Congratulations Mary de Marsh!

Mary won the Bernina 430 sewing machine raffled on Sunday, January 10!

Thank you to our raffle sponsors Patchwork Plus & Bernina.

Barbara Ackley • Cortland, NY

Fran Cowen Adler • Manchester, MI

Pamela Allen • Kingston, ON, Canada

Elizabeth Anderson • Fayetteville, NY

Jill Ault • Ann Arbor, MI

Shelley Brenner Baird • Columbus, OH

Elizabeth Barton • Athens, GA

Judi Blaydon • Milford, MI

Barbara Bugliani • Paoli, PA

Marianne Burr • Coupeville, WA

Elizabeth A. Busch • Glenburn, ME

Kristine Calney • Otis Orchards, WA

Violet O. Cavazos • Falls Church, VA

Maya Chaimovich • Ramat-Gan, Israel

Sheri Cooper • Winchester, MA

Cynthia Corbin • Woodinville, WA

Helene F. Davis • Paducah, KY

Marcia DeCamp • Palmyra, NY

Sylvia H. Einstein • Belmont, MA

Grace Errea • Laguna Niguel, CA

Alice Gant • Trumansburg, NY

Judy Gignesi • Katonah, NY

Carol Goddu • Mississauga, ON, Canada

Jo-Ann Golenia • Venice, FL

Cindy Grisdela • Great Falls, VA

Martha C. Hall • Vernon, NJ

Gloria Hansen • East Windsor, NJ

Lisa Hochstein • Santa Cruz, CA

Ruby Horansky • Brooklyn, NY

Terry Jarrard-Dimond • Clemson, SC

Anita Kaplan • The Sea Ranch, CA

Noel Keith • Manlius, NY

Harue Konishi • Nakano-Ku, Tokyo, Japan

Pat Kumicich • Naples, FL

Eileen Lauterborn • Farmingdale, NY

Judith Maher • Peterborough, ON, Canada

Glenys Mann • Tamworth, Australia

Joyce Martelli • Rochester, NY

Valerie Maser-Flanagan • Carlisle, MA

Susan McCraw • Belmont, MA

Thelma McGough • St. Marys Bay, Auckland, New Zealand

Kathryn M. Miranda • Syracuse, NY

Dominie Nash • Bethesda, MD

Kathy Nida • El Cajon, CA

Constance Norton • Fairfax, VA

V'Lou Oliveira • Norman, OK

Kimber Olson • Eden Prairie, MN

Nancy Ostman • Groton, NY

Pat Pauly • Pittsford, NY

Judith Plotner • Gloversville, NY

Carole Pollard • Mantua, OH

Leslie Joan Riley • Skokie, IL

Susan Schrott • Mt. Kisco, NY

Karen M. Schulz • Silver Spring, MD

Judy Gaynes Sebastian • Eastham, MA

Joan Sowada • Gillette, WY

Carla Stetson • Lodi, NY

Carol Taylor • Pittsford, NY

K. Velis Turan • Earlton, NY

Norene Walworth • Pittsburgh, PA

Martha Warshaw • Cincinnati, OH

Barbara W. Watler • Hollywood, FL

Kathy Weaver • Highland Park, IL

Barb Wills • Prescott, AZ

Erin Wilson • Brooklyn, NY

Sandra LH Woock • Bethesda, MD

Kristine Calney

Tidal Tresses, 2007

Jo-Ann Golenia

Tulips IV, 2009

Leslie Joan Riley

Chutes and Ladders, 2009

Martha C. Hall

Capriccio, 2009

First Prize
Leslie Riley, Chutes & Ladders

Second Prize
Sheri Cooper, Joan of Park 5

Award for Surface Design
Elizabeth Busch, Two Thousand Seven

Schweinfurth Award for Design Excellence
Terry Jarrard-Dimond, Wrestling Jacob’s Angel

Award for Hand Workmanship
Norene Walworth, Spaces Corners

Award for Machine Workmanship
Gloria Hansen, Blushing Triangles

Jurors’ Choice Awards
Marianne Burr, Cherry Salsa
Thelma McGough, Urban Buzz
Martha Warshaw, Houses 1

Preview Reception: Saturday, 6 – 8pm

10/31  Be the first to see our 29th annual juried quilt show. Free and open to the public.

Open House & Walk-About Tour : Sunday, 2pm

11/1  Join us for the 1st official day of the 29th annual quilt show. Meet exhibiting quilters and enjoy a walk-about tour of the exhibit with Executive Director Donna Lamb at 2pm. Included with $6 general admission, free for Art Center members.

Director's Tour

11/3 Enjoy a second opportunity to tour the 29th annual quilt show with Executive Director Donna Lamb. Included with $6 general admission, free for Art Center members.

