Patti Roberts-Pizzuto, Spring #12

Patti Roberts-Pizzuto applies painting, drawing, collage and embroidery techniques to handmade paper, creating meditations on what she describes as her “observations of the passing of days, the drama of the unseen, the meaning of stillness, and the witness of the objects around us.” She achieves amazing detail and texture in her works.

Patti’s mixed media process continues to evolve as she remains committed to an innate love of materials and handcrafting. All sewing is done by hand, often in combination with stabilizing and tactile beeswax. Recently, she has begun to move into three-dimensional work, creating small scrolls and altar forms.

The artist earned a BFA at Florida’s Ringling College of art and Design, and stayed on at the school for 25 years as a library cataloger and curator. She has attended workshops at the Penland School of Crafts and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center and has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Wyoming. Her work has been featured in exhibitions from New Hampshire to Alaska and has appeared in Fiber Arts Magazine and The Journal of the Surface Design Association. Currently living and working on the banks of the Missouri River, Patti finds inspiration in the history and the spirit of the land near her home in Burbank, SD.

Patti Roberts-Pizzuto, Scroll for Letter B