A perfect pairing!

Thank you Dakota Art Gallery for hosting us & Jason Astorquia for sharing these photos!

In celebration of Earth Day my Fiber & Acrylic Sculptures are being exhibited along with Jason Sinclair Astorquia's Paintings. 'The Earth Observed' at Dakota Art Gallery in Bellingham, WA Exhibition runs April - May 2023. Opening Reception April 7th from 6-8:30pm. 

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Glimpse Into my Studio

Another glimpse into my studio!

Both the sculptures & collage works are available in my shop. I'll also be sharing my creative process & techniques in my upcoming workshops. 

Learn more here, 

De Pirro Studio Shop

De Pirro Art Workshops

 

Keeping Tabs is Home!

'Keeping Tabs' in its new home!

It's always to have my art touch someone enough that they want to include my art in their home. Even more so when it's a fellow artist that has chosen to include it in their collection.

Thank you Ron Pascho, Allied Arts Association: Gallery at the Park & 

Northwest Designer Craftsmen (NWDC)!

 

De Pirro Studio Shop

Cascade, Sea Urchin, Pollinate, Nectary, & others, each is a reflection of my love of nature, fiber & texture. 

More details HERE

 

Art of Recycling - Schack Art Center

 Art of Recycling- Repurpose with a Purpose

Schack Art Center

April 1 – June 5

I will have several sculptures & two art installations included in this exhibit!

"Participating artists showcase their creativity by turning otherwise discarded materials into works of art. This exhibit aims to shine a spotlight on the environmental, social, and emotional impact of waste as well as explore new ideas about recycling and repurposing.

Though these artists come from widely diverse backgrounds, they all share a common bond: the ability to transform waste objects into works renewed beauty, utility and meaning."

Learn more HERE

FIBER 2020 - BIMA

FIBER 2020

 at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art has been extended to the end of the year! 

I have several pieces in the show but in this video tour, Greg Robinson Chief Curator talks about my installation 'Kelp Forest'. In the background you can catch a glimpse of some of my other sculptures.

View the full video tour here, HERE

Fiber 2020 explores diverse ways artists are working in fiber and textiles. Over thirty-five artists are featured in this large group exhibition, from traditional fiber arts through contemporary works and installations. Media include lace, embroidery, quilts, wearables, reconstituted and repurposed objects ,conceptual sculptures and art installations.

More details & the full list of artists here, HERE

 

Architecture and the Environment - NBO

'NBO Presents Basketry: 

Architecture and the Environment' 

is now available on YouTube. 

Thank you National Basketry Organization!

HERE

Jo Stealey interviews, Artists: Ann Coddington, Barbara De Pirro, Elizabeth Runyon and Eric Stark about their work.

FYI you can skip the first 16 minutes which was our warm-up time and not part of the presentation.

 

Small Works!

Small sculptural works now in my DePirroStudio Shop, 

with more to come!

CLICK HERE

to see the latest...

Fiber 2020 - BIMA

'Blossom' (detail), Painted Papers, Acrylic & Crocheted Stainless Steel Wire

Fiber 2020 explores diverse ways artists are working in fiber and textiles. Over thirty-five artists are featured in this large group exhibition, from traditional fiber arts through contemporary works and installations. Media include lace, embroidery, quilts, wearables, reconstituted and repurposed objects, conceptual sculptures and art installations. 

Exhibition Dates: Mar 7 – Dec 31, 2020

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

550 Winslow Way E., Bainbridge Island, WA

WEBSITE

'Keeping Tabs' (detail), Aluminum Pull Tabs & Crocheted Stainless Steel Wire

'Sea Urchin Cluster' (mock-up), Synthetic Strapping & Crocheted Stainless Steel Wire

Currents 2020 - Schack Art Center

'Thistle', Painted Papers, Acrylic & Crocheted Stainless Steel Wire.

Currents 2020

March 5 – May 31

Northwest Designer Craftsmen (NWDC) presents Currents 2020, a national invitational juried exhibition, symposium and weekend of masterclasses from March 5 - April 11, 2020. Currents 2020, in partnership with the Schack Art Center, commemorates the 65th anniversary of NWDC's mission to promote excellence in design and craftsmanship, and stimulate interest and appreciation for craft in and beyond the Northwest region.

This groundbreaking effort offers a nationally curated craft exhibition in tandem with a dynamic panel session of leading figures in the 21st century craft movement, as well as master classes taught by nationally renowned artists in a variety media.

