Trunk Show with Jewelry artists, Jessi Taylor and Sarah Loertscher

Taylor, Loertscher, Fischer

jewelry and fiber trunk show

Jessi Taylor blue ring

Jessi Taylor: Graduated from the University of Washington with a fine arts in metals degree. Her instructors included Mary Lee Hu, Maria Phillips, Young Harvill, Bob Shaw, Donna Sweigart

and Lynne Hull

Sarah Loertscher: My work is based on my interest/obsession with rocks, minerals, growth patterns of crystalline structures, and how a single line can became a chaotic mass. when constructing a piece of jewelry, I repeat a line or shape into a layered structure, or distill forms down into their structural supports.

Sarah earned a BFA from Ball State University in Indiana, with an emphasis on metalsmithing. After working as a retail bench jeweler for a year, she received a Core Student fellowship at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. This two year work-study fellowship allowed her to explore a variety of media, especially printmaking. The stark, graphic quality of screenprinting and intaglio printmaking has had a strong influence on her current work. Sarah works and teaches at Pratt Fine Art Center in Seattle, and her work has recently been shown in Velvet di Vinci in San Francisco, and Taboo Studio in San Diego, CA.

Sarah Fischer: combines natural fiber and organic stain to create textural and evocative works of art. Her current work explores the process of staining cloth or paper with oxidized metal. She draws inspiration from early folkloric woodblock prints of China, as well as women's needlework of early America. Her work ushers up the shared human need to record memory.

Sarah received her education in fine arts from Seattle University, focusing on painting and printmaking. A fondness for relief printmaking led her to the exploration of paper, cloth and materiality. She continued studies in fiber arts at the University of Washington, researching fabric dye techniques, handmade felt and woven structures. In 2007 Sarah attended the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine, where she studied felting with designer and artist Jorie Johnson. In Seattle, she has most recently shown work at Richard Hugo House, the Odegaard Library and Fremont Coffee Company.