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Image: © Helenn Rumpel
"Spanish Fantasia"
Creative stitchery-fiber, 19.5" x 18" x 2"
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Creative stitchery universally encompasses insight, concept, fine artistic design, and one's unique personal perception. Rich color and texture are achieved with a variety of yarns embellished with beading and stitched with originality, mystical enchantment
and dedication. Unity, the fiber warmth, the rhythm, light and sparkle of the stitches and beading fresh to the contemporary moment while praising our past -- these are the elements of excellence in my needle expressions.
Each of my fine art works is a symbol of my love, inspiring, exploring and observing life's beautiful patterns. |
Image: © Helenn Rumpel
"Czech Fuschia "
Fiber, 22" x 18 "
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A complex expression of traditional and contemporary embroidery,
Helenn's stitchery requires both artistic and technical skills.
Depending upon its scale, each new work can take anywhere from three
months to more than a year to create. Often dyeing the base fabric
-- she layers different stitches to create rich textures and adds
beads. Helenn relies on such traditional and contemporary themes
as the universal family, and spirituality to convey her artistic
vision. From interpretations of her children's works to New Mexican
and Russian icons, the images that recur in Helenn's work have expanded
to include architecture, landscapes, figures, European & Greek, Indian, Byzantine
and Hispanic mythology, religious and universal art.
2009 Fine Art Calendar and Note Cards
These unique fine art collectible calendars feature the work of
Helenn Rumpel's artistic creations. The vibrant color expressions
in fiber and painting are available in a very limited quantity.
Please order 2009 calendars early to ensure we can fulfill your request.
Cards available all year
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The American Embassy in Prague received a major piece of Helenn's fiber work titled "Karlovy Vary Night View" in October 2006. The piece took a year to create and is in a series that she has been developing for five years.
Helenn created a memorial altar cloth for Rebecca Sampson, daughter of Stephens College President Emeritus Patsy H. Sampson. The altar cloth was placed in the Campus Firestone Baars Non-denominational Stephens College Chapel in Columbia, MO. The memorial altar cloth was dedicated April 20, 2006 at the Annual Alum Reunion.
At the 2006 Fiber Celebration (National Juried Exhibit), at The Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO, Helenn’s “My Pots” won second price in three-dimensional presentation. Her Czech piece, “Czech Republic Window Scene,” was included on the invitation. Previously, Helenn's innovative fiber stitchery "Forest" was exhibited in the 31st Annual exhibit of national/international competition by Northern Colorado Weavers Guild's "Fiber Celebration 2005," at the Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, Longmont, CO.
Helenn's innovative current fiber stitchery "Forest" was recently exhibited in the 31st Annual exhibit of national/international competition by Northern Colorado Weavers Guild's "Fiber Celebration 2005," at the Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, Longmont, CO.
Full-color Greeting and
Christmas cards that are reproductions of Helenn's stitcheries and paintings.
87 color designs have been printed since 1980-2007.
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Wall Calendar
(11"x 17") US$27.50 (please add $4.50 shipping and handling)
Note Cards
(10 full color designs per box) US$15.00 (please add $2.75 shipping and handling)
"Guadalupe" Poster
2005 original creative stitchery fine art piece US$15.00 (please add $3.75 shipping and handling)
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NM residents please
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PO Box 1552
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2007 “Fiber: An Extra Ordinary Vision,” Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI, small exhibit, slide show and lecture.
2006 Fiber Celebration 2006 - The Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO
2nd place in three-dimensional presentation — “My Pots”
2004-2007 The Eighteenth National Juried E.G.A. Exhibit "Through the Needle's Eye" |
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A few highlights from more than 35 years of exhibiting worldwide:
Major and Solo exhibits: *solo exhibit / + featured artist or
invited exhibitor
2007 “Fiber: An Extra Ordinary Vision,” Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, small exhibit, slide show and lecture
2006 Fiber Celebration 2006 (Nat’l Exhibit), The Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO, National Exhibit (2nd place, 3-dimensional presentation - “My Pots”), Helenn’s Czech piece, “Czech Republic Window Scene,” was included on the invitation
2006 SLMM Juried Exhibition, Arts Alliance Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, two pieces
2005 "Fiber Celebration 2005" at the Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, Longmont, CO.