QBL2 3-Day Quilting Classes, 9am – 4:30pm

Cost:  $295 per class plus supplies.  Go to www.quiltingbythelake.com for more information or to register online.

10/30 – 11/1 Surface Design, Photo Transfers & Collage with Hollie Heller

11/6– 11/8  Just Bead It with Betsy Hershberg

11/13– 11/15  Nuno Collage with Cher Benda

Trunk Show with Rochester Area Fiber Artists (RAFA), 2pm

11/22  The fifty member Rochester Area Fiber Artists, an eclectic group of textile divas, meet in Rochester, NY. Converging once a month to encourage new growth and ideas, these artists prefer working in fiber. While some of the art work uses a quilting process, many worksuse non traditional fiber techniques. Their work celebrates the visual feast inherent in using fibers with surface ornamentation, mind-boggling piecework, and painting as well as printmaking.

Trunk Show with Christine Wickert, 2pm

11/29  Christine Wickert is a mainly self taught artist.  She has been quilting for over 20 years and is an active member of the Genesee Valley Quilt Club in Rochester, NY. Christine has won many prizes and has conducted a quilt residency with elementary school children in the Webster School District. After years of practicing her craft adapting designs by well known quilting teachers, Chris is now designing many of her own original pieces.  Hand appliqué and hand quilting continue to be her favorite techniques and indeed define her style.

Trunk Show with Aafke Steenhuis, 2pm

12/6 Aafke Swart Steenhuis was born in the Netherlands and as a child learned to knit, crochet, embroider and sew, both in school and at home. In 1972 she moved with her husband, Tammo, and infant daughter to the US and has lived in Ithaca, NY since 1976. In 1998 Steenhuis got a new sewing machine and became more involved in quilting. Her initial quilts were very traditional using patterns and quilt blocks. Today Steenhuis is designing her own colorfol quilts, though she still makes traditional quilts now and then.

Trunk Show with Pat Pauly, 2pm

12/13  Known for her improvisational technique, Pat Pauly uses bold color and unusual juxtapositions of printed and painted fabric in her work. Her frequent lectures and workshops on contemporary art quilts carry the same qualities as her work - energized, spontaneous, and definitive. A textile artist since 1981, Pat shows her quilts nationally as well as curates and designs exhibitions of contemporary and historic textiles. She maintains a studio near Rochester, NY.

Trunk Show with Judy Sheridan, 2pm

12/20  An art teacher for 34 years and a quilter for ten, Judy is noted for her fine hand appliqué, precise machine piecing and hand quilting. Her quilts have won awards and ribbons, been published, and have been exhibited on both state and national levels. Judy's originally designed quilts reflect her love of strong graphic designs used in traditional style. Now retired, she shares her passion for hand appliqué teaching both needleturn and reverse appliqué techniques in classes and workshops.

Holiday Traditions, 12 – 5pm

12/13  Annual holiday open house at Auburn’s historic & cultural sites including the Art Center.  Free admission.

About the Jurors

Rosalie Dace   Durban, South Africa

Rosalie is a South African studio artist who has been working in the fiber art, quilt and embroidery world since 1975. Her work has been widely exhibited and published nationally and internationally, and she has won several awards. She has taught and lectured in South Africa, America, New Zealand and Germany, which has allowed her to indulge her passion for textiles, travel and meeting people.

Kerr Grabowski Sussex, NJ

Kerr is a fiber artist and teacher known for her innovative approach to dyeing and screening processes. Kerr’s love of color, pattern and spontaneity is evident in her elegantly whimsical art wear. She is a NJ Arts Fellowship recipient and is the developer of Deconstructed Screen Printing, a technique allowing for a spontaneous, painterly approach to screen-printing. Kerr produced the DVD Deconstructed Screen Printing, and has been published in Ornament, Fiber Art, Surface Design Journal, Fiber Arts Design Book Six and Silk Painting for Fashion and Fine Art. Kerr exhibits and teaches internationally.

Margo Mensing   Saratoga Springs , NY

Margo, Assistant Professor of Art at Skidmore College, received her BA in English and MA in American History from the University of Michigan. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Art History/Theory/Criticism and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A diversity of interests informs both her work and teaching, resulting in provocative installations, collaborations and curatorial projects involving fiber arts and other mediums. Margo is currently working on a fifth segment of her continuing project, Dead at, which will focus on Joan Mitchellthis year and for which she is knitting a series of Mitchell-inspired socks. Her recent writings include a chapter in The Object of Labor, "Lace Curtains Troy" on the history of Collar City and an essay in Gastronomica: Journal of Food and Culture.