Upcoming show

Karen Goetzinger

Image: Urban Development: 

Design by Committee

30” x 40”

Please join me, as the featured artist for June!

Opening reception, June 8 from 5-7 pm 

Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont 

http://www.edgewatergallery-vt.com

The show will be up on June 1 but the opening reception is the 8th. ~ Karen

Joan Schulze News

If your planning a trip to San Francisco in early June, Stop by Joan Schulze's studio June 9 & 10 for her Studio Event.

"This is my first studio event in years. The walls are freshly painted and new works are hanging. This special event is the first public showing of "and other stories".  Come see my newly invented space. View my latest small 3-D works, collages & quilts. Upstairs you can browse through early work in cyanotype, collage and small quilts." ~ Joan

Sneak peaks of her limited edition book, "and other stories" can be viewed here.

Schulze Studio   |   1695 18th Street   |   Unit 302   |   San Francisco, CA   |   94017
Ring 302   |   panel is near the gate   |   studio 415 641 8312

Joan has also stopped teaching.  Her final workshops were held in April and you can find this statement on her website.

"To create more time in the studio and spend less time in airports, 2013 will the year that I end the teaching part of my career. I will present workshops in two very beautiful places. I look forward to a great finish."

Quilt National now accepting entries

Quilt National '13 is open for entries with an entry deadline of: September 14, 2012.
The 2013 show will be accepting entries online only. The process is very simple.
Just go to the Quilt National Web Page and use the link to access the Slideroom entry programming. You will need to give them only email and contact information to access the entry forms. Click here for the QN rules.
You can fill out the entry information and upload your images in one easy session - or you can save a partial entry and come back and edit before you submit. We are looking forward to this new technology and hope that it will ease the entry process for everyone!

Quilt National Jurors for 2013
Linda Colsh (Belgium) An American artist residing in Belgium, Linda Colsh has lived, exhibited and taught in America, Asia and Europe. Selected for several Quilt Nationals, her art quilts have won top awards in major European and American exhibitions. Collections around the world include her artwork. With a university background in art history, she has been featured in and written for numerous publications.

Judith Content (California) has been a full time artist for more than 30 years. She focuses on shibori dyed and quilted wall pieces, as well as jewelry and landscape design. Her work is in numerous museum collections, including the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, the Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, and the Shibori Collection, Nagoya, Japan. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is represented by the Jane Sauer Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. She is President Emeritus of the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA).

Penny McMorris (Ohio) was the Corporate Art Curator for Owens-Corning Corporation for 20 years, co-authored The Art Quilt, and consulted on contemporary quilt shows for museums in the U.S. and Great Britain. She has an MA in Art History. Currently she is Vice President of The Electric Quilt Company.

If you need any further information (or reassurance), please feel free to contact me via email at the Quilt National Email or by phone at 740-592-4981. I am looking forward to another amazing Quilt National Exhibition in the summer of 2013!

Kathleen Dawson, Quilt National Director

Check out what's happening in Maine!

MidCoast Surface Design Workshops
Taught by Beth Berman in Searsport, Maine

June 16 ~ Silk Scarf Batik
You will learn how to batik with textile paint or dye. Workshop includes a 72" silk scarf and all the supplies you need.

June 30 ~ Stamp making & more
Learn to carve a stamp from a photo. Includes everything you need to carve two 4 x 6" and two 1.5" X 2.5" stamps including a lino cutter set which is your to keep.

July 7 ~ Hand Dyeing Fabric
Learn the simple skills for turning plain white cotton into fabulous hand dyed fabric. Come with white and go home with the rainbow. Everything supplied but the fabric.

July 21 ~ Surface Design Sampler
Learn how to make your own stamps, and use thermofax screening, textile paints and resists to create layers of design on fabric.

Aug 3 & 4 (2 days) ~ Silk Screen construction and uses
Day one: construct screens, printing surface and review dyes and techniques.
Day two: use prepared screens and 8 techniques to create one of a kind fabric.

