Two Reminders

Registration is now open for our Texas Region Retreat!

 

September 10 - 12

Great Expectations Creativity Center

and

Texas Quilt Museum

in

Historic LaGrange, Texas

• Spend two days working on your latest and greatest creation with your SAQA friends during our Open Studio at the Great Expectations Creativity Center
• Then join us for "A Curator's Perspective: Critiquing Art Quilts" workshop with Dr. Sandra Sider, Curator for the Texas Quilt Museum
• If that's not enough, you'll have an opportunity to visit the Texas Quilt Museum, hear an additional lecture from Sandra Sider on her new book 1000 Quilt Inspirations: Colorful and Creative Designs for Traditional, Modern and Art Quilts followed by a gallery talk and walk through of the Intuitive Symmetry: Works on Silk by Judith Content exhibit currently on display at the museum

 



 

Call for Entries

for the

Fiber Artists of San Antonio

41st Annual Fiber Art Show

opens on

Monday, August 24

 

Click here for entry requirements, juror info,

timeline, entry form and much more!

 

Join the Caprock Art Quilters meeting Aug 7 & 8 in Lubbock

SAQA members are invited to attend the Caprock Art Quilters meeting on Friday Aug. 7, and Saturday, Aug. 8, in Lubbock, Texas.

The Friday event will begin with dinner at 5:30 pm, McAlister's Deli, 2415 19th Street, Lubbock. Afterwards, the group will head to the First Friday Art Trail for a dose of inspiration.

The 9 am Saturday meeting will be held at 21103 FM 179 in Wolfforth (just outside Lubbock). The meeting will kick off with a workshop by Cinde on the silk confetti fusion technique. The business meeting will follow, then there are two programs. Nancy Woods will show some of her quilts for "Life of Quilts of ..." The second half will be a follow up to the Sue Spargo class, so please bring your sampler (and anything else you have created since) to show to those who were not able to join. In addition, everyone is invited to bring something for show and tell.

For more information or directions, please contact  jeancrgrimes@gmail.com

Through The Needle's Eye

Embroiderer's Guild of America

May 3 – September 6

Museum of Texas Tech University - Gallery 1

The Embroiderer's Guild of America's 20th National Exhibit Through the Needle's Eye, is a showcase of the best in artistic and technical embroidery. This juried exhibit features contemporary embroidery from across the nation. The works include both traditional and contemporary embroidery techniques employed to create clothing, wall-pieces, jewelry, vessels and sculpture. The exhibition shows the diversity of embroidery and how this age old art form continues to be practiced by artists of the 21st century. 

For the Museum of Texas Tech venue the works will be complimented by pieces made by skilled embroiderers from the region, many of whom are master embroiderers. Embroidered pieces from the Clothing and Textile Collection of the Museum of Texas Tech University will round out the offerings -- wonderful 1820s school girl samplers, 18th century embroidered purses, embroidered household linens and other works from the permanent collection will be showcased.

In conjunction with the exhibit, Sue Spargo will give a lecture and trunk show on Wednesday, July 1 at 7 pm. Admission is free and open to the public. Click on the flyer below to enlarge.

Central Texas Meeting Reminder

Program: The Basics of Photographing Your Work

 

Saturday, May 16 at 10 am

at Sherri Lipman McCauley's home

102 Edgewater Cove Lakeway, TX 78734 (Northwest of Austin)

Home Phone: 512-261-5794

So far we have 10 members attending!

If you haven’t yet, please RSVP via the meeting event page on Facebook

OR by email to kim@quilting-adventures.com.

Bring something for show & tell, your camera, a tripod (if you have one), and one piece of your work to photograph (ideally 36” x 48” or smaller). Sherri is making a pot of chili and will provide lettuce for a salad for lunch. Please bring a topping for the salad that we will all share (veggies, cheese, croutons, etc.)

We will have foamcore boards, two small quilt racks, a couple of tripods, and light bars on hand for everyone to use.

