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January 2019

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I'll be offering workshops in 2019 for natural dyeing and sashiko stitching, the method I use to quilt my quilts. Shoot me an email at campfirequilts@gmail.com to be added to my announcement list.

Happy New Year to You!

February 2017

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INDIGO SHIBORI WORKSHOPS

Join me in the spring of 2017 for one of my beginner's indigo shibori workshops. No experience in sewing or natural dyeing is needed! We will work with linen and silk using the itajime (fold and clamp) and arashi (pole wrapped) methods of Japanese dyeing. Participants will go home with two completed projects. 

Workshop fees include supplies, Afternoon Tea and a bit of magic. Class size is limited to 6 students. 16 years of age and older. For more information or to sign up visit www.campfirequilts.com

Upcoming Workshops
Sunday, March 26, 2017,  1-4:30pm
Sunday, May 7, 2017,  1-4:30pm

Student Work and Photo by Zuzana Leckova
​Read a little more about my workshops on my blog here

December 2015
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TEXAS MONTHLY MAGAZINE FEATURES CAMPFIRE QUILTS 

Grab the December issue of Texas Monthly and curl up by the fire for some good reading as this months "Made in Texas" column by Lauren Smith Ford features an interview with Campfire Quilts' founder Ebony Porter

"Quilting by hand adds so much value to the quilt in so many ways. I think in a world where most of our products are machine made, there is something romantic about building a product that comes to fruition slowly. My love and devotion to this old craft is seen in those imperfect human stitches."

​December Issue, 2015, 
Texas Monthly

July 2015

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CAMPFIRE QUILTS IN PAPER CITY MAGAZINE
The Art of Fun: Jill Smith and Wooch Graff's Garden Oaks Home

Check out the July 2015 issue of Paper City Magazine and turn to The Art of Fun to see Jill Smith and Wooch Graff's colorful and carefully crafted home in Garden Oaks. They're huge supporters of local artists, working with talented folks to design and build the fun house of their dreams. 


They purchased the "Summer Fire" hand quilted quilt from Campfire Quilts in the Winter of 2013. Check it out on page 23, along with a ton of other one of a kind works of art and objects!

www.papercitymag.com 

June 2015

PictureImage: from Vicki Fowler's "The Things I Need". Photograph by Lynn Lane.
THE THINGS I NEED
Organized and curated by Vicki Fowler

Deciding what WE NEED and what WE DON'T is the spiritual process for hoarders, minimalists and collectors of the heart.

June 27th, 2015
7pm at the FrenetiCore Theatre
5102 Navigation, Houston, TX

I respond to the "The Things I Need" with a poem and will be participating by opening the show hand quilting what will be my baby's heirloom quilt. Quilt is built using indigo linen hand dyed by me. 

Quilting By Hand: 

An Ongoing Homage to My Lineage, My Spirit & Other Things

I need healthy hands,
I need a healthy spirit,
I need my memories,
I need my lineage that built quilts, gardens, lace, businesses, children & sheep skin moccasins,
I need my family healthy,
I need my 8 month baby in utero to be born healthy,
I need my friends healthy,
I need protection from the arthritis I am bound to inherit,
I need protection from the dementia I am bound to inherit. 
That is all I need. 


February 2015

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QUILT CON
Ms. O.D's Flying Quilt has been juried into the 2015 Quilt Con presented by The Modern Quilt Guild. On view at the Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas from February 19 - 22, 2015.

See you in the Capitol City! 

January 2015

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ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF HOUSTON 
CELEBRATES TEXAS ART

January 14 - February 27, 2015
Williams Tower Gallery
2800 Post Oak Boulevard

Curated by Sally Sprout
Juried by Dean Sobel, Director, Clyfford Still Museum

Opening reception Wednesday, January 14, 2015
6pm-8pm

The painting "ASEP" has been chosen for exhibition

December 2014

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AIRING OF THE QUILTS
Join me at Art Palace Gallery as I air my quilts along the facade of the historic Isabella Court

In conjunction with the exhibition
THE QUILT SHOW

Thursday, December 18
5-7pm

3913 Main Street
Houston, TX
www.artpalacegallery.com

November 2014

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GO OUTSIDE
Photographed by Kat Borchart

KNIT WIT MAGAZINE
Issue 1

Adventurous new quilt designers are going beyond the basic blanket. So, we took some for a spin. 

Catch Ms. O.D's Flying Quilt on page 86.


www.knitwitmag.net

October 2014

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THE QUILT SHOW
at Art Palace Gallery

3913 Main St
Houston, TX  77008

Opening reception 

October 25th, 
5-7:30pm
Runs through December 20th





Ebony Porter presents a selection of hand-quilted pieces inspired by a cross-section of the American landscape, cultural histories, folklore and minimalism. As studies in patience and repetition, each stitch is evidence of a moment, collected and aligned.
Porter's work pieces together time, space, heritage and destiny.


www.artpalacegallery.com



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ART YOU CAN SLEEP WITH
by Michael Hardy
Houstonia Magazine
October 24, 2014

Ebony Porter wants you to sleep with her art. No, not have sex with it—she isn’t that kind of artist—but literally sleep with it, on it, under it, wrapped up in it. In fact, if you buy one of the five hand-sewn quilts on display at Porter’s new show, which opens at Arturo Palacios’s Art Palace Gallery in Midtown on Saturday night, you can do pretty much whatever you damn well please with it.

