Deborah Brown & Michael Popoff
Oakland, CA
“White Elephant Extravaganza”
Wool & acrylic yarn purchased, knitted & crocheted squares sewn together.

Courtney Stricklin, Los Angeles, CA
Jennifer Van Trease, Azusa, CA
“Plastic Bag Quilt”
Plastic shopping bags (200+) tied together in a traditional quilt pattern.
www.jennifervantrease.com 
www.courtneystricklin.com

Ellie McLees
Syracuse, NY
“Industrial bling for the garage! Thanx for doing this!”

Kelly Soderholm
Summer Shade, KY
Acrylic Yarn Crocheted
“Extremely cool project – Best of luck!”

Deirdre Purdy, Oriskany Falls, NY
“The American Dream; Blue Birds For Oil”
Cotton sheet, fabric paint, bailing twine, fishing line, nylon flag, glass beads, felt, broken necklace, sparkle glue. Braiding, Sewing, Quilting, Painting, Sparkling.
“This sheet started out as a prop in the fall of 2001. I was in the middle of my masters in art education, taking one of Dr Hope Irvin’s creative thinking classes. It started out as a shroud for a Taliban fashion show. The bugs and the “cut off hands” necklace have been removed. The entire SU campus was in a state of shock and dismay over what was happening in out country and what was happening in the Middle East. I honestly feel that Bin Laden attacked the US over oil in a long round about way. I honestly feel that US invasion of Afghanistan and ultimately Iraq was simple over the trade of oil… so many lives, so much money so much damage to our planet. The fabric has been floating around from closet to closet for the past 7 years, never really disappearing but never being used for anything, any purpose. This project seemed like an ideal progression for this fabric. Who knows where it will end up!!!

This winter I spent a lot of time with the square on my lap. Quilting, watching the news, thinking about how oil prices are sky rocketing. The cost of food, processing food, and transporting food has become so unbelievable that we are crazy not to have found a new renewable resource. Simply speaking, the cost of a bale of hay in now between $3 & $6 in upstate NY where hay and grass is abundant. I can’t imagine what it is in Florida, or Afghanistan. As for the Blue Birds, (of Happiness?) Are we really happy when we have ruined our planet, the air, water? I suppose one of the saddest visuals I recollect is of the birds that die from being soaked in oil every time there is an accident with a oil tanker on the ocean. Thank you so much for allowing me to participate, I look forward to the unveiling of the gas station and the reception. “

Christine Copeland
Rochester, MI

Jerry Oyarzo Hickey
Oakland, CA
Pieced fabric from samples / all fabric is recycled

Allegra Bruke, Santa Rosa, CA
“I want it now!”
3 layers of heat-set recycled plastic, acrylic paint.
“I’m originally from up-state NY and grew up in a family of automobile dealers. My dad owned a Packard dealership and a gas station. I pumped many gallons of gas in my youth. It you haven’t already seen ‘Who killed the electric car’ please do. We desperately need alternative fuel.”  www.fiberdimensions.com

Leslee Nelson, Madison, WI
“Compassionate Mind”
Fabric piecing & writing & setting intention
“While I sewed this I listened to a tape called Naoble Heart by Pema Chodran on Meditation. She talked about compassionate mind I thought if we had compassionate minds we wouldn’t be destroying our climate or invading countries for oil.”
www.highstreetartists.com

Joanne Minot
Edgecomb, Maine
Cotton, machine pieced and quilted.
“If the U.S. invented the railroads the way they do in roads people & freight could be moved with vastly greater savings in oil by reducing gas station stops.”

Elise McWilliams, Oxford, OH
“Thank you for creating such an inspiring show. I meet once a month with an artist’s group and I proposed this show as an idea, but I think I’m the only one who created a piece. Still, everyone was very inspired in the group that people are out there with such great ideas such as yours! Thank you so much!”  www.elisemcwilliams.com

Elise McWilliams
Panel details

Jan “Tsunami” Barnes, Seattle, WA
“The Biblical Whale Takes Charge”
Background untreated artist's canvas. Assorted fabric appliqué including felt. Surface embroidery stitches done with cotton perle and carpet warp. Original Design. Member of the Pacific Northwest Needle Arts Guild.

