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Artist’s Statement
My art works include handmade paper, creative stitchery, weaving, and felting. The
handmade papers are made from plants and vegetable fibers like celery, agave, abaca,
banana peel, onion skin and others.
The style of my art works is visually non-representational, emotionally poetic. I
seek to express a spirituality in a positive realm of being.
BIO
Betsy Farmer is an art educator, with a BS, MEd. and PhD. in Art
Education from The Pennsylvania State University.
Her professional experience includes teaching students at
elementary, secondary and university levels. She was Professor
of Art for twenty-two years at Shippensburg University, one of the
14 universities of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth system, serving as
department chair there
for five years.
In addition to her classroom teaching, throughout her
professional career Dr. Farmer has conducted workshops in areas of fiber
arts and paper making, for students, in-service teachers, and adults, in
Pennsylvania and Arizona.
Selected publications she has written for educational use include:
The Young Child Creates, Soft Sculpture Is Softer Than Hard Sculpture,
Is Donut Making A Craft? How Does My Art Become? Papermaking As
An Art.
Dr. Farmer is a fiber artist, working in papermaking, weaving, creative stitchery,
felting and natural dyeing. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and Arizona, and is in private collections throughout the United States.
In Tucson, Dr. Farmer is a docent at the UAMA and at the Mini Time Machine Museum
of Miniatures, writing educational materials and designng power point presentations for
outreach programs. She is a member of the Tucson Handweavers and Spinners Guild, and
a founding member of PaperWorks, The Sonoran Collective for Paper and Book Artists.
