The Fence as Lace #14

Two friends who don’t know each other visited the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton MA this past weekend and sent me pictures of my painting, The Fence as Lace #14, which has been acquired by the museum and is on exhibit through sometime in December. It measures 95” x 62”. To explain the size, this picture is with one of my friends’ friend standing next to it. Thanks to both friends who sent me nice notes and photos!

On Exhibit: Fiber Forward: The Judith Stern Weisman Collection

This was a nice and unexpected surprise on the Fuller Craft Museum's website! I knew my piece is in this show but I didn't know it's on the website.

Thank you to the Fuller Craft Museum and Judith Stern Weisman!

 

Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA

EXHIBITION: OCTOBER 25, 2025 - DECEMBER 2026 

Fiber Forward: The Judith Stern Weisman Collection

Based in the D.C. Metro area, Judith Stern Weisman is a celebrated interior designer and passionate collector. Known for creating spaces where art, craft, and design weave seamlessly into daily life, she has guided others in building collections and discovering the joy of living with contemporary craft. For Weisman, collecting has never been about quantity; it has always been about discovering works that resonate—objects that tell stories and bring warmth, humanity, and character to the spaces they inhabit. Her collection reflects a profound appreciation for excellence in making, material innovation, and the lasting impact of thoughtful design.

In recent years, Weisman has generously donated works from her collection to museums across the United States, ensuring that these objects are experienced by today’s audiences and preserved for generations to come. Her gift speaks not only to her enduring love of contemporary craft but also to her belief in its power to enrich lives and spark meaningful connections. This exhibition honors Weisman as both a designer and a collector—someone who has lived with art in the most personal way and now shares that vision with us all.

Fiber Forward celebrates Weisman’s extraordinary fiber donations; please visit May We Present: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection in the M. Tarlow Gallery to view Weisman’s gifts in other media. Fuller Craft Museum extends abundant appreciation to Judith Stern Weisman for her generosity and ongoing support of our permanent collection.

Jeanne Williamson Ostroff, Fence As Lace, #14, 2013

On Exhibit: The Fence As Lace #14

 

In 2013, I was commissioned to create The Fence As Lace #14, a wider variation of The Fence As Lace #6, which I made it in 2011 while at a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, because the collector wanted a wider version that would work well in her home on the wall behind a beautiful wooden art desk, in a room full of other art.

I have learned that The Fence As Lace #14 is now on exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton MA, in the Fiber Forward: The Judith Stern Weisman Collection. 

 

I am looking forward to going to see it hanging there and invite others nearby to go visit this gem of a museum.

 

The Fence As Lace #14 is mixed media on stiffened fabric that measures 62" x 95".

Licensed Art

 

Pottery Barn has licensed the image of The Fence As Lace #4 and is selling it under the name of Lace Framed Textile. This piece has been licensed before by Anne Selke but this time, Pottery Barn had it as a Giclee on raw canvas, not paper, which is how it was made for Anne Selke.

I created the original in 2011 when I was at a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. It measures 113” x 49" monoprint on a white cotton sheeting fabric. The image at Pottery Barn without the frame is 43" x 19".

I am so glad this image has had a life of its own in addition to the original which is rolled up on a tube in my studio. It's good to get my work out there, with or without my name attached to it.

More Anthropologie!

I am happy to share some doubly good news! Not only is my mixed media painting, Walls from Fences Series #1, available at online at Anthropologie as a print, but so is a print of The Fence As Lace #1!

Anthropologie has licensed the prints of my work from via two different art licensing companies I have a relationship with. Thank you to both of them, and also to Anthropologie!

New Work: The Fence As Lace #14

I was commissioned to create The Fence As Lace #14 (above), a wider variation of The Fence As Lace #6 (below).

The collector who commissioned The Fence As Lace #14 really liked The Fence As Lace #6, but needed their piece to be wider so it would work well on the wall behind a beautiful wooden art desk, in a room full of other art.

The Fence As Lace #14 is mixed media on stiffened fabric that measures 62" x 95".

The Fence As Lace #6 
is also mixed media on stiffened fabric. It measures 72" x 73". I made it in 2011 while at a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and it has been exhibited at a few venues.

It's hard to tell from the photos, but the body of both pieces is 48" high. 

