News from Nancy Hicks

Nancy Hicks is one of six quilt artists exhibiting at the Earlville Opera House Art Center at 18 East Main Street, Earlville, NewYork. The pieces she is exhibiting are below. 

News from Linda Bachman

Juried into the Ayers Loft Gallery in Lowell Massachusetts

Pillars of Hope

Juried into the Dragonfly Gallery at Rosedale in Austin, Texas. The show is the 2012 12x12 exhibit

News from the Fiber Revolution Group

Katharina Litchman, curator of the "Interpretations in Fiber," notes the Alliance Loft Gallery in Narrowsburg, New York, will be hosting a show with many artists from our SAQA family. Opening is July 13th, if you are around, do plan to attend.

News from Karen Cooper

Curated by Karen Cooper, Synchronicity brought 11 national and internationally recognized textile artists to Fishtown’s Highwire Gallery.  
Synchronicity was presented in conjunction with Fiber Philadelphia, the city-wide biennial of textile arts, with over 40 participating galleries, museums and universities; as well as the annual meetings of the Studio Art Quilters Association and the Surface Design Association. 

Both Karen Cooper and Natalya Aikens of SAQA New York participated in the show.

Natalya Aikens
My art is deeply rooted in my heritage. The Russian fairy tales, folklore and decorative traditions are intermingled with imagery of my beloved city of St. Petersburg.

SAQA NY Members on Exhibit

"Whirlpool" by Marcia DeCamp

Beverly Kondlof "E3: Parallax"

On view now at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennslyvania,  in "Art Quilt Elements" are the works of SAQA NY artists Marcia DeCamp and Beverly Kondolf with her work "E3: Parallax" (seen above). Also on view is the work of Judith Plotner and Eileen Lauterborn. Dates for the show are March 30 - May 13.

"Cornfield" (seen above) by Aafke Steenhuis has been accepted in the "Sense of Scale" exhibition organized by SAQA that debuts at the International Quilt Festival November 1-2, 2012. Janet Root and her piece "Attachments 1,3,4 and 5" are also included in the select group.

Pat Pauly's work "Strangers in Paradise" (seen above) is part of a solo exhibition  "Pat Pauly / Contemporary Art Quilts" on view at Highfield Hall, Falmouth Massachusetts until April 29.

Linda Bachman "Metamorphosis"

Linda Bachman's work was selected to show with 72 artists (from a field of of 294) for Made in New York, on view at the Schwienfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York. The exhibit runs March 31 until May 20.

Marcia DeCamp will have a solo exhibit of her work at the Wayne County Council for the Arts in Newark, New York May 3 - June 9, 2012. An opening reception will be Saturday May 5, from 1:00 - 3:00. Gallery Hours are Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 12-3. Seen above is "Jet Trails #10."

News from New York SAQA members

Design in Fiber / Pat Pauly on view until January 13, 2012 at the University Gallery at Rochester Institute of Technology offers Pat's large scale works and is open Monday - Friday 9am-5pm.

A detail above of the Pat Pauly's work on view at Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio is "Pink Leaf 4 (yellow)" in the Focus:Fiber exhibition until February 26, 2012.

"Jacob's Coat" from SAQA member Marcia DeCamp has been selected for the Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie exhibit.
The jurors were Kate Lenkowsky, Marti Plager, and Jennifer Sargent. They accepted 24 pieces from 278 individual entries received from 107 artists.
The Carnegie Center for Art and History is in New Albany, Indiana, and the exhibit will be held from January 6 through March 3, 2012

Marcia DeCamp's Jet Trails #9 (seen above) was selected for the Art Quilts XVI: Something to Say exhibit at the Chandler Center for the Arts in Chandler, AZ. The exhibit opened November 28, 2011, and runs through January 28, 2012.Artists in the show include SAQA NY members Benedicte Caneill, Lisa Chipetine and Marcia DeCamp. 

Great SAQA Meeting in Auburn New York in December 11

This December meeting of SAQA members in Auburn, New York brought members and guests from Toronto, Buffalo, Rochester, Ithaca, Glens Falls and beyond! After a light lunch and an all too brief meeting, we discussed how to answer "What Do You Do?" followed by a great show and tell.

 Led by Jeanne Simpson and Pat Pauly, co-reps for SAQA for upstate NY, the meeting had about 25 people gathered upstairs at the Schweinfurth Art Center. We all look so serious, but it was not always so.

Our show and tell was also a trunk show for enthusiastic visitors to the art center. We managed to entertain! Carol Soderlund, at left, holds Mary Diamond's piece (center) with Pat Pauly at right. There was time after the show to visit the Quilts=Art=Quilts exhibit downstairs.

Bev Kondolf at left, and Director Donna Lamb hold pieces for Ruth White while Ruth gives us delightful lesson on microbiology. At least, that is what this reporter remembers. You can see the fun we were having.

Nancy Hicks, wearing a great long African robe, offered this work along with a story of how she acquired the fabric and the making of the piece.

Aafke Steenhuis explained to the delight of the crowd the series that she has made on cornfields. Linda Bachman is below with her piece.  We all felt that it was fun to gather again and made plans to meet in the warmer weather. Perhaps we can do this again during the Quilts=Art=Quilts show next year.