Tre Barrett
Fiber Artist
| I started my affair with fiber at an early age. It has evolved into a
love of all the fiber arts and everything related to them. All the fiber processes
interact with each other. No matter what processes you choose to work with, the
interrelationship of the fiber arts causes the piece to come together into a whole
cohesive unit. The fibers seem to call to one another and suddenly the fabric piece you
have been working on has bits of paper in it and then beads are added. Beading began for me as an escape from the intensities of my fiber arts. It has slowly evolved into an integral part of the pieces I create today. My art is machine made and machine manipulated but the beading is done by hand. Whether I’m working on a piece of clothing, a quilt or a figure, the process of adding one bead at a time with needle and thread is the mental escape I need to become one with the cloth. |
ACCOMPLISHMENTS 1970 – 1996 1970-1990 – Received awards in local, regional and national competitions in pottery, weaving, papermaking, dollmaking and felting. 1991 – 1st Place, Felting Florida Tropical Weavers Guild 1991 – 1st Place, Weaving, Art to Wear Florida Tropical Weavers Guild 1992 – 3rd Place, Original Doll Florida State Fair 1994 – 1st Place, Original Doll Tropical Doll Club 1996 – 2nd Place, Beadwork Florida Tropical Weavers Guild 1997 – Present 1997 – 1st Place, Beadwork Tampa Bay Bead Society Challenge 1997 – 1st Place, Beadwork Florida Tropical Weavers Guild 1997 – 3rd Place, Doll Sulky Thread Challenge 1997 – Traveling Exhibit, Doll Hoffman Fabric Challenge 1997 – Exhibit, Wearable Art and Small Wonders Embellishment, Austin, TX 1998 – 1st Place, Beadwork Florida Tropical Weavers Guild 1998 – Exhibit, Small Wonders Embellishment, Sacramento, CA 1998/99 – Exhibit, Doll In Celebration of the Doll, The Figure in Cloth, National Traveling Exhibit 1998/99 – Grand Prize, Doll Sulky Thread Challenge 1998/99 – Traveling Exhibit, Doll Hoffman Fabric Challenge 1999 – Gallery Exhibit Center Place, Brandon Florida 1999/00 – Exhibit, Wallhanging Sulky Thread Challenge, Professional Division 2000 – 1st Place, Basketry, Florida Tropical Weaver's Guild 2000 – Gallery Exhibit, Unity Gallery, Sarasota, Florida 2000/01 – Exhibit, Wallhanging and Doll, Professional Division, Sulky Thread Challenge |