Photo documentation, textile and fiber information, biographical info and web links to Alma Lesch, Shepherdsville, Kentucky's textile artist, author and teacher w/common threads to regional LAFTA members and the national "art cloth" movement.
Thursday, January 27, 2005
detail of fiber work of Kathleen Loomis, awarded the first Alma Wallace Lesch Memorial Award in 2002, at The Kentucky State Fair (see KET/ MIXED MEDIA program info)
wall behind the kitchen stove area with kitchen door swung open into the livingroom...2002
ceiling fans are added upstairs in the north bedroom, the main bedroom on the first floor and in the kitchen...photo 2002
bathroom walls, south window, before I stenciled Shaker tree motif as border pattern in dark gray paint, subtle effect that merges with the blue... it too inspired by Shaker color...
front entrance, early 2002, at Alma's
South Union, Shaker Village, KY
The ultimate basket, the nest, inspires me in a view from a south window at South Union Shaker Village... and the robin's egg blue color may have inspired the Shaker craftspeople in their interior work as well.
South Union interior, Shaker Village
English Ironstone now used at Shaker Village, South Union, Kentucky were once in the corner cabinet of Alma and Ted's kitchen.
center island, sink
closeup
After constructing Shaker-style peg rail, the kitchen and south walls in the living room were lined with peg rail. Chairs and art rotate from the track.
Center island counter top during repairs...
view from rear entrance, during painting...
kitchen, rear entrance to back porch on right top in photo, redirected plumbing to a new island and sink away from the rear window wall where the original sink stood just below the window.
kitchen and bathroom areas are joined in a continuous ceramic tile surface, baseboard found in the garage, removed from a demolished house across the street that Ted and Alma owned, was used to surround the kitchen walls where tile and wall meet.
