SAQA Layered & Stitched: 50 Years of Innovative Art, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, California, October 10, 2021, through January 9, 2022

Layered & Stitched: 50 Years of Innovative Art (SAQA Global) – San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles Oct 10, 2021 – Jan 09, 2022 Layered & Stitched: 50 Years of Innovative Art is a gorgeous showcase of fifty art quilts by renowned master artists. Seminal works show the evolution of the art quilt from the earliest pioneers to today.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Favorite Collars

Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Supreme Court Justice had some artistic collars. You can see her favorites at: https://time.com/5914834/ruth-bader-ginsburg-collars/

Van Gogh Lumieres Exhibit Video

This is breathtaking for me every time I have watched and listened to it.  The Lumieres exhibit of Vincent Van Gogh was at Atelier des Lumieres in Paris until January 2020. The song, “Vincent,” is by Don McLean. McLean wrote and sang the song, which was high on the pops charts in the seventies.

2020 Decorators’ Show House & Gardens Video

Because of the corona virus, the St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild Decorators’ Show House in Indianapolis is not open to the public this year, but you can get a virtual tour.

Ann Harwell Earth Gallery Videos

Here are videos of Ann Harwell’s Earth Gallery with piano music of Walter Saul, composer, and produced by Daphne Saul. There are videos of thirty-four pieces. The quilts are beautiful!

“Materialized” Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin, through November 10, 2019

Pat Bishop – Ephraim Shop

Materialized
is at Neville Public Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin, through  November 10, 2019

This is a fiber art exhibition by the group ‘Women Who Run With Scissors’, of East Central Wisconsin.

“Fantastical Botanical” The Gallery at CCA, 250 North Arizona Avenue, Chandler, Arizona , through August 25, 2019

 Tashina Knight                 Prickly Pears

 

Fantastical Botanical

is at The Gallery at CCA ,  250 North Arizona Avenue in Chandler, Arizona,  through August 25, 2019.

Arizona is known for the saguaro cacti that populate much of the state – and whose bloom is the state flower – but it is also home to a wide variety of other plant life. This exhibition will display paintings, ceramics, and other multi-media artworks depicting and inspired by botanicals from inside and outside the state.

 

“Out of the Blue” New Mexico State Capitol, East Rotunda Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, through August 9, 2019

Shannon Conley – 33°20’N, 105°33’W

Out of the Blue
is at New Mexico State Capitol, East Rotunda Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
through August 9, 2019

Out of the Blue is an exhibition of contemporary fiber art by the SAQA New Mexico region. Blue is the color of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.

“Sense Of Community,” Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC, April 15, 2019

Sense Of Community is at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC,  through April 15, 2019.A Sense of Community is a SAQA regional show from Maryland, District of Columbia, and West Virginia. Artists made quilts to celebrate Canada’s birthday. The exhibition will celebrate the community of quilters between US and Canada.

Quilt Con 2019 Winners

Quilt Con 2019 winners can be seen at:

https://www.quiltcon.com/2019-winners

2nd Place: Double sens  By Sophie Zaugg

Quilt National ’19, Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio, May 24 – September 2, 2019

Quilt National ’19 is an international juried exhibition of innovative contemporary art quilts held in Athens, Ohio, at the Dairy Barn. The show is from May 24 through September 2.

 

http://athensohio.com/events/quilt-national-2019/?fbclid=IwAR0krL_h5e77Xeoo9avqdNUfq4nEvv-RvzUlYVUGrB3RGBUal2A88DD7gxE

“Conversations” Golden Prairie Arts Council, Carman, Manitoba, Canada, through March 29, 2019

Linda MacKay –  If Chairs Could Talk

 

 

 

Conversations
is at Golden Prairie Arts Council in Carman, Manitoba, Canada, through March 29, 2019.
Conversations is an exhibition based upon the conversation between two artists. 24 partnered pairs through joint discussion will set the boundaries for their imagery so that the two pieces will respond or relate to each other.

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“Season after Season” Texas Quilt Museum, La Grange, Texas, January 10 – March 24, 2019

Season after Season will be at Texas Quilt Museum in La Grange, Texas, from January 10 – March 24, 2019. This SAQA Global Exhibition offers creative explorations  from the seasonal changes in the world around us to the personal transitions that are part of life’s journey.

Daren Redman  My Back Yard, Indiana

You can view the exhibit as a slide show at the SAQA website at: http://www.saqa.com/memberArt.php?ID=3658

“Stitched Connections” Beebe Estate, Melrose, Massachusetts, through December 22, 2018

Valerie Maser Flanagan –  Structure #1 (photo by Joe Ofria)

Stitched Connections
is at Beebe Estate in Melrose, Massachusetts,  through December 22, 2018.

Stitched Connections is a fiber art exhibition centered around a historical quilt from Melrose, Massachusetts. The “Melrose History Quilt” was made in 1898, and the red and white quilt includes more than 200 signatures, most of whom were Melrose residents.

“Fiber Art in the Digital Age” Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, to January 13, 2019

Charlotte Ziebarth –  Wave Equations

Fiber Art in the Digital Age
is at Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts in Cedarburg, Wisconsin,  to January 13, 2019.

“Bank of the Arts National Juried Exhibition” Craven Arts Council and Gallery, New Bern, North Carolina through October 27, 2018

Vicki Conley –  Spring Storm in Denali

Bank of the Arts National Juried Exhibition
is at Craven Arts Council and Gallery  in New Bern, North Carolina, through  October 27, 2018

“Stitched Together” Fine Line Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, Illinois, through October 13, 2018

Maggie Weiss –  Sante

Stitched Together
is at Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St Charles, Illinois, through October 13, 2018.

Stitched Together is a SAQA regional exhibition of contemporary art quilts by Illinois and Wisconsin SAQA members. The exhibit consists of 30 art quilts by 30 artists. A wide variety of styles, methods, and interpretations are represented in this colorful and textural feast.

 

“Tales from a Ghost Town” The Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa, through September 29, 2018

Joanne Alberda

Tales from a Ghost Town
The Octagon Center for the Arts in Ames, Iowa,  through September 29, 2018.

This is a series of quilted wall works based on photographs of the burned, bleached and decaying wood of the remains of a robust Montana gold mining town of the 1890’s. See Alberda’s work in Tales from a Ghost Town.

 

How Ricky Tims Hand Dyes

Learn How Ricky Tims Hand Dyes His Fabrics! ~Celebrating 20 Years of Hand-Dyed Fabrics~

 

FINALLY REVEALED! Have you ever wondered how fabrics are dyed at the Ricky Tims studio in Colorado? Here he shows you how. I am posting this from TheQuiltShow so you can see how Ricky does his dyeing. One thing to notice is that he soaks his damp fabric in  soda ash solution before applying the dyes.  I sometimes soda ash this way, but I usually pour soda ash solution over my already scrunched up damp fabric  after the dyes have been applied.

 

 

“Cloth, Needle, Thread” Legacy Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, through August 30, 2018

Gunnel Hag –  Wild Strawberries at the Lake House

Cloth, Needle, Thread
is at Legacy Gallery in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, through August 30, 2018.

In Cloth, Needle, Thread, eight Toronto textile artists use piecing, quilting, applique, embroidery, dyeing, printing, photo transfer, felting, and painting.

“Silence with a Touch of Wow” Adobe Gallery, Vista, California through August 25, 2018

Karen Bennick –  Mist Over the Mountain

Silence with a Touch of Wow
is at Adobe Gallery in Vista, California through August 25, 2018.
Free Spirits Art Quilters presents: Silence With a Touch of Wow, art quilts by a group of eight fiber artists.