A juried regional membership organization, NWDC serves makers in Washington, Montana, Alaska, Oregon and Idaho. Currents 2020, a National Craft Exhibition is an innovative effort, because it features 40 established and rising stars in the American Craft movement from beyond the northwest region, all invited by a panel of esteemed jurors. Their creations, juxtaposed with the NWDC artists, will inspire and provoke exciting conversations regarding regional differences and the current state of American craft in the 21st century.

"Most importantly, the Northwest region has not experienced a National Exhibition and Symposium of this caliber and scale in recent memory.  The opportunity to dialog, learn from and influence craft artists of the future will have a lasting effect on the health and future of the American craft movement." - Michael Monroe, Currents 2020 Chief Juror and Curator

Exhibition jurors and panel sessions will be led by:

Michael W. Monroe, Director Emeritus, Bellevue Art Museum (BAM), Bellevue, Washington, Curator-in-Charge, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC., 1995 Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council.

Nora Atkinson, Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC., Curator, Bellevue Arts Museum (BAM), Bellevue, Washington.

Bruce Pepich, Executive Director and Curator of Collections, Racine Art Museum (RAM), Racine, Wisconsin, 2012 Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council.

More Details HERE

'Thistle', Painted Papers, Acrylic & Crocheted Stainless Steel Wire.

Looking up....

"Sea Urchins', Synthetic Strapping & Crocheted Stainless Steel Wire. 

The 'Sea Urchin' cluster is multiplying!

It wasn't my intention when I began creating these sculptures but I'm loving them as an installation.

Special thanks to local businesses who donated 'yards & yards' of strapping from their recent shipments...all of which can not be recycled & would have otherwise ended up in the landfill. 

'Reclaimed' Aljoya Thornton Place

'Sea Urchin' (White & Yellow), 'Keeping Tabs' & 'Radiate'

I currently have several sculptures included in 'Reclaimed' at Aljoya Thornton Place. "These established fiber based artists are presenting work sharing their relationship with what is reclaimed. This may be viewed in materials used, what was lost or taken away and, also by a change in circumstances."  Exhibiting artists; Jacqui Calladine, Barbara De Pirro, Maura Donnegan, Claire B. Jones, Sarah Jones, Lynne Rigby, Terri Shinn Curated by Anna Macrae

Exhibition Dates: SEPT 15 - JAN 26, 2020

Aljoya Thornton Place, 450 NE 100th Street, Seattle, WA

Show Your Papers in Chicago!

My sculpture 'Petals', a piece from my new sculptural paper series will be included in this exhibition. Chicago here she comes!

Show Your Papers

Sep 20 – Oct 19, 2019 

Opening: Friday, Sep 20, 5 – 8 pm

Woman Made Gallery 

2150 S Canalport #4A-3, Chicago, IL 

WEBSITE

An exhibit highlighting artists who use paper as their substrate or primary medium. Works made on, or of paper may include, (but are not limited to) – painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, collage, cut paper, paper constructions, etc. Juror: Kathyrn Markel, Principal, Kathyrn Markel Fine Arts, established in 1975, specializes in contemporary works on paper with the addition of paintings by the young avant-garde. The gallery is run by women and women also comprise 81% of the gallery's represented artists. Located in New York City – Chelsea and Bridgehampton, NY.

Woman Made Gallery is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization founded in 1992. Its goal is to cultivate, promote and support the work of female-identified artists by providing exhibition opportunities, professional development, and public programs that invite discussion about what feminism means today. More than 8,250 women artists have exhibited their work 425 exhibitions since WMG was established. WMG welcomes the participation of people of all gender expressions and orientations as artists and program participants, members and supporters.

'Petals', Painted Papers (reinforced), Acrylic, Crocheted Stainless Steel Wire

Beyond the Surface in St. Louis

Thrilled to have 'Sea Urchin' included in this exhibition and to be a part of the St. Louis 'Innovations in Textiles 2019'!

Beyond the Surface

St. Louis Artists' Guild, Clayton, MO 
WEBSITE

September 20 - October 23, Opening Reception October 3

Surface Design Association is a textile nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting contemporary textile and fiber art. October 3 is also the opening night of the Surface Design Associations Biennial Conference, Beyond the Surface, October 3-6. The Conference is being held in conjunction with Innovations in Textiles 2019, which features 40 textile exhibitions in greater St Louis, Missouri. In operation since 1886, the St. Louis Artists’ Guild is the oldest arts organization west of the Mississippi River. Its 5000 square foot contemporary art space in the mid-century modern Famous Barr Building will be the site of the conference’s opening and closing events as well as the exhibition.

