"Motherboard Meltdown V 2.5-2.8: Four Patch" 24"w x 29.5"h x 1"d © September 2003 Available Update 11/9/04 "Holiday Boutique" Zimmerli Art Museum New Brunswick, NJ November 2004 MM V2.5-2.8: Four Patch is in the "Recycled Challenge" QuiltArt online exhibition	EM review of Brodsky Gallery: "Carolyn Lee Vehslage's "Motherboard Meltdown Versions 2.5-2.8: Four Patch" consisted of recycled computer parts, and was perhaps THE piece that most prompted me to ask, "How is this a quilt?" "While most of the artwork in the collection clearly related to the traditional notion of a quilt: two layers of fabric and a layer of batting stitched together, Vehslage stretched the definition of "quilt" in its broadest sense. "Motherboard Meltdown Versions 2.5–2.8: Four Patch" made me speculate why computer parts were in an exhibition of quilts. When I looked closer, I realized that the traditional components of a quilt were there, but rendered in a different type of "fabric" and "thread." "Her artwork was a sashed quilt with four blocks, but the pieces on the blocks were recycled computer components, the striped sashing is multi-colored, multi-wired flat computer ribbon cable, and the ‘thread’ was computer wire. A four-patch quilt normally seems static, but movement through this piece was created by the extension of the rectangular shapes onto the sashing and her use of red, blue and yellow computer media and labels. "In her statement, Vehslage compared the meltdown of the computer's artificial brain to the emotional breakdown of a human brain under severe stress. Of all the artwork in this collection, Vehslage's demonstrated the most imaginative use of materials to create an art quilt." - Sherri Young Dunbar, "When 'Women's Work' Becomes 'ART'" Expository Magazine, Fall 2003
MM V2.9: One Patch	"Motherboard Meltdown Version 2.9: Single Block" 8"w x 10"h x 1"d © September 2003 Available Update 11/9/04 "MM V2.9" will be on exhibit at: "Extreme Quilts", Grants Pass Museum of Art Grants Pass, OR, November 2004
MM V4.1: Single Block	"Motherboard Meltdown Version 4.1: One Patch" 13"w x 16"h x 1"d © September 2003 Sold Update 12/31/04: Collection of Amy Thrasher, El Dorado, CO "Uncommon Threads" Arkansas Historic Museum Little Rock, AR Sept-Oct 2004
MM V3.1-3.9: Nine Patch	"Motherboard Meltdown Versions 3.1-3.9: Nine Patch" 35"w x 44"h x 1.5"d © July 2003 Available won the Carmela Panasci Award at "Art Ability" Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital Malvern, PA November-December 2003 and was part of the documentation of "Women, Trauma & Visual Expression" at the Woman Made Gallery Chicago, IL October-November 2003 Scroll to bottom of page to see individual MM V3.1 through V3.9 before being sashed together and dripped with candle wax.
"Motherboard Meltdown Versions 1.1-1.9, 2.1-2.4" 8"w x 10"h x 1"d each © March 2003 Motherboard Meltdown V1.1 - V1.4 Sold	13 of the "Motherboard Meltdown" series toured New Zealand, Mexico, & France with the "Baker's Dozen"collage exhibition, spring 2003 MM V1.1 is in the permanent collection of Musée ArtColle in Sergines, France and MM V1.2 is at the Museo de Collage in Morelos, Mexico Materials: hand dyed cotton, computer & electronic components, metallic thread, beads, metallic inks, candle wax, and Crayola crayons. Techniques: machine quilting and embroidery, hand stamping, surface designed by waxing the fabric and components, embellishment. Statement: The "Motherboard Meltdown" series symbolizes stress induced mental breakdown. To commission a piece contact clvquilts@yahoo.com
Motherboard Meltdown V1.5 - V1.8 Sold	Motherboard Meltdown V2.1 - 2.4 Sold

"Motherboard Meltdown Versions 4.3: System Bomb" 8"w x 10"h x 1"d © October 2003 Sold "Small Format Art" UNESCO Palace Beirut, Lebonan, December 2003

"Motherboard Meltdown Versions 4.2: System Failure" 8"w x 10"h x 1"d © October 2003 Sold "Small Format Art" Kelekian Art Gallery Beirut, Lebonan, January-April 2004

Exhibitions:

• "Holiday Boutique" Zimmerli Art Museum New Brunswick, NJ Nov 2004 MM 4-Patch
• "Extreme Quilts" Grants Pass Museum of Art Grants Pass, OR November 2004 MM V2.9
• "Uncommon Threads" Arkansas Historic Museum Little Rock, AR Sept-Oct 2004 MM V4.1: One Patch
• "Recycled Challenge" QuiltArt online exhibition MM V2.5-V2.8: Four Patch
• "15th Annual Small Works" Center Gallery, Demarest, NJ March-April 2004 MM V2.9: Single Block
• "Small Format Art" Kelekian Art Gallery, Beirut, Lebonan, January-April 2004 MM V4.2 & MM V4.3- permanent collection
• "The Art & Soul of Quilting" Anderson Art Center, Kenosha, WI January-March 2004 MM V4.1: One Patch
• "Small Format Art" UNESCO Palace, Beirut, Lebonan, December 2003 MM V4.2 & MM V4.3
• "Art Ability" Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital, Malvern, PA November-December 2003 MM V3.1-V3.9: Nine Patch
• "Women, Trauma & Visual Expression" documentation Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL Fall 2003 MM V3.1-V3.9: Nine Patch
• "Fiber Revolution: Quilts As Art" Brodsky Gallery, Princeton, NJ October-November 2003
MM V2.5-V2.8: Four Patch
• "Bakers Dozen" Museo de Collage, Morelos, Mexico, July 2003 MM V1.2 - permanent collection
• "Bakers Dozen" Musée ArtColle, Sergines, France, June 2003 MM V1.1 - permanent collection
• "Bakers Dozen" The Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA, June 2003 MM V1.2
• "Bakers Dozen" New Plymouth, New Zealand, March 2003 MM V1.1-V1.9, V2.1-2.4

• "Motherboard Meltdown: Nine Patch" Carmela Panasci Award "Art Ability" Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital, Malvern, PA
• "System Overload V1.4" Special Award - Excellence in Design "Quilts Along the Bay, 2003"
• "Mixed Media V1.2" Second Place, Other Technique "Quilts Along the Bay, 2003"
• "System Overload V1.1" Judge's Choice, Mixed Media, "Gleaming Treasures", Embellishment, Rosemont, IL
• "Fried Circuits V1.1" Honorable Mention "Interlacements - Fiber & Metal" ARA Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
• "System Overload V1.1" Second Place, Other Technique "Quilts Along the Bay, 2002"
• "Fried Circuits V1.1" Third Place, Other Technique "Quilts Along the Bay, 2002"

"Motherboard Meltdown Versions 3.1-3.9" before sashing & wax