Are you familiar with Focus on Fiber? It’s an annual retreat for fiber artists at a wonderful rustic facility in New Smyrna Beach, FL. Artists can work on their own projects or take a class from one of the visiting teachers. The retreat leader kindly invited The Quilt as Art artists to join them for dinner…
The general population tends to translate the word quilt as “bedspread.” If you say you make art quilts they might think, “She’s mighty proud of her bedspreads!” This is the challenge of art quilters as we try to show our work and to educate the public about what we do. Thankfully, exhibits of art quilts (and other textiles)…
Rollins College, in Winter Park, FL has a beautiful campus on the edge of a lake, with huge oak trees. It also has Cornell Fine Arts Museum, which I visited for the first time recently. While looking for the museum, we ended up in an art building with a display of student work in the…
Art, food, good conversation, and interesting people make exhibit receptions some of my favorite events. Throw in discussion about the pieces on display by the people who made them and it gets even better! All of this will be happening on April 13th for an exhibit in Daytona Beach, FL, called “The Quilt as Art.” I’ll…
On a recent visit to the Maitland Art Center I saw some very interesting art, both inside and out. There were several vessels made by Dale Chihuly, but they were over shadowed by this large installation piece in the next room. It’s called The Lack of Distinction, by Lorrie Fredette. Pretty cool, right? Here it is…
Surrounding Orlando are several quaint neighborhoods and Maitland is one of them. With sprawling oaks, brick streets, and old buildings, this tiny neighborhood is full of charm. Perfectly in step with the area, the Maitland Art Center sets the standard. It’s a cluster of small buildings and it was built in the 1930’s as an artists’…
What is it about little twisty leaves that add so much character to a simple tomato? I’m not sure, but it’s clear that they’re a wonderful addition. Per Susan Carlson’s instructions, I had left the edges of the red pieces unglued so the green leaf fabrics could slip right under. At least I THOUGHT I…
I was making good progress on my two large leaf quilts when I got BADLY distracted. The culprit was the book Serendipity, by Susan Carlson. In it she explains her fabric collage techniques. In many ways they’re the same as my own, but with a much higher level of tiny details. It was all SO…
After getting started on two big leaf quilts, things went pretty smoothly. (The photos in this post show the left quilt.) Having previously drawn the design on a large piece of muslin, I auditioned which green to use where. Can you believe I had to buy MORE fabric? Very unexpected. Here’s the final arrangement of…
A little more eye candy for you from the AQS Daytona show. This is Petals in the Wind by Cassandra Ireland Beaver. (Sorry for the fuzzy phone photo.) There is no black in this quilt. The black you see are holes which show the black curtain behind. Wouldn’t this be pretty against a pale wall,…