Simple Zipper Techniques

 

Zipper Tips and Techniques

 

“36th Annual New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts” Lincoln Center for the Performing and Visual Arts, Fort Collins, Colorado, through September 1, 2018

Pat Bishop –  Lichen on Pine

36th Annual New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts
is at Lincoln Center for the Performing and Visual Arts in Fort Collins, Colorado, through  September 1, 2018

“Denise Oyama Miller – Fallen Leaf Painting With My Scissors” Bay Quilts Gallery, Richmond, California, through August 1, 2018

Denise Oyama Miller –  Fallen Leaf

Painting With My Scissors
is at Bay Quilts Gallery in Richmond, California, through August 1, 2018

Painting with My Scissors is a solo show of recent work by Denise Oyama Miller, including pieces from the Textures of the Sierra Nevada show. Over thirty pieces are on display.

 

Wrapped Canvas Tutorial

We All Sew has a tutorial for wrapping a piece onto a stretched canvas.  I have done this with many small art and traditional quilts. Try it!

https://weallsew.com/wrap-pieced-fabric-canvas/?utm_source=weallsew&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=post_fathers_day_sewing_projects_from_weallsew

“Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie” Carnegie Center for Art and History New Albany, Indiana, through July 21, 2018

Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie
is at Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, Indiana, through July 21, 2018

Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie is an annual, juried exhibition of contemporary art quilts art held at the Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany, Indiana.

Connie Kincius Griner –  View from the Microscope: Pickled Paramecia

“Fiberworks 2018” Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, through August 10, 2018

Shannon Conley – Nestling

Fiberworks 2018

is at Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, through August 10, 2018.
Fiberworks 2018, celebrating forty years, is an annual juried fiber art exhibition sponsored by the Fiber Artists of Oklahoma.

“Color Improvisations 2: An International Exhibition of Contemporary Quilts,” Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, through September 23, 2018

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RIFF #4: CALM, Nancy Crow

Photos are the Museum’s.

 

Color Improvisations 2 is an exhibition of contemporary quilts curated by Nancy Crow of Baltimore, Ohio. The exhibition includes 25 spectacular large-format quilts by 25 artists from Canada, Germany, Scotland, Switzerland and the United States – including a piece by Nancy Crow.

The exhibition premiered at the Museum Tuch+Technik in Germany in 2016, and has subsequently been shown in Spain, Switzerland and France. In 2018, a select number will be presented at the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This is the exhibition’s first North American, and only Canadian venue.

“Artist As Quiltmaker ” FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, Ohio, through July 29, 2018

Artist As Quiltmaker is at Oberlin, Ohio. The FAVA ( Firelands Association for the Visual Arts) Gallery and Oberlin area fiber art community  have the exhibit on through July 29, 2018.

You can see some of the art at:     http://www.favagallery.org/aqm-artist-as-quiltmaker.html

“The “Art” Quilts of Katie Fowler “

The “Art” Quilts of Katie Fowler from TheQuiltShow

 

Katie Fowler writes about her quilting, “I made my first quilt in 1996. I quickly accepted my disinterest in and inability to follow directions and began making “art” quilts as a result. I am about having fun, letting go of rules and finding joy in the creative process. I believe creativity is about connection: to self, to others, and to a higher creativity.” Here she shares some of those “art” quilts.

“Freehand Patchwork by Danny Amazonas”

 

http://www.quilts.com/quilt-gallery.html

is where, on Quilts, Inc.,  you can see sixteen of Danny Amazonas’ works.

 

 

“Abyss” by Danny Amazonas

Photo is Quilts, Inc.

“Artist as Quiltmaker XVIII” Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA), Oberlin, Ohio, May 13, 2018 to July 29, 2018

 

Artist as Quiltmaker XVIII
Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA) in Oberlin, Ohio, from May 13, 2018 to Jul 29, 2018.

The Artist as Quiltmaker is the second-longest-running  art quilt exhibition in the world. This year’s exhibition will feature the work of 32 artists from across North America

“Layered Voices” Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, Oklahoma, through August 18, 2018

Layered Voices,  a SAQA exhibit, is at Oklahoma State University Museum of Art in Stillwater, Oklahoma, through August 18, 2018.

