Prize Winners
Here is a description of some of the award winning pieces Louise has created over her career.
Fragrant Mezuzah
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Fragrant Mezuzah was on display for the fall and winter of 2002-2003 at the Spertus Museum in Chicago. Fragrant Mezuzah is made of 100% cotton with Bengel Spice Tea filler. It is machine pieced, hand embroidered and hand quilted. The fabric is printed by computer with two images: one of an appropriation from a 1470 Hebrew text and the other a traditional scribe's parchment of the shema prayer.
Stars of America
45"W X 54"H
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Stars of America traveled with an exhibit organized by the American Museum of Folk Art for three years.
New Glory
72"W X 72"H
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New Glory is a contemporary rendition of a patriotic quilt. It has thirteen stripes and fifty stars. It was made to enter the first Great American Quilt Contest organized by the American Museum of Folk Art. It came in second for the state of Pennsylvania.
Holy, Holy, Holy
6"W X 3"H
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Holy, Holy, Holy is an embroidery piece. Holy literally means to sanctify. It is the idea of separation, to make something special beyond the ordinary. This embroidery was awarded the first prize Challenge Cup in the 1996 Pittsburgh Fiberarts Guild Annual Exhibit.
Tallit for Maurcy Gottlieb
90"W X 50"H
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Tallit for Maurcy Gottlieb is a Jewish prayer shawl that honors the nineteenth century artist Gottlieb and his painting,"Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur." The pieces was made as part of a protest against the Museum of the Diaspora in Tel Aviv, where an altered reproduction of the painting (the women looking on in the background were removed) was mounted. It was an outrage both to artists and women. This was part of Quilt National 1997.