Please view the chair at the Rainbow Man, located at 107 East Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Mon-Sat 9-6; Sun 10-5. A silent auction bid list is currently being maintained out of The Rainbow Man.

Please view the chair at the Rainbow Man, located at 107 East Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Mon-Sat 9-6; Sun 10-5. A silent auction bid list is currently being maintained out of The Rainbow Man.

Diane Kenny, said, "I'm making a transition into the fiber arts from having been a clothing designer with a custom clothing business here in town. I'd gotten more and more curious over the years about making color on fiber, and ultimately there is not enough time in which to do both things. I couldn't have dyes and their attendant mess in the space in which I worked with clients, either. I work with silk more often than I work with other fibers, and I incorporated 2 silk types into my chair art. My chair is called "A Prayer for Rain II", and I really have prayed for rain over the past five years. Basically, I made a huge thunderstorm on a bar stool: the cloud is silk georgette, dyed, stuffed with polyfill and stitched to give the cloud definition. The strands of rain are springy silk organza, arashi shibori-dyed. My husband is co-artist on the project as he used our too-large jigsaw (it scares me!) to cut out a huge bolt of lightning, and he has been the technical master and the muscle on this project.

"Our charity is one that may be under-recognized in our community, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, but they've been in our community for many years. They have a small and deeply dedicated staff who work to keep pollutants from the nuclear industry out of our water. I do see some irony in making a chair with a big cloud on it for them, but the water tie-in works. Our host is The Rainbow Man, absolutely my favorite store in town, at 107 E. Palace Ave. I don't know the Kapoun family, but I decided to ask them because I love the store, and Marianne Kapoun graciously said yes to our chair idea."