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Pat Kumicich, Naples, FL -Just Quit!-Fiber-36"x50"

Pat Kumicich got the inspiration for her award-winning quilt Just Quit! while she was in France a few years ago.

“I noticed all these packets of American cigarettes with foreign-language labels on them,” said the Naples, Fla., fiber artist. “When I got back home and started translating them, I noticed that it seemed like they were more concerned with what smoking does to your skin than what it does to the rest of you.”

Kumicich started playing with the labels and the cultural riddles around smoking and addiction and turned them into a quilt that earned the Best of Show award at the 41st annual Visual Arts Exhibition at the Center for the Visual Arts, 400 E. Hickory St. Hers is the first fiber selection for Best of Show in the annual exhibit.

Just Quit! is a 36-inch-by-50-inch quilt that has a figure’s face with a cigaretteclutched between two fingers and lips......

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