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

SAQA Members Show Up Strong for Judith Content Exhibit

SAQA members from around Texas converged on La Grange July 11th to hear a gallery talk by Judith Content. It was so great to see enthusiastic members from Houston, Dallas, Austin and many other parts of Texas! Great showing!

"Intuitive Symmetry: Works on Silk by Judith Content" at Texas Quilt Museum will remain on view through Sept. 27, 2015.

July 14 Meeting in Round Top

We're looking forward to seeing you!

Tuesday, July 14 at 10 am

Henkel Hall in Round Top

Henkel Hall is across the square from the Copper Shade Tree Gallery

Guest Speakers
Debbie & Gerald Tobola
 Owners of the Copper Shade Tree Gallery

 

Debbie & Gerald will talk about showing your fiber art in a fine art gallery: what they look for as gallery owners, how to present your work to a gallery/curator, best practices for marketing your self as a working fiber artist and more.

Debbie & Gerald Tobola are the owners of the Copper Shade Tree Gallery and big supporters of the fiber art community. Copper Shade Tree is a fine art & craft destination located in the heart of Round Top, Texas. It displays a delightful collection of decorative fine art and functional crafts, hand crafted by Texas artisans, with a few surprises along the way. In addition, six events are scheduled throughout the year, to showcase a wide range of fine art and craft mediums and disciplines from across the state. Their annual "The Art in Fiber" invitational is one of their showcases. Two-thirds of the artists are from within a 150 mile radius of Round Top. A number of their artists are SAQA members as well as national award winners, many have appeared on various television shows, and many have been published in local, national, and international publications.

Photo: SAQA President Kris Sazaki with Gerald Tobola at the Copper Shade Tree Gallery. Our Texas Region Trunk Show "A Texas Experience" was displayed at the Copper Shade Tree during the International Quilt Festival in November 2014 and Kris was able to visit while she was in Texas.

Texas Region Meeting

Hello Texas!

 Our next Region meeting is

Tuesday, July 14 at 10 am

 in Round Top

 

Guest Speaker

Gerald Tobola

Co-Owner of the Copper Shade Tree Gallery

Click here for all the details!

 

Gerald Tobola with SAQA President Chris Sazaki

 

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! 

Photo round up from our SAQA Houston meeting on May 9, 2015. Fun meeting - extended show and tell and tips from fellow members on some great basics.

 

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

SAQA Houston 2015 meeting dates

Please mark your calendar for the remaining 2015 SAQA Houston meeting dates.

March 14

May 9

July 11

Sept 12

Nov 14

We meet the second Saturday at St. Philip Presbyterian, San Felipe and 610 loop.  More info on topics/speakers to come.

We love visitors. If you live outside Houston but want to join us, come on down!

West Texas Caprock SAQA Circle meeting Feb. 7

The West Texas Caprock SAQA circle will meet Friday evening, Feb 6 at Ruby Tequila’s in Lubbock for dinner at 5:00 before our opening at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center as part of the First Friday Art Trail.  Our show has been hanging since Jan 2 (and it looks great!), but our first opening was cancelled due to snow/ice.  The show will continue until Feb 21.

On Saturday, we will meet at 9:00 at my back studio at Grimes & Associates in Wolfforth for a workshop of deconstructed screen printing with Muff Fregia.  At noon, we will have lunch and our meeting followed by a program by Sandra Stephenson on “Holey Quilts”.  Please bring show and tell and be ready to get messy.

Call Jean for more details.

North Texas Circle meeting report

The North Texas Circle had a fabulous meeting on Saturday, January 17. We had an informative discussion of series work/finding your voice/following your passion and several members showed pieces predominately made from recycled materials. As always, I came away recharged and ready to get back in the studio!

I have truly enjoyed my time as the SAQA rep for North Texas. You have all been a great inspiration to me, and I look forward to many more years participating in this group and deepening our friendships.

As of February 1, Deborah Bright will be the new North Texas rep. And I'm looking forward to attending meetings as a "civilian!"

Our next meeting will be April 18th. See you there!

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

North Texas Circle meeting on January 17th!

