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! 

SAQA Central Texas Meeting Reminder

Mark your calendars...we're taking a field trip! Make plans to meet us in historic Blanco this Saturday, March 14, to checkout the new Uptown Blanco arts & entertainment center. Visit their website www.uptownblanco.com.

Our SAQA Texas Region Trunk Show "A Texas Experience" will be on display and will remain up through the Bluebonnet Shop Hop in mid-April. The Uptown Blanco Restaurant and Textile Studio are located on the town square next door to each other. Our quilts will be on display in the hall that connects the restaurant and textile studio.

12:30 pm Gather for lunch at the Uptown Blanco Restaurant - next door to the Blanco Textile Studio - meet in the hallway in front of our quilts.

2 pm Visit Uptown Blanco Textile Studio and view the quilts in the Texas Region Trunk Show

If you are going to come for lunch, please let me know and I will make a reservation for the group -- call me 512-736-2971 or send an email to kim@quilting-adventures.com. You do not need to let me know if you will NOT be joining us for lunch.

2015 Meeting Dates

MAY
Saturday, May 16 at Sherri Lipman McAuley's home in Lakeway (Northwest of Austin)
Program "Photographing Your Work"

JULY
Tuesday, July 14 at the Copper Shade Tree in Round Top
Guest Speaker: Gerald Tobola, Co-Owner of the Copper Shade Tree Gallery in Round Top

SEPTEMBER
Saturday, September 12 at Dale Ricklefs home in Round Rock
Program: TBA

NOVEMBER
Saturday, November 14 (Tentative Date)
Program: TBA

UPDATE: Central Texas Circle Meeting

A few reminders for Saturday's Central Texas meeting:  We'll have BBQ from City Market brought in for lunch. If you're able to, please bring cash to make settling/splitting the tab a breeze. This morning the weather forecast looked a bit better for overnight Friday/Saturday morning, but there is still potential for freezing rain. Please use your best judgement when deciding whether to hit the road and, as always, your personal safety is most important. Finally, monoprinting is generally not a messy process but you might want to wear clothes you don't mind getting paint on or bring an overshirt or apron.

Hope to see you Saturday!

Kim

Central Texas Circle Meeting Reminder

Our next Central Texas Circle meeting is this Saturday!

 

Saturday, January 10 at 10 am

Texas Art League

509 East Davis St. Luling, TX 78648

www.thetexasartleague.com

Click here for an interactive Google map/directions

 

Connie Akers will be leading us in a monoprinting workshop this month! If you aren't familiar with monoprinting, do a search on You Tube for "monoprinting" or "gelli printing" for all kinds of fun videos to introduce you to this simple and SUPER FUN surface design technique.

 

Here are items you should bring with you:

1. Gelli Plate™ if you have one. You do not need to buy a gelli plate if you don't have one, we will have some extras to share. They are available at gelliarts.com or amazon.com if you would like to purchase one. If you want to try your hand a making your own gelli plate before investing in one, Linda Germain has instructions for making your own here; the password for the site is "maketheplate". Please note the password is all one word, lowercase, and you do not include the quotation marks. I have not made a gelli plate myself, but understand from a few reliable sources that Linda's method makes a very useable and durable plate. I have purchased a Stampendous brand plate that Michael's, and I believe Hobby Lobby, carry. I was not happy with it at all and DO NOT recommend it.
2. Acrylic Paints. Marie is bringing lots (LOTS!!!) of acrylic paints to share. If you have favorite brands or colors you like to work with, please bring them with you.
3. Brayer(s)
4. Fabric to print on -- solid cottons, muslin, silk, whatever you want to play with -- fat quarter size or smaller. I believe the largest plate we will have on hand is 10"x12".
5. Paper to print on (if you want). Plain printer/copier paper or cardstock is fine. We will also have a stash of deli paper on hand for you to use.
6. Scrap paper (plain printer paper, newsprint, etc.) to clean your brayer on. This also gives you very interesting results and you'll be able to add it to your paper stash.
7. Stencils, stamps and/or your favorite markmaking materials. Connie, Marie and I will also bring markmaking supplies to share.

A big thanks to Connie Akers, Kelly Allen and Marie Welsch for their assistance with this month's meeting & program!!! I'm always looking for places to host our bimonthly meetings or fun things to do as a group. If you would like to host a meeting, lead a workshop to teach us your favorite technique or know of something fun we could do as a group, don't hesitate to let me know!

DID YOU KNOW?

Our Central Texas Circle now has a Facebook page for members to communicate with each other! I will always send news and reminders via saqa.com email, but if you're a Facebook user "Like" our page at www.facebook.com/saqacentraltexas and posts to our page will showup in your newsfeed.

Do you have work in a show, have you recently won an award or received some other recognition? Do you know of a new store we all need to visit or have other news that you think the SAQA Texas members would be interest in? Send the info to me and I will post it our Facebook page and here on the Texas blog.

