About Peg Green

Fabric Artist

I love tactile art – sculpture, fabric, wood, natural elements. Museum guards have to keep a close eye on me. I love that I can touch fabric, manipulate it, crumple and iron and stretch it, dye it, layer it, and feel it flow through my fingers as I’m stitching it. For nearly 30 years, I’ve been creating Art using fabric piecing, collaging, and sewing techniques. I’m inspired by spiritual and feminist sources, nature, Buddhism, and world mythology. Most recently I’ve been venturing into the realms of social justice statement art and storytelling.

 

I’ve Always Been an Artist

My career as a fabric artist traces back to the 6th grade, when my hand-embroidered textile image of a dragon in flight, based on a Chinese vase displayed at the Cleveland Museum of Art, was published in a Museums magazine. Back in the 1950s this outstanding Art Museum pioneered a program of free art classes every Saturday for local children (using crayons, not fabric), and I was a dedicated student there from age 6 to 18. It was a spectacular art education.

 

My fascination with the notion that other people view life differently than I do started early and continues to this day. It inspired my formal studies in worldwide cultural anthropology and ancient civilizations. That, plus my dedicated feminism, gave me a love of the ancient goddess figurines and carvings. For my series of goddess art quilts, I research the archaeology reports to learn the living context of the art, and I try to imagine myself in that world, wondering about their lives and their beliefs, while infusing the image with my own colorful re-interpretation.

 

Me

I’m a morning person and a Pollyanna optimist.

 

 

Goddesses

 "Flower Goddess of Harappa"