(Visual Art/Textiles)
Location: Artspace, Upfront Gallery 
 
Capturing the Light, Part II, presents a series of felt works inspired by Sharron Parker’s travels in Greece and Turkey, where she studied many Roman artifacts. Parker found Roman glass particularly compelling, with its shaded iridescent colors, fractured patterns, and sometimes encrusted surfaces. She was also drawn to marble statuary.  In this new work Parker attempts to capture some of the qualities of the glass and the stone “cloth.”
 
Parker received an undergraduate degree from Duke University and a masters degree from UNC-Greensboro, studying education, art, and interior design. She continued her study in textiles with classes at Penland School of Crafts and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, where she has returned to teach workshops in felting.  Through the Art in Embassies program, Parker’s work has been exhibited in Turkmenistan and Armenia, and it has also been exhibited through the US. She has been a feltmaker for 29 years.