If you have any questions or need additional information, please don't hesitate to contact me at 512-736-2971 or via email at kim@quilting-adventures.com.
 

Looking forward to seeing y'all on Saturday!

Kim Buchmann

SAQA Texas Co-Rep

Central Texas Circle on Facebook: www.facebook.com/saqacentraltexas

SAQA Texas Region Blog: saqa-texas.blogspot.com

SAQA Website: www.saqa.com

TMFA - Call for Entry

Y'all Come! TMFA is proud to announce its 2011 Call for Entries. The theme this year is "Texas by the Yard and Yarn - Texas a Fabrication." Texas' finest fiber arts have been exhibited in the past four years. This year promises to be the best ever in displaying Texas' resources and talent. We're excited about your participation in the exhibit located in a prominent downtown Austin venue. Regardless of the rompin' deadline, there ain't nothin' Texas artists can't do when called to rise to the challenge. So take off them spurs and that ten-gallon and get stitchin'. Enter artwork(s) for the theme prize and/or the non-theme prizes.  Please click application for the entry form and other important information. Ya'll come to the awards party and the exhibit! Carol Ikard Texas Museum of Fiber Arts 3806 Bailey, #2 Austin, Texas 78759 www.texasfiberarts.org

Texas Reps Meet in Austin

The four Texas co-reps met this  past weekend at Lynne Allen's lovely home in Austin.  We enjoyed getting to know each other and catching up on what SAQA is doing in different areas of the state. 

Lynne Allen, Mary Ann Littlejohn, Kathy Mayhew, Heather Pregger

Among the items discussed was the SAQA trunk show which will be travelling to as many different venues as we can schedule. We are finalizing the Call for Entries for the SAQA-TX @ Houston 2011.  The details will be announced soon so you can start working on ideas for your entries.  We think you will be happy to know that your work will be for sale this year.

The SAQA-TX 2010 trunk show may be going to one more venue, after which the quilts will be returned to the artists.

We welcome announcements to post on this blog about interesting art events in your community and honors or exhibits including our members     Please send details to Kathy or Mary Ann.

San Antonio/Austin Circle Meeting - May 14, 2011

Saturday, May 14, 2011
at the home of Jackie Heupel.

She would appreciate RSVPs

The San Antonio/Austin Circle has changed its format. Each host(ess) is choosing a design principle on which we will focus at the meeting

Basics: Meeting will run from about 10-2. Jackie will start the meeting by leading a discussion on Monochromatic Color Schemes. Please bring a small collection (5-10 pieces) of fat quarters or other supplies in a single color family. We will break for lunch (Jackie will make a large bowl of lettuce and we can each bring something to add; Jackie will also supply dessert) and then have Show & Tell/Sharing Time.
Future Meetings:
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Hosted by Vou Best
Discussion on Drawing Inspiration from Around Us
Activity - Using Found Objects to create sun prints on fiber
Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011
Hosted by Susan Mayfield
Focus on line and space, using a thermofax machine to make screens

The Sketchbook Project

AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART
Sketchbook Project
Community Room

This message comes to us by way of the Surface Design Association (SDA), as several members have sketchbooks in the exhibit. Austin will be the only stop in TX.

Come browse the 26,000 sketchbooks from 100 countries in the touring library. It’s like a concert tour, but with a collection of submitted sketchbooks. Get inspired to keep your pencils sharp!

Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on an 8-stop tour across the country.

After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view.

Learn more about The Sketchbook Project!

Date: Saturday, March 12, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Member News

Barb Forrister:  My Contemplation has been invited to The Trail That Lay Before Them exhibit at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center (NHOTIC). They would also like to use this piece for general publicity, such as news releases, the NHOTIC official website, and posters.

 

Treasured Waters will be in Beneath The Surface special exhibit at the International Quilt Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio along with Welcome To My Garden in the Text On Textiles exhibit.

Copper Shade Tree Gallery will be celebrating its 5th Annual Art In Fiber Show on February 4 through March 12, 2011. Artists represented include Martha Tsihlas, Barb Forrister, Laura Ann Beehler, Andrea Brokenshire, Jo Sweet, Fannie Narte, Gay Ousley, Jack Brockette, Kate Owens, Leslie Tucker Jenison, Martha K. Grant, Cindy Henneke, Debbie Geistweidt, Suzan Engler, Barbara Nilsson, Lana Book, Margery Hedges, Annie Smith, Letitia Rogers, Suzanne Selb White, Connie Marie Fahrion and Janet Moran.

October Member News

Barb Forrister:  Houston, Texas .  Besides “Pixel Perfect” in the IQA World of Beauty (Group Quilts), she will have 4 pieces at the International Quilt Festival Special Exhibits:

Beneath The Surface: “Treasured Waters”

West Coast Wonders: “Ruby In The Emerald Forest

Text On Textiles: “Welcome To My Garden”

On Wednesday, November 3, Ami Simms will kick off the Alzheimers Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) where Tranquility by Barb Forrister can be purchased along with so many more wonderful art quilts. Please join the cause and help support AAQI. All profits fund Alzheimer’s research.