Lisa Lazdowsky & Darlene Chase (The Dolly-Mamas)
Needham, MA
“One”
Wool, plollyfill and a combination of knitting, crocheting, and felting (wet felting and needle felting)  www.elissascreativewarehouse.com

Shirley Carlson, Spotsylvania, Virginia
“Mother Nature”
Quilting technique, 100% cotton quilting materials, reused polyester batting.
“I am delighted to be part of this public forum & display depicting our country's excessive reliance on oil for energy. As a 30-year retired biology teacher who ended her career teaching environmental science, this affords me the chance to continue to promote, preserve, and protect our environmental consciousness in a visually demonstrative way. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this project.”

Sarah Wagoner, Tallahassee, FL
“Them”
Used clothing dump stored & donated fabrics, pieced together with antique treadle (electricity – less) sewing machine.
“Good luck with your installation! I find it particularly interesting as I have been working, for almost a year, on the preliminary designs for a similar installation. (I actually found your project in the process of researching my own) You have given me encouragement to follow through with my project by reinforcing it’s social relevance and it’s origins in the collective zeitgeist. Thank you!”

Jane Fisher-Merritt
Wrenshall, MN
"Tea Bags"

Jennifer Marsh
Syracuse, NY

Lola Bulman - Salina, KS
Debbie Wagner - Bennington, KS
2 panels   www.3riversgallery.com
“Petroleum Eye On The Future”   “Look to the Sky beyond the Corporate Barrier”

The Perez Family
Boca Raton, FL
“Family Expressions”
Acrylic on Fabric

Lauren Michelle Lewis
“This is my effort to participate. I’m a fledgling knitter, so I was relieved when I found out I didn’t have to make a narrative panel to participate – Thank You! I used scraps from several fiber projects I’ve worked on over the years, so it’s like a recycled / pro-recycling panel! I think what you’re doing is awesome! I am glad I found out about it; I’m still not sure how I feel about oil & etc – it’s such a messy, tangled knot filled with needs, wants, greed, blood, love – all of it. Every fiber of human confusion & existence is somehow ensnared in oil…it’s hard to detect, it’s hard to digest; but this has given me space to attempt to wrap my head around things, you know? This is awesome and exciting. “

Jody Servon
Blowing Rock, NC
“Untitled (puddle)”
Cotton, felt, fiberfill; sewn & fused fabric

Victoria Paskett
Portland, ME
Linen fabric, silk thread, embroidery

Idil Akbostanci
Istanbul, Turkey
“Textile Diagram”
Knitting, Stitching

Jackie Adamo
Instructor: workshop @ Adamo Studio
Syracuse, NY
Participants – Elena Bingham, Daniel O’Connor, Lark Allen
www.adamoartwprks.com

Elizabeth G. Leal
Greensboro, NC
“Save Nature”
Machine Embroidery on fabric.
Leal is a Mexican born artist / educator. As a visual artist, her focus is on fiber arts, painting, and sculpture, areas in which she experiences, vividly the transformative power of art.

Brenda Springer, Blacksburg, VA
Crocheted Acrylic Yarn
“I am a hobby crocheter; using yarn from hand-me-downs, thrift store buys and occasional new yarn. I enjoy making things with my hands in all forms of media (especially clay). I am involved with voluntary simplicity, environmental issues and personal lifestyles choices that effect the environment. I live in a home heated with geothermal heating and positive solar design. I grow some of my own food and shop locally whenever possible.”

Julia Karll
St. Peters, MO
“VHS Panel”
Crocheted of VHS tape

Anna Bender
Pittsburgh, PA
“Upholstery fabric swatches, I thought using upholstery fabric would be a good idea to contribute towards this collective reupholstering of this gas station.”
www.annabender.com

Linda Boone Laird
San Diego, CA
“Almost Anything Can Be Re-cycled”
Antique silk log cabin quilt top, machine-quilted to cotton fabric 2 machine-appliqué panels w/ 1955 car ad scanned onto iron-on transfer fabric.
 - Linda Boone Laird - panel detail

Concetta Ceriello
Forest Hills, NY
“Cotton & fleece scraps, cotton printed with 4 color inkjet printer. The images on this quilt come from a 1922 picture of an oil rig in Oklahoma.”

Emily Duffy
El Cerrito, CA
“For The Love Of Oil”
Woven poly/cotton fabric w/ thread patchwork
www.politicalartwork.blogspot.com  (An on line political art gallery dedicated to spreading progressive / liberal political viewpoints to citizens of our country)

Kathleen A. Kneeland
Boston, MA
“At Any Cost”
Under rug padding, black plastic garbage bags, tewy cloth, gold ribbon and thread, embroidery thread, wool thread.

