Frances D. McClure received the ATA Award for Excellence for her tapestry, Beyond the Desert. Read more on her webpage.

I weave my tapestries as maps of my spiritual journey. The topography is both an external terrain of wilderness and mountains as well as an internal landscape. Read More

The landscape is the primary influence on my tapestries. I enjoy  taking a detail element of a  landscape and translating it into my own imagery. It may be near  the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where I live or other places I travel. Read More

I express my ideas through hand-woven tapestry and painting. Both media are appropriate in evoking the spirit of place that marks my work; the beaches, tides, water and forests that surround me serve as my muse. Read More

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She tends to work in series, one idea leading to the next, each image building upon the ones that come before, resolving their questions as they arise. Read More

Her goal as a tapestry artist is to communicate the peace and well-being she feels sitting on a mountain-top, gazing at the distant peaks and ridges, watching soaring birds at play on the thermals that rise from the valley below. Read More

Inspired especially by the patterns of nature and the textures and fall of clothing about the human body, Elizabeth Radcliffe have developed the classical techniques of hand weaving in some new and original ways. Read More

Visit the new show in the TEx Gallery: “Dancing Colors: Audrey Moore’s Tapestries,” curated by Cheryl Silverblatt.