February Barn Door Gallery 2026
Nature Printed, Stitched, and Pieced
Amanda Maciuba, Bonnie Sennott, & Sharon McCartney
February 6 - February 26
Opening Reception on Arts Night Out
Fiber artists Amanda Maciuba, Sharon McCartney, and Bonnie Sennott use hand and machine embroidery, sewing, surface design, and printmaking techniques to create original textile art rooted in the natural world. Each artist brings a unique perspective: Maciuba examines how humans influence and reshape natural environments, McCartney focuses on memory, growth cycles, and the passing of time, while Sennott seeks rest and equilibrium through improvisational abstract embroideries.
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Amanda Maciuba (she/her) was born and raised in the Buffalo, New York area. She graduated from the University at Buffalo with a degree in visual studies and has an MFA in printmaking and book arts from the University of Iowa. She shows her work regularly throughout the United States and has participated in artist residencies at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Indiana Dunes National Park Residency, the Kathmandu International Artist Residency, and the Haystack Open Studio Residency. Currently, she resides in the Connecticut River Valley and teaches printmaking, drawing, and book arts at Mount Holyoke College.
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Bonnie Sennott (she/her) is a resident of Amherst and an abstract embroiderer. She has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions at Kingston Gallery in Boston, Vermont’s Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Easthampton City Arts, Northampton Center for the Arts, the Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke, and other venues. She was born in Wichita, Kansas, grew up in Illinois, and received her MFA from the University of Chicago in 1988. Her work is in private collections in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
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Sharon McCartney (she/her) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She moved to New England in 1983 to pursue a master’s degree in art history at Boston University. In 2005, she relocated to Belchertown to build her two-story studio surrounded by woodlands. Sharon draws from influences of both Asian and European art with natural themes. Her textile pieces, paintings, and artist books have been exhibited throughout the U.S. and have been included in museum, corporate, university, and private collections. Her work has been featured in publications such as American Craft, Fiberarts, Fiberart Now, and Surface Design Journal, as well as in several books on fiber art. She is currently represented by BE Galleries.
Read more about her process on Art Quilt Collector #5 (SAQA Publication) and on the Boston Voyager .
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