A morning at Visions Art Museum 02-16-13

This morning was the Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast at VAM.  This year, for the first time the biennial Visions exhibit has been at our own facility, so we had many white glove volunteers.  They were very much appreciated.  The food provided by the Board members of the museum was very good in quality and quantity.  And the event was well attended.

 
We had a special treat since Won Ju Seo, whose work in the exhibit "A Korean Woman in Modern Times #1" took the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Recognition Award, was in town with her husband  They came from a cold and snowy New Jersey to enjoy the lovely winter sunshine in SCalifornia.   Won Ju talked about her work and her inspiration.  Here she is wearing a necklace that she made from silk scraps and stitches. 
 

 
Here I am with Won Ju and her lovely hand stitched piece.
 

 
Beth Smith, Director of the Visions Art Museum, with volunteer Mary Tabar.
 

This is Won Ju's husband, Howard, visiting with volunteer Judy Birchett.  He is a wonderfully supportive guy and spent his time taking pictures for Won Ju and visiting with the volunteers.  In the background are volunteers Barbara Friedman and Nelda McComb.

Last Saturday there was a closing reception for the exhibit and the Viewer's Choice was announced.  It is this piece from Valarie Robinson of Victoria, Australia.  Which garnered the most votes from visitors and, incidentally, sold just last week to a couple visiting from out of town.

 

 

 

 

 

It is quite a large piece and very white with black quilting.  Hung on a white wall it is impossible to take a good picture, so I am showing two not very successful images.  The quilt is white-white - the color in the pictures come from shadows and no flash used.  

 

The Free Motion Quilting (FMQ) is amazing.  Full of motifs that represent the era of each dress the all over view from a distance looks like lace is attached over the white fabric. 

 

These little motifs represent women's tasks during the English settlement of the continent.

 

The filler quilting is imaginative and connected to the theme of the dresses.