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Lori’s Notebook

My Favorite Animal Cards

June 23, 2015

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I have been collecting notecards ever since I can remember. I have shoeboxes full. I was going through them the other day and realized that over half of them contained renderings of animals – hand calligraphy, paper cutouts, etchings, watercolors, and more. I love cards because they are concise sources of inspiration. Read more >

Categories: Inspiration, Pattern Inspiration

A Legacy of Art and the Old Country

February 9, 2015

Following the death of my 100 year old grandfather, I find myself, a few months later, helping my mother and my aunt packing up my grandparents’ house. A hundred years of stored memories, papers, photographs, furniture, and most of my grandmother’s life work as an artist. It has been an amazing process of unearthing a century of my legacy.

Among the items packed away in the basement was this beautiful zither and this leather-bound set of Goethe’s works in German.

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Categories: Everyday Life, Inspiration Tagged: art, bronze sculpture, clay sculpture, Eva Reichl, family life

“Constructs” Exhibit

January 19, 2015

I just took in a great show at the Disjecta Gallery, here in Portland, Oregon. The show is called “Constructs” and features the work of talented artists, Laura Vandenburgh, Nathan Green, and Pablo Rasgado. I found their use and appreciation of pattern and texture quite inspiring. Vandenburgh creates large, net-like structures out of cut paper that reminded me of contours on maps.

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Categories: Exhibitions, Inspiration, Pattern Inspiration Tagged: Disjecta Gallery, pattern inspiration

Fighting Cancer, Making Art, and Cycling Across America

May 20, 2014

Last Friday, I attended a heartwarming fundraiser for the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research located in Seattle, Washington.  They have been working on ground-breaking biotechnology aimed at curing childhood cancer without the harmful effects of chemotherapy or radiation.

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Categories: Designer Collection Quilts, Inspiration Tagged: Ben Towne Foundation, charity, lori mason quilt, mineral forest fabric, quilt donation

Floral Inspirations

March 21, 2014

I had the chance to visit the de Young Museum in San Francisco a few days ago and caught their annual Bouquets to Art exhibit.  Floral artists are paired with a work of art that is meant to inspire their arrangements. There were some incredible pieces – here are just a few I found noteworthy. Love the rosey-twiggy bird!

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Categories: Exhibitions, Inspiration Tagged: bouquets to art, de Young Museum

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From Lori’s Notebook

  • 2022 Graduation Quilts

    My Graduation Quilt Project hit its pinnacle this year with the largest number of graduates in a single year, one of which included my son, Lee.

  • Ted’s Atrium

    Perhaps because there are several architects in my own family, or perhaps because I find architecture’s intersection between art and design so compelling, I experienced a sense of excited nervousness at the outset of this memorial quilt project.

  • Roy’s Light

    During my initial conversation with clients, the first thing I ask is for them to share a little bit about their loved one who died.

  • Deanne’s Song
  • Charlie’s Tartans

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