Candace Hackett Shively

Fayetteville, GA

Candace Hackett Shively's work emerges from insistent, tenacious thoughts: about interactions, injustices, current events, an experience, a place, a humorous interjection, or a question.



Ms. Shively uses fabric, drawings, paint, and photographs to montage images, sometimes working directly with the materials and sometimes digitally montaging media before printing onto fabric. She then "draws" on the compositions with thread. The stitching is where her work finds life.



Ms. Shively has lived all over the U.S., but she credits her childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area for nurturing her creativity. She studied printmaking and photography alongside her undergraduate degree in English. She found her true medium, the art quilt, in a break-through, interdisciplinary graduate exhibit, focusing on writing and art. After retiring from a career in education and moving to Georgia, she has immersed herself in her art quilts and juries into both fiber and fine art exhibits.

Artist Website

https://makinloud.wordpress.com