Quilts from Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection 04-24-23

In February 2012 Visions Museum in San Diego hung forty 12" X 12" quilts from the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection in the area across from the welcome desk.  The museum director, Beth Smith, and I laid out all the 12X12s I had at that time and selected these to hang.  It was a revelation to me to see so many of them hung together.  Since that time I have added many more from the SAQA online auction and other fund raisers, so now there are well over 100.  It would be fun to hang them all in a gallery - maybe in two rows all the way around.  

 Forty twelve-inch square quilts from the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection.

Top row: Judith Roderick, Kristin LaFlamme, Terry Grant, Sherry Kleinman, Nelda Warkentin, Els Vereycken, Bodil Gardner, Kirsten Duncan.

   2nd row:  K. Grace Howes, Sue Benner, Aileyn Renli Ecob, Karen Rips, C. Terry Meyer, Brenda Gael Smith, K.Velis Turan, Gerri Congdon.

  3rd row: Terry Grant, Mary Pal, Doria Anne Goocher, Linda Colsh, Polly Bech, Els Vereycken, Ruth Powers, Sue Dennis.

  4th row: Thom Atkins, Sandra Hart, Joan Sowada, Diane Perin Hock, Terri Stegmiller, Sally Sellers, Cynthia St. Charles, Chris Hanson. 

  5th row: Julia Zgliniec, Nanette Fleischman, Nikki Wheeler, Natalya Aikens, B.J. Adams, Nancy Morgan, Catherine Kleeman, Deborah Boschert.

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A Very Busy Day 09-30-11

Pool Therapy this morning - invigorating and exhausting!  The therapist "up'd the ante" and gave me some much harder exercises - I was not very successful with one of them, but next week I will ace it.  Promise!

Then I drove to San Diego to see the exhibits at the Visions Art Museum http://www.quiltvisions.org/
 - very impressive.  Marilyn Henrion has moved her art in a new direction and I like it very much.  If you have a chance go to see the exhibit "Soft City" showing about fifteen of Marilyn's hand quilted works - through October 23.  In the smaller gallery you'll find "Urban Landscapes" showing quilts selected by Marilyn from the work of eight international artists - a wide variety of techniques and impressions of urban life.  http://www.marilynhenrion.com/

 

I also went to San Diego to discuss some business with Beth Smith, Executive Director of Visions Art Museum and see other Visions friends.  Beth was in pink and I was black and blue - a vision of contrast.

Coincidentally the San Diego Watercolor Society is celebrating 31 years of excellence with an International Exhibit and this evening was the opening reception.  I tagged along with Beth and Andrea Bacal, who were representing Visions which is located in the same building as the watercolor exhibit.  There were some great paintings and I found a few to covet, but I feel that collecting art quilts is all I can handle, so no paintings. The flower arrangements on tables and shelves were elegant, but simple, showing flowers grown in San Diego.  Bougainvillea, Plumeria, and Hibiscus on a base of shiny dark green leaves.  

The SDWSociety had an excellent caterer.  Ladies were mingling with the guests offering these tasty bites - I had THREE!  On each spoon was a dab of sour cream, a curl of salmon, a thread of lemon peel and a fat caper.  A delicious combination, I'm sure I could have cleaned up these spoons quickly and happily.

Chocolate covered strawberries were offered on handmade glass plates with a crown of Plumeria.  I didn't try them, strawberries are not on my list of  "allowed" foods, but they did look tempting.

By the time I drove home I had been gone for about thirteen hours and I am very tired.  My eyes feel swollen - from seeing so much, no doubt!  So, I'm off to bed. 

Visions Gallery/Museum + Visions - the Int'l Exhibit 01-22-11

Liz Williams went with me today to San Diego to the Visions Art Museum (previously named Visions Art Quilt Gallery), to see the exhibit "The Art of the Stitch" which closes tomorrow.  There are some very nice quilts in the exhibit and several additional pieces on display in different areas.  Photographs are not allowed in the gallery. 
A new exhibit will open February 4th (through April 17th) with quilts by Dominie Nash and Jeanne Lyons Butler.

We had lunch diagonally across the intersection at "Con Pane" which was excellent.  And so close to the Visions Quilt Museum - the pink building at center back with the arched door.

 
It was quite warm for San Diego in January so we sat outside under the luscious red umbrellas.  Liz is here in the front left.  At a table not in this picture a woman and husband were eating and their Toyota was parked about ten cars down the block.  The planes from San Diego airport go directly over the restaurant with a great thunderous noise and, every now and then, one would have just the right tone to set off the Toyota's alarm.  At first the husband would walk out on the sidewalk, advancing and clicking the remote until the Toyota shut up.  But after a while he would just wait it out - as would we all.  It was like a bit from a romantic movie.

After lunch we drove back north to the Oceanside Museum of Art for a special gallery walk through "Quilt Visions 2010: No Boundaries "with Charlotte Bird, President of the Visions Art Museum in San Diego. Charlotte has headed a number of the International Visions exhibits held at Oceanside Museum of Art. Because she knows many of the artists and the entire 25 year history of Quilt Visions she has many insights to share, so it was an interesting afternoon. There was a great crowd there, though we sometimes  couldn't see the quilt Charlotte was standing next to, her voice could be heard throughout the gallery. I had my catalog and could look at the picture of the quilt while I listened.

Usually no pictures are allowed in the galleries, but there were several people taking pictures and I thought a special exception was being made for this event.  Wrong!  I took these two images and someone told me no pictures were permitted.  Charlotte Bird is on the left and Jane LaFazio (San Diego, CA) on the right speaking about her quilt "Zen Eucalyptus" (Hand-made felt, dyed cotton batting, paint, embroidery threads.  Hand sewn, needle felted, hand dyed.)

 

Passing the mike back to Jane on the right and from Charlotte on the left.  Several artists were there and spoke about their quilts which are in the exhibit. 

 This exhibit continues through March 13th - see it if you possibly can.  It does not travel.