Saturday, October 26, 2019 A Studio Tour with Jeanne Marklin. Jeanne has a lovely separate studio space on her home property in western Massachusetts, close to the Clark Art Institute and only 10 minutes to MASS MOCA. We will learn the story of Jeanne’s creation of her separate studio, along with how she likes to work. Jeanne is currently on the SAQA Board of Directors and is chair of the SAQA Education Committee.
Saturday, September 21, 2019. Blaine Sewing Machine Center, 1280 Oaklawn Ave., Cranston, RI. (http://www.blainesewing.net/) Nancy Messier will be our guest speaker. She will share with us her beautiful miniature quilts and discuss her process and experience in creating them.
Saturday, June 1, 2019. Wayside Sewing, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, 1021 Boston Post Rd E, Marlborough, MA (https://www.waysidesewing.com/). Photographing Your Quilts with Sue Bleiweiss. Sue will explain in detail how to photograph your quilts for a Call to Entry, from interpreting the requirements, to taking the photo using your own camera, to file preparation, to submission of the entry.
Saturday, March 23, 2019, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, Working with Fabric Paint, Gel Plates and Surface Design, ProChemical and Dye, 126 Shove St, Fall River, MA. (https://prochemicalanddye.net) The March meeting will be presented by Vicki Jensen and feature the use of PROfab Textile Paints used with Gel Plates as a fun, easy way to print on fabric. After a lecture comparing all the different fabric paints that PRO Chem makes and sells, Vicki will demonstrate numerous ways to create color, patterns and layering using the different Gel plates available.
October 13, 2018 - New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA: Opening and Artist Panel Discussion, Lightening talks “Explorations: Journeys in Creativity”
September 9, 2018- Falmouth Art Center, Highfield Hall: Opening, “Stepping Inside the Outside”
June 16, 2018- Riverside Art in Somerset, MA: Topic - Giclee Prints and Framing Fiber Art
March 24, 2018 - Franklin Mills, Franklin, MA: Topic - Exhibiting your Work and the Jurying Process
October 21, 2017 - Open Studio, Bernardston, MA; 10-2 pm - with Cheryl Rezendes (www.cherylrezendes.com) CANCELLED- WE had the meeting at Allison Wilburs Studio, Bristol RI
September 23, 2017 - Pro Chemical & Dye (www.prochemicalanddye.com), 126 Shove St. in Fall River, MA; 10-2 pm - Vicki Jensen (www.vickijensen.net)- Resist Dyeing
June 3, 2017 - Blaine’s Sewing Center (www.blainesewing.net), 1280 Oaklawn Ave. in Cranston, RI; 10-2 pm - Carol Anne Grotrian (www.carolannegrotrian.com)- Composing Your Art
March 11, 2017 - NEQM (www.nequiltmuseum.org), 18 Shattuck St, Lowell, MA; 10-2 pm - Valuing Your Work - Panel Discussion - Janice M Jones (www.janicemjones.com), Sarah Ann Smith (www.sarahannsmith.com), Vivien Sayre. Valuing your work can be a complex and challenging task. Vivien, a certified quilt appraiser, will talk in detail about the factors she considers when appraising work and how appraised values can help in making decisions about pricing and are used by insurance companies in the case of a lost, stolen or damaged piece of art. Janice and Sarah will talk about how they go about pricing their work and how the different venues where their art is sold affects their pricing. We will also have information from a few insurance agencies that cover artist studios and traveling artwork.
October 22, 2016 – regional meeting at the Franklin Mill Store in Franklin, MA. CT SAQA region member Kate Themel will be the guest speaker at this meeting. Also note that attendees at this meeting will receive a 20% discount off purchases made at the Franklin Mill Store that day!
September 17, 2016 - regional meeting in the Berkshires; followed by an open studio walk of Ann Brauer’s Studio in Shelburne Falls, MA.
August 7, 2016 -Boott Cotton Mills Museum, Lowell, MA
Melanie Johnston & Joan Blade Johnson will be discussing how to market your work. No show and tell or lunch this meeting. Refreshments will be served at the opening of the Currents exhibit at the Brush Gallery, Lowell MA, immediately following the meeting.
June 4, 2016 - regional meeting from 10:00 - 2:00 - ProChemical and Dye, 126 Shove St. Fall River, MA 02724. The subject of this meeting will be exploring discharge techniques
Vicki will be presenting a program comparing a variety of discharge agents available to remove the color on cloth. After Vicki’s lecture and show and tell of the various discharge samples, there will be an opportunity to try each of them. If you want to participate, you must bring your own dual cartridge respirator, fitted with acid gas cartridges. Also bring four fat quarters of your own MX dyed 100% cotton fabric (no silk, please), an apron and some rubber gloves. We will be working outside on the loading dock, where there is plenty of ventilation.