2005 National E.G.A. Fiber Forum Exhibit, Salisbury University, Salisbury MD
(3 pieces - includes national competition piece)
2004-2007 18th National Juried E.G.A. Exhibit and Travel Show
2003 "Light & Insight" Kings Art Center, Hanford California -
September to November
2002-2005 17th National E.G.A. Biennial Juried Exhibit and Museum
Tour
2000-2002 16th National Juried E.G.A. Exhibit and Travel Show
2001 One-woman exhibit, Featured stitchery artist, Fiber Arts
Fiesta, May 24-26, 2001
2000 Permanent Exhibit, First Presbyterian Church, "Baptism Triptych,"
4.5' x 5.5', Carlsbad, NM
2000 American Pen Women Exhibit, George Mason University Fine
Arts Gallery, Arlington, VA, April 1 - May 31, 2000
1999 First Annual Silverhawk Fine Arts Internet Award Exhibition,
5 juried pieces, Taos, NM
1998* Solo Exhibit, Byzantine and Russian fine art stitcheries
and paintings, International Cultural Center, archived by video
and commentary by Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, Texas
1998* One-Woman Exhibit, 1st National Bank (Eldorado), August & September
1998+ "36th Annual Juried Christian Art Show," Ascension Lutheran
Church, East Lansing, MI
1998 Eldorado Seventh Annual Studio Tour, NM
1997 Lubbock Arts Alliance Invitational Art Show and Sale, Lubbock,
TX
1997+ National Fiber Forum Exhibit, Louisville, KY
1997+ Six-State Biennial Fine Art Exhibit, Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos,
NM
1997+ "Flights of Fantasy," juried show, Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos,
NM
1997 "Making Faces," juried show, Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, NM
1997 Eldorado Sixth Annual Studio Tour, NM
1997+ "Celebrating the Spirit," Presbyterian Church, Santa Fe,
NM
1997* One-woman exhibition at Owatonna Art Center, Owatonna, MN
-- Featuring a lecture program
1996-97+ One-woman exhibition at Old Pecos Gallery, Carlsbad,
NM
1996+ Carlyn Gallery, Dallas, TX
1996 College of Santa Fe Monothon Print Exhibit, Santa Fe, NM
1995-97 "New Visions," Santuario de Guadalupe Exhibit, El Dorado
8 Annual Group Show, Santa Fe, NM
1994* Solo Exhibit, Twinings, Contemporary Fine Art and Crafts,
Taos, NM
1993* Solo Exhibit, San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo,
CA
1992* Solo Exhibit, King's Art Center, Hanford, CA
1992* Solo Exhibit, Davis Gallery, Stephens College, Columbia,
MS
1991* Solo Exhibit, Carlsbad Art Center, Carlsbad, NM
1990* Solo Exhibit, Shostakivich Music Festival, Oklahoma City,
OK
1989* Solo Exhibit, DuPage College, Chicago, IL
1988* Solo Exhibit, Spaso House, American Embassy, Moscow, USSR
by invitation of the U.S. Ambassador
1988* Solo Exhibit, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1987* Solo Exhibit, Purdue University of Fine Art, Lafayette,
IN
1986* Solo Exhibit, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
1984* Solo Exhibit, Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
1982* Solo Exhibit, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI
1982* Solo Exhibit, Sheldon Art Gallery, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, NE
1980* Solo Exhibit, New Mexico Governor's Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1975* Solo Exhibit, Baker Fine Art Gallery, Lubbock, TX (featured
exhibits, 1976, 1979, 1984, 1985, 1989)
1974* Solo Exhibit, Texas Tech Museum, Lubbock, TX
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2006 at The Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO, 2nd place in three-dimensional presentation — “My Pots”) Helenn’s Czech piece, “Czech Republic Window Scene,” was included on the invitation
2006 Dedication of "Rebecca's Celebration," a Memorial Altar Cloth, April 20, 2006, which was placed in the Campus Firestone Baars Non-denominational Chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen, at Stephens College, Columbia, MO
2005 Commission - Memorial Altar Cloth, Stephens College, Columbia, MO, "Rebecca's Celebration"
2004 Honored as outstanding artist and teacher - Delta Kappa Gamma Teacher's Honorary Society - 75th International Convention, Minneapolis, MN, July
2003 Full juried permanent member SLMM - Society of Layerists, Mixed Media
2003 Fiber Forum - EGA professional organization through 2007
2000 16th National Biennial E.G.A. Competition, juried entry accepted
2000 Helenn's painting, "Orthodoxy", patron gift to the Saint
Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, hangs in the church library, Washington, DC.
