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Pat Owoc’s recent work has been of three types -- botanical designs using disperse dye on polyester fabric; whimsical pieces, including a number utilizing plastic trash bags; and works reminiscent of the Kansas prairie of her childhood. There is an element of storytelling in most of Owoc’s work. Her work has been exhibited in a wide range of regional, national and international art and fine craft shows, including Quilt National ’07, Quilt National ’99, Materials: Hard and Soft, Culture and Agriculture, Quilts=Art=Quilts, Big Picture: Provisions for the Arts of Social Change, Nothing New: Fiber Art from Recycled Materials, and Culture of My Country. Owoc creates fiber art from a wide variety of found, discarded, and distressed materials, and from synthetic fabrics not usually chosen by fiber artists. In various pieces she has used rusty nails and chicken wire and barbed wire or old tintypes and antique photographs. Often fabrics are deliberately distressed, abraded, torn and painted to create a ragged and primitive surface. Inspiration for her work comes from her childhood on a western Kansas farm. Owoc learned early that human habitation on the land is transitory, that the land is to be conserved. She also learned that family history is important, that the family from which she came was as important as the land upon which they lived. Land and family are forever intertwined. www.patowoc.com. CLICK ON THUMBNAIL TO SEE FULL IMAGE. 
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