Edges Exhibit

A total of 93 quilts from 43 artists were submitted. Anastasia Azure, our juror, selected 35 quilts from 31 artists. Anastasia commented on the quality of the submissions and the diversity of interpretation of the theme. 

The exhibit is currently scheduled to open at the New England Quilt Museum on January 12, 2021 and close March 27^th 2021 and at Highfield Hall in Falmouth from Apr. 7 to June 5, 2021.  State guidelines and the ability of the venues to open and hold a reception may make changes in dates necessary. Below is the list of the titles and artists of the quilts that were accepted.

Thanks and congratulations on your quilt!

“Edges” Accepted Works

 

Betsy Abbott - Salt Marsh Spirit

Agusta Agustsson - Fire and Ice

Diana Bailey - Dorothy Lost Her Shoe: The Edge of Calamity

Diana Bailey - Yemen Dragon Tree: The Edge of Extinction

Cindy Bartosewcz - They Call Me Posy

Susan Bates - Edge of Time

Sue Bleiweiss - The Village

Ann Brauer - dreams of autumn

Sue Colozzi - After the Harvest

Alice Cooper - On Edge

Nancy Crasco - Ocean Gardens

Diane English - What Would Klee Say

Diane English - Rubber Duckie

Ellen Fisher - On the Ridge

Sandy Gregg - Flower Garden 6

Carol Grotrian - Sunrise Inspired by Moonrise

Elaine Hickey - Blessed

Jeanne Holtzman - Waiting

Mary-Ellen Latino - Nature's Embrace

Valerie Maser-Flanagan - Balance of Opposites #2

Barbara Meilinger - The Border

Suzanne Munroe - The Edge of the Garden

Madalene Murphy - Ecotone

Sharyn Raiche - Am I Thin Today?

Wen Redmond - The Silence is a Door

Wen Redmond - the sweet press of remembered moments

Martha Sanders - a Walk in the High Desert

Judy Sebastian - Organic

Stephanie Shore - Water Grasses 3

Stephanie Shore - At Lake's Edge

Catherine Smith - Hay Keep Your Distance at the EDGE of the Hay Field 4

Maria Stoller - On the Verge

Gwyned Trefethen - Insomnia

Leslie Vieth - Falling, Falling, Gently Falling

Cathy Williamson - Cheeky

 

POSTPONED Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, MA
INFINITE POSSIBILITIES: A Juried Quilt Exhibition
until 2021
https://www.whistlerhouse.org/index.php/en/

Call for Entry: Edges. Our Regional Exhibit. A great opportunity!!!

We encounter many edges in our lives – the edge between water and land, land and sky, day and night, fall and winter, hope and discouragement. We can equally live on the edge, negotiating a path between difficult options or exploring life to its limits.

Artists are invited to explore and present their own interpretation of the theme, “Edges”.

Juror: Anastasia Azure
June 22, 2020……Online entry opens
o Height: At least 20” but no more than 48”
o Width: At least 20 but no more than 48”
o Minimum size accepted will be 20” by 20”.
o Maximum size accepted will be 48” by 48”
o Depth: piece must not extend from the wall more than 6”.

This is YOUR REGIONAL SHOW!!

Will be displayed at
1. New England Quilt Museum; Lowell, MA Date: Exhibition opens January 12, 2021 Exhibition closes March 27, 2021
2. Highfield Hall; Falmouth MA Date: Exhibition opens April 19, 2021 Exhibition closes June 14, 2021

http://www.saqa.com/calendar-detail.php?ID=6638

For questions about the exhibit contact Elaine Hickey at ehickey1202@gmail.com or Sue Colozzi at suecolozzi@gmail.com

“Stitched” is an exhibit of quilts by eight local fiber artists at the Loading Dock Gallery in Lowell, March 4 - 29.  Each artist has her own unique style, incorporating diverse uses of texture, line, and color.  All eight artists are members of the group, Joined By Stitch, and meet monthly.  Included in the exhibit are works by SAQA members Betsy Abbott, Agusta Agustsson, Tarja Cockell, Sue Colozzi, Janis Doucette, Anne Kimball, Madalene Murphy, and Alanna Nelson.  The Loading Dock Gallery is open Wed. - Sat. from 12 - 5:30 pm and Sun. 1 - 4 pm.  A reception is being held on Saturday, Mar. 7 from 4 - 6 pm.  For more information please go to 
http://www.theloadingdockgallery.com/

Some great tips and inspiration from Wen Redmond!

