International Quilt Festival Chicago

Hi all,
Starting tomorrow the International Quilt Festival will be in Chicago. The basic information is listed below. There is a lot to see at the Festival I will be at the Studio Art Quilters Associates booth from 4-6 on Saturday if you have any questions about your SAQA membership or ideas for things to do. I would love to have input.
Also I will be doing a demo at the Open Studios booth from 2-4 on Saturday. Come by and visit there as well!

International Quilt Festival
Chicago 2013

June 21-23, 2013
Preview Night June 20
Donald E. Stephens Convention Center
Rosemont, Illinois
Hours:
June 20 (Preview Night) - 5-9 p.m.
June 21 & 22 - 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
June 23 - 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Admission: $10 adults/$8 seniors 7 students.
Children 10 and under free.
Full Show Pass (includes Preview Night) - $25

Quilt National 2013 Opening

Here are some photos from this past weekend opening at Quilt National 2013 at The Dairy Barn in Athens, OH. Top photo is Kathy Weaver (Highland Park, IL) speaking about her piece followed by me talking about mine. The others are an assortment of photos of other wonderful pieces. 

Upcoming Exhibits

I will have a piece, Forest Floor, var. 3 at Quilt National, opening May 25, 2013 at The Dairy Barn Gallery in Athens, OH.

Also, Reflections, Venice, var. 20 is currently at Form Not Function at The Carnegie Center for History and Art in New Albany, IN until July 13, 2013.

Reflections, Venice, var. 18 will be at the International Quilt Festival - Long Beach, California in  July 2013 and also at the National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky, September 12 - December 2, 2013.

Pokey and me

 

It was fun to do the filming for Quilting Arts TV. This is a picture taken with Pokey Bolton, the host, during one of the breaks on the set.

Filming for Quiltings Arts TV program

 I just came back from filming 3 segments with Pokey Bolton for the Quilting Arts TV program on PBS. The show will air this fall on PBS. It was a really fun expereince, once I got there and got started. I did a segment on my Reflection quilts, a segment on the three dimensional shaping (using the leaves) and one on digital printing through an online printer.  My car was FULL with proejcts coming and going. It filmed in Cleveland and that was long ride under the threat of the big snowstorm last weekend.

Hope to have  images to show at some point here.

Article in Quilting Arts

I have an article on digital design and printing using an online printer in the December/January issue of Quilting Arts. Please check it out. Available online at QuiltingArts.com or on the newstands.

I am excited to see the cloth and the words in print! This is my 3rd article with Quilting Arts. They also published my DVD -  Three Dimensional Fiber Art: Shape and Texture, Light and Shadow, which has been doing well.

Having spent so much of my previous career in publishing from the publisher end, it is fun to be an author.

Art Quilts at International Quilt Festival in Houston

Here are some photos from the SAQA Seasonal Palette exhibit that was at Houston a week ago. The show will be traveling to Cincinnati, Long Beach a a few other venues over the next 18 months, I hope to go see it in Cincinnati next April. My piece is the water reflection piece at the far right in the first photo. 38 artists were asked to make pieces for the show - each of us were given a particular season and color collection to work from. As well, we each created a notebook documenting our process and work along the way. There is a catalog ($20) available from the SAQA.com site. Photo credits: Gregory Case.

Another exhibit at Houston was A Sense of Scale. Very large pieces were interspersed with groupings of small pieces. This exhibit will also be traveling to other venues and also has a catalog available from SAQA.com. My piece in this exhibit was Mingled Waters - the very large piece shown in photo below.