Please take the time to read Holly Knott and Andy Baird’s outstanding article on the basics of digital photography for textile artists HERE prior to the meeting!

There is also an excellent overview of beginning photography for fiber artists by LM Wood on the SDA’s website.

Looking forward to seeing you there! 

Dallas: Lecture & Workshop–Deborah Boschert

Quilters Guild of Dallas:  Program
Thursday, September 2 at 7:15 pm
Congregation Shearith Israel in Dallas

Twelve by Twelve: Inspirations and Adventures from the Art Quilt Challenge
Deborah is a member of “Twelve by Twelve” an international group of art quilters. Each artist created 12 small quilts on 12 different themes. The results are published in "Twelve by Twelve: The International Art Quilt Challenge." Deborah shares how the group came together and how other artists can create similar groups and challenges. She’ll share images, techniques, styles and inspiration from her own art and the work of the other "Twelves."

Quilters Guild of Dallas:  Workshop
Friday, September 3 from 9 am to 4 pm

Small Art Quilts: Designing a Series
Create a complete series of small art quilts incorporating common elements. Use the Elements and Principles of Design to direct improvisational compositions. Tons of ideas for completely busting through any creative blocks! No rules, just fun! Full of tips for easy construction and finishing.

Contact workshops@quiltersguildofdallas.org for more info.

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Deborah Boschert, Fiber Artist
www.DeborahsStudio.com
http://DeborahsJournal.blogspot.com
Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=28957

Kerr Grabowski Workshop-Houston

Houston Area Fiber Artists (HAFA) extends an invitation to take a Deconstructed Printing workshop with Kerr Grabowski on March 11 and 12. I am aware that this overlaps with the March 12 Circle meeting that is scheduled, but did want to let you know about this opportunity.

Kerr Grabowski’s history as a fiber artist has been marked by her constant experimentation with and innovative approaches to dyeing and screening processes. She developed Deconstructed Screen Printing, a printing, monoprinting technique allowing for a freer, more painterly approach to screen printing. Kerr successfully integrates her love of color, mark-making, and spontaneity with the challenge of creating whimsically elegant contemporary hand painted and screened silk fabrics and wearables.

This workshop is a great boon to creativity. The work is serendipitous making pieces that will be usable in many ways. It will be great fun! Don’t miss it!

More information and the signup form are available for download on the HAFA website .

Jack Brockette, Fiber Artist Master Class

Jack Brockette is a nationally recognized Fiber Artist and teacher.   He has been working with the Pojaji/French seam technique for the last ten years and has won numerous Best of Show and Judges Choice awards with his pieces.   His latest works are transparent quilts.  In conjunction with the upcoming “The Art in Fiber 2011” show at the Copper Shade Tree Gallery, Jack will be holding a Master's Class Retreat demonstrating his hand-dyed silk techniques utilizing silk organza. 

Focus will be on the POJAGI SEAMS and the TRANSPARENT QUILTS.

 

Saturday & Sunday, February 5th & 6th, 2011
at the Belle of Round Top Retreat Center
(An 1880's restored mansion in a quiet country atmosphere
within walking distance to the Copper Shade Tree Gallery)
230 Days End Ln., Round Top, TX

All you need to bring is your sewing machine, thread, cutting matt, ruler, rotary cutter. Silk, etc. will be furnished.

For more information click here.

FASA-Two-day workshop with Maggie Maggio

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Ruthie Powers Workshop – Houston

Houston Area Fiber Artists
PRINT PLAY WITH DYE  with  Ruthie Powers 
Saturday, March 13, 2010 
9 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Bayland Community Center
6400 Bissonnet , Houston, TX 77074
$40/50 (members/non-members) Workshop Fee
$20 Materials Fee (incl. 3 yds. PFD Cotton)

We will use various printing techniques to dye cotton fabric, including stamping with sponges, rubber stamps(including some large format of her own design) and household items to create patterns in multiple colors and layers. You will end up with a bag of fabric to take home
to "batch" overnight, then wash out in the morning.