Jurors Jo Stealey and Jim Arendt selected works by 48 artists who considered the following ideas: “Artists continually push the evolution of textiles from their long history of utilitarian use through the use of color, design, processes, and meanings. Works chosen demonstrate unique, well-developed artistic vision, and innovation. Whether commentary on social issues, meditations on the natural world, humor, storytelling, 

abstraction, influenced by science, or other areas of focus, this exhibition includes the best of contemporary work by SDA members.”

"Sea Urchin", created using synthetic strapping & crocheted stainless steel wire.

Basketry Now: 10th Anniversary Exhibition

I'm excited to announce that my sculptural basket 'Sea Anenome' will be included in this exhibition!

The Kentucky Museum will be hosting an international show, Basketry Now: 10th Anniversary Exhibition, from July 16-December 1, 2019. The National Basketry Organization has assembled this show of contemporary and traditional basketry with artists employing a variety of both common and uncommon techniques in a wide array of materials. Juror Heather Lineberry selected 84 works of art by 55 artists, including those from the Netherlands, the UK, New Zealand, and Canada.

This exhibit celebrates the National Basketry Organization’s 20th year and opens during their biennial basketry conference on the grounds of Western Kentucky University. Opening reception on July 16th from 5 to 6PM.

A full-color catalog for NBO BASKETRY NOW is available for order at the NBO online STORE

July 16 – December 1, 2019 

The Kentucky Museum at Western Kentucky University 

Bowling Green, Kentucky

More details HERE

Spotlight: Create Whimsy

Thank you Create Whimsy​!!

"Barbara De Pirro translates organic forms and patterns found in nature into sculptural works of art, often using reclaimed plastics. Because she is using the materials for a new purpose, she invents and reinvents unique methods for transforming discarded items into stunning 3-dimensional pieces."

Read the full interview here, https://createwhimsy.com/projects/spotlight-barbara-de-pirro-mixed-media-artist/

Artwork pictured: 'Sea Anenome' will be included in the 'Basketry Now' exhibit at the Kentucky University Museum in Bowling Green, KY July 16 - Dec. 1, curated by National Basketry Organization, Inc.​

STEM+Art+Design: NWDC at Schack

I'll have 3 Mixed Media Sculptures included in this exhibit!

In conjunction with the show I will also be offering 'The Sculptural Form' workshop,

Here's a sneak peek plus all the details are below...

 'Sea Urchin (yellow)', Synthetic Strapping & Crocheted Stainless Steel Wire

 'Sea Urchin (white)', Synthetic Strapping & Crocheted Stainless Steel Wire

 'Keeping Tabs', Aluminum Pull Tabs & Crocheted Stainless Steel Wire

STEM+Art+Design: Northwest Designer Craftsmen Create  

Exhibition  April 25 - June 8 

Opening reception: April 25, 2019, 5-8pm 

Exhibit supported by the City of Everett Cultural Arts Commission and The Boeing Company.

For this exhibition, STEM+Art+Design: Northwest Designer Craftsmen Create,  Art + Design are added to STEM to demonstrate how artists design and create works of art integrating STEM principles.  

For example, imagine a ceramic artist creating work on an electric wheel using precision measuring instruments to ensure the piece is perfectly proportioned; then firing in a highly technical computer driven kiln at temperatures specific to the clay body and glazes used to create the effects designed by the artist. All of these, and many more, technical aspects of the ceramic artist's work are richly entrenched in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Each NWDC member uses various integrations of STEM to create their work. Whether weaving, dyeing, metalsmithing, melting glass or creating mixed media works of art-all are highly invested in STEM principals.

STEM+Art+Design also supports the current emphasis in Washington state curriculum on STEM: the integration of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math through project-based educational experiences. 

New Sculptures in the Works!

'Sea Anenome', created using recycled plastic strapping & crocheted stainless steel wire.

'Sea Urchin', created using recycled plastic strapping & crocheted stainless steel wire.

Small Works in my DePirroStudio shop!

My biomorphic sculptures are now available in my DePirroStudio shop! 

Take a peek, HERE

'The Contemporary Art of Pacific Northwest Crafts'

Northwest Designer Craftsmen

is pleased to be exhibiting 

'The Contemporary Art of Pacific Northwest Crafts' 

at the Washington State Convention Center

September 29 - January 6, 2019

705 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101

7am to 10pm daily

Level 2 Main Galleria

Sunday October 7 - Everyone is invited to:

Artists Opening Reception at 1:30

Curator Lloyd Herman’s presentation at 1:45

At 3:00 we will walk to Facere Gallery for a Reception

1420 5th Ave

Everyone is welcome

My new sculpture 'Multiples: Keeping Tabs' will be included in this exhibit. Created out of hundreds of aluminum pull tabs crocheted together using stainless steel wire.