Talk to Wooster
Winter 2007
Nancy Schlegel ’65
Shockwaves
In her artist’s statements, Nancy (Riddle) Schlegel is likely to call
her College of Wooster degree in mathematics a “sidetrack.”
What she loved during her college days was working on costumes in the theatre department. Her love for fiber arts—not only quilts but also jackets and capes—has resulted in many juried exhibitions and awards. She also teaches workshops and seminars.
Inspired by the interplay of fabric patterns and thread texture, Schlegel created Shockwaves with squares of hand-dyed fabric, in which she inserted thin lines from other fabrics and then arranged the squares in jagged diagonal lines. “The title came last,” she says. “The quilt gave me the feeling of dark forces splitting asunder our sunny days–a reaction, still, to 9-11.”
Shockwaves has been shown at juried exhibitions in Whistler, Ill., and Chandler, Ariz. Schlegel works from her home in Castleton-on-Hudson, N.Y.