This workshop is great for those who have never dyed as well as more experienced dyers who want to learn new techniques with a group. We will play and have fun.  
                                                                                                  
At the workshop, Ruthie will have cotton PFD (prepared for dyeing) fabric in two weaves for $5.00 per yard, plus some silk scarves at cost.    

For samples of her work see her blog at http://ruthiepowers.blogspot.com/         
Her rubber stamps can be seen at www.nextsignals.com  
                                                    
To sign up for this workshop or more information, email Mary Ann Littlejohn at malittlej@earthlink.net .

Playdate in San Antonio - Quilted Cards

Laurie Brainerd is offering is offering a 3 hour class to make Quilted Cards.

You and your inner artist are invited to make quick and whimsical miniature quilted works of art on cardstock. Warning: quilting these all-in-one cards and gifts can become addictive. You will leave with cards and materials for six mini-masterpieces.

When: Saturday, Dec 5, 2009 9- noon
Where: Villa Finale Visitor Center located at
122 Madison San Antonio 78204
210.223.9800
Cost: $30 payable in advance to Villa Finale $10 Materials fee to instructor
Registration Deadline: November 28, 2009

More info can be found at www.lauriebrainerd.com.

Workshop Opportunity from SAQA member Susie Monday

FROM SCRIBBLE TO SYMBOL

PERSONAL MARK-MAKING
SEPTEMBER 25-27, 2009

In this workshop, start with simple sketches and doodles and end the weekend with an arsenal of new surface design tricks and tools.

Explore doodles and scribbles as sources of uniques and personal imagery that will give your art quilts, wearable art, or mixed media work personal depth and layers of meaning.

Take a favorite symbol -- for example a heart, star, spiral, circle -- and by taking it (and yourself) through a series of creative generative exercises, you’ll make something new and different to incorporate into your design, composition and surface design. Tools and techniques explored include paper lamination on fabric, large scale “mark-making” rollers and monoprinting. There is an optional Friday night potluck and critique session.

The first four people to sign up and pay $150 before Sept. 20 for my September workshop, will receive a certificate for 1/2 price off on the next one they attend.

Hope you can make it! This is going to be a really fun weekend -- with an option to attend the Cajun Festival on Saturday night if we want to -- the gumbo is supposed to be fabulous. If the group doesn't want that adventure, we'll stay put and I'll make the gumbo!

Let me know as soon as possible if you are interested since this is only open to the first 4 people who respond.

Susie Monday

Angels, Saints and Sinners from El Cielo Studio
3532 Timbercreek Rd.
Pipe Creek, TX 78063
210.643.2128
BLOG http://susiemonday.squarespace.com/
WEBSITE http://www.susiemonday.com
NEW EMAIL: susiemonday@gmail.com

WORKSHOP - “Secrets of Smashing Color” – Maggie Maggio

Fiber Artists of San Antonio (FASA) has a terrific workshop scheduled for September! A couple of spaces just opened unexpectedly, and it’s not late to sign up. The workshop is appropriate for artists working in any medium, so feel free to forward the information.

The two-day workshop is titled “Secrets of Smashing Color.” It will be led by Maggie Maggio (www.maggiemaggio.com). This fast-paced workshop explains the difference between what color is and what color appears to be, teaches you how to troubleshoot to get gorgeous color combinations and encourages you to customize your color choices.

You will explore new ideas with collages, dyes and paint swatches while filling in your personal color workbook. The workshop includes collaborative hands-on exercises and the creation of customized color charts and project palettes.

The workshop will be held on Friday 11 September and Saturday 12 September, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. It will be in Kirtley Fellowship Hall at Alamo Heights Christian Church (the same place where FASA meets every month). The cost is $160.00 plus a small kit fee. If you have questions or want to sign up, contact Allison Brown-Cestero at abrowncestero@satx.rr.com or by phone at 210-259-8710.

Throw out the books, forget the rules, and come play with color!