One of our blog readers, Libby Fife, emailed me the other day about Interpret This!, the new monthly textile art challenge group she is co-sponsoring with Debra Spincic. Their concept is to bring together Internet based artists with a common goal:

to create a body of work in an organized intimate group setting using photos that are personal to the artist as the creative launching point.

The group’s twelve member artists will be making fiber art based on photographs supplied by each participant. Then the artwork will be revealed to the larger online textile art community via the blog.

I am really impressed with not only the participants’ beautiful artwork, but also their commitment to revealing all aspects of the challenge to the larger community. It’s easy to be drawn into the stories revealed on the blog when so much background information and detailed description is provided by the artists.

The group kindly allowed me to offer our blog readers this peek at one of the first reveals coming from the challenge. The photograph below is a studio portrait Rian Ammerman had taken on a cruise last year. Below it you can see her interpretation of the photo in her quilt entitled Light My Fire (Self Portrait).

This challenge group and their efforts should be a lot of fun to watch on the Interpret This! blog and may inspire you to interpret photographs in your own projects. I’d love to hear about any other interesting quilt or craft challenges our readers are participating in, so let me hear about them in the comments!