WELCOME TO THE JULY 2009 ISSUE OF FIBER ART NEWS
This is a free, monthly email listing of fiber art events happening from Maine to Virginia along the eastern seaboard. If you will be exhibiting or know of an exhibition, please send me an email.
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SAQA 2009 Benefit Auction
This year's Benefit Auction will start Thursday, September 10th at 2:00 Eastern. SAQA has already received 214 donated artworks and more are on the way. All the artwork is 12" x 12". You can see them on the SAQA website: http://www.saqa.com/newsebulletins/Squares09_1.aspx
Here are a few that caught my eye:
Susan Shie "Garden Hug #3"
Deidre Adams "Horizon 12"
Eva Henneberry "Full Moon Bird"
Diane Wright "Fault Lines"
BOOK NEWS
Lark Books has asked me to write Volume 2 of "Masters: Art Quilts". It is scheduled to be published in the Spring of 2011. I will keep you posted as the book progresses. Volume 1 is still available through the SAQA Bookstore.
REVIEWS
Inspired to Quilt: Creative Experiments in Art Quilt Imagery by Melanie Testa (Interweave Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59668-096-8, $24.95, 136 pages)
Need to get your creative juices flowing? Spend some time in Melanie's world - journaling, experimenting, and playing with your ideas and materials. Includes a good overview with step-by-step directions of dyeing, printing, soy wax resist, and painting on fabric. The strength of this book is Melanie's explanation of how to use your journal of ideas to put all the techniques together to create a work of art. She explains and demonstrates how she uses her signature technique of layers of sheers to create layers of design, and how a single image pulled from her Journal can be used in a multitude of different designs. I found this section fascinating as I've always thought of using images as "one and done." Melanie mines each image for a variety of uses. Instructions on how to use quilting and embellishment to highlight elements of your design, several small projects, and a gallery fill the last section of this book. Inspiring!
Clare Plug: Look South (Hawkes Bay Museum & Art Gallery, Napier, New Zealand, 2009, ISBN 978-0-473-14879-9, $20)
"Look South" is an exhibition of Clare Plug's work at the Hawkes Bay Museum & Art Gallery in Napier, New Zealand. The works in the exhibition are the result of three years of new work following a artist residency in Antarctica. Three essays explore different aspects of the exhibition. Lucy Hammonds (Curator of Design Collections at Hawkes Bay Museum & Art Gallery) describes Clare's artistic pathway and how the Antarctic residency affected her work. Douglas Lloyd Jenkins (Director of Hawkes Bay Museum & Art Gallery) describes the history of the Robert Scott expedition to the South Pole and the importance of flags and textiles to the expedition and how that affected Clare in her response to the Antarctic environment. Ursula Ryan (Information Advisor, Antarctica New Zealand) looks at the Heroic Era and its periods of exploration and how the artifacts from that time affected Clare's work. A fascinating body of work and a fascinating catalog.
Photo-Inspired Art Quilts: From Composition to Finished Piece by Leni Levenson Wiener, Krause Publications, 2009, ISBN 978-0-89689-804-2, $29.99 includes DVD hosted by Nancy Zieman, 128 pages, list of resources, index.
Not only will this book inspire art quilts, it will inspire you. Leni shows clearly how to evaluate your own photos to find interesting ideas for art quilts, to use cropping to eliminate extra visual information, and how to combine several photos to create a stronger composition. Digital cameras allow us to capture so many wonderful images. But they're not all great art quilt candidates. Being able to follow Leni's thought process as she evaluates different photos and combines them to create a composition is extremely helpful. Good instruction in art quilt construction and thread painting shows the reader how to translate the photo collage into fabrics. Especially valuable is the section on creating faces.
FIBER ART LISTINGS:
(Listings are based on the information that I have; before visiting an exhibit, ALWAYS call to double check dates and times.)
Connecticut:
"Craft Expo 2009" (7/16-18)
Guilford Art Center
Guilford, CT
www.guilfordartcenter.org
"Celebration Quilts" (thru 8/30)
Windham Textile & History Museum
411 Main St.
Willimantic, CT 06226
860-456-2178
www.millmuseum.org
"Contemporary Fiber Art by Karen Loprete" (through 9/30)
Spector Furniture
385 Main Street
Ansonia, CT
COMING EVENTS:
"Contemporary Art from Traditional Loops" (8/16 thru 10/4)
Bruce S. Kershner Gallery/Fairfield Public Library
8/22/09 Hook-In, 3-5 PM; Opening Reception, 5-7 PM
1080 Old Post Rd.
Fairfield, CT 06824
203-270-8293
nmh1792@hotmail.com
Massachusetts:
"Chunghie Lee: My Cup Overflows" (thru 10/18)
"The Perfect Fit—Shoes Tell Stories" (thru 1/3/10)
"Machiko Agano: Structured Space" (thru 3/7/10)
Fuller Craft Museum
455 Oak Street
Brockton, MA
508-588-6000
http://www.fullercraft.org/home.html
"Cut the Edge, Weave the Line: Textile Arts 2009: (thru 7/31)
