilting Arts Magazine which includes photographs of her artquilts.
2012-2013 She had a quilt on display in SAQA’s juried booth in the exhibit “Sense of Scale” at the International Quilt Festivals beginning in October, 2012. It toured with the exhibit.
2014 - She exhibited in the juried show Florida in Fabric II at the Ruth Funk Gallery in Melbourne, Florida
2014 - She exhibited in the juried show Spectrum at the Gateway Center for the Arts in DeBary, Florida
2015- She exhibited in SAQA’s juried show Balancing Act and it toured the country with the show
2015 - She exhibited in the juried show Sacred Threads at Floris United Methodist Church in Herndon, Virginia.
2015 -2017 - She exhibited in SAQA’s juried show Growth in the Dunedin Fine Art Center
2017 She was juried into an installation in DeLand and had her art reproduced in vinyl on a large scale and wrapped onto a utility box downtown
2018 She graduated from Jane Dunnewold’s Art Cloth Mastery Class (a 2 1/2 year program) in San Antonio, Texas and had artworks exhibited in the culminating show.
2018 - She had two artworks exhibited in Many Voices from One at the International Quilt Festival in Houston.
She had an artwork published in a SAQA Journal.
She had a solo show at the Blake Elliot Gallery in DeLand, FL.
She had two artworks exhibited in the juried show Small Things Considered at Arts on Douglas in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
She was published in the book by Jane Dunnewold Improvisational Screen Printing 2nd Edition.
She had an article in Hand Eye Magazine
2019 - She had an article in Artsy Shark.
She wrote an article and was published in a SAQA Journal.
She had an article published on TextileArtist.org
2020 - She had an article published in Patchwork Professional Magazine
2021 - She exhibited in the juried show Floridian Flavors at Florida CratfArt in St. Petersburg, Florida.
She had artwork shown in Quilt Folk Magazine, Issue 19.
She wrote an article for ArtQuilting Studio Magazine.
2022 - She exhibited in the juried show Florida Fiber at the Ormond Beach Memorial
2022 2023- She exhibited in the juried show The Artist’s Question, Answered in Fiber. The show traveled to 6 venues across Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas.