Surface Design Association logo
  • About SDA
    • Mission and History
    • Equity, Access & Integration
    • Board & Staff
    • Work With Us
    • Contact SDA
    • FAQ
  • Join & Renew
    • Member Benefits
    • Join SDA
    • Student Membership
    • Renew Membership
  • Members
    • Manage Membership
    • Member & Art Directory
    • Manage My Images
    • Premium Gallery
    • Regional Groups
    • Grants & Awards
  • Events & Exhibits
    • Calendar
    • Workshops
    • Exhibitions
    • Meetups
    • Events
    • Symposium 2025
  • Journal
    • About the Journal
    • Digital Journal
    • Shop
    • Journal Submissions
    • For Advertisers
  • Education
  • Blog
  • Donate to SDA
  • Read Digital Journal
  • Manage Membership
    • Login/Renew
    • Manage My Images
  • Donate to SDA

Susan Feller

Nine Patch – Barns, Barns, Barns, 2025

Cotton fabrics, hand hooked motifs, quilted 36” x 36”

Using my digital drawings reproduced on cotton fabric to illustrate farming in West Virginia I combined commercial materials in the traditional log cabin block. Hand hooked motifs, hay rolls, a view of harvest in fields and fall add texture and dimension to the wall hanging.

Susan Feller

Nine Patch – Barns, Barns, Barns, 2025

Susan Feller

Loy’s Barn, 2025

Wool fabric, printed cotton, paint, on linen, yarn 9” x 9” x 9” on 12” square base

Barns have Stories was the theme for an exhibit honoring the timber framed structures built over a century ago. Many are gracefully deteriorating, sun shining through open roof and sides yet still storing hay and equinox. They portray strength and endurance.

Susan Feller

Loy’s Barn, 2025

Susan Feller

Iconic Democracy, 2025

Wool, cotton crochet and embroidery 24” h x 18” w

Fifth in series addressing women’s rights, equality and social justice. Evoking a cathedral window, the words were voiced by Kamala Harris during her campaign for President of the United States. They are the inspiration for us to organize to retain Democracy

Susan Feller

Iconic Democracy, 2025

Susan Feller

Jane S. Choice #2, 2025

Wool fabric 24” h x 18” w

Second version was created when the first was selected by Governor’s Purchase Award for the WV State Museum collection. The colors evoke a gravestone. Janes are term for people helping others obtain an abortion.

Susan Feller

Jane S. Choice #2, 2025

Susan Feller

Jane S. Choice, 2022

wool and other fabrics, threads, yarns, metal hanger to display 24 x 18

Fourth in series, documenting women's issues. The vertical format depicts a headstone, inscription tells the story of US Supreme Court decisions Roe v Wade to Dobbs v Jackson with message "she will return". Hand hooking is a slow process, allowing the maker time to reflect on the subject. Craft has spoken for decades.

Susan Feller

Jane S. Choice, 2022

Susan Feller

Miss Mountaintop Removal, 2023

acrylic yarn, wool and cotton fabric, stainless steel, Starbucks labeling 20 x 16

In response to poem 'Boom, Boom" by Chrystal Good and photography by Paul Corbit Brown both included in video published in Sept 2022 WestVirginiaVille the design was first created digitally. Finally the fiber techniques and mixed media evolved giving tactile dimension to the daily destruction of Appalachia.

Susan Feller

Miss Mountaintop Removal, 2023

Susan Feller

Mountains of Energy, 2019

plastic straws, paint, cotton threads embroidered, yarns and fabric hooked and applique' 11 x 19

Human impact on natural resources destroys habitat, and ecology but the gas lines had to go in. Then the permits were denied and the scars remain-on nature and communities.

Susan Feller

Mountains of Energy, 2019

Susan Feller

Our Mountains Past, Present, Future?, 2022

wool and silk fabric 20 x 20

From Old-Growth Forests and crystal clean waters to corporate extraction of the natural resources in Appalachia the land has changed. Mountain tops are blasted off for the last coal, spreading carcinogens in the air, heavy metals into the waters and erosion from clear cut logging. Will we be able to halt this destruction? The tourism economy flourishes but for how long?

Susan Feller

Our Mountains Past, Present, Future?, 2022

Back

Enjoy the benefits that 3,000 members share.

Join SDA Join SDA Make a Donation Make a Donation
Joan Diamond, Before [detail], 2022
Surface Design Association logo

Copyright © 2025. All images and information copyright their respective artistic and organization members.

Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy
Contact SDA

Our Partners & Sponsors