2000 Permanent Collection, Carlsbad Foundation, dedication November
19, 2000, Carlsbad, NM, 3 pieces
2000 National Speaker for the Embroidery Guild of America, Washington,
D.C., September
1999 "Fiber Fantasies," Museum Shop at the Museum of Texas Tech,
Lubbock, TX
1999 Regia Giovanna Exhibit, "Queen Giovanna's Bath," Invitational,
Sorrento, Italy
1998 Permanent archive material to Radcliffe College (now Harvard University), The Arthur and
Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Cambridge, MA
1998 15th National Embroidery Guild of America, three pieces juried for National Tour 1998-2000, Louisville, KY
1998 Embroiderers' Guild of America National Fiber Forum Member,
National Seminars 1999 & 2000
1997 25th Anniversary Designer Kreinik Showcase Exhibit on Worldwide
Tour, "The Fisherman"
1997 Member and Art Juror, Sister City Santa Fe-Sorrento, Italy
Association
1997 "Woman in the Arts," Benefit for the Girls Scouts of America
1996 Patron-purchased stitchery presented to a Dominican Friar
in Vatican City, Rome, Italy
1996 Patron-commissioned painting presented to Felician Convent
in Vatican City, Rome, Italy
1996 Merit Award, 14th National Embroiderer's Guild of America,
three stitcheries on national tour
1995 Work in Assisi, Italy, Art Consultant
1995 Embroidery Guild of America, 14th National juried exhibit;
three pieces with one Merit Award
1993 Invitational Carlsbad Museum Reunion Exhibit, Carlsbad, NM
1992-93 Thanks be to Grandmother Winifred Foundation, Grant to
catalog material for the Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
1993 Diana Grossman Award, 13th National Embroidery Competition,
Louisville, KY
1992 National League of American Pen Women, Biennial Juried Show,
Washington, DC
1991 "Outstanding Artist in an Unusual Field-Celebrity Walk,"
Award. First Honoree, Texas Tech University. Invited to preserve
records and papers available for study and research in the ongoing
and permanent archives at the Southwest Collection of Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, TX
1990 Governor's Award, Special Recognition of an Outstanding New
Mexico Woman in Art
1989 National League of American Pen Women, Biennial Juried Show,
Washington, DC
1988 Formost Women in the Twentieth Century
1987 Who's Who in American Women and Who's Who in the
West
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2009 Needle Arts, September, "Helenn Rumpel: Love Made Visible"
2005 Needle Arts, Cover page December Issue, Vol XXXVI, No. 4 Embroidery Guild of America
2004 The Pen Woman, National League of American Pen Women, Inc., Washington, DC, featured Helenn’s fiber piece Sacred Pathways, on the October-November 2004 issue cover with an inside color page and feature article.
2004 The Art of Layering: Making Connections, Society Layerists of Mixed Media [SLMM] by Mary Carroll Nelson and Nancy Dunaway, featured Helenn’s fiber piece, "Forest," in their book released in December