Kathrine Copeland
Washington, DC
4 panels    Recycled fabric    www.americansforthearts.com

Christine O’Reilly , Rochester, NY
“It’s Not All Black And White”
All weather quilted / knitted using ‘oil derived’ recycled materials & mono filament thread, plastic shopping bags: loom knitted white squares & frame batting, Video tape: loom knitted circle-top embellishment, package netting: letters to form word ‘Peace, & frame edging, Plastic table cloth: 3’x3’ base and frame, Dryer sheets: binding Knitted edges. www.lezdrum.com/artistpages/

Elizabeth M. White
Bethel, CT
“One World’”
“Coconut (landscape) fiber, Impregnated w/ assorted seeds for renewal, seeds of hope, The dome/sphere was appliquéd with connecting rays to symbolize both the sun/earth and the spokes of a wheel. Four feathers were added as the air element in the four directions of the earth. Hopefully we will see the sprouting of new energy in the near future. I am a sculptor working in natural materials & also with the medium of cement.”

Brooke E. Demos, New York, NY
“Make Art With Oil, 2008”
Post-consumer plastic shopping bags and plastic packaging material. Collaged using heat method to melt cut pieces together. *Plastic can be hand sewn, or on a machine, with a little extra patience.
“I am motivated to weave with discarded plastic bags because of the transformation that occurs when I process this modern waste product, produced in vast quantities on a global scale, into a sensual fabric or textile construction. The material speaks to me about where it comes from and what it is made of, directing me to themes of universal shopping culture, sustaining the environment, and turning blight to beauty. I work with the inherent colors of the bags in my formal concerns when designing appropriate patterns and textures for individual pieces.”

Kelly Pergande, Portland, OR
“A Chicken Speaks Her Mind”
Mixed Media: Plastic table cloth, cotton fabric, laminated paper, oil paints, permanent marker, staples.
Technique: Hand stitched table cloth & fabric panel together and created the surface design on the panel w/ oil paint & marker. Attached ‘oil drops’ w/ staples. Added vinyl sheet to cotton panel for added weather resistance.

Allyn Cantor, Cannon Beach, OR
“Navigation”
“Pieced & assembled fabric, machine stitched I combined fabric I painted & printed with recycled & found fabrics. I see this as an abstracted landscape. “Navigation” is how I feel we must approach our changing relationship with finite resources.”
www.allyncantor.com

Beth Hartmann
Sebastopol, CA
“It’s The Journey”
Thrift store sweaters, fulled, and pieced with appliqué. www.fiberdimensions.com

Caroline Le Blanc
Adams, NY
“Darkening Horizons”
Natural & Synthetic fiber yarns

Charlotte Exantos, Randolph, NJ
“Red Heart Super Saver”
Yarn & Fun with foam alphabet letters, crochet.
“Treat the people you meet…. Is a personal mantra that I think about at times when I’m feeling sassy and disconnected from the human race. While I was thinking about what to so for my panel, me and my classmates suffered a great loss with the passing of a student who was also my friend. For a little while we were all full of so much grief. There were a lot of tears and breakdowns and the general feeling in the hallways was very somber. I remember spending time in the dark with people sitting silent for hours not knowing what to do with ourselves. However, out of this dark time I witnessed unimaginable amounts of love from my fellow students. Love was just pouring out of the walls and there were random acts of kindness everywhere. People who I’ve never ever spoken to would stop me in the hallways just to talk about how they feel. We were no longer just people but together in this building making art, we were family. I felt a close personal bond to every one of those people. That wonderful capacity for compassion made it completely impossible to make a panel that was all doom and gloom. Believe me I as going to do a doom and gloom panel but now I didn’t know what to do. At the same time I had just began studying Buddhism and the idea for my panel came while I was reading a chapter of the book Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner entitled No Sex With Cantaloupes.”

Diane Miller, Syracuse, NY
“Hand Knitted yarn on background. All materials were either recycled or leftovers from other projects. I wanted to do something that included the bear symbol as some of my ancestors were native American of the bear clan.”

Elizabeth Good
Fort Collins, CO
“Retro”
Recycled, Thrift store materials

Eydi Lampasona
“I took raw canvas and rusted it on an abandoned car... Buried some canvas and let nature do its thing. I love your idea of this conceptual art piece. I hope we will get to see photos of it in the future.”