Read the full article here


June 2014

CAMPFIRE  QUILTS JOINS FULLOSOPHIE

The Swan Valley Quilt from Ebony Porter for CAMPFIRE QUILTS is now available online through FULLOSOPHIE. In their thoughtfully curated market you will find heirloom, one & few-of-a-kind goods that have been hand-made by artisans exclusively for Fullosphie.

FULLOSOPHIE
San Francisco + Dallas

www.fullosophie.com


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April 2014
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CALM WEST
at THE JUNG CENTER OF HOUSTON


CALM WEST, new paintings by Ebony Porter opens on April 1 and runs through April 29, 2014

"Calm West is a painted diary, absorbing the energy, space and kaleidoscope of color that is the American west" - EP

Opening reception April 5, 5-7pm. 

Music by Dijon


The Jung Center
5200 Montrose Boulevard
www.junghouston.org




March 2014

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CAMPFIRE QUILTS
in W DURABLE GOODS


CAMPFIRE QUILTS, hand crafted quilts sewn in Texas by Ebony Porter are now featured at W DURABLE GOODS. Just south of the Stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas, W Durable goods makes and carries their own line of beautiful hand crafted leather goods and bags made to last a lifetime. Their store is new to the area and opened March 6th. 

On view is the Red Hills Quilt and Opal Hot Spring Quilt. Stop by next time you're in cowtown!

1543 N. Main Street
Fort Worth TX 76164


www.wdurablegoods.com


December 2013

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CAMPFIRE QUILTS at this years ART MARKET 2013

Art Palace presents another hand picked collection of art this season with their holiday Art Market 2013.
Ebony Porter for Campfire Quilts has a hand quilted "Fireweed Quilt" as part of this years selection. Other works include sculpture by Jason Villegas, Andrea Condara, Michael Merrit, Nathan Green and Elaine Bradford and mixed media works by Sonya Berg, among others.

Shop here: https://squareup.com/market/art-palace
Or visit www.artpalacegallery.com



FIREWEED QUILT
by Ebony Porter for Campfire Quilts
linen, pure cotton, cotton batting, sashiko thread
43" x 34"



November 2013

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SPEAKER at the
MAKER MEET UP


Ebony Porter to introduce her new textile work at the November Houston MakerSpace Maker Meet Up under the umbrella of CAMPFIRE QUILTS. She will discuss the origins of her quilt making, the process of constructing them, and share her most recent work.

Greenwood Bay Studios
Thursday November 21st, 2013
7-9 pm
3711 Polk Street
Houston, TX  77023


www.houstonmakerspace.com
www.popshophouston.com


Opal Hot Spring Quilt
, 2013
60 inches x 60 inches, constructed with pure cotton and linen, entirely hand quilted using cotton Japanese sashiko thread
www.campfirequilts.com


September 2013

Picture"Wow," 2013. from the series Calm West
EXHIBITION at THE JUNG CENTER of HOUSTON

Calm West is a new suite of paintings by Houston artist Ebony Porter that focuses on the light, space and energy of America’s west. Alluring and dramatic, this empty, often silent landscape provides the foundation for Porter’s abstract works as she attempts to bring the calm side of the "wild West" to the Jung Center of Houston.

Fellow Houston artist Joan Sun 
will also be exhibiting her latest work TIME TRAVELERS

Exhibition dates: April 1 - April 29, 2014
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5, 2014,
5:00 - 7:00pm

The Jung Center
5200 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006

www.junghouston.org

The C. G. Jung Educational Center of Houston, Texas, Inc., was founded in 1958 by a group of women who had been studying the works of the Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Carl Gustav Jung. In 1954, Ruth Thacker Fry, after completing three years of study at the Jung Institute in Zurich, began lecturing in Houston on Jung’s depth psychology. After four years of study, a group of her students were motivated to found The Jung Center. Carolyn Grant Fay, Ethel Carradine Kurth, Alma Owen Lloyd and Ella Rice Winston chartered the Center as a Texas nonprofit educational institution in 1958,  and to this day remains unique in America. With a rich and diverse program dedicated to self-discovery, community outreach, and spiritual enlargement, it is the one Jungian organization devoted primarily to serving the general public.



December 2012

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ART MARKET 2012
at ART PALACE

Holiday Happy Hour December 20, 6-9pm

ART PALACE GALLERY
3913 Main Street, Houston TX 77002
Art Palace invites you to shop their updated collection of small-scale artworks and limited editions to make sure everyone gets something they really want this year!

