Invitational Artists’ Gallery
Don’t miss out on the Sally McCarrick Gallery and the Invitational Artists Display located in the Santiam Building.
Visit the Sally McCarrick Gallery to see all of the amazing work entered by our Fiber Arts Competition entrants.
Join in on the fun and enter your work here: https://www.oregonflockandfiberfestival.com/competitions).
Don’t forget to stop by the gallery on Saturday to vote for the People's Choice Award!
Selected regional artists are featured in our Invitational Artists Display.
This year we are honored to welcome dyers Casey Newman and Lisa Millman.
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Casey Newman
Casey Newman is a naturalist and botanical print and natural dye artist who incorporates nature into her work
in a variety of ways. With a masters degree in ecology and an interest in fiber arts that began in childhood, she loves that natural dyeing blends both science and art. Botanical printing is a process in which leaf images are printed onto fabric or paper using only the natural pigments found within each leaf. Prints show the unique details of the plant and tell a story of season and place. Leaves can only be used once and each piece is one of a kind.
Casey also uses natural materials to dye fiber in all colors of the rainbow. She uses materials that are proven to
create color that will last through washing and wearing and she grows many plants herself, including indigo, madder, weld, and a variety of flowers.
Casey lives with her family at Cedar Dell Forest Farm on the outskirts of Gresham, OR. There she raises a small
flock of Shetland sheep, tends to her dye plants, wanders the woods in search of treasures, and teaches nature and art classes for curious and creative people of all ages.
Lisa Milliman
Lisa once built a counterbalance loom in a woodworking class and then learned to weave on it.
This was in northwest Florida in the early 1980s, as a diversion from her day job working for
Florida’s Department of Environmental Regulation. A lifelong knitter, the loom opened the door
to the wide world of fiber arts and the following 3 decades were filled with explorations into
spinning, felting, dyeing with synthetic dyes on protein fibers, natural dyes - including indigo
vats and immersion and botanical printing of various plant and insect materials. Lisa has been a
member of several fiber-related organizations and taken many workshops and classes in
weaving, knitting, natural dyeing, synthetic dyeing, and felting. She has dyed protein fibers on a
production level under the name Dicentra Designs for the past 24 years and has developed a
unique style of joining vibrant jewel tones with wool and silk fibers.
Artist Statement: My love of color inspires a seasonal semi-repeatable collection of colorways
influenced by the local landscape, images found in books, magazines and online, and events
that affect me and my feelings about all of the above. I don’t follow color trends and I have just
a few color groupings that I keep in the repertoire on a regular basis. I respond to the evolution
of my surroundings and experiences, and the other beings in my habitat in an empathetic and
organic way. Color on fiber is my primary medium for communicating my feelings about what I
perceive. I intend for my colors to inspire others to experience color and texture in ways that
inspire them and bring joy – whether they leave the fiber as presented, spin it into yarn to knit
or crochet, or felt it. My intent is to create color stories that are timeless, so that whatever is
created with these fibers remains relevant in the long term, to honor the time and labor that
transforms these fibers into works of art.
