Jennifer McBrien is a Baltimore textile artist who uses her sewing machine as a drawing tool to honor her fragile subjects. Trained as a painter, with only one sewing class from Junior High under her belt, she has relied on her experimentation and creative thinking skills to make her original designs for the past15 years. Her process begins with her ink drawings that are then translated through the eloquence of the stitched line. She utilizes fabrics to play with pattern, depth and transparency.