Call for Entries: SAQA “A Sense of Adventure” Opens Feb. 1, 2011

A Sense of Adventure

Open to all SAQA members

Premiere Location: International Festivals of Quilts
Houston, TX November 2011
Cincinnati, OH April 2012
Long Beach, CA July 2012
Additional venue locations to be determined.

Theme: A Sense of Adventure asks you to expand your personal comfort zone. Beyond the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch is the sense of adventure. Webster's defines "adventure" as:
1 a : an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks
   b : the encountering of risks (the spirit of adventure)
2 : an exciting or remarkable experience (an adventure in exotic dining)
Use techniques you've never used before. Plumb deep within yourself for a personal sense of adventure. Share your adventures through this exhibit.

Juror: Jacqueline M. Atkins
Curator: Nancy Bavor nbavor@gmail.com

Entry is by digital images only, using SAQA’s online system. Preview the entry form at
http://saqacallforentries4.com/
February 1, 2011       Online entry opens
February 28, 2011     Online Entry Final Day - Deadline at 11:59 pm EST

The full prospectus is available in doc or pdf format

Solo Exhibition of Fiber Art by Diane Cadrain – Reception January 23rd

You are invited…

To a Reception celebrating a solo exhibition of quilts and collages by Diane Cadrain

Sunday, January 23, 2011

2 – 4 PM

Wethersfield Library

Community Room

515 Silas Deane Highway

Wethersfield, CT 06109

http://www.wethersfieldlibrary.org

Call For Entries: “Deep Spaces” Exhibition – Open to ALL Fiber Artists

You do not have to be a SAQA member to enter your work into “Deep Spaces”, an international exhibition of fiber art.  

Online entry system is open NOW

Entry Deadline: May 1, 2011

Deep Spaces

The Deep Spaces exhibit, curated by Larkin Jean Van Horn, will show textile works of a common size interpreting the title theme in three venues between July 2011 and June of 2012.

Eligible artwork for this exhibit will consist of quilts and other textile based wall hangings.

• Artwork must be 18" wide and 45" tall. That's a vertical orientation, like a hanging scroll. No Exceptions.

• Entry fee is $25.00 (US) via PayPal, up to three pieces may be entered.  

• Entries will be accepted via webpage and digital images. No paper entries or disks will be accepted.

More details and requirements are listed on the Exhibition Prospectus. 

Click Here for the Complete Prospectus: http://www.deep-spaces.com

Interactive Crazy Quilts at the New Britain Museum of American Art

NEW/NOW: Interactive Crazy Quilts by Carol Padberg
Jan. 28 - Apr. 25, 2011
Opening Reception
6 PM, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011

For most of the last decade Carol Padberg has been exploring encoded abstraction through painting, installation, and collage. Two years ago this interest led her to the great textile traditions of West Africa, where fabrics often have elaborate patterns and symbols that refer to proverbs and historical events.

Padberg synthesizes the influences of African textiles, American crazy quilts, and European modernism with her own family background of sewing, to produce information age art which stands at the intersection of quilting and computer code.

In this exhibition Padberg builds her quilts using a high capacity bar code structure layered with colored papers, scraps of fabric and paint, such that with a click of a smart phone, the viewer is transported down what Padberg calls a “rabbit hole” providing a window into the making of the art and the symbolism encoded within.

Each work investigates ways in which technology has shaped our contemporary world. For example, in Love the Eats (image, upper left) we are linked to images and texts that explore modern food production and consumption. Themes include pesticides commonly applied to apples; the Slow Food movement; and the trials and tribulations of feeding a large family.

New Britain Museum of American Art

56 Lexington Street

New Britain, CT 06052

860.229.0257

http://www.nbmaa.org

Don’t Miss the Deadline for SAQA’s Trunk Show “This IS a Quilt!” – Jan. 21, 2011

Open to all SAQA members 
Deadline for Entries:  January 21, 2011

Theme:  This is a Quilt!

