Anita Bracalente

Book of Hours, 2023

Perle cotton #12 Czech seed beads #11 knitted beads H. 13 x L. 21

As in the medieval Book of Hours - the seasons-celestial bodies as viewed through the Webb telescope-human labors weaving panel of the composition. in the bottom panel.

Anita Bracalente

Lost River (Indiana), 2021

Perle cotton #12 Czech seed beads #11 knitted beads H. 8 1/2 x L. 29 1/4

Indiana has 87 miles of an underground river system, the head of which is a mere wet hole in a field. The short-sighted Indiana legislature rolled back EPA standards of the clean air and water safe guards.

Anita Bracalente

Undercurrent, 2022

Perle cotton #12 Czech seed beads #11 knitted beads H. 8 x L. 26 5/8

This work was created during the second year of COVID and reflects for me the unease of these times--politically, socially, culturally, spiritually.

Anita Bracalente

Winter Creek, 2022

Perle cotton #12 Czech seed beads #11 knitted beads H. 12 x L. 20 inches

This work explores at the micro level water crystals in near still water of a frozen creek. The investigation of the patterns were formulated through mathematical combinations and a very limited color palette

Anita Bracalente

Chance Encounters, 2019

Cotton thread, seed beads L. 27 1/2 x H, 8 1/4 inches

Anita Bracalente

Rainforest Requiem: Anthropocene Period, 2016

Cotton, seed beads, knitted beads 6 1/8 x 20 1/4

Anita Bracalente

Midwest Landscape II Tornado Warning, 2012-2013

Cotton, seed beads, knitted beads 9 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches

Anita Bracalente

Embankment: Meditations Along the Water’s Edge, 2023

Czech seed beads #11, DMC Perle Cotton #12 H. 13 1/4 x W. 18 5/8

Anita Bracalente

Midwest Landscape III Rural Crafts: “The Work Basket”, bread basket doillie, 2016

Cotton, seed beads 8 1/2 x 16 5/8"