I'll be shipping the commissioned piece to the collector so it arrives the week of September 9th. The timing is important because it's going to be photographed shortly there after, along with the other art in the home, for a magazine spread. That's be quite an honor. When the article is published, I’ll post pictures of it.

Nature's Mark Exhibit Press

Nice press in the Fiber Art Now summer 2013 magazine, EXPLORING NATURE’S MARK at the Hunterdon Art Museum by Dave Harding. You can read it online, or if you have a subscription, it’ll be in your hands very soon.

My piece, The Fence as Lace #6, is on exhibit at Nature's Mark: Printing on Fiber at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ through September 8, 2013.

On Exhibit - Cotton at Fountain Street Fine Art

The Fence As Lace #4 and The Fence As Lace #7 are both on exhibit at Cotton, at Fountain Street Fine Art in Framingham, MA through January 27, 2013. 

On Exhibit - Cotton

The Fence As Lace #4 and The Fence As Lace #7 are both on exhibit in Cotton, at Fountain Street Fine Art in Framingham, MA, through January 27, 2013. The Opening Reception is Saturday, January 12 from 5-7pm. If you can come, I’d love to see you there.

Cotton was juried by Joanne Mattera. Joanne is a New York-based studio artist, who is the founder/director of the International Encaustic Conference, and she is also the author of the Joanne Mattera Art Blog.

In addition to choosing the work for the show, Joanne also wrote an essay entitles Cottoning to a Second Anniversary Theme. Here's what she said about my work:

"Jeanne Williamson’s The Fence as Lace #4 is the largest work in the show. Well over eight feet long and made of stiffened fabric, it asks us to see the handmade in an entirely different scale. A second Williamson work wraps around a column, flatness assuming dimension and totemic stature. There’s a symmetry between Williamson’s wrapped column and Joe Carpineto’s seven-foot columnar frame, Piecework, which evokes the New England weaving mills that helped build the economy of New England."

In my 20+ years of exhibiting my work, this is probably the first fiber show I've exhibited in where all of the work is about fiber, and not necessarily made of fiber. I find that refreshing.

I’ll take pictures of the show ASAP and post them shortly. If you can't make it to the Gallery, you can see all of the work in the show online.

Shown at the top: The Fence As Lace #4,
 mixed media on stiffened fabric,
 49" x 113",
 2011

Shown above: The Fence As Lace #7, mixed media on stiffened fabric, 48" x 103" before wrapped around a column, 2011

Licensed Image

A number of my images of my work are being represented and licensed by a company that specializes in wall décor that services retail, interior design, hospitality and healthcare industries.

A large quantity of the image of The Fence As Lace #2 was purchased by Tuesday Morning. In its actual size, Fence As Lace #2 is 60" x 48". Tuesday Morning purchased reproductions that are 24" x 30" in size, not including the frame.

Today, a friend sent me a note because she saw my work on Tuesday Morning’s website and she thought someone was ripping me off. I really appreciate her concern but this is all legit and good.

One thing that I find very interesting is that all of the pieces being licensed are all either black and white or just about all black and white. As I create my work, most of which is black and white, I always wonder if that would be of interest or a turnoff. I guess so far so good.

Thank you very much to Tuesday Morning.

Last Week of Off the Wall

The Fence As Lace #1 is on exhibit at Off the Wall, at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA through Sunday August 5, 2012.

If you can visit the Museum in the next week, I highly suggest it. If not, check out the online catalog. I'm on page 41.

On Exhibit: Off the Wall

The Fence As Lace #1 is on exhibit at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA from June 3 - August 5, 2012, in the 2012 Off the Wall show.

I'm very happy to be showing this piece, which I made a year ago when I was at an art residency at the Vermont Studio Center. The Fence As Lace #1 is one of ten pieces I made while there, and I added a few more to the series after I returned home. The Fence As Lace series was my first opportunity to create large work, and it's led to many wonderful opportunities, including my first huge installation Fence/Curtain 1.0.

There are two shows running concurrently at the Danforth Museum, Off the Wall and A Community of Artists. If you can get to the Danforth while both shows are up, you'll be happy you did. There are many talented artists included in both shows, and a lot of great art to see. 

Shown: The Fence As Lace #1, mixed media on stiffened fabric, 66" x 48", 2011

The Fence As Lace #6

Here’s another picture of The Fence As Lace #6 (on the wall, top left) on exhibit at the 8th International Fiber Biennial, at the Snyderman-Works Gallery in Philadelphia in relation to the gallery setting.

