Quilts=Art=Quilts Events & Workshops

Looking for Pattern in Chaos 1-day workshop

Saturday, November 4, 10am – 4pm

Teacher:  Joan Lintault, Quilts=Art=Quilts 2006 Juror

Cost:  $75 Art Center members, $85 non-members

For more information go to Adult Art Classes

Making Your Mark 1-day workshop

Saturday, November 4, 10am – 4pm

Teacher:  Jeanne Raffer Beck

Cost:  $75 Art Center members, $85 non-members

For more information go to Adult Art Classes

Quilts=Art=Quilts Award Presentation, Dinner & Lecture

Saturday, November 4, 6pm at Highland Park Golf Club

Quilts=Art=Quilts 2006 Juror Robert Shaw will be the keynote speaker at the Award Ceremony & Dinner and he will present the lecture A History of the Art Quilt.  This lecture traces the development of the art quilt, exploring its roots in traditional quiltmaking and other textile and visual arts and then looking at the ground-breaking early work of such innovators as Jean Ray Laury, Charles Counts, Joan Lintault, Therese May, Radka Donnell, Molly Upton, Susan Hoffman, Nancy Halpern, Michael James, and Nancy Crow.  Tickets: $40 per person. Advance reservations required by October 30.

Quilts=Art=Quilts Open House Reception & Tour

Sunday, November 5, 1 – 5 pm

The public is invited to view Quilts=Art=Quilts and meet participating quilters and enjoy a walk about tour guided by Executive Consultant Eugenia Banres.  Admission fee: $5.  Members and children under 12 free.

Trunk Show by Ellen Blalock

Sunday, November 5, 2pm

Seven years ago Ellen M. Blalock started working on The Quilt Project to symbolically replace the quilts that were stolen from her family years ago.  The figurative quilts share stories from several generations of her family.  Blalock received her MFA from Syracuse University and her BFA from Tyler College of Art, Temple University.  She currently lives in Camillus.

Improvisational Machine Quilting 1-day workshop

Saturday, November 11, 10am – 4pm

Teacher:  Carol Soderlund

Cost:  $75 Art Center members, $85 non-members

For more information go to Adult Art Classes

Trunk Show by Melissa Craven Fowler

Sunday, November 12, 2pm

Melissa Craven Fowler is a art quilter from Ithaca, NY.  Her early traditional quilts won several awards; however, Melissa soon ventured outside the "rulebook” in several series of quilts, and now works largely with her own “hand-dyed” or painted fabrics in a spontaneous manner, utilizing simple abstract shapes which are evocative of the human condition.

Trunk Show by Marilyn Belford

Sunday, November 19, 2pm

Marilyn Belford is an award-winning quilter, well known for her realistic fabric portraits and arts quilts.  Her works have been shown at the AQS show in Paducah, Quilters’ Heritage Celebration in Lancaster, PA, the IQ F International show in Houston, TX, Schweinfurth Art Center  and other museums and shows nationally, winning many top awards.  Marilyn was nominated Teacher of the Year by The Professional Quilter Magazine in 2004 and has published several books and articles.  Her latest book Portraits for Fabric Lovers is available through her website.

Trunk Show by Sharon Bottle Souva

Sunday, November 26, 2pm

Sharon Bottle Souva, Syracuse, NY, has been working with needles and fabric in one form or another since childhood.  She began making art quits in 1976 which allowed her great freedom in exploring fabric. For Sharon the needle is an extension of her fingers, the threads and fabric her palette.

Trunk Show by Bette Rogers

Sunday, December 3, 2pm

Bette Rogers is a quilt artist from Honeoye Falls who has been attracted to fiber since she was a small child learning to knit, crochet and embroider. She went on to study textiles in college and started to make functional quilts while living in Japan. Bette was also studying ikebana (the art of Japanese flower arranging) at that same time and decided to combine her interests by making ikebana quilts. 

Quilts=Art=Quilts 2006 Jurors

Ann Clarke

Ann Clarke is the Chair of the Department of Art at Syracuse University, in addition to being the Coordinator of the Fiber Art/Material Studies Program. She is a 1994 Graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design MFA Program, and a 1981 graduate of Painting/Printmaking from the University of Michigan. Ann exhibits her work regularly at Julie: Artisan’s Gallery in New York City and in many other venues across the country. She is also a 2005 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

M. Joan Lintault

M. Joan Lintault is an internationally renowned quilter who is one of among a handful of the original art quilters. She has been involved in the Fibers movement and has been exhibiting her work since 1965 in places such places as The Illinois State Museum, The Renwick Gallery of The Smithsonian Institute, The American Crafts Museum, The American Museum of Quilts and Textiles. She has shown her work in over 300 exhibitions since and her work can be found in both public and private collections.  Her research, lecturing and workshops in surface design has brought her throughout the USA, Japan, India, China, and Malaysia.

Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw is an independent curator and art historian who has written and lectured extensively on American folk arts and contemporary studio crafts. He was curator at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont from 1981-1994 and acted as consulting curator to International Quilt Festival in Houston from 1998-2003. His 1997 book The Art Quilt is considered the definitive text on the subject. He has curated exhibitions at major museums and expositions in the United States, Europe, and Japan (including the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, the Houston Museum of Natural Science,, and the University of Michigan Art Museum); contributed to numerous books and exhibition catalogs; written articles for The Magazine Antiques, Fiber Arts, Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, and other periodicals; and served as a consultant to private collectors, museums, and Sotheby’s auction house.

Eugenia Barnes will continue as the Executive Consultant.

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