1985 State of the Arts Exhibition

Alma Lesch at Kentucky Art and Craft Foudation (KMAC)
and textile artists & advocates at exhibit opening.

Kentucky Craft textile innovator

art is life...live with art

With Jane Dunnewold's current Louisville KY visit LAFTA members and fiber artists see her impact on art cloth links to the current LAFTA exhibit at JCC's Patio Gallery on Dutchmans Lane through Feb 22, 2011. Alma Lesch called that gift in fiber vision as having an "eye". Search YOUTUBE for video clips of Dunnewold's workshop events and critiques.

Invitated by KMAC to speak on that closing date in reference to their current exhibition which includes the work of Alma Lesch, I am pleased to see this link in Jane Dunnewold's work using actual clothing confirming my link to my Swedish grandmother who saw my love of textiles, early in my life, and entrusting me with several quilts made by her mother, my great-grandmother Hilda Victoria Madelyn Magnuson from Clearfield, PA. There are indeed common threads that unite us all.

February 22
KMAC

an evening for Alma Lesch

from the Alma Lesch textile collection: World War II
handkerchief

"Sallie" 26" x 36" woven wall-hanging

"Sallie" reproduced as woven tapestry wall-hanging for interior spaces (detail above)
from the original 1996 mixed media "fabric portrait" by Kentucky textile artist
Alma Lesch 1917-1999
26" x 36"  Victorian themed wall-hanging
in limited quantity
donated for permanent display in Bullitt County HistoryMuseum
in Shepherdsville, KY 40165

Inquire: Small Town Gallery Inc. 502-955-9255
Brooks, KY 40109

"Sallie" 1996, the original image shown here is now available as a woven tapestry 26" x 36" ready to enjoy.
also available at http://smalltowngalleryinc.net/ for $59.95 in Brooks KY

Premier issue SPOOL magazine
attention fiber artists, needlepoint, crochet and knit
and freelance writers!
fall 2010
"Sallie" by Alma Lesch in feature story...

Louisville Arts Review

Louisville Arts Review

you can't make this stuff up!

Textile Artist : Kentucky textile artist Alma Lesch 1917-1999

Textile Artist : Kentucky textile artist Alma Lesch 1917-1999

Alma Wallace Lesch 1917-1999

"This is my first fabric collage portrait." Alma Lesch
"Mrs. Burns" 1964 26" x 36"

scroll down for more info:
Installation of Meidinger Tower tapestry Aug 4, 1983
Fourth and Muhammed Ali Blvd. Louisville

"Jezebel" 1968
see more info below

"Jezebel" 1968 28" x 76"
Fabric collage, Stitchery and applique with knit blouse, lace petticoat, umbrella cover, and buttons on linen
colors: reds, golds, blues, rust, orange, yellow and purple
private collection: Atlanta GA

The Signature Shop & Gallery: Home Page

The Signature Shop & Gallery: Home Page

Untitled Embroidery 20" x 38"
colors: blues, greens, browns, yellows
March 1964
sold in one-person show, Atlanta, GA by Signature Shop

"The Colonel's Lady" 1975
45" x 60"
Fabric collage full length portrait