Mobilia Gallery
358 Huron Avenue
Cambridge, MA
617-876-2109
mobilia-gallery.com
"Cloth is Our Canvas III" (thru 7/13) A Quilt Exhibit
North River Arts Society Gallery
157 Old Main St.
Marshfield Hills Village, MA
"Radka Donnell: The Work of Touch" (thru 7/12)
"Massachusetts Quilts: Our Common Wealth (7/17-9/20)
New England Quilt Museum
18 Shattuck Street
Lowell, MA
978-452-4207
http://www.nequiltmuseum.org
"Textile Revolution: An Exploration through Space and Time"
"Threads: The Weaving of Stories"
"What Followed Me Home: Collecting Antique Quilts, Fabrics, and Tools"
The American Textile History Museum
491 Dutton Street
Lowell, MA
COMING IN AUGUST:
"Quilt scapes at the Whistler" (8/5-31)
Whistler Art Museum
Lowell, MA
New York:
"Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern" (thru 9/6)
American Folk Art Museum
45 W. 53rd Street
New York, NY
212-265-1040
www.folkartmuseum.org
"Harlem Sewn Up 2009: Quilted Reflections of a Community" (6/20-ongoing)
Dwyer Cultural Center
258 St. Nicholas Avenue (at 123rd Street)
New York, NY
(212) 459-1854
http://dwyercc.org
"Zen Stitches" (6/27-9/19)
Hammond Museum
28 Deveau Rd
North Salem, NY 10560
914-669-5033
www.hammondmuseum.org
Opening Reception: Sat. June 27, 1-3pm
NOHO Gallery
530 West 25th Street
New York, NY
212-367-7063
"Fashioning Felt" (thru 9/7)
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
2 E. 91st Street
New York, NY
212-849-8400
www.cooperhewitt.org
"Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection" (ongoing)
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
New York, NY 10019
212-299-7777
www.madmuseum.org
COMING IN SEPTEMBER:
Lecture: "Illustrating the Fabric of Life" (9/2)
6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
40th Street and Fifth Avenue, 6th floor
New York, NY
"Full Spectrum: Quilts & The Textile Arts" (9/10-12/05)
Binghamton University Art Museum
Binghamton, NY
"Marilyn Henrion: Solo Exhibition" (9/2-30)
Berkeley College Art Gallery
Midtown Campus, First Floor Lobby
3 East 43rd Street
New York, NY
New Jersey:
COMING EVENTS:
"Signature Artists' Exhibit" (thru 9/13)
Noyes Museum of Art
Oceanville
"Joanie San Chirico" (8/1-10/31)
ArtPort
Atlantic City International Airport
Atlantic City, NJ
"Knitted, Knotted, Netted" (10/18-?)
Hunterdon Art Museum
7 Lower Center Street
Clinton, NJ
908-735-8415
www.hunterdonartmuseum.org
Opening with artists' talk: Sunday, 10/18 2-5
Pennsylvania:
"Rainbow Yarn: Navajo Rugs, Germantown Yarns and the Pennsylvania Connection" (thru 12/31)
Lancaster Quilt and Textile Museum
37 N. Market Street
Lancaster, PA
717-299-6440
www.quiltandtextilemuseum.com
"Transformations'08: Icons & Imagery" (thru 7/27)
Everhart Museum
1901 Mulberry Street
Scranton, PA
570-346-7186
http://www.everhart-museum.org
Maryland:
"Creative Crafts Council 27th Biennial Exhibition" (thru 7/11)
The Mansion at Strathmore Hall Arts Center
10701 Rockville Pike
North Bethesda, MD
"Marriage of Art, Science & Philosophy" (thru 9/9/09)
American Visionary Art Museum
800 Key Highway
Baltimore, MD
410-244-9000
www.avam.org
Washington DC:
"Floris Flam: Trunk Show" (7/19 at 1:00)
Textile Museum
2320 S St., N.W.
Washington, DC
Reservations are required: 202-667-0441, ext. 29
http://www.textilemuseumshop.com/
"Artomatic" (thru 7/5)
55 M Street SE
Washington, DC
"Constructed Color: Amish Quilts from the Collection of the International Quilt Study Center" (thru 9/6)
The Textile Museum
2320 S Street, NW
Washington, DC
202-667-0441
www.textilemuseum.org
"Jean Shin: Common Threads" (thru 7/26)
Museum of American Art
Washington, DC
202-633-2850
www.americanart.si.edu
Virginia:
"Moons, stars and sky: celebration of the summer solstice" (thru 7/5)
"Antiquities: Ancient motifs for modern times" (7/7-8/9)
"Books in all their glory: Books--make them, read them, share them" (8/11-9/14)
"Joy of movement: Kinetic and representational interpretations in fiber" (9/15-10/11)
"Food for Thought" (10/13-11/15)
"Holiday brightness in the dark of winter: Gifts for everyone" (11/17-1/4/10)
Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery
at the Torpedo Factory
Alexandria, Virginia
http://www.potomaccraftsmengallery.com/
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