The  North Texas Circle will meet on 

January 17, 10 am, at Petit Atelier, 2952 Commerce St, Dallas, Texas 75226

We will have a group discussion about "green" quilting.  Several of our members use recycled materials in their work, and will be sharing examples.

And please bring your latest pieces for Show and Tell!

We'll got to lunch after the meeting at one of the great restaurants in Deep Ellum.

See you there!  
Heather

Houston Circle Meeting

Saturday, January 14,

Laurel Cull's home, 5103 Pine, Bellaire, TX 77401, for map
For more information tel. 713-667-1955
10:30 am - 2:00 pm
Bring Your Own Lunch and your show 'n tell

It has only been two months since our last meeting, but seems longer. We are looking forward to see all of you again and hope you will share any work you were able to create over this busy time. Laurel Cull has generously offered to host this meeting at her home.

We will have one of the 2012 "This is a Quilt" SAQA trunk shows to view and discuss. I have looked at them only briefly so far, but I think you will enjoy some surprises.

Please RSVP to houstonsaqa@gmail.com so Laurel will know how many to plan for.

SAQA-Houston Circle Mtg.Nov.12

November 12, 2011 - 10:30-2:00

Bring your lunch and show and tell
We will view the Sky Dyes video and Susan Ennis will give us a demonstration of the technique.
Location: Ginny Eckley's studio -
For more information or to RSVP email houstonsaqa@gmail.com

Houston Circle Meeting–July 9

Our next meeting will again be at the home of Mary Ann Littlejohn in West University, starting at 10:30.  We look forward to seeing what you are working on this summer.  Please bring it and any other interesting things you  have for show and tell. 

We will be discussing what you would like to see us do in our group.  Are you interested in studying design principles, demos of techniques, or visits to galleries or exhibits?  

We will be viewing “Stitched” the film.  Some members have not seen it yet and several, who have seen it, requested to see it again.

Bring something to share for lunch.

Please RSVP to Mary Ann at houstonsaqa@gmail.com for more information or directions.

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

SAQA/SDA Joint Meeting rescheduled

The state-wide Surface Design Associates (SDA) meeting on October 16 at Jane Dunnewold’s studio in San Antonio has been reset and rescheduled due to illness in Jane’s family.
Mary Ruth Smith has offered to host the SDA meeting in WACO:

Saturday, October 23
1:00-3:00 pm
Lewis Art Building – Rm. 151
Baylor University

SAQA members (statewide) are invited to attend along with SDA.  Among other things, we want to talk about more synergy with the two groups.

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If you are wondering what to do in Waco before and after the meeting, here are some exhibitions you might want to view.

The Martin Museum of Art (located in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center)":

1.  " Soliloquies" paintings by Japanese painter, Makoto Fujimura.  His paintings are influenced by the 17th Century  decorative screen tradition called Rimpa.
2.  Photographs by Dornith Doherty, a contemporary photographer and Professor of Art at UNT.
Across University Parks Drive from the Hooper Schaefer Fine Arts Center is the Mayborn Museum Complex.  Featured is the "Sacred Texts, Holy Images: Rouault's Miserere and Chagall's Bible Series Exhibit.
Waco has a new commercial fine arts gallery. The Croft Art Gallery.  The exhibition for October will feature the beaded constructions by Leah Force, a Lecturer of Art at Baylor and sculpture pieces by Chuck Jobe, an art studio technician at Baylor.  Leah's intricate pieces are akin to Mary Ruth Smith's French knotted pieces.  They are heavily beaded with very tiny seed bead, each appearing to be a stitched knot.   Mary Ruth will see if Leah could do a talk about her work at the Gallery after the meeting.
Patrick Dougherty, "stick artist" , will be in Waco in October installing 3 sick weavings along the Brazos River in Cameron Park. Google his name and view his amazing work.

SAQA-Victoria/Coastal Crossroads – New Circle Forming

Gail Dentler is organizing a new SAQA circle in her area.  The first meeting is August 19 @ 10:00, at her home in Victoria TX.  For further details, contact Gail by at gaildentler@gmail(dot)com.