Christina Pereyma is a well-known textile artist and resident of Troy who creates “fragile, non-functional garments, iconic textiles and poetic sculptures” incorporating such materials as flower petals, beeswax and eggshells as well as a wide variety of fabrics. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Dayton Visual Arts Center and Dayton Art Institute and in group exhibitions in Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois and Washington, D.C. During the 2009 Cityfolk Festival, Pereyma will be presenting a performance piece, Yellow, in which she uses a historic Davis treadle sewing machine (manufactured in Dayton by the company that evolved into the Huffy bicycle company) to quilt pieces of yellow satiny fabric on which she has printed with the natural rust of steel implements. According to Pereyma, maintaining a steady rhythm pumping the foot treadles and “not sewing your hands into the quilting project” is an apt metaphor for life.