Photo by Lauren LaRocca “I basically do just kind of throw everything on my table and build the collage as I go, never knowing how it’s going to turn out,” Hluch said. Here, her work table, at her home studio in downtown Frederick, is covered in materials and works in progress. Unlike when she weaves on her loom, she typically works on several collages simultaneously.

She bends traditional techniques to make them her own and throughout November will show her work at The Muse in downtown Frederick in the exhibit “A Reflection of Asia: Recent Textiles.”

Hluch, a current and three-time recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Artist Award for visual arts, has exhibited internationally and taught at Duksung Women's University in Seoul, Korea.

“These works reflect the distillation of my experiences that run the gamut from quiet reflection to confused chaos,” Hluch said.