You cas see slides of the art at:     http://www.saqa.com/memberArt.php?ID=3557

“Unfolding Stories 3” Harbour House Centre for Arts and Yoga, Kingsbrige, Devon, United Kingdom, through May 3, 2018

 

 

Unfolding Stories 3
is at Harbour House Centre for Arts and Yoga in Kingsbrige, Devon, United Kingdom, through  May 3, 2018

A treasured First Communion dress transformed with stitch, textile fragments dyed in seawater on an uninhabited Scottish island, and plastic marine debris stitched into a textile – just 3 of the exciting new contemporary quilts on show in this exhibition by the dynamic Contemporary Quilters West. Twenty-one of their members will be exhibiting their newest work.

Christine Seager

The Quilts of Maria Shell

The Quilt Show presents The Quilts of Maria Shell

 

 

 

 

“SEEDS of SAQA How Does Your Garden Grow” New Mexico Farm and Ranch Museum, Las Cruces, New Mexico, through August 5, 2018

SEEDS of SAQA How Does Your Garden Grow
is at New Mexico Farm and Ranch Museum  in Las Cruces, New Mexico, through  August 5, 2018

The artists of the New Mexico region of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) created a rack of fiber art seed packets. Each artist chose a flower or vegetable and created its image in a 16” x 16” quilt. The quilts have been mounted to resemble a traditional seed packet.

 

Lynn Rogers –  Chuck’s Berries

“California Fibers: Surface and Structure” Branch Gallery, Inglewood, California through May 6, 2018

 

Linda Anderson –  Spellbound

California Fibers: Surface and Structure  
is at Branch Gallery in Inglewood, California, through   May 6, 2018.
California Fibers: Surface and Structure​ features diverse works created by members of California Fibers. All works in the exhibition address the theme of “Surface and Structure” as interpreted by each artist, from imagery and inspiration to materials and processes.

“Textures of the Sierra Nevada” Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno, Nevada, through September 23, 2018

 

Denise Oyama Miller –  Fallen Leaf

Textures of the Sierra Nevada 

is at Sierra Arts Foundation in Reno, Nevada,  through September 23, 2018.
Two textile/fiberartists, Denise Oyama Miller (California) and Nancy Ryan (Nevada), interpret and celebrate the beauty and textures of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Free Strathmore 2018 Online Workshop Series

 

 

Click  on this to go to the web site: Announcing our FREE 2018 Online Workshops!Our free Online Workshops will be starting up again in early March! We have inspiring new topics for our virtual classroom, and we’re excited to introduce 3 new fantastic artist-instructors! Here’s what we have planned: Workshop 1: Realistic Watercolor for Beginners Instructor: Kelly Eddington Start Date: March 5, 2018 Workshop 2: Colored Pencil with Mixed Media Instructor: Sarah Becktel Start Date: May 7, 2018 Workshop 3: Finding the Focus in your Painting Instructor: Robert Burridge Start Date: September 4, 2018 Learn techniques from experienced artists through online videos and downloadable instructions. Get inspired by other students in our virtual classroom. Keep motivated with ideas and tips from your instructors. Share all the fun on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter using #StrathmoreWorkshops

“Susan Else: Without a Net” San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, California, through April 15, 2018

Susan Else: Without a Net

is at San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in San Jose, California, through  April 15, 2018

As a fabric sculptor, Santa Cruz-based artist Susan Else pushes the boundaries of the studio art quilt movement by integrating sound, light and motors with colorful, stitched figures. In her solo exhibition Without a Net, Else explores the theatrical awe and dark underbelly of the circus.

Photo is the Museum’s.

Betty Busby’s Work

TheQuiltShow has a video of some of Betty Busby’s work.

