DRUID, 34″h x 21 “w Collider Event Display
Likewise,the artists involved also used different art forms. For example,some work with paint, glass,fiber,and multimedia. Most importantly,Tauna Coulson, the curator worked hard to make sure everything comes together.
Furthermore,I would like to share the inspirations that I created for this upcoming show. Benjamin Lehmann is a theoritical physicist. Likewise,the collider event displays that he showed me on his computer looked eerily like fiber,my chosen medium. After that I made several art quilts based on those photos. In the same vein,subatomic particles are smashed together in the atom smasher at Stanford Linear Accelerator or CERN in Switzerland.https://annbaldwinmayartquilts.com/2018/06/from-guarding-chalk-to-black-holes/
Finally,when this happens, they split apart in predictable patterns and predictable colors. Moreove these were my inspirations.
Ann Baldwin May was born and raised in Palo Alto, California. She received her education from University of California, Irvine (History, BA Elementary Teaching Credential, Masters in Teaching, Spanish).She took two years of sewing in high school. Her first quilting class was in 1975. She retired in 2012 after working 30 years as a bilingual teacher and Bilingual Resource Teacher in Watsonville,California. Her home is in Santa Cruz,California with her husband. She has two daughters. Above all, she loves to play with fabrics and redirected materials to create her art quilts.