Kathlyn Leighton
County: King County
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![LeightonP](https://media.artisttrust.org/assets/artists/LeightonP.jpg)
Awards
Grants for Artist Projects 2003
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About
Kathlyn Leighton received a 2003 GAP to defray material costs and allow for studio time on Shoe Stories, an ongoing project wherein beaded mosaics take the form of shoes and thereby visualize a story. “The first goal of this project is to identify with the stories represented and to stimulate the viewers’ own personal memories. Another goal is to broaden public awareness towards a non-traditional medium — beads as art. Art that is defined by the vision it represents not the medium representing it.” Drawn from verbal stories, Leighton first works on paper and then designs a shoe pattern that is, in turn, fitted to the shoes. And then the labor-intensive application of beads begins.
Featured Works
![LeightonHardworking](https://media.artisttrust.org/assets/art/LeightonHardworking.jpg)
Hardworking Man, size 10.5 mans boot, beads, sequins, glass trinkets, fabric, 8.25"x5"x12.5" each, 2002.
![LeightonWedding](https://media.artisttrust.org/assets/art/LeightonWedding.jpg)
White Wedding, size 8.5 womans pump, beads, sculpted paper clay, glass flowers, pearls, fabric, 6.25"x3.5"x10.5" each, 2002.
![LeightonRedHot](https://media.artisttrust.org/assets/art/LeightonRedHot.jpg)
Red-hot, size 8 womans high heels, beads, sequins, fabric stabilizer, wire, R: 8"x3.5"x9.5"; L: 7.5"x3.5"x9.5", 2001.