November 6, 2010: Quilting Arts Make It University Open Studios from 12-2 p.m. Barb Forrister will be demonstrating  how to make 3Dimensional fiber art trees at the International Quilt Festival. Should be a lot of fun!  Please stop by and say hello. I would love to meet you!

Gay Young Ousley also will have three pieces included in the AAQI exhibit:  Mnemosyne:  Goddess of Memory; Late Bloomer; and Autumn Glow. 

SAQA-Tx at IQF Long Beach

Many Texas members are represented at the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach this month.

BARB FORRISTER:

Treasured Waters is one of the quilts featured on IQF Festival at Home Beneath The Surface special exhibit

Ruby In The Emerald Forest is part of West Coast Wonders special exhibit and can also be seen on IQF Festival at Home

Austin Fiber Artists – 3rd Annual Show and Sale

AUSTIN FIBER ARTISTS EXHIBIT

   

TEXTILE TWISTS IN TWENTY TEN
Location:  Tokyo Electron America
               2400 Grove Blvd.  
               Austin, TX  78741
               (Grove runs off Montopolis Ave. in southeast Austin)
Dates:      Opening Reception - February 24, 2010 - 6:00 - 8:00 pm
                Exhibit can be viewed thru April 1, 2010 each weekday, M-F, from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

MEMBER NEWS - February

The “Art in Fiber” exhibit at the Copper Shade Tree Gallery in Round Top opens Friday night , February 5, at 5:00pm.  The exhibit consists of over 90 pieces by 23 Texas artists, many of whom are SAQA members.

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LOGGERHEAD -Gay Young Ousley

Quilting Florida Natural ll opens this weekend at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, Florida.  The show hangs until April 25 and includes a piece by Gay Young Ousley entitled LOGGERHEAD.   Each quilt in the show depicts some element of Florida's environment.

Meeting Reminder – Austin/San Antonio

The January Circle meeting for Austin/San Antonio will be held Saturday, January 9, beginning at 10 am, at the home of Lynne Allen in Austin.  Items on the agenda include show and tell, a talk on marketing by Cynthia Holmes, the SAQA Mentorship call, and a potluck lunch.  If anyone completed the design exercise (a small piece based on the word "covert") please bring it along.  Please contact Lynne if you are coming and/or if you need directions.

San Antonio/Austin Circle - November 21, 2009

The San Antonio and Austin Circles met at Laurie Brainerd's loft in San Antonio. After a delightful potluck lunch, we quickly got down to the business at hand.

We discussed the survey results, reiterating that we all must ask for what we want of the Circle. The combined Austin and San Antonio circles are meeting on the 2nd Saturday of the month. The January and March meetings have already been scheduled in Austin and will remain unchanged. In May, it will bounce to San Antonio. The host gets to decide the time the meeting starts.

We then went on to "Tells," which were more art business related. A lively discussion ensued. One of the outcomes is a plan to incorporate formal critique sessions into the meetings. It will start when we line up a facilitator hopefully for the March meeting, but knowing that logistics will have to remain flexible.

A group challenge was made for those that like having deadlines to keep them focused. The word that was randomly picked for inspiration is "covert."

Afterwards, we had our "Shows" and then ended the meeting with a quick tour of Laurie's studio.

It was wonderful to see the group, which has been meeting for a year now, really gelling and ready to take the group up a notch with more activities and articulating individuals' needs of the Circle.

Form, Not Function 2010

Wish You Were Here: Postcards From the Road, by Leslie Tucker Jenison & Frances Holliday Alford, has been juried into Form, Not Function 2010 at the Carnegie Center for Art & History, 201 East Spring St. in Albany, IN.

Austin Circle Launched

Last Saturday, Austin area SAQA members gathered at Mandi Ballard's home to launch Austin's first SAQA circle. We had a show-n-tell, networked, planned the dates of future meetings, and had a round-table discussion about how we get ideas from our heads out into the world. Ruthie Powers shared her experience of the SDA Conference with us. In addition, we had a lovely potluck lunch and got to see Mandi's spectacular studio!

Future meetings will be on the 1st Saturday of the month, unless it is a holiday weekend. Then, it will be pushed to the 2nd Saturday.

Dates and hosts (so far) are as follows:
September 12, 2009 hosted by Diane Sandlin
November 7, 2009
January 9, 2010 hosted by Lynne Allen
March 6, 2010 hosted by by Dee Merrell
May 1, 2010
July 10, 2010

I thought we had a couple of presenters identified at the meeting, but didn't get names onto the regional page. If you volunteered or would like to volunteer to do a small presentation, please contact Laurie Brainerd at lauriebrainerd@gmail.com.

If you can host a meeting in Nov, May, or July, please contact Laurie Brainerd at lauriebrainerd@gmail.com.