Aug 18 ~ Silk Scarf Batik
You will learn how to batik with textile paint or dye. Workshop includes a 72" silk scarf and all the supplies you need.

Workshops run from 9am - 4 pm and include all supplies except fabric. Click here to see more.

This is a great opportunity to meet and learn some fascinating surface design techniques. The workshops are even better than the brief descriptions here. Email or call for more info.
Beth

Navigating the SAQA Website

At the last meeting, I had some people talk to me about using the SAQA Website. While for some, computers are a daily tool of life, others are not on-line all the time, therefore they feel a bit overwhelmed when they approach any page looking for information. Pages are all designed so differently!  and how do you navigate through all the visual overload?
I thought I would to try to defuse some of the jitters about using our informative website through a series of installments. Take time to acclimate yourself to these key elements on the website. You can do all of the below without logging in.

Start by taking a deep breath!

Go to the Home page: http://www.saqa.com/
At the top of the site there are a series of colored boxes that go across, starting with a black one labeled, "galleries". Pretend these are folders in a file cabinet.  Inside each box/file there are catagories. When you place your cursor on top of a box/file, a menu will drop down from it.

To find the following information:

Calls for Entry
Go to the second box labeled, "News and Events".  Scroll down to "Calls for Entry" and double click.  A new page should open showing a Calendar. Scroll down to see what's out there for you to try!

SAQA Auction
You will find the SAQA auction listed under "News and Events" and "Support SAQA". There is still time to mail your entry in! Don't forget to fill out the on-line form before you mail it. You'll find it inside the "Support SAQA" box.

Regional and members blogs
This information will be found in the top right box titled, "Resources".  Our blog is the first one! If you haven't bookmarked it you can always access it here.

Enjoy exploring our SAQA website!  There are many people working hard to make it a vibrant "go to" information spot.

Upcoming events of interest

NH State Quilters Announce Spring Event
Date: Sunday, May 20th, 2012 (SUNDAY)
Time: 1:00 to 4:00PM. Registration: 12:30 to 1:00PM
Location: Courtyard Marriott Portsmouth, 1000 Market St, Portsmouth, NH 03801
Admission: Admission is FREE to members and $10 to non-members.
Guest Speakers: NEW ENGLAND QUILT DESIGNERS COOPERATIVE

Presentation:
How do six quilting strangers come together and form a successful Co-op? Come hear how the New England Quilt Designers Cooperative was formed, how we work together and gain some insight on what it takes to make it as a quilt pattern designer. You'll see some great quilts, hear some funny stories and meet some very talented ladies too. Opportunity to purchase the Designers' patterns at end of program.

About our presenters:
The New England Quilt Designers Cooperative is a group of six individual quilt pattern designers, all based in New England, who pool their resources to vend at quilt shows and do guild presentations. Each designer has their own unique style and between them all, cover just about every skill level and technique.
For more info visit: http://nequiltdesigners.blogspot.com/
For more Information:http://www.nhsqa.org
Email address: info@nhsqa.org

NHSQA is a non-profit organization open to all seeking a forum to gather together for the purpose of furthering the art of quilting through participation, education, promotion and communication. Meetings are held semi-annually, spring & fall.
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Quilters' Connection 35th Annual Show and Sale

(click on the above title for images)

Fri/Sat, June 1 & 2nd: 10am - 5pm
Sunday, June 3 - 10am - 3pm
Arsenal Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal St., Watertown, MA

This is worth the trip!

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Maine Fiber Arts Info

get yourself connected! Plan a trip around this!

http://www.mainefiberarts.org/index.php/en/news/193-announcements-and-bulletins/159-usda-blogs-about-maine-fiberarts

Of Interest

Crop Circles: Confessions of a Cereal Quilter
Joanne Shapp will be the guest speaker at the Green Mountain Quilters Guild meeting on May 19. The meeting begins at 10am at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Pine Hill Road in Barre. Admission to the meeting is $10 or $15 for the annual membership.

