Lori’s Notebook

Back in 2021, I felt exhilarated to have been featured in the glossy pages of Women Create Magazine, a leading source of inspiration and information for artists and makers around the world. But finding myself in its hallowed pages a second time, wow, what an incredible honor!

A big thank you to Susan Harold, Editor-in-Chief of the Women Create Magazines and her team at the World of Women Create Podcast for offering me the opportunity to share my work through two different channels.

As artists, we share our work in various settings and spaces, but often it’s hard to know how our work lands for people. Creating a piece of art can be a lot like singing into a canyon: you listen intently for an echo, for some indication that your work has touched someone else and reverberated, but it doesn’t always happen. And that’s okay. But when it does happen – like here, from the reader mentioned in the story, or from the What Women Create team, it truly reinspires and reinvogrates at least this artist. After all, we are not alone in this world. How wonderful to be reminded of it.

Listen to the full PODCAST here or below as I chat with Susan about the arc of my career and what led me to the work I do now.

My current feature article in What Women Create Magazine tells the story of how a reader tore out the pages of the first article from 2021 and waited five years until the time was right to commission a memorial quilt in honor of her late husband.

Read the full What Women Create article (PDF).

Susan Harold, Editor-in-Chief of Women Create loved the graphic, eye-catching quality of Allan’s Wings – the memorial quilt featured in the article – so much so that she chose a detail shot of it for the back cover!