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"We face a human being when we approach an Alma Lesch portrait."
June 15, 1999 American Craft

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Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville. KY 

Koi 

redbud tree at peak bloom 

the pool 

Koi, eating again after long winter under ice 

bluebells 

closeup 

jonquil, daffodill season 

north side of Alma's 

redbud tree blooming April 2005 

March 14, 2005 snow and sunrise 

visitors new to this page are invited to read the comments by local residents and visitors to an exhibition of the fabric portraits and textile collages, embroidery work and wall hangings of Alma Wallace Lesch, who lived in Bullitt County, Kentucky...

the exhibition at the Ridgway Memorial Library ran from Sept 20 - Oct 16, 1982

a major retrospective of the artist's work is being planned for 2006 through the University of Louisville


links are provided within this blog to further your own research of the innovative textile artist known for her signature FABRIC COLLAGE PORTRAIT technique

rattan in ELIZABETHTOWN

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sometimes they bloom in late February here 

bearded iris, April-May 

very common to the neighborhood, the wild violet, covering the lawn in early May... 

zebra grass in late spring 

a few works-in-progress early 2002, buttonBASKET series 

weeping Katsura tree, from the Bernheim Forest members sale is established in the garden, east, before the daylily garden 

http://www.kentuckyarts.org/alma_lesch.htm

http://www.wku.edu/Library/onlinexh/kwa/

http://archivesofamericanart.si.edu/exhibits/fiberart/merritt10.htm

link

http://www.wku.edu/Library/onlinexh/kwa/lesch.html

research FYI

later that same summer 

summer of 2003 

fabric portrait by Alma Lesch in a Lexington, KY private collection 

folk art in Lexington 

front bay window, facing west 

Taylor 


Alma Lesch was a great admirer of Marvin Finn's sculpture. His signature 'rooster' being one in her private collection upon her passing in 1999.
Taylor, while still a pre-schooler, was given a button necklace made by Alma when she visited Kentucky early in the 90s. Alma enjoyed Taylor's summer visit and remarked on the creative focus Taylor demonstrated in the shade of our neighboring back yard art activities of painting, constructing sculpture from plant materials and working on a series of plaster chocolate mold Santa forms.