“Stitched Together” Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, Wisconsin, through March 18, 2018

Stitched Together
is at Anderson Arts Center in Kenosha, Wisconsin, through March 18, 2018

Stitched Together is an exhibit of contemporary fiber art work by Illinois and Wisconsin regional members of SAQA. The length of the Midwest SAQA ILWI region is over 800 miles, from Northern Wisconsin to Southern Illinois. That area spans many miles of lakes, forests, farmlands, cities, towns, open sky and skyline. What inspires us? What makes us different? Similar? Our common passion for fiber art keeps us Stitched Together. The exhibit consists of 30 art quilts by 30 artists and was juried by Illinois fiber artist Sharon L. Wright. The show features contemporary art quilts with wide variations in artistic interpretation, style, and technique. Work by juror Sharon Wright and Co-curators Pat Kroth and Cynthia Wenslow will also be included.

Pat Kroth –  Ebbtide

“Off the Grid: Contemporary Fiber and Textile Art” Betty Mae Kramer Gallery and Music Room, Silver Spring, Maryland, through April 6, 2018

Off the Grid: Contemporary Fiber and Textile Art
is at Betty Mae Kramer Gallery and Music Room in Silver Spring, Maryland, through April 6, 2018

Off the Grid features contemporary fiber and textile based artworks by Montgomery County artists Judy Kirpich, Hillary Steel, Floris Flam, Betsy Packard, and Karen Schulz. The five artists featured in this exhibition make innovative use of a variety of global and traditional methods such as weaving, resist dyeing, piecing, stitching, and screen printing. Diversely inspired, these contemporary works embrace abstraction and improvised use of color, shape, and form.

Floris Flam –  Cityscape 7

“Local Color, Stories of Our Members” The Gallery at 48 Natoma, Folsom, California, January 26 – March 8, 2018

Local Color, Stories of Our Members
will be at The Gallery at 48 Natoma, Folsom, California, from January 26 – March 8, 2018.

Local Color, Stories of our Members showcases recent, innovative fiber art work celebrating the personal stories and narratives of our region, SAQA Northern California & Northern Nevada. Exhibitions are at Slater Museum, Norwich, Connecticut (June – September 2017) and The Gallery at 48 Natoma, Folsom, California (January – March 2018).

 

Denise Oyama Miller –  Chromatic Cedar

“Our Changing Landscape” UCM Gallery of Art and Design, Warrensburg, Missouri, through February 3, 2018

Cindy Brendzel – Westward Trail

Our Changing Landscape  

is at UCM Gallery of Art and Design   in Warrensburg, Missouri,  through February 3, 2018.

In this SAQA exhibition from the Kansas/Missouri/Oklahoma region, artists were encouraged to interpret their own “Changing Landscape” whether abstract, graphic or representation.

 

“A Sense of Home: New Quilts by Heather Jones” The Taft Museum of Art Cincinnati, Ohio, through February 18, 2018

Heather Jones, Central Parkway,  Photo courtesy of Quilt Local by Heather Jones, published by Abrams Books. Photography by Jenny Hallengren.

A Sense of Home: New Quilts by Heather Jones 
is at The Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio,   through February 18, 2018.

Self-taught quilt artist and designer Heather Jones channels the world around her into minimalist quilts that conjure modern painting.

“Heat Wave” & “It’s Not Easy Being Green” Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon, December 15 through February 10, 2018

Sherrie Momey – “Tropical Heat”   Heat Wave & It’s Not Easy Being Green Coos Bay, Oregon December 15, 2017 – February 10, 2018   This exhibition contains works from two area competitions sponsored by the group High Fiber Diet. High Fiber Diet is a group of more than thirty artists located in southwestern Washington and western Oregon who choose to work with fiber to express their interpretation of the world and themselves.

“Floral Mandalas for Hope and Healing” Reston Community Center , Hunters Woods Gallery, Reston, Virginia, through December 5, 2017

Anne Smyers –  “From the Tulips to the Trees”

Floral Mandalas for Hope and Healing  

is at Reston Community Center in  Hunters Woods Gallery in Reston, Virginia, through December 5, 2017

Anne Smyers is a Reston, Virginia, artist who works in fabric and thread. Her recent work features the mandala format.  Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle” or “discoid object.” Mandalas are also conceived as visual representations of the universe in Buddhist traditions, as well as being used as symbols for internal contemplative practice.