Jenny Kuri, Canada
“Looking Forward”
Recycled fabric, hand painted, cotton
“Thank you for including me and all of the artists in your project. It is very ambitious of you and a real inspiration. Sorry I can't be there to help with the festivities but please take lots of pictures for me to see. Thanks!”

Joanna and Mary Pink
Holbrook, England UK

Julie Stiller
Boulder Creek, CA
“Justice Overwhelmed”
A photo of a quilt I did “Justice” printed on fabric commercial cottons, ray on thread. Machine piecing and machine quilting. www.jxs.homestead.com
www.highfibercontent.blogspot.com

Karen Kuhn
Portland, OR
“The Peace Piece”
Milk jug caps, juice caps, wire & canvas backing
“This piece was a collaborative within a collaboration. My daughter did the math to figure out how many caps were needed (506), my son drilled many holes and 4 local coffee shops collected milk caps over a three week period. The peace sign was my son’s idea and I got to grid it out & string 100’s of caps!”

Kathryn Older
Lubbock TX
“HDPE #2 The Fabric Of Our Lives”
Recycled HDPE shopping bags, polyester thread
“PLEASE RECYCLE THIS QUILT”

Laura Nathan, Zeenat Azmi, Anneke Lcuipers and Melanie Totten
Manchester, England, UK
“Oil Drilling In The Arctic Refuge”
Combination of weaving, knitting, Suffolk puffs, embroidery
“We are four women from Manchester England. Laura, Zeenat and Melanie are members of the Muslim Jewish youth theater group. Anneke Lcuipers has an MA in textiles, Laura Nathan has an MA in Aa as environment. Zeenat Azmi is currently building up strong textiles practice which she is eager to develop into a career. Melanie is a nurse! We choose to look at the theme of oil drilling in the arctic refuge. And use materials metaphorically to highlight how the beautiful soft, light organic land and wildlife is under threat from being engulfed by the black sticky oil. The arctic refuge is too beautiful to be destroyed by harmful drilling plants.”

Marlene Klok Mikkelsen
Copenhagen, Denmark
“Say It With Flowers”
Embroidery & Leather Appliqué

Rob Millard-Mendez, Evansville, IN
“No Petrol Panel”
Cotton fabric, cotton thread.
“I am an artist living and working in Evansville, IN. I teach sculpture at the University of Southern Indiana. Good Luck with your project!” www.robmillardmendez.com

Tracy Aichele
Okemos, MI
Mid-Michigan Knitters Guild, Woven Art
“Working Together”
Knitting, corn fiber, collaborative knitting ( 4 knitters at a time) Knitted of Members of the Mid-Michigan Knitters Guild in cooperation with Woven Art.  www.mmkg.org    www.yarnandfiberart.com

Willow Fox, Seattle, WA
“Death By Plastic”
Plastic shopping bags, synthetic & natural fabrics. Machine sewn, hand detailed.
“This is such a great project, thanks for inviting all of us to your dead gas station party! Please keep me on your list for future projects.”

Kathi Pease, Rosemary Lopes, Jean Nichols
Penasco, NM
Art for the Heart Guild

Cathrine Armbrust
Kansas City, Missouri
In collaboration with some members of the Kansas City Fiber Guild.
Mixed media – Knit, crochet, felting, latch-hook, tea packages, plastic netting, recycled sweater parts, fabric.

Jean Nichols
Penasco, NM
Art for the Heart Guild

Jean Nichols
Penasco, NM
Art for the Heart Guild

Sheila Miller
Penasco, NM
Little Valley Fiber Arts Group

Rosemary Lopes
Penasco, NM
Art for the Heart Guild

Leah Buckareff
Toronto Ontario
Cotton cloth, plastic bags, thread
www.coldsnapbindery.com

Lauren Jacobs
Birmingham, MI
Quilting & Painting

Silvina Sapere
Argentina

Stella Bessone
Argentina
“Chacana”

Susana Casabella
Argentina

Ursula Clark
Brooklyn, NY

Carole Horan
Syracuse, NY

Lia Zuvilivia
Argentina
www.dimdimoo.com

Flo Wang
Paris, France
Shanghai, China

Leigh Branson, Marlborough, MA
Crochet, knit – acrylic and wool blend yarn
“Wanted To Be A Part Of Something Bigger”
“This is the first crochet project I have ever worked on and I learned how to crochet for the purpose of participating! It was a great experience for me, my cat Pema really enjoyed it too. I’m in love with this piece & I hope it works well for you!”