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by Anthony Glassman

Cleveland-Lesbian textile artist and painter Kathryn Pannepacker of Philadelphia is one of 29 people whose work is on display through June 21 in the Focus: Fiber 2008 show at the Cleveland State University Art Gallery.

Her three pieces in the show are all comprised of national flags with added accents to illustrate a point: peace can weave people together, just as war unravels them.

U.S./Iraq (ignite our hearts for peace), representing the fusion of the American and Iraqi flags, makes use of "unorthodox materials," namely paper matches.

"I use paper matches as a metaphor for the war/peace explosion/implosion potential that exists within every society, every individual," Pannepacker says in her artist's statement.

Her other two pieces in the show are just as politically charged. Blood Diamond is the Sierra Leone flag with a large diamond woven in the center, illustrating the root of much of the violence in the African nation, as well as the industry that funds the death and chaos.

Her final work for Focus: Fiber 2008 is Israel/Palestine (peace peep hole), is made with matches and jute, a coarse, woody fiber that globally is second only to cotton in its range of uses and sheer amount of production.

Dividing the two maps is a brown expanse, illustrating the wall that the Israeli government built around Palestinian territories.

In the center, though, is a spark of hopea tiny little peephole, a gap in the wall through which understanding may flow. Pannepacker graduated from Penn State

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She continued her studies in tapestry in both France and Japan, and has done everything from painting 500-foot-long murals illustrating the textiles of foreign countries to teaching her chosen craft of weaving.

Focus: Fiber 2008 runs through June 21 at the Cleveland State University Art Gallery, 2307 Chester Avenue. For more information, go to www.csuohio.edu/ artgallery.

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