Cloud Girl Accidentally Eats Rainbow features video, collage, drawing, and textile installation works that explore our relationship to the ephemeral and ever-shifting natural world.
(MARCH 18, 2025 – WINSTON-SALEM, NC) Sawtooth School for Visual Art is proud to present a new solo exhibition by award-winning Winston-Salem-based artist Jessica Singerman. Cloud Girl Accidentally Eats Rainbow features video, collage, drawing, and textile installation works that explore our relationship to the ephemeral and ever-shifting natural world. The exhibition will be on view from Monday, April 21, through Saturday, July 12, 2025, with an opening reception on Thursday, April 17, from 6-8 pm. (Sawtooth will be closed Friday, April 18, through Sunday, April 20, for Easter weekend.)
There will also be complementary hands-on workshops with the artist on Tuesday, April 8, and Wednesday, April 9, to create fabric boulders for the exhibition. These workshops are open to all and offered free of charge, courtesy of Sawtooth and supporting community partners. More information is below.
About the Exhibition
Through textiles, drawing, video, and collage, Cloud Girl Accidentally Eats Rainbow explores distinctions of permanence and impermanence, as well as the delicate balance between chaos and order. Known for abstract paintings that reference the landscape, Cloud Girl marks a departure from Singerman’s usual ways of working, a new direction that evolved from ongoing contemplation, play, and concern.
Singerman’s work exists in tension, incorporating elements both light and heavy, ephemeral and enduring. In the central installation, soft shapes and naturally dyed fabric will suspend from the ceiling, reminiscent of laundry on a line or flags in the wind, while tightly bundled masses, or “boulders,” will sit heavy on the ground. With recent climate disasters spurring reflection and introspection, Singerman’s work reflects on textile’s roles in our ecosystem. “On a large scale,” she says, “it’s an industry of extraction and exploitation. Yet on a small scale, it can be one of care, craft, and resistance.”
Singerman’s video work examines technology’s pervasiveness and social media’s impact on our outdoor experiences. The artist asks viewers to consider: How can we enjoy nature unmediated when social media’s filtered images dominate our view, driven by profit? What are the
consequences of prioritizing performance for strangers over personal growth? Other drawings, collages, and ephemeral installations by the artist reflect the same concerns.
“My connection to the land is both personal and professional,” said Singerman. “As an outdoor athlete and as a former guide leading people across continents by bike and foot, I have seen firsthand how landscapes shape us and how we, in turn, alter them.”
“As a painter, my work is motivated by the outdoor experience. Because painting is inherently a two–dimensional experience, this exhibition–with installations, sculptures, and more–offer a way to create a more immersive and interconnected experience for viewers.”
Singerman has also documented her processes in crafting this exhibition on her website, at
https://jessicasingerman.com/blog/
Hands-On Experiences
Before the exhibition, Sawtooth will host complimentary workshops where participants can create art and learn fiber techniques. Singerman will guide all ages in binding scrap fabric into colorful sculptures called “boulders.” The event fosters community making, conversations with the artist, and reflections on fabric waste. Community-created pieces will be displayed in the exhibition, with all participants acknowledged. Registration required; details below.
Interactive elements are also included in the exhibition itself, including an installation of hand- folded paper cranes that visitors are invited to take with them. “I hope visitors take this memento from the exhibition to reflect on their appreciation of the environment and their role in preserving it,” said Jessica Singerman.
Exhibition Details
Jessica Singerman
Cloud Girl Accidentally Eats Rainbow
Eleanor and Egbert Davis Gallery
Sawtooth School for Visual Art
251 N. Spruce St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101
April 21 – July 12, 2025
Opening Reception: April 17, 6 – 8pm
Hands-On Activities
Both events are free and open to the public. Registration is requested.
Community Boulder Making with Jessica Singerman
Tuesday, April 8 • 7–9 pm
Register here
During the free drop-in event, Singerman will guide participants in a process of binding
scrap fabric to make sculptures she calls “boulders.” These pieces, made with the help of
the community, will be on display during the exhibition April 21 – July 12. All participants will be recognized for their contribution in the exhibition text.
Community Boulder Making with Jessica Singerman
Wednesday, April 9 • 10 am–12 pm
Register here
During the free drop-in event, Singerman will guide participants in a process of binding scrap fabric to make sculptures she calls “boulders.” These pieces, made with the help of the community, will be on display during the exhibition April 21 – July 12. All participants will be recognized for their contribution in the exhibition text.
About Jessica Singerman
Born in Bangor, Maine in 1980, Jessica Singerman lived alternatively in France and the United States during her early life. Singerman earned her BA magna cum laude with Highest Honors in 2002 from the College of William & Mary, Virginia, and her Masters of Fine Arts in 2004 from the University of Delaware while on a fellowship. Her watercolors are the subject of a book published in 2017, Little Watercolor Squares, and her award- winning paintings and drawings are exhibited and collected internationally.
In previous lives, Singerman taught yoga and worked as a guide leading epic bicycle tours all over Europe, Central America, and Australia. She rides bikes, runs, and climbs, and lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with her husband and their son.