When asked about my favorite Fusible, I suggest,

TRANS-WEB FUSIBLE WEB HTC4000. (Comes with backing paper, I use it for carrier sheets when printing photos on fabric with my inkjet printer. In fact, I wrote a book about it! Digital Fiber! Can be found in Amazon)

By the bolt with release paper- https://www.amazon.com/HTC-4000-Trans-Web-Fusi…/…/B004KZ3WJM

smaller packages can be found- i.e.- Trans-Web Fusible Web Sheet-36"x 16" | JOANN

I have a tab on my blog with more favorite products- http://fiberartgoddess.blogspot.com/p/favorite-products.html 

My favorite quote- the one that inspired me to move my art 'out' there is by Anais Nin  

‘And the day came when it became more painful to remain tightly closed in a bud than the risk it took to bloom.’

SAQA member, Allison Wilbur, The Advocacy Project (AP) and Quilt for Change worked together to develop an exciting new partnership between survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in Mali and quilters in the Global North. Under the initiative, known as Sister Artists, survivors have produced around 40 embroidered blocks depicting their life in Mali. Many of the quilt artists are SAQA members and live in the New England area.

The quilts will be on display at the New England Quilt Museum April 1 - April 4, 2020.

On Thursday, April 2, 12:30  The museum will have a Brown Bag Lunch talk. This takes place in the Genre Gallery.

On Saturday, April 4 - Hollis Chatelain will be speaking about her Stories of West Africa exhibit. Hollis will also be announcing the quilts she has selected for recognition. In addition three quilts were selected for Viewer’s Choice in the Washington, DC exhibit.

For photos and more information, please visit
https://www.advocacynet.org/sister-artists-2/

Next Meeting March 21, 2020

Next Meeting March 21, 2020 - Meraki Stitch Studio, 30 Cutler Street,#101B in the Cutler Mills complex,  Warren RI Speaker: Rochelle Blease - Starting your own business, growing your business. Starts at 10 AM.

Go to the end of the building and take a left drive to very back of the building.  Enter the door at the end of the building, inside the door take a left, first door on left is Allison Wilbur's studio, second door on left is Miraki Stitch Studio. There is a video on their website where there location is https://www.merakiatcutler.com/ 

"Flight of Ideas," our regional trunk show, opened February 2, 2020 at the Eastham Public Library. It will be on view through the month of February. Thanks to Judy Gaynes Sebastian, who arranged the exhibit, and Elaine Cominos Hickey, Exhibition Committee Chairperson and co-hanger!

Discovering Surface Design with Block Printing - WORKSHOP SPACES AVAILABLE!!

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Liz Shepherd, a nationally known printmaker, will be working with Quilters' Connection on developing skills in Surface Design including carving blocks and learning the ins and outs of using those images to create unique and personal textiles.  Learning the elements of surface design will be a key focus in discovery of the many ways a printed textile can be designed.  Workshop will be held in West Newton at Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studios.

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2 spaces still available in the Friday, February 28 workshop!!  Members and Non-members welcome!

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Contact betsy@betsyhabich.com to sign up.

Paper Piecing with a Modern Aesthetic - WORKSHOP SPACES AVAILABLE!

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If you follow Sarah Bond on Instagram you know how she has taken traditional patterns and turned them into beautiful modern looking quilts.  This workshop includes working with paper piecing, curved piecing, quick strip piecing as well as color and design.  Experience with paper piecing is not required.  This is two one day workshops with Sarah - New York Beauty and Coming Full Circle.  Take one or both!

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2-one day workshops.  March 20 and 21st.  Take one or both!

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Contact betsy@betsyhabich.com to sign up.

On Monday, January 13, 2020, 12:38:52 PM EST, SAQA MA/RI <ma-ri@saqa.com> wrote:

Thread Painting Workshop

Thread Painting

Some news from Concord Piecemakers quilt guild. Betsey Habich will be the speaker on Wednesday April 15 and will give a workshop on Saturday April 18. Betsey will be teaching thread painting and this workshop is open to all for $80 including two kits. Please contact Elana Schreiber for more details: lahsch@verizon.net

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).

  

News from Suzanne Munroe

News From Suzanne Munroe

"Recovery" is hanging at the Art League Rhode Island's 

members Holiday Show - at their new gallery at Hope Artiste Village.  Gallery hours are Thursdays and Fridays from 12:00 - 4:00 pm and Saturdays from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.  Located at 1005 Main Street, Suite 8107  Pawtucket, RI 

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 "What Music They Made"  was juried into the "The Third Annual Art of Darkness" at the HeARTspot Art Center and Gallery in East Providence.  Juror Krzysztof Mathews.  On through second week on November, located at 1979 Pawtucket Ave., EP 

www.suzannemunroe.com

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