Upcoming Exhibitions
American Tapestry Biennial 15
August 1 - September 26, 2025
This juried exhibition highlights the best of contemporary hand-woven tapestry includes artists who work within more traditional definitions of tapestry plus artists whose work expands upon the core principles of the medium.
Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago Illinois.
The Future Belongs to the Loving
May 3 - July 4, 2025
This project offers the empathetic space of art to encourage practices of artivism and craftivism and to support artists who facilitate community-building.
MAPSpace, Port Chester NY
Opening Artist Reception May 3, 6 - 8 pm
Collaborative Creating May 3, 11 am - 6 pm
Gather 2025: A month-long exploration and celebration of fiber and textile art in Greater Boston
April 2025
A month-long exploration of fiber and textile art in Great Boston, highlighting the vibrancy, breadth, challenges and future of this tactile medium.
The Carrier Bag Theory: Visual Artists Re-envision the Container
April 11 - May 11, 2025
NAVE Gallery,
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, gallery hours Saturday and Sunday 1-5pm155 Powder House Blvd., Somerville, MA 02144 Opening reception and artists' talk Friday, April 11th from 6pm - 9pm
A Gather Symposium Event
TRACE
April 4 - May 25, 2025
Opening reception Friday, April 4 from 5-8 pmMaine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland Maine
Elemental
May 8 – June 18, 2025
Elemental features sculptures by 12 member artists of the Boston Sculptors Gallery. The artists utilize a wide range of materials and techniques and their work addresses nature and concern for the environment.
Co-Curators: Barbra Fordyce and Nancy HellerFlinn Gallery Greenwich Library West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich CTOpening reception Thursday May 8, 2025 from 6-8 pm
Teaching
FiberLab: Stitch, Felt, Weave, DyeSnow Farm: The New England Craft ProgramJune 1-6, 2025
Explore the expansive world of fiber and learn how wide-ranging techniques such as stitching, dyeing, felting and weaving can be brought together to create dimensional, textural art. Jodi will introduce one or two new processes from her extensive skill set each day, and students will create as they go, following intuition and inspiration. Instruction will include sculptural shibori dyeing and stitching shibori, improvisational scaffold weaving on handmade looms and Jodi’s unique needle felting technique for creating organic dimensional orbs. On the final day there will be an indigo dye session. Surprise techniques will be peppered throughout! Jodi will dedicate time to working with each student individually on their personal fiber art goals. This a great opportunity for those who are new to working with these materials as well as the fiber enthusiast who is looking to add to their repertoire of skills. All levels welcome.
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Stinger Gives Back
While attending a residency in Thailand I shared a mud house with many of the native species including a tiny black scorpion who haunted me daily. It became a curiosity how a being so small could wield so much power.
From this experience Stinger was born, a large lace scorpion fabricated using hundreds of donated and found doilies created by makers whose identities are long forgotten.
This 17x24 foot sculpture became the centerpiece for my solo show Loom Large at Boston Sculptors Gallery. She also travelled to the Cahoon Museum of American Art in the show Twisted, Twined, and Woven, and has been the subject of many articles and discussions.
It is time to return her to the biosphere. In honor of Tenderness Toward Existence Day, she will be in residence at my studio to offer herself back into the world. You are invited to snip and take away a piece of her as a memorial keepsake. She came to be through the contributions of many hands and now she reverses the act by giving herself back to the hands of many.
Join us for this celebration of humanity's connection with all living beings. Saturday, January 21, 2023 12-3 pm 11 Miller Street Artist Studios Somerville MA RSVPSuggested donation of $5100% proceeds go to The Nature Conservancy, an organization guided by science and equity to solve climate change and biodiversity loss and determined to make a major difference by 2030.
From this experience Stinger was born, a large lace scorpion fabricated using hundreds of donated and found doilies created by makers whose identities are long forgotten.
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This 17x24 foot sculpture became the centerpiece for my solo show Loom Large at Boston Sculptors Gallery. She also travelled to the Cahoon Museum of American Art in the show Twisted, Twined, and Woven, and has been the subject of many articles and discussions.
It is time to return her to the biosphere. In honor of Tenderness Toward Existence Day, she will be in residence at my studio to offer herself back into the world. You are invited to snip and take away a piece of her as a memorial keepsake. She came to be through the contributions of many hands and now she reverses the act by giving herself back to the hands of many.
Join us for this celebration of humanity's connection with all living beings. Saturday, January 21, 2023 12-3 pm 11 Miller Street Artist Studios Somerville MA RSVPSuggested donation of $5100% proceeds go to The Nature Conservancy, an organization guided by science and equity to solve climate change and biodiversity loss and determined to make a major difference by 2030.