This is a Quilt!: SAQA's 2011-2012 Traveling Trunk Show

This is a Quilt!: SAQA's 2011-2012 Traveling Trunk Show
Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) invites all SAQA members to submit work for its 2011- 2012 traveling trunk show. This trunk show is designed to showcase SAQA artists, to help educate the public at large about the art quilt, and to serve as a teaching tool for our members.*

Theme: This is a Quilt! How do we as SAQA members explain what we do - create quilts - without people immediately thinking of a nine-patch that goes on your bed? By example, of course! SAQA defines an art quilt as "a contemporary
artwork exploring and expressing aesthetic concerns common to the whole range of visual arts: painting, printmaking, photography, graphic design, assemblage and sculpture, which retains, through materials or technique, a
clear relationship to the folk art quilt from which it descends." This definition is purposely broad to accommodate the wondrous and exciting art quilts SAQA members are creating.

General: Create one piece that constitutes an art quilt as defined above. All work will be photographed, matted, and prepared for exhibition by SAQA. The SAQA exhibition committee hopes to publish some or all of the quilts in a book
exploring the diversity of art quilts. All quilts will be returned to the artist after the travel schedule has ended.

Size: Minimum 9" per side, maximum 11" per side. The pieces will be matted behind a 12" white or off-white mat with an 8" square opening in the center. Only 8" sq. of your quilt will be visible. Because the artwork will be behind a mat, the edges
need not be finished. A very small number of three-dimensional pieces may be included. Please contact the curators for
details.

Statement: Write a statement to the curators explaining why, in your mind, this quilt fits the definition. Why did you choose to create this piece as an art quilt and not in a different medium? (200 words maximum). The statement will be attached to the
back of the mat
.
Materials: Write a separate statement listing the materials and techniques used in the piece.
Submission: Send the piece to curators. Email the statement and materials list in .doc, .rtf, or .odt format to the curators. In your email, please include: your name, address including country, email address, and the name of your SAQA Region (ex.
“Europe/Israel” or “NJ/DE”).

Curators: Deb Cashatt (deb@pixeladies.com) and Kris Sazaki (kris@pixeladies.com)
4061 Flying C Road, Cameron Park, CA 95682
Tel. 916.320.8774
Dates: Jan 21, 2011 - Art piece due at address listed above
Feb-Apr 2011 - Works mounted and made ready for travel
May 18-22, 2011 - Works premiere at 2011 SAQA Convention, Denver, CO
Through 2012 - Trunk Show travels to regions by request

* To learn more about the benefits of bringing a SAQA trunk show to your region and using
it as a teaching tool, read the Winter 2010 SAQA Journal, pg. 14-15.

Member News

Brenda Schlechter has been offered an artist in residence for the next 6 months in Far Rockaway, at JASA Brookdale Village Senior Center. She will be working in their art studio and teaching a class in making a Heritage Quilt, something that should appeal to the seniors.

Interactive Fiber Art Installation to be Featured at the Drisha Institute on Sunday May 16. SAQA member Heather G. Stoltz will show her work at A Letter Unread: Drisha Arts Fellows Present a Year of Learning 2:00pm on Sunday, May 16. Twelve artists who were this year’s recipients of the prestigious Drisha Arts Fellowship will present the visual art, musical theater, poetry and other art inspired by their studies.

Heather’s piece Flinging Prayer will take shape over the course of the program as attendees add their own prayers with the use of a small catapult.

Tickets are $10 and seating is limited. Please RSVP to Jaime Wynn at 212.595.0307 or JWynn@drisha.org to reserve your space. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. Performance will begin promptly at 2 p.m at Drisha Institute, 37 West 65th Street, 5th Floor, NY, NY.

Welcome to the SAQA New York Blog

Welcome to the SAQA New York Blog. As one of your New York Co-Representatives, I hope this blog will be a meeting place for members to share news and photographs about their work. I look forward to receiving and posting Exhibition News and other information that you feel is interesting to our members.

I have started a MEMBER LIST for you to list your blog or website. It is a great and easy way for us to get to know one another. If you would like to be on the Member List, please email your web or blog address.

Please send submissions - 12pt font size, and single spaced, which makes it easier to cut and paste to:

sbfschrott@aol.com

Again, Welcome!

Susan