Quilt as Art: Wen Redmond

If you haven't viewed the Massachusetts/Rhode Island SAQA exhibit Quilt as Art: Transitions in Contemporary at the Fuller Craft Museum, there's still time. The collection is on display until January 17, 2016.

Quilt as Art gives a peek at the range of techniques, materials and artistic visions of our members while still sharing quilting roots of three textile layers stitched together.

Wen Redmond's Three Feathers Remain
is a perfect example of quilting roots branching into new forms of expression.

Wen Redmond's Three Feathers Remain

From the Artist Statement- One of the pleasures of composition is using a combination of the 21st tool of photography; Photoshop and mediums to create newly rendered digital fiber art. This piece was composed with a photograph of painted and cut papers digitally fused with another photograph of the edge of a glass disk. A variety of mediums, and bonded tissue paper compliment the stitching highlights of the completed work.
Techniques- A photograph was printed, quilted, and cut into segments to create an interior grid design. Each segment is sealed with paint and hand-tied together.

Detail from Three Feathers Remain

Materials: Digital Silk Noil, paint, tissue paper, glass bead, lava, matt and gloss mediums, pearl cotton & thread.

There are still ten more days to see Wen's work as well as 26 other SAQA MA/RI artists at the Fuller Craft Museum. Don't miss it!

Quilt as Art Exhibit at Fuller Craft Museum

Our first regional exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum opens on October 3, 2015.

 Quilt as Art features 27 artists and 35 works from Studio Art Quilt Associates members from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Fuller Craft displays a wide range of cutting edge contemporary craft, seeking to put people in touch with the minds and methods of the makers, expressing the values embodied by craft. SAQA MARI is delighted to share in their mission, showing how the functional roots of our craft take on new expression.

Jamie Fingal served as the juror for the 106 entries submitted by 54 members.  Many thanks for her dedication and time to this challenging task!

Artist reception
Fuller Craft Museum
Sunday October 18th,  2 to 5pm

Quilt Artists Selected 

Dawn Allen, Nancy Belsky, Christina  Blais, Sue Bleiweiss, Ann Brauer, Sue Colozzi, Sandra Donabed, Janis Doucette, Pamela Druhen, Linda Gallagher, Sandy Gregg, Elaine Cominos Hickey, Rosemary Hoffenberg, Vicki Jensen, Janice Jones, Karen Loprete, Jeanne Marklin, Valerie Maser-Flanagan, Sharon McCartney, Madalene Murphy, Susan Polansky, Sharyn Raiche, Wen Redmond, Judy Ross, Carol Vinick, Allison Wilbur, Diane Wright.

Congrats to all of you! We'll have more info about the works exhibited in future blog posts.

We will hold a regional meeting before the reception (from 12 - 2). Beth McLaughlin, curator at Fuller will speak about how a curator chooses artists' work for exhibits.

Artists, if you haven't received an email about where and when to ship your work, please email sue at suebleiweiss.com.

Fiber Exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum

The Fuller Craft museum in Brockton MA has some very exciting exhibits on view right now:

Game Changers: Fiber Art Masters and Innovators 

July 5, 2014 - November 23, 2014 

Artist reception:  Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:00 pm. 

Game Changers: Fiber Art Masters and Innovators are those artists, both past and present, who are recognized for continuously experimenting with traditional techniques and materials as well as developing revolutionary approaches in the realm of fiber art. The exhibition focuses on the energy and breadth of vision that continues to shape the future of fiber art.  Artists featured in the exhibition include: Renie Breskin Adams, Olga de Amaral, Lucy Arai, Anastasia Azure, Linda Behar, Dorothy Gill Barnes, Mary Bero, Lanny Bergner, Nancy Moore Bess, Archie Brennan, John Cardin, Lia Cook, Randall Darwall, Eric & Martin Demaine, Carol Eckert, Catherine Ellis, Arline Fisch, Arline Fisch, John Garrett, Jan Hopkins, Mary Lee Hu, Lissa Hunter, Diane Itter, Michael James, Naomi Kobayashi, Nancy Koenigsberg, Alison Kotin, Gyongy Laky, Maximo Laura, Chunghie Lee, Kari Lonning, Susan Martin Maffei, Ruben Marroquin, Amanda McCavour, John McQueen, Norma Minkowitz, Debora Muhl, Kait Rhoads, Lesley Richmond, Michael F. Rohde, Ed Rossbach, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, Jane Sauer, Cynthia Schira, Warren Seelig, Kay Sekimachi, Carol Shinn, Adrienne Sloane, Pamela Studstill, Polly Adams Sutton, and Dawn Nichols Walden.

Small Expressions

July 12, 2014 - October 5, 2014 
Artist reception:  Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:00 pm. 
Small Expressions is an annual exhibition sponsored by the Handweavers Guild of America. It features high quality contemporary fiber works, none of which may exceed 15 inches in any direction. All fiber techniques are considered. This year’s juror is Gerhardt Knodel renowned textile artist and long time faculty member of Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Both exhibitions relate to the presence of Convergence 2014, the biannual meeting of the Handweavers Guild of America held this July in Providence, Rhode Island.
Artists featured in the exhibition include: Arlene McGonagle, Barbara Heller, Barbara Heller, Brigitte Amarger, Carol Outram, Chris Motley, Claire Taylor, Claire Taylor, Danielle Bodine, Deborah Zeitler, Dora L. Hsiung, Janet Austin, Jayne Gaskins, Jean Poythress Koon, Jeanne Schenk Steiner, Julie Blackstone, Lesley Nishigawara, Lois Russell, Lois Russell, Maria Kovacs, Marty Jonas, Melanie Siegel, Michael Radyk, Michael Rohde, Nicki Bair, Paula Becker, Peggy Wiedemann, Rebecca Jensen, Rebecca Reeves, Rebecca Smith, Saberah Malik, Sally Raskoff, Sally Shore, Sasha de Koninck, Xia Gao

Visit the museums website site here for more information on these and other exhibits on view.