October 18, 2015 Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak St. in Brockton, MA on Sunday, from 12-2pm. This meeting will coincide with the 2-5pm opening of the regional exhibition, Art As Quilt: Transitions in Contemporary Textile Media
August 8, 2015 10 am to 2 pm, Fabric Place Basement in Natick MA.
Mary Ellen, Valerie, Wen & Sue
To recap some of the gems that these women gave us I will start with a quote Wen read by Anais Nin, "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Development of voice takes a long time and it evolves with time. Wen was very philosophical about her thoughts on finding the artist's voice stating early that musing is the artist's voice and citing her early reading of the philosophical book Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person by MC Richards as a clarifying point for her journey. Wen likes to let the materials speak to her. She uses journals filled with pictures she loves and her own writing to inspire her creativity. She also believes that writing a heartfelt artist statement is a good way to focus on what is important to you as an artist in finding your voice.
Valerie believes that doing a lot of work as opposed to looking at an individual expression is how you begin to develop a voice. How your pieces link together as a whole speak to what your voice is. Valerie talked about how after taking a class with Nancy Crow she came home to focus on her own work. Her drive to work steadily and with a strong commitment to working daily have paid off for her in a gradual, but steady development of her style. She talked about the power and emotional impact of seeing all of her work together in her first solo exhibition as she realized that it indeed had a clear voice.
Mary Ellen believes that focusing on your own creative imagery is what initiates an artist's voice. To this task she adds that passion and authenticity are very important. She draws on a wealth of life experiences in travel and a love of photography as well as other artist tools as she works. Mary Ellen has spent a good deal of time academically learning about art but stated that at one point the challenging thing was to take what she had learned and to make it her own. Her art has also been a way for her to heal and suggests that art can be a way to work through life experiences thus making a very personal statement. Mary Ellen also quoted a book by Dakota Mitchell, Finding Your Visual Voice: A Painter's Guide to Developing an Artistic Style, which would be a wonderful read for any artist trying to discover their voice.
A wealth of solid advice, suggestive thinking and great ideas for reflection were passed to the group. Thanks to Mary Ellen, Valerie and Wen for sharing their visions, ideas and processes to help us all understand the concept of what it means to have an artist's voice.
March 28, 2015, Blaine's Sewing Machine Center in Cranston, RI
Sue Bleiweiss opened the meeting with a few announcements and then we got right into the fun stuff! Blaine's very generously had four BERNINA machines set up so that we could do some hands on free motion demos and that attendees could practice on. Nancy Turbitt and Allison Wilbur shared all their tips and tricks for free motion quilting and Sue Bleiweiss talked about alternative edge finishing ideas for quilts and how to make a gusseted hanging sleeve for the back of quilts. We split the crowd in half, did our demos and then switched places.
November 14, 2014: regional quarterly meeting which was held in Amherst, MA. Members in attendance had a great time socializing, viewing the trunk shows and learning new ways for mounting artwork and using silk screening as a technique. Jeanne Marklin demonstrated method for mounting quilts, Cheryl Rezendes demonstrated how to make and use silk screens with paint to create interesting images on fabric, A special thanks to the UU Society of Amherst, Rebecca Fricke for arranging the meeting space, Jeanne Marklin & Cheryl Rezendes for providing informative and interesting demos and all the members in attendance.
September 27, 2014- Pro Chemical and Dye in Fall River, MA
May 31, 2014- Fabric Place Basement in Natick MA
May 25, 2013;
August 10, 2013 in Lowell, MA;
November 23, 2013.
Saturday November 10, 2012 at 10:00 A.M.
The button box Sewing Center
5 OVERBROOK DRIVE, WELLESLEY, MA 02482, (781)489-6515
The shop is located off Rte 9, next door to SUNOCO gas station at the light. It is about 5 minutes from The Natick Mall, Michaels, Joann’s Fabrics, A C Moore’s and Fabric Place Basement.
PROPOSED AGENDA
Meet & Greet your Guests and New members
Take an online tour of the SAQA website
Review of discussion held at the August Meeting in Lowell, MA: The Jurying Process
New Topics to think about for November’s open discussion:
Where you right now in your art quilt plan?
What are your 5 year goals, for yourself, art career, sewing schedule, quilting business, teaching, craft time, art education, skill building, classes you want to take, seminars or conferences you plan to attend or would like information about.
August, 2012 Lowell, MA: The Jurying Process
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