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MIDDLETOWN – The work of fabric artist Shirley Dodge is on display in the sanctuary at Middletown Community United Methodist Church through Nov. 24.
Featured are Dodge's painted cotton wall hangings.
The display is open to the public on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., on from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays and Fridays.
“We are excited to have these original abstract works displayed in the sanctuary,” said Pastor Voris Brumfield. “It is our desire to regularly solicit artworks for display after Jan. 1, 2010, for monthly exhibits.”
Shirley Dodge has painted and printed fine fabrics and art pieces for interior design for many years and has exhibited her paintings and drawings in Northern California.
Dodge is known primarily for her fabric design in the interior design centers in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Previous to the fabric design work, her paintings have been exhibited in one person and group shows throughout California, receiving various awards.
She received her bachelor of arts degree in art and a teaching credential from Sonoma State University. Dodge received the Evans Memorial Award in the Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, and her fabric installation was chosen for exhibition in the Dyer’s Art Exhibit, a major exhibit of more than 30 textile artists working within the Pacific Basin, sponsored by the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, curated by Jack Lenor Larsen.
During this time, Dodge developed her custom hand-painted fabric yardage, for interior design nationally. She was honored by invitation to a textile exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, at the Smithsonian Institute in New York in 1984.
Her line of custom painted fabrics, “Von Stith Prints,” was featured in designer showrooms nationally and developed in her studio in Sebastopol.
She and her husband Wayne Stith moved to Hidden Valley Lake in 1989, where she has continued her design work, has been teaching art to young children, and designing and sewing clothing and hand bags.
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