Her talk "Crop Circles: Confessions of a Cereal Quilter" includes aerial photos of the formations, detail photos taken within the fields from the ground, and some tips and tricks on drawing the designs. Several of her crop circle quilts will be on display.

Go to GMQG's new website for details and directions
http://greenmountainquiltersguild.weebly.com/

This link has some information and photos of Crop circles. Just an FYI

http://www.designswan.com/archives/mysterious-crop-circles.html

Kerr Grabowski Workshop

Adventures in Surface Design - working with fugitive media

August 1-5, 2012 at Pro Chemical & Dye

Begin with an introduction to basic screen printing with non-toxic textile paints. You will learn to make and use paper stencils; discover how to design an overall pattern using a simple repeat; and create simple two-color prints. All of these techniques are methods for creating simple images that can stand alone or become background images that can be worked back into.

Then, using media such as Caran d’Ache Neocolor II crayons, chalk pastels, charcoal and more, Kerr demonstrates ways to use and how to make this “fugitive” media permanent on fabric and other substrates. You’ll learn how to work back into your pieces using the "fugutive" media to easily add details, enhance color, texture and unify designs.
Click here: Prochemical and dye for more information

Katie Pasquini Masopust Workshop

NEXT WEEK ON CAPE COD

"Watercolor to Quilt"

Weary Travelers Club

Valley Bars Rd., Monument Beach, MA

(2 miles from the Bourne Bridge on Cape Cod)

Mon., May 14, 2012 - Fri., May 18, 2012

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Abstract watercolor paintings will be created the first day, following 10 or more different design procedures that will leave the student with many paintings to work from. Painting techniques include: transparent layered shapes, tape resists, rubber cement drawing resist, washes, glazing, dropping in of colors, surface treatments (using molding paste, soap bubbles, rubbing alcohol), grids, etc.

One painting will be chosen and cropped to find the most dynamic part of the painting. This will be drawn to make a template, enlarged and then translated with fabrics using Katie's turned-edge technique or any technique you would like to use. When the quilt is done, it will look like a watercolor painting. No painting experience is needed.

Workshop cost: $295.00 based on 20 people attending. If we do not have 20 people, the cost will go up. Cost includes a hearty lunch, breakfast munchies and coffee daily.

There is a $10 materials fee for paint mediums, acetate, template material and stabilizer.

Contact Linda Gallagher at 508-477-0057 or

ambasatrvl@aol.com to sign up for this workshop.

Karen Kamenetzky's Opening

Show opening fun

The opening of the six woman show, Micromorphic, in Woodstock, NY was a blast!. The gallery was packed with lots of interesting folks with great questions and stories (LOTS of stories!).



Curator and painter, Laura Gurton came up with this idea of a show focused on art that somehow was connected to microscopic imagery. The other artists’ work was amazing. It was an honor to have my work hung with theirs.

I especially was drawn to the paintings of fellow presenter Jen Bradford. Gorgeous.

The show will be up at the Byrdcliffe Center for the Arts in Woodstock, NY till June 17th.

http://blog.karenkamenetzky.com/

Joan Morris Workshop Offering

Joan Morris Website
http://sdavermont.blogspot.com
Via Surface Design Association Vermont

Vermont Open Studios May 26th & 27th

Judith Reilly, Brandon, VT

Dianne Schullenberger, Jericho VT

Elizabeth W. Fram

Judy B. Dales

The Vermont Crafts Council publishes a free map booklet with directions to participating sites. The Vermont Studio Tour Guide is available at Vermont Information Centers, from individual studios and galleries, or by emailing a request to vt1crafts@aol.com. Additional information about Open Studio Weekend can be found online at www.vermontcrafts.com/or by calling the Vermont Crafts Council at 802-223-3380.

Scan this for maps & info