Accumlation

Featured Artists: Tasha Owen & Candace Pratt

September 4 – November 15, 2026

ACCUMULATION explores how years of knowledge, experience, and professional skill accumulate alongside creative passion to shape an artist’s practice. Through distinctly different materials and processes, Tasha Owen and Candace Pratt reveal how a lifetime of learning becomes part of the work itself.

Tasha Owen

Biography

Tasha Owen is a textile and photographic artist whose work combines original photography, digital painting, and freestyle longarm quilting. Drawing on more than four decades in photography, her work reflects a sensitivity to light, gesture, and human emotion.

Owen’s work has been shown in juried exhibitions including the International Quilt Festival, AQS QuiltWeek, and the Contemporary Quilt Arts Exhibition, and has appeared in Fiber Arts Now and Women United Art Magazine. She is based in West Branch, Iowa.

Artist Statement

My work begins with feeling—a gesture, an expression, or an unguarded moment of humanity. I photograph what I feel before translating the image into cloth.

Through original photography, digital painting, and textile construction, I build each work in layers. Quilting becomes a form of drawing, with each line of thread adding movement, time, and emotion. Rather than searching for perfection, I am interested in honesty, vulnerability, and the quiet stories held within the human experience.

Cloth gives those images a physical presence. Through it, I create work that is tactile, layered, and deeply human.

Chair with Orange Pillow
Photography quilt
39” x 56”

SOLD

Warrior Corset
Photography quilt
40” x 69”

$3,800

Sound of Silence
Photography quilt
42” x 72”

$4,000

Artichoke
Photography quilt
40” x 60”

$3,800

Sunflower
Photography quilt
35” x 36”

$2,400

Nautilus
Photography quilt
38” x 48”

$2,400

Candace Pratt

Biography

Candace Pratt is a mixed-media artist whose work brings together architectural glass and traditional basket-weaving techniques. After a career in corporate marketing, she founded an architectural glass business in 2000, creating large-scale residential and commercial installations.

A 2015 residency at Pilchuck Glass School marked a turning point in her practice, leading her toward sculptural work combining glass and fiber. Her baskets and vessels have been exhibited nationally and featured in publications including Basketry+, Novem Artis, and Excellence in Fibers.

Artist Statement

For more than two decades, I worked simultaneously with architectural kiln-formed glass and Navajo-style weaving—two practices that once seemed entirely separate. Bringing them together allowed me to combine traditional fiber techniques with contemporary materials and processes.

My vessels are built through the accumulation of materials, skills, and collaboration. Kiln-formed glass is paired with fiber, reed, yarn, and other elements using weaving techniques such as twining, plaiting, and diamond stitch. Through these combinations, I explore connection, diversity, and unity while allowing glass and fiber to exist together in a single sculptural form.

Photos of Candace Pratt’s artwork by Brian McLernon Photography

Vessel of Love
FIber & Glass
14” x 16” x 14”

$7,200

Alberta’s Bow River
FIber & Glass
16” x 3” x 16”

$1,800

Fall
Fiber & Glass
15” x 2” x 15”

$1,800

Winter
Fiber & Glass
11.5” x 5” x 11.5”

$1,800

Indonesian Mie Goreng
Fiber & Glass
14” x 2” x 9”

$1,800

Butterfly Garden
Fiber & Glass
12.5” x 12” x 12.5”

$2,400

Gems of the Galaxy
Fiber & Glass
15” x 17” x 15”

$1,800

Plum Pudding Sixpence
Fiber & Glass
13” x 3.5” x 13”

$1,800

Thai Curry Chicken Soup
Fiber & Glass
16” x 11” x 16”

$2,400