Salley Mavor Featured in Two Exhibitions

Salley Mavor Featured in Two Exhibitons

Liberty and Justice: The Sweet to Satirical Art of Salley Mavor

Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, Massachusetts, March 2 – April 20, 2019

Opening Reception – March 2, 5 – 7pm

Artist Talk – “Sweet to Satirical”, Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 11:00 am

The exhibit is an opportunity to see a wide array of works by fiber artist and illustrator, Salley Mavor, who has recently added political satire to her list of subjects to explore. She uses small dolls as a metaphor for playing house in a safe controlled environment that has been taken over by outside political forces. The exhibit features a collection of photographs of scenes she created in a doll house and a stop-motion animated film, which satirize the current administration in Washington. The original dolls and props used in the film will also be on display. Although Salley Mavor’s foray into political art is the centerpiece of the show, the exhibition also includes original embroidered children’s book illustrations and other artwork from earlier in her 40-year career. The inclusion of these pieces tracks the evolution of her artistic journey from “innocence” to tackling real world issues.

MIGRATION

Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI

March 14 – April 21, 2019

Opening Reception, Friday, March 15th, 6:00 pm

The multi-media group exhibit on the theme of migration includes the work of guest artist Salley Mavor. Four of her bas-relief embroidered pieces will be on display; Displaced, Cover Up, Whiskers and FaceTime.

"Displaced"
by Salley Mavor

Congratulations Valerie Maser-Flanagan

CONGRATULATIONS TO

VALERIE MASER-FLANAGAN

Valerie has two pieces on exhibit at the Migration Exhibit at the Umbrella for the Arts in Concord, MA.  The exhibit includes a variety of artists who work in fiber.

For more information visit:  https://theumbrellaarts.org/migration

See Valerie's two pieces below.

Between the Dark Spaces Shines the Light
by Valerie Maser-Flanagan

Portal #2
by Valerie Maser-Flanagan

Meet Ann Ribbens

MEET ANN RIBBENS

NEW SAQA MA/RI REGIONAL MEMBER

I am excited to be a new member of SAQA and I look forward to connecting with members of the MA/RI regional group. I have been living in Berlin, MA, for the last 10 months. I am a transplant from Minnesota where I lived for over 20 years. My husband and I are “trailing grandparents” in that we followed our daughter and granddaughter to MA when our daughter got a new job last year.   

I deploy a wide range of surface design techniques in my contemporary quilts.  I seek to provide rich visual details while giving the viewer a “wide angle” view.  My work is both representational and abstract.

I have always been interested in quilting.  I come from many generations of women who made fantastically beautiful quilts.  They were Midwestern farm women with great sensibilities for color and pattern.  Of course, they used scraps because that's what was available to them during the first half of the 20th century.  Little girl’s dresses and men's suits alike found new lives in these wonderful quilts.  I have 14 heirloom quilts that were made between 1880 and the 1930s, most are works of art from my grandmother and her cousin.

I have been making quilts since 1985.  It seemed like the best way to get through impossibly long Minnesota winters while raising a toddler. Though sewing skills come in handy for quilt making, so much more precision was involved to ensure that corners lined up correctly and that the color scheme worked.  Like most quilters, I had a number of ugly products, but I learned from each one.

In the mid-90s, I abandoned making traditional quilts.  I joined Minnesota Contemporary Quilters and found a whole new artistic outlet.  I’ve experimented with various media including using trims, dying my own fabrics and embellishing my work with hand embroidery and beads. 

I work in small formats, or "wall" quilts.  I have focused my work on several themes in recent years:  memory, environmental issues and women’s relationships to their bodies.

These days, I work primarily with shibori methods and deconstructed screen printing.  I’ve been successful combining the two techniques to get outcomes that I’d hoped for. My work has been exhibited at the Brush Gallery in Lowell, MA, the Schweinfurth Museum in Auburn, NY, the Minnesota State Fair and several venues in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

"21 Possible Worlds"
by Ann Ribbens

Volunteers Need for MA/RI Exhibition Committee Conference Call

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

SAQA MA/RI REGIONAL EXHIBITION COMMITTEE

ZOOM CONFERENCE CALL

Elaine Hickey, the incoming chair of the SAQA MA/RI Regional Exhibition Committee, is asking for volunteers to attend a Zoom Conference call.  Volunteers will be committing to this first brainstorming session only.  The purpose of the call is to generate ideas and come up with a plan for the next MA/RI regional exhibition.  Your input at this conference call is vital to the direction and planning of this next regional event.  Volunteers who have previously identified themselves as interested are asked to respond to Elaine, and participate.  Additional volunteers are strongly urged to come forward to make the results of this conference a true reflection of the interests of the membership.

Please email Elaine Hickey at ehickey1202@gmail.com to express your willingness to participate in this Zoom Conference call, along with your general availability (evenings only, during the day, weekends, dates unavailable, etc.) for the call to be scheduled at the optimum time.  Once she has a list of interested parties, she will notify volunteers by email the scheduled time of the call, along with directions for dialing in.

We strongly urge you to help us plan this next regional exhibition by inputting your ideas and desires during this conference call, so that we can continue our success at demonstrating the artistic talent and creativity of the SAQA MA/RI Region.