Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, Ben Lomond, California, non-profit Arts Organization

"The Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center supports and encourages the arts

through education, exhibition and cultural activities,

reflecting the unique and diverse environment of the mountain communities."

 

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9341 Mill St.      Ben Lomond, CA      (831) 336-3513

 

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A Journey Retold

Do you think growing up in an art studio makes you an artist?  I grew up in my mother’s studio, and I seem compelled to create. I was introduced to my medium when I was nine.  My mother instructed me how to carve a linoleum block for a Christmas card.  The next time I worked in this medium was in a Textile Design class at Western Kentucky University.  I was introduced to batik, tie-dye, silkscreen, and block printing.  I loved it all. I even taught a Basic Design class at Western after I graduated. Later, in graduate school at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, I minored in Textile Design.  Batik was my thing then, but when I almost set my house on fire and nearly destroyed all the automatic dry cleaning machines in town, I changed to block printing. I became a full-time instructor at Miami University of Ohio in the fall of 1975, but I continued to experiment in my printing and even took more design classes. I started designing vests and kimonos that I had printed with my newly carved spiral designs. Ironically, they were showing in an art to wear boutique in San Francisco. After three years in Ohio, I made a paradigm shift, quit teaching, moved back to Kentucky, and had my first child in 1978.  However, this change gave me time to work on my printing techniques and design motifs.  I had two one-person shows in Owensboro, Kentucky, worked summer fairs, and began to show nationally my quilted, linocut printed garments. Following that, I was asked to teach the Textile Design class at Western Ky. University which had originally inspired my artistic direction. By this time I have two children under four, and in 1983 my husband and I had the bright idea to move to Santa Cruz, California. Finding that the streets are not paved with gold, it got harder to keep my art going. A third child arrives.  I teach Beginning Clothing Construction at Cabrillo College, but my Textile class is cut due to an economic downturn.  I had hoped to bring a Textile, Clothing and Merchandising program to Cabrillo, but times were tight. Again, I have another shift. I decided that my art needed a message.  I started studying symbols across the world and across time.  I created story blocks that reflect birth, marriage, journey, death, creation, bliss or, in other words, basic archetypes of human experience. This cemented me as an artist. Later, in 2000, I started printing on silk scarves and placing them in local galleries. I became an Open Studio artist in 2003.  Today I print my simpler designs of flowers, shells, and geometric motifs for art to wear, and I print my more detailed story blocks on paper, matted and framed. My art continues to evolve, but I have not wavered from my original linocut medium, and I still use that first linoleum block.

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Jody Bare handprinted silk scarf

 

 

Silk Scarf by Jody Bare

 

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 Arts Council of Santa Cruz County   Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County

         California Arts Council   Bruce Bangert   North Glass   Phoenix Ceramics  

       Earth Matters Foundation    Valley Women's Club    New Leaf Market Felton

 

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