About

Karen Schoch is an artist working in fiber and textiles. She grew up in Richmond,
Virginia, and moved outside of the Philadelphia, PA area in 1986. She semi-retired from being a professional counselor in July 2022. She works around seeing a few clients each week and watching grandchildren to work in her studio attached to her home.

“I am often inspired by the natural world and drawn to both color and texture. I often find myself slowing down to breathe in and ponder something that catches my eye. I bring these images and their colors into the studio.

In my work I am also attuned to the possibility of deeper meaning-making: shifts in perspective, metaphors, light coming into the darkness, transformation, redemption, restoration, resilience & hope. Eugene Peterson says it well, ‘Art is making what is invisible visible in faith.’

More recently I have begun to write poetry to go with either a specific series of textile works or individual pieces.”

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Exhibits and Publications

• Solo Show Keswick Coffee House February 2023
• “Choose to Stand in Your Strength and Dignity” was selected for publication in
  SAQA Journal’s member gallery ‘Emergence: Cautious Steps,’ Volume 31, No. 4, pg 16
• “Saffron Path” was selected for SAQA’s New Collection Additions (Feb 2021)
• “Sycamore Tree”, was juried into Artist as Quiltmaker XIX, Berlin, Ohio, 2020 (postponed to April 2022)
• St Asalph Gallery, “Ten Years of Textiles: Women in Art”, Bala Cynwyd, PA, Feb 2020
• Bucks County Fine Craft Show, June 2015
• Solo Show at The Cloakroom Gallery, New Life Church, Glenside, PA, 2015
• Solo Show at Elcy’s Café, Glenside, PA, 2012
• Juried Show, “Just One” Art Quilt Elements, Wayne Art Museum, Wayne PA, 2012