Kevlar Kimono on display at Rainbow’s End in Flagstaff

Sep 25, 2021

Thanks to Debra Block and the Women’s March Flagstaff, the Kevlar Kimono will be on display the evening of October 1 during Flagstaff’s First Friday Artwalk. Rainbow’s End owner and Flagstaff city councilwoman, Miranda Sweet will be our host that...

Help get the Kevlar Kimono seen

Mar 31, 2016

Help get the Kevlar Kimono seen   The Kevlar Kimono is finished, but is currently languishing in my living room. That’s not the best way for the message to get out, so I’m asking for help from YOU to help find venues for it to be seen. Have an idea?...

Completed Kevlar© Kimono

Oct 29, 2015

Completed Kevlar© Kimono   The kimono was completed in April 2014, just in time to be exhibited in an exhibit at the Coconino Center for the Arts here in Flagstaff. The response was overwhelmingly positive, starting at the opening, through the final weeks of the...

Artist’s Statement

Oct 18, 2015

Artist’s Statement The idea for the Kevlar® Kimono originally came to me in 1998, when some anti-abortion protesters were becoming extremely radicalized. I bought two yards of Kevlar®, intending to make a bulletproof garment in which a woman could safely make...

Kevlar® Kimono on display in Chandler, AZ

May 19, 2015

Kevlar® Kimono on display in Chandler, AZ The kimono will be on display at the Vision Gallery in Chandler, Arizona, through January 18, 2015 as part of the Arizona chapter of Surface Design Association’s exhibit, Explorations. For more information, including...