Many thanks to Jennifer Coyne Qudeen for taking it. Visit her blog for more pictures from the Snyderman-Works and from the other shows happening during FiberPhiladelphia.

On Exhibit - The Fence As Lace #6

I'm back from Philadelphia. Here are pictures of The Fence As Lace #6 on exhibit at the 8th International Fiber Biennial, in relation to the gallery setting. It's hanging behind the desk in the gallery, next to Tracts and Traces by Lia Cook.

I had a wonderful weekend in Philadelphia with friends, Merill Comeau and Jodi Colella, and it was great to see other artists I know and also to meet many artists I didn't. And everyone was so very nice!

We attended many shows that are open during FiberPhiladelphia, including Inside/Outside of the Box, where Jodi has a piece on exhibit. I must point out that three of the five award winners at Inside/Outside are from Massachusetts! Ann Wessman won Best of Show, and Jodi Colella and Joetta Maue both won Honorable Mentions! Way to go Massachusetts artists!

The 8th International Fiber Biennial is on exhibit at the Snyderman-Works Gallery through April 28, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA.

Below is a detail of The Fence As Lace #6. Many, many thanks to Jodi Colella for taking these pictures.

Hanging Instructions

I shipped The Fence As Lace #6 to the Snyderman-Works Gallery in Philadelphia for the 8th International Fiber Biennial. The only box I had in the house that was the right size was a box that originally had a roll of new construction fencing. It was fun to use the box that had materials that were the starting point for this piece.

Unlike hanging work on boards (or art quilts in my previous art life) that everyone knows how to hang, The Fence As Lace series requires hanging instructions. Above are the instructions for The Fence As Lace #6. I'll have to make time soon to prep the instructions for the rest of the series.

The Fence As Lace #6 is mixed media on stiffened fabric, measures 72" x 73", and was created in 2011.

The 8th International Fiber Biennial will be on exhibit from March 2 through April 28, 2012.

New Work - The Fence As Lace #13

After I finished working on my 35' outdoor art installation, Fence/Curtain 1.0, in my borrowed studio workspace (because I have a significantly smaller studio), I decided to take advantage of temporarily having a 4' x 8' work table (as well as one that was 4' x 16'), and make another large piece, which I've added to the Fence As Lace Series.

The Fence As Lace #13 , which is a diptych, is mixed media on stiffened fabric, and measures 8' x 8'.

While I created The Fence As Lace #13 in November 2011, I was finally able to get it photographed earlier this week, because it was hanging as two separate pieces in my Arlington, MA art window installation. I took the window down last week.

The inspiration behind this piece was The Fence As Lace #2 (below), which I really like, and felt needed a companion piece that's 8' wide vs. the 4' wide that #2 is.

The Fence As Lace #8 - Outdoor Installation

I updated the image picture of The Fence As Lace #8 so it can be seen wrapped around a tree, instead of a column as I previous had shown on my website.

The Fence As Lace #8 is mixed media on stiffened fabric, it measures 48" x 100" before being wrapped around a tree, and it was created in May 2011. A detail is below.

More info about The Fence As Lace Series can be found on my website, and here on my blog.

New Work - The Fence As Lace #12

The Fence As Lace #12

mixed media on stiffened fabric

73" x 29"

2011

I've completed one of my summer goals, finishing The Fence As Lace #12, which I started a few weeks ago.

This piece is created with strips of monoprinted and stiffened fabric that were left over from my two week artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center, which I returned home from a month ago.

The Fence As Lace #12 is a continuation of my The Fence As Lace series, which explores the lace-like qualities of construction fences. This piece is a much larger companion piece to The Fence As Lace #11 which is a companion piece to The Fence As Lace #10, which is horizontal instead of vertical.

For more information, as well as bigger images and detail shots, please check out The Fence As Lace series on my website.

I have now used up all of the leftover strips of fabric from my residency. When I was in Vermont, I monoprinted, painted, (sometimes) sewed, and then stiffened 21 yards of 60" wide white cotton fabric. After creating 12 pieces in total, I am proud to report that I have thrown out less than a half yard of fabric as scrap. All that I have left from the 21 yards now are hundreds of round edged square "holes" I cut out of many of the pieces from this series as I followed the pattern of the monoprinted construction fences. I'm still thinking about how I would like to use them.