2004 SLMM - Juried Members Book, April
2004 West Texas Art Biography Book, Connie Martin, Lubbock Texas
2003 DVD (36 min) 70 Piece Kings Art Center, Hanford Ca, Sept - Nov
2002 Home & Garden TV - special program on Southwest Fiber
Art
2001 Feature Story, Albuquerque Journal, newspaper, Sage Magazine - April
2001 The New Mexican, Santa Fe, NM, newspaper, feature story, January.
2000 Eldorado Sun, Eldorado, NM, newspaper, feature story, June.
2000-2006 Desk and Wall Calendars, Limited edition, 78 cards also published and 9 posters
1999 Book of Days, Limited edition calendar
1999 Video "Byzantine-Russian Exhibit 1998," Texas Tech University
International Cultural Center
1998 Creative Crewel Embroidery - Innovation, crewel stitchery,
book by Judy Jeroy, published October
1998,
3 pieces featured
1995-2006 The Collector’s Guide to Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque
1994 American Needlepoint, Featured in article
1994-97 Video of artwork "Land of the Dancing Sun" continuously
presented in 20 Santa Fe hotels
1993 Delta Kappa Gamma National Bulletin, spring issue
(stitchery, color cover)
1993 New Zealand Art Bulletin (July cover)
1992 Southern Accents (March) feature story
1991 Included in Celebration of the Stitch, by Barbara
Smith (plus related national touring exhibition 1991-94)
1990 Fiber Arts magazine article(April/May)
1990 Albuquerque Journal SAGE article (July)
1989 Threads magazine article (June/July)
1989 Delta Kappa Gamma National Bulletin, spring issue
(stitchery, color cover)
1989 California Art Review, biography book
1989 Needle Arts, E.G.A., cover and feature story - Russia
1988 "Colores," video program, KNME Public Television
1986 Needle Arts, E.G.A. article on stitchery art of Helenn's
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2007 “Fiber: An Extra Ordinary Vision,” Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, small exhibit, slide show and lecture
2006 Lecture at the dedication of "Rebecca's Celebration," a Memorial Altar Cloth, April 20, which was placed in the Campus Firestone Baars Non-denominational Chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen, at Stephens College, Columbia, MO
2005 SLMM Lecture at studio, March
2005 Delta Kappa Gamma, Honorary Teachers Association, Santa Fe, NM, April 2
2004 First Unitarian Church, Albuquerque, NM, juried gallery space
2004 Lecture workshop E.G.A., Sept, Albuquerque, NM
2004 Delta Kappa Gamma, Feb studio tour
2003 ABQ Museum, Albuquerque NM, April
2003 Kings Art Center, Hanford CA, Sept
2003 Landson Manor, Carlsbad, NM, December 9
2003 P.E.O. Group lecture, Carlsbad, NM, November 5
2003 Carlsbad Art Museum, Carlsbad, NM, April 24
2002 Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, Stitchery-Beading Lecture: Stitching with Light, November 25
2002 SLMM (Society of Layerists in Multi Media) Studio Lecture, Santa Fe, NM, November
2002 University of New Mexico - Los Alamos, NM Design Lecture, From Vision to Creation
2002 Renesan Lecture, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, Images - People & Places
2001 College of Santa Fe, "The Scope of Fine Art Stitchery, The
Vision, The Creation" Lecture, Nov.
2001 Nat. Speaker - Slide Lecture & Class, E.G.A. Long Island
NY, Oct.
2000 National Speaker - Slide Lecture, Embroidery Guild of America
Annual Luncheon, Washington, DC, September 13
2000 Dedication Sermon, November, 1st Presbyterian Church, Baptism
Triptych
1999 E.G.A. Art Presentation, Albuquerque, NM
1999 Art Presentation, Los Alamos Weavers Guild
1998 Speaker for Santa Fe Mayor's Office, "Contemporary and Traditional
Art in Santa Fe, NM," presented in Santa Fe's Sister City, Sorrento,
Italy
1998 "Sacred Spring: Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom with
a slide presentation 'Byzantine Images Through the Ages' by Helenn
J. Rumpel," May 1st - Los Alamos, NM, May 2nd - Santa Fe, NM
1998 "Santa Fe, NM - Sorrento, Italy Sister City Trip and Sicily,"
Art Judge for the exhibit
1997 "Byzantine in New Mexico and Beyond," Fuller Art Lodge Center,
November
1996 Chester, Nova Scotia, Canada, Participating teacher at EGA
Fiber Forum
1996 Art consultant/speaker on tour to Assisi and Rome, Italy,
"In the Footsteps of Saint Francis."
1995-98 Workshops in White Rock, NM and Los Alamos, NM (Fuller
Art Lodge Center) and at the University of New Mexico, Los Alamos
1995 Workshops in Dallas, TX and Long Beach, CA
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2006 Russia
2005 England
2004 France
2003 France
2001 Czech Republic
2000 Artwork in Italy
1999 Art study in Spain
1998 Santa Fe Artist Speaker for "Santa Fe Evening in Sorrento,
Italy."
1997 Art consultant/speaker on tour to Florence, Rome, Venice,
Ravenna, Assisi, Siena and Sorrento, Italy
1996 Art consultant/speaker on tour to Assisi and Rome, Italy,
"In the Footsteps of Saint Francis."
Study of Embroidery, Textiles, Painting and Watercolor (1969-2006)
in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, England, France, Italy, Sicily,
Holland, Austria, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Finland, Norway,
Sweden, Greece, Yugoslavia, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Turkey and
Russia
Artistic Representation
Helenn's papers and examples of her work are archived in Texas
Tech University's Southwest Collection. 34 pieces are now in the
permanent collection.
Santa Fe, NM
Museum of Fine Arts owns “Seascape,” a fiber-stitchery
Exhibits in La Fonda window display
Exhibits at Inn at Loretto display
Eldorado Hotel - Old House - 2 Kachinas painting
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Extensive private and public collections in the USA and abroad
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Eldorado Fine Art Studio, 8 Floresta Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87508 505-466-0517
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