Another solicitation

I've taken two classes with Elizabeth Busch, one at Visions Art Museum in San Diego, CA.,and the other at Empty Spools Seminars at Asilomar in Pacific Grove, CA.  What she teaches is how to express yourself in your art.  Part of the class is exercises and samples and another is painting on fabric with transparent dyes.  I am attaching a picture of one of her quilts "Summer Walk" which is part of the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection.
Pacific Northwest Art School in Coupeville, WA (on Whidbey Island) is offering a class that I would dearly love to take.  But there are not enough sign ups for the class to make.  So, I am looking for people who want a great class in a charming little town with water views, nice restaurants and friendly people.   I'm hoping someone will jump at the chance to take a class with an outstanding teacher.   http://www.elizabethbusch.com/

The class is:   
Enriching a Surface from Within: Creating Small Works
Elizabeth  Busch , Instructor,   September 26-30, 2015  (9am-4pm)
Tuition: $730  Material fee: $60
Pacific Northwest Art School  15 NW Birch Street, Coupeville, WA  98239
Office Hours:  Monday - Friday (9am - 4pm)
Telephone:  36-678-3396    Toll-free: 1-866-678-3396

http://pacificnorthwestartschool.org/

There are some very nice motels, cabins and bed & breakfast places in the town. 

A recovery day and a solicitation 07-30-15

I drove to San Diego on Tuesday afternoon - weather clear, traffic moderate - it was quite a pleasant drive.  I had dinner with a friend  - eating a really wicked hamburger at a little "hole in the wall"  place she knows about.   Beside the  hamburger patty there were sautéed mushroom, bacon, glazed onions, lettuce, tomato, some kind of sauce.   I  ate every bite along with the sweet potato fries which were hot, crunchy on the outside and soft/fluffy on the inside.  A meal to remember. 

The point of the trip was a Membership Committee meeting at Visions on Wednesday morning.  We need to attract more members to support the Museum and I volunteered to be on the telephone committee.  So, if you get a phone call from me, or one of the other two callers, be prepared to hear us praise the Museum and ask you to consider being a member.

Annual membership for an individual is $50. For another $20 you can be an Artist member which waives the entry fee for all Visions juried exhibitions.  You can link your contact on our website and submit work to the online exhibitions.  You also receive a 10% discount at the gift shop.  There are other classifications of membership - $60 for Dual membership which is 2 people living at the same address, or $75 for Family membership (living at the same address), Supporter or Business for $100, Bronze membership is $250, Silver for $500 and Gold for $1000.  The last three also receive NARM benefits which include admission to over 650 museums throughout the USA, Canada and Mexico. 

There are a total of 20 exhibits a year, including the online gallery.    It is a great place to have your work displayed and a great place to see what is going on in the contemporary quilt art world.  It is the only USA museum that shows only contemporary or "art quilts". 

I don't very often "advertise" on my blog, but I am a big supporter of the Visions Art Museum and hope I can convince others to support it also.  www.visionsartmuseum.org

 

Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts & Textiles
2825 Dewey Road, Suite 100, San Diego, CA  92106  619-546-4872

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Wordless Wednesday 07-29-15

 

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Fiberlandia auction quilt by Daniela Dancelli 07-27-15

07-30-15  Daniela sent an explanation of her quilt and I have added it to the bottom of this blog post. Del

 

I didn't receive an answer from Daniela when I asked about her quilt.  Put I did have the info on her blog translated into English, so that is where the details are from.  I don't know if these are eggs in a nest, or just an abstract design, but  I like it.  This is the first quilt from Italy that I have added to the Collection.

 

"All'improvviso" Daniela Dancelli - Italy 2015  6"W x 8"L

Cotton hand-dyed by the artist, carded wool, fleece, acrylic.

Machine applique, free motion machine quilting.

 

 The FMQ reminds me of what I once read was "Herky-Jerky" quilting and it is done with zig-zag or ornamental stitches on the sewing machine with the feed dogs down. 

 

A plain back with good information on the label.

https://danieladancelli.wordpress.com/

 

 

Daniela says:

"'All’IMPROVVISO' I realized straight off following the creative instinct of the moment. I then chose the materials and colors and I improvised.

 

I decided to focus the viewer's eye at the center of the quilt intriguing him with nine oval.

 

 It says: "Cats have nine lives", according to this theory, I wondered why we, human beings, we can not reinvent life as we want even more times, to stay healthy and point to happiness.

 

So the nine (nine oval) is only a symbol to invite us to live fully the emotions and all that life has to offer! In short “CARPE DIEM!”.

 

Nine is recurring in my life I was born on September 29 (the ninth month of the year).

 

Fabrics are dyed by hand, I used cotton of various weights, yellow and orange are not yet carded wool felted; This work gives lightness and highlights the center with nine oval.

The intense colors reflect my vivacity, my joy and my good mood

 

Here the term "Herky Jerky" is not used; But I like the definition that you gave. I simply call it free-motion brave and instinctual, created to give the work the message expressive movement created to work and intensify the expressive message."

 

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