Get a preview at www.apholiday2012.tumblr.com

Ebony Porter's collages from the series "Romancing the Stone" will be available



November 2012

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THE UNIVERSITY STAR

Texas State University Alumna Ebony Porter gives interview to student newspaper

What advice would you give to aspiring artists?

EP: Know your art history. It’s true that nothing is original but I do believe you can make it your own. You just have to be aware of where you’re coming from.

www.star.txstate.edu




April 2012

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THE ARTIST'S EYE
at THE MENIL COLLECTION

Houston, Texas
Ebony Porter to speak about the Menil Collection Campus,  April 1st, 2012 at 3pm

Held on the first Sunday of each month, a Texas artist talks about works in the Menil Collection from the permanent collection or in a temporary exhibition that has special meaning to him or her. The public is invited to these free, informal gallery discussions, which can be held in any Menil gallery, the library or building of the artist's choosing.

Click here for more upcoming programs at the Menil

www.menil.org


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February 2012

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THE HUNTING PRIZE 2012
Ebony Porter's painting "ASEP" has been chosen to move on to Jury II of the Hunting Art Prize 2012 competition.

The Hunting Art Prize, which is sponsored by the international oil services company Hunting PLC, is a prestigious annual competition open to established artists, talented newcomers, and promising amateurs. Its $50,000 award is historically the most generous annual award in North America for painting and drawing, and has helped to build the reputations, raise the profiles, and support the careers of distinguished artists.

www.huntingartprize.com


November 2011

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Art Palace presents: ART MARKET, a unique holiday-art-boutique-gallery-festive-shopping experience that explores the different expressions of the word "market" in the world of art and commerce.

www.artpalacegallery.com
 

GRAND OPENING  Black Friday,  November 25, 2011  4pm-9pm   
ART MARKET SPECIAL HOURS, 3913 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002 
Tuesday - Saturday 4pm - 9pm   Nov 25 - Dec 23, 2011 

Limited editions and smaller-scale artworks from Texas-based artists will be on view and available for purchase.
Works include Ebony Porter's original collages from the series Romancing the Stone

CLICK HERE FOR ART MARKET REVIEW IN HOUSTON PRESS by Kelly Klaasmeyer


October 2011

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JUDGING A NEIGHBORHOOD  BY ITS COVER :
SALON OF BEAUTY BY ANA SERRANO

by Ebony Porter

Literal Magazine Issue 26, winter 2011

Ana Serrano’s latest work Salon of Beauty replicates the eclectic and funky buildings, facades and signage typically found in lower socio-economic Hispanic neighborhoods. It is as much about the architecture of communities as it is about how individual choices mark, morph and define the visual aesthetic of an urban landscape.


The artist with her work
Salon of Beauty, 2011
Dimensions variable, Rice Gallery on the campus of Rice University


June 2011
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THE SKY IS THE LIMIT - Interview with American Sculptor John Henry
by Ebony Porter

Literal Magazine Issue 24, summer 2011
www.literalmagazine.com

Poised to build the tallest standing sculpture in the United States with the exception of the Gateway Arch in St.Louis, John Henry continues to push sculptural limits as he has done throughout his 45 year career. Known for his large scale sculptures with roots in Constructivism, his work has transformed numerous cityscapes and landscapes all over the world.

JOHN HENRY
Peace, 1968
18' H x 70' L x 26' W
Courtesy of John Henry



January 2011

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THE JESUS TACO releases "FOLKUHILA" on WEAK RECORDS

Release December 31st, 2010  -   The Jesus Taco releases "Folkuhila" on Weak Records. Dubbed one of the most quintessentially post-modern but historically folk-inspired records of the decade  by Bobby Vacant, the album defies any simple genre or classification.  The album was mastered by renowned Indie recording engineer Jason Ward in Chicago, Illinois.

 Folkuhila is a series of road trip recordings from Castle Rock, Colorado; Houston, Texas; Chesterfield County, Virginia; La Hulpe Belgium; Winterthur, Switzerland; and Ulfsryd, Sweden. The songs are an eclectic mix of warm acoustic guitars, octave mandolins, ukuleles, rich vocal harmonies, and dreamy surrealistic interludes. This all fused with sonic depth and bold experimentation. Lucid culture has described the work by lead singer and poet-songwriter Brett Davidson (USA) as something that cynically litanizes a series of mundane and not-so-mundane projects that might be possible with a little respite. But respite only leads to hard work, and this can be attested by Taco co-members Sascha Greuter (Switzerland) on acoustic & electric guitars and other-worldly sound effects, and Tyko Runesson (Sweden) on mandolin, guitars, blues harp and backing vocals.

Ebony Porter is a musical contributor on track 5 "The Heights" and track 19 "Ebony Howl."

www.weak-records.ch



December 2010

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SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW

Using the large windows at 13 celsius wine bar as a canvas for a winter weather-scape, Slight Chance of Snow surrounds patrons in a delicate, abstract painting that suggests the gentle falling of winter snow.
On view Dec 2010 - Feb 12,  2011
3000 Caroline St, Houston, TX



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