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Don’t be surprised if something looks familiar in our Artist of the Month window for November - Georgia sourced the majority of her materials from EVFAC’s donations! (She also receives lots of gifts from friends.) A question she’s often asked has been condensed from “What are you going to do with that?” to “Now, what?” Georgia admits she often doesn’t have a clue for quite some time but that she’s become used to what she considers shopping backwards. Named for her maternal grandmother, Georgie, who could absolutely make anything, Georgia remembers falling asleep to the sound of Georgie’s sewing machine. One night she stayed up and the following morning had to ask for help putting a zipper in a pair of pleated velvet pants. Her grandmother was quite surprised but you’ll see that our Georgia still avoids zippers. She claims she learned to needlepoint by finishing her mother’s pieces but, in hindsight, doesn’t blame anyone for being bored with all of those solid backgrounds. Georgia learned to weave at boarding school and encountered textile printing and dyeing in college. Her first job was setting up and maintaining an interior design firm’s sample room. After graduate school in art history she headed to NYC and worked first at a design school and then an auction house. More graduate school led to her move to NM where she’s lived since 1980 working as an archivist for individual artists, designers and collectors as well as a curator for non-profit arts foundations. Along the way, Georgia has been inspired by an alternative process photographer, a multi-faceted designer who was an amazing colorist, the late matriarch of a fashion family who infused whimsy into everything she ever touched and, most recently, by a conceptual artist who incorporates narrative content into her textiles. So far, Georgia only manages to tell kinda funny stories based on the ideas she thinks about while making ridiculously labor intensive pieces. When she runs into kindred souls at EVFAC and the game begins, to be followed by a shorthand version of show and tell, Georgia is often reminded that she’s always loved a scavenger hunt. Artist of the Month Collection page.
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