Sew Many Shows Announcement

Sew Many Shows Announcement

Sew Many Shows is a monthly newsletter and online calendar listing area quilt shows. They are trying to reach out to non-quilters by creating a brochure to distribute to places like senior centers, retirement communities, and other places that arrange trips so that these organizations might look to Sew Many Shows as a resource for exploring local art. 

Sew Many Shows would like to include some images of art quilts in this brochure, so they are inviting MA/ RI SAQA members to submit photos of their quilts for consideration. 

Here is a link to check out their plans (and sign up for their newsletter if you don’t already receive it).  Sew Many Shows  

For information on their upcoming brochure, check out Brochure description.

If you would like one of your quilts to be considered for use in the brochure or if you have questions, please send your photo, name, and contact information to Erica at questions@sewmanyshows.com by Dec. 31.  If your quilt is selected, you will be contacted and asked to fill out a form giving them permission to use it.

News from Salley Mavor

News from Salley Mavor

SALLEY MAVOR: Once Upon a Stitch

Dec. 12, 2019 – Jan. 26, 2020
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Opening Reception: Friday, Dec. 13 – 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm ~ Artist Gallery Talk at 4:00pm

This exhibition is an opportunity to see the fine detail and 3-dimensional quality of Salley Mavor’s bas-relief sculptural embroideries. A wide selection of her charming hand stitched artwork will be shown, inviting visitors into a world full of childhood wonder. On display are a number of scenes from her award-winning picture book, Pocketful of Posies, as well as other titles from Ms. Mavor’s 25 year career illustrating children’s books. Several of the works in the show are on loan from private collections. The exhibition and accompanying scavenger hunt are sure to appeal to families and anyone with a penchant for miniatures and/or needlework. 

Photo credit – Rob Goldsborough. Detail from Mary Had a Lamb, ©1995

News from Nancy Turbitt

Nancy Turbitt has been selected to present a Lightning Talk at the upcoming SAQA Conference, MoSAiQA, in Toronto, Canada on Friday, March 20th. The annual conference is scheduled next year from March 19 - 22, 2020. "Series Work: Habitat" will illustrate not only how to create and develop a unified theme with art, but will attempt to spark interest in protecting the global and neighborhood habitats around which we live and work.

News from Mary-Ellen Latino

News from Mary-Ellen Latino

2/6-3/20  Mosesian center for the arts  321 Arsenal St.  Watertown, MA 02472

“Threaded: Contemporary Fiber in New England” 

My quilted piece: GOT EGGS?

Also

Thru 1/5/20 “Connecting our Natural Worlds”

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Tucson AZ

NATURE’S DANCE-SPIDER IN THE WEB!

News from Deb Bisacchi

News from Deb Bisacchi

 My husband and I recently downsized and my studio space is now smaller than all the stuff I have to put in it!! (Not yet ready for a photo op.)Even though our living space is smaller the views are now expansive as we are in South Plymouth on a bluff looking over the Bay.  

I am transitioning from traditional quilting to art quilting and it is a challenge that requires baby steps. Right now, I am going through my works-in-progress boxes grabbing anything that may be usable in a different way.  

Here is an example that I want to mount each on a canvas or weathered wood, preferably not my deck (LOL).  

I am also beginning to draw.  I love working in graphite  and am fascinated by facess. Learning portraitureis an interesting and arduous process. My challenge is doing part to whole.  I can now do eyes and ears and mouths, but the composite is not there yet. But, I  love the process. I love learning.  Here is my husband’s eye.  

News from Carol Anne Grotrian

News from Carol Anne Grotrian

I'm teaching at a new venue--Fivesparks, an art center in Harvard, MA. The first workshop is "Silk Scarf Dyeing," introduction to shibori using fiber reactive dyes and indigo on Dec. 7 from 10-3. For more information: https://www.harvardculture.org/event/silk-scarf-dyeing-workshop/. I'm planning future workshops there for new and previous students who wish to learn more dye and shibori techniques. I'm also lecturing on indigo at Quilters Connection, followed by workshops on January 17 and 18. 

My quilts have been juried into "Threaded," a February  SDA exhibit at the Arsenal Center for the Arts. I've also been commissioned to create three more quilts for the Mayo Clinic, this time for their facility in Jacksonville, FL.

News From Tricia Deck

News from Tricia Deck

I just had an article published in the Art Quilting Studio Magazine, winter addition. Here is the front page!

News from Sue Polansky

News from Sue Polansky

• I’ve been interviewed by the German quilting magazine “Patchwork Professional.” The feature article will be in their February 2020 issue. The editor sent a preview of their current issue, and I was pleased to see that the high quality photos were of art quilts and not limited to “patchwork.” She did send a copy of the article to me, but it is written in German, so I have no idea, and Goggle translate was not much help!  
• I gave a trunk show and presentation entitled “Artistic Alchemy: The Magic of Inspiration and Ideas”  to the Wakefield, MA Nimble Thimblers Quilt Guild this month.
• My quilt “Butterfly and Flowers” was juried into the Fall/Winter Juried Member’s Exhibition 2019 at the Whistler Museum in Lowell, MA. The show runs until January 25^th, 2020. 
• My quilt “Balancing Act” was juried in to the "con/TEXT" exhibition at Grace Chapel Art Gallery. The show runs until Wednesday, January 8.
• I completed a non-quilt art project requiring over 5,000 masonry nails! “Point of Entry” is intended as Lady Liberty’s updated welcome mat (looking like a bed of nails). 
• Another non-quilt art project is that I’m painting a mural of cute animals in hot-air balloons on the nursery walls for my first grandchild, Lillian Victoria.
• I took a two-day workshop given by Susan Lenz. She makes layered and textured pieces, uses burning and melting techniques with soldering iron and heat gun, and adds a variety of stitch and bead embellishments. We started out with incredibly tacky, neon-bright polyester fabrics that I couldn’t imagine anything good coming out of and ended up with really interesting pieces that were curious blends of layers and processes. I’d recommend taking a workshop with her!
• And lastly, I have begun work on my next big art quilt. I have to rely on my drawing skills to get the idea from concept to a plan, so it is requiring me to stretch! It’s been awhile since I’ve actually put pencil to paper!

News from Allison Wilbur

News from Allison Wilbur

Allison Wilbur will be part of a three person exhibit at The Bunny Fain Gallery at Temple Habonim in Barrington (165 New Meadow Rd). The artists' reception will be on January 5 from 1:00 - 3:00 and the gallery will be open  January 3 - February 27  from 9 am to 4 pm Monday through Thursday and 9 am to noon on Friday.  

Sister Artists will have a pop up exhibit at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC on January 25, 2020.   40 quilt artists from around the country have partnered with women in Mali to create beautiful art quilts as a fund raiser for victims of sexual violence in Mali. The quilts will be on display to generate interest in the online auction (more news on the auction soon). If you are in the DC area, please come join us! 

Allison Wilbur Classes at  Meraki Stitch Studio  in Warren, Rhode Island

Memory Quilt Collage with Vintage Linens (Jan 17 and Feb 7 from 10:00 - 1:00), 

Transfer a photo to fabric and combine it with vintage linens, lace, trim, buttons and other memorabilia to create a family collage. 

Thread Painted Butterfly (March 30 and April 6 from 1:30 - 3:30)

If you have been curious about thread painting but felt intimidated, this class is a great starting project; it is small and easily finished and looks more complex than it is! 

Stitched Indigo Dyeing on February 21 (from 10:00 - 3:00)

This class will focus on  stitched designs and will involve some pre dyeing day homework, so please sign up early if you can (stitching takes time).