Statement

Throughout my four-decade teaching career, I worked hard to create engaging environments to bring students, from preschool through college, into the world of art. As a mother of twin daughters (a lively and creative kinetic diptych, my best and most important contribution to the world) and teaching, I made art when I could, evolving steadily, even if my output was modest. 

Now, after retiring from a most satisfying career, I’m living “Seigel 2.0”, as a working artist, endlessly producing work.

My work spans a range of materials, from graphite and colored pencil to gouache and fiber. In recent years I’ve become immersed in fiber art, creating hoops, tapestries, collages, baskets, “stuffies,” felties, and more. The process of creating these works affords me a place to dialogue, often in cryptic, abstract ways with the uncertainty and chaos of our world.