Olena Nebuchadnezzar

Bradham’s Pharmacy is an iconic landmark in New Bern, NC, known for the invention of “Brad’s Drink,” later renamed Pepsi-Cola. Some of us are old enough to have fond memories of sitting at a soda fountain enjoying an ice-cold glass of soda pop for just five cents. I took this photograph on an early spring morning and could just imagine the “reflections” seen in the drugstore windows that have changed since its opening in the 1890s.

Artist’s photograph enhanced using computer software commercially printed on fabric; collage and fusing; free-motion machine stitching; thread sketching. Materials include: cotton fabric and batting; cotton and polyester thread.

Patti Louise Pasteur’s awards include winning first place in the Altered Art category at the Simply Southern and Paper Artist Expo in Nashville, TN. She has also won awards in local art exhibits for art quilts in Hillsborough and Henniker, NH, and was a finalist for the Niche Awards in 2016. She has published articles in Stampington & Co. magazines, as well as for Quilting Arts, Cloth, Paper, Scissors, and Studios. She recently won the Bank of the Arts National Juried Exhibition Permanent Collection Purchase Award in New Bern. Exhibitions include a solo show for art quilts at the Robert E. White Gallery at Husson University in Bangor, ME. She has the honor of her quilt, “There Was One Left,” having been published in Sandra Sider’s Quarantine Quilts: Creativity in the Midst of Chaos (2020).