How do we as SAQA members explain what we do - create quilts - without people immediately thinking of a nine-patch that goes on your bed? By example, of course! SAQA defines an art quilt as "a contemporary artwork exploring and expressing aesthetic concerns common to the whole range of visual arts: painting, printmaking, photography, graphic design, assemblage and sculpture, which retains, through materials or technique, a clear relationship to the folk art quilt from which it descends."

This definition is purposely broad to accommodate the wondrous and exciting art quilts SAQA members are creating.

Create one piece that constitutes an art quilt as defined above. All work will be
photographed, matted, and prepared for exhibition by SAQA. The SAQA
exhibition committee hopes to publish some or all of the quilts in a book
exploring the diversity of art quilts. All quilts will be returned to the artist after the
travel schedule has ended.

Minimum 9" per side, maximum 11" per side. The pieces will be matted behind
a 12" white or off-white mat with an 8" square opening in the center. Only 8" sq.
of your quilt will be visible. Because the artwork will be behind a mat, the edges
need not be finished. A very small number of three-dimensional pieces may be
included. Please contact the curators for details.

Curators: Deb Cashatt (deb@pixeladies.com) and Kris Sazaki (kris@pixeladies.com)
The full prospectus is available in pdf format.

Opening Reception Jan 22, 2011 - “Identity in Fiber” Windsor Art Center (Windsor, CT)

Windsor Art Center Presents:

IDENTITY IN FIBER

An Exhibition of Fiber Art

January 22 – March 5, 2011

Opening Reception Jan. 22nd,  5-7 PM

at the Windsor Art Center (WAC) Gallery

40 Mechanic Street

Windsor, CT 06095

(860) 688-2528

www.windsorartcenter.org

(image: “Daily Devotional” by Katharina Litchman)

Through art quilts and fiber sculpture, artists share the memorable experiences and traditions that have shaped their identities.  Meet some of the artists and enjoy light food, music and a special drawing at the Opening Reception on Saturday, January 22nd.

SPECIAL DRAWING: Fiber Artist and teacher EdJohnetta Miller is coming to Windsor Art Center in February.  She will lead her popular one hour workshop making greeting cards with fabric, but space is limited to 12 students. 

• TO REGISTER for EdJohnetta’s workshop you must fill out a card at the “Identity in Fiber” Opening Reception on Saturday January 22, 2011 at Windsor Art Center.  Twelve cards will be pulled from a hat during the Opening Reception. 
• The actual workshop will take place on February 26^th, 2011 at Windsor Art Center.

Food by Lily’s Soul Food Restaurant

Music by The Trey Wilson Trio

In case of a cancellation due to weather, the Snow Date is Sunday January 23, 2011 from 3PM – 5PM.

Catherine Smith Requesting Your Help – Looking for Amy Butler Fabrics

SAQA-CT artist Catherine Whall Smith is asking for your help as she pursues her goal of continuing her “Yellow Series”.  An excerpt from Catherine’s blog:

I still have some of the original fabrics – but I am in search of the Amy Butler – yellow/full moon polka dot fabric – yellow dot with a grey background.  I’ve emailed and searched on line, but I don’t seem to be able to find it.

SO IF YOU HAVE A PIECE IN YOUR STASH – please notify me – smith.catherine62@gmail.com ASAP -

who knows YELLOW #?-could be named after you.

May HEALTH and HAPPINESS follow you throughout 2011.  . . . CW Smith

The image you see here is Catherine Whall Smith’s “Yellow #1: Lyme Disease”, the first in her yellow/red series. She methodically hand quilts each piece, stitching in straight lines with such consistency that she can calculate the number of stitches based on the dimensions of the piece.   For example, “Yellow #1” contains 68,000 stitches. 

Read more about Catherine and her work on the “Smith Stitch Studio” blog: http://catherinewhallsmith.com/blog-2/