Mixed Media
In 2004, Nesting, received The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Best in Show Award in the 55th Art of the Northeast USA exhibition at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center. Juror, Maurice Tuchman, senior curator emeritus at the Los Angeles Museum of Art said of Nesting, "It breathes, it's open, it commands a large space; yet it's fresh and original...a combination of delicacy and boldness."
The handmade paper installation, Nesting, uses no glue, sizing, added dye, or surface color. The fourteen units were formed on a screen and hand pressed, drying in the sun (rather than in a hydraulic or book press). The colors come from the cotton and linen clothing (most belonging to family members) that Church uses to make pulp.