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.

Maddie streaks past another Finn... 

my visiting family enjoys the Marvin Finn group near Slugger Field one hot July 

welcome to Louisville 

On the same sunny April Sunday that his mother returns home from her visit to Kentucky, through Buenos Aires, Juan dives into cold water at Bernheim deep along a trail... Susana, whom I gave one of Alma's stitchery teaching booklets of samples, would show Maria and Ana, two of Juan's three sisters, how to practice embroidery stitches... my idea of cultural activism. I too would fly American Airlines to visit them at the bottom of the planet in Jan-Feb 2004... for summer! 

nearby Bernheim Forest made Juan feel 'at home' reminding him of Argentina's natural beauty... something he want to protect in his future (where he fears WALMART thinking will encroach) 

the beginning of the bamboo grove which will need many years to become established surrounding the koi pool 

witch hazel, now growing in the back yard 

Alma and Ted's table at which they ate dinner for over 30 years.