September 17-October 30, 2004

"After the Night is Over"

The exhibit features 16 textile works combining embroidery, appliqué, quilting, beading and collage techniques, including several never-before-seen pieces. Sisto’s work is well known in the Kentuckiana area, and many of her current pieces, in her words, show the idea of "being feminine in the spiritual interpretation of fairy tales." The exhibit will be on display at the Carnegie Center September 17 through October 30, 2004. There will be an opening reception for this exhibit on Friday, September 17 from 6 to 8 pm. Visitors can enjoy refreshments and a chance to meet the artist as they explore this unique exhibit. This event is free and open to the public. Artist Penny Sisto was born in the Orkney Islands off the northern tip of Scotland. She began learning how to sew at age 3, taught by her grandmother. As an adult, Sisto worked for the British Ministry of Overseas Development, using her skills as a midwife to aid health

clinics for the Maasai, LuBukusu and Kikuyu tribes of East Africa. Her time in Africa inspired her to combine the quilting, embroidery and appliqué techniques she learned from her grandmother with the beading and collage methods of her African friends, resulting in the distinctive style seen in her work today. Sisto’s work has been exhibited in New York as well as Edinburgh, Scotland and Nairobi, Kenya, and her pieces can be found in the collections of Texas Oil, Gettysburg College, Spalding University, and the Thomas Merton International Studies Center, among others. She currently resides in Floyds Knobs, Indiana.

The Carnegie Center for Art and History, a department of the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library, is a contemporary art gallery and history museum that offers a full schedule of changing exhibitions as well as year-round art classes and other educational programs. The Carnegie Center is also home to two permanent exhibits. Grandpa Makes A Scene: The Yenawine Dioramas is a hand-carved, animated display of life in turn of the century Georgetown, Indiana. Adventure West with Famous Floyds examines the history and importance of the Floyd family (Floyd County, Indiana’s namesake) and features a facial reconstruction of the likeness of Sgt. Charles Floyd, the only member of the Lewis and Clark expedition to perish on the journey.

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