Monthly Archives: November 2010

Street Art

Artists are finding many ways to get their art out where people can see it and not all of them rely on entering juried art shows!

Today, I visited a wonderful display of fiber art created by the Ladies Fancywork Society.  Five women spent 6 weeks making more than 2,700 pieces of soft art to decorate a construction fence here in Denver.  It was amazing to see it all and realize that it has been up for [...]

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Art Meets Science

The SAQA show “Art Meets Science” opened in New York recently and I am excited to see it in person next month.  The exhibition is hung at Pfizer Headquarters and in order to get in to see it, you need a pass.  You can get a pass by emailing Therese Sathue.  Here are photos of my two pieces hanging in the galleries.  (Mine is behind Lisa Chipitine on the left — H1N1 — and the one the woman is looking [...]

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Teaching Stupendous Stitching

I am teaching my Stupendous Stitching class at the Great American Quilt Factory in Denver, CO and my September and December classes filled up right away so they added another one in November.  I’m excited to teach this class since many of the students are traditional quilters and this is a class that lets them create their own unique work of art to hang on the wall — something many of them have never done. [...]

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Mounting Fiber Art

I talked about my method of mounting my fiber art on the SAQA Yahoo Group a couple of weeks ago and received many emails asking me for the details so I thought I would share this with my blog readers in the hopes that many of you will try this method to display your art.  The more I live in the “art world” rather than the “quilt world”, I am finding that presentation is almost more [...]

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