Quilt Visions 2014 - Opening

Last night was the opening reception for Quilt Visions 2014, "The Sky's The Limit", at Visions Art Museum in San Diego.  This is always such an exciting event with many of the artists in attendance (24 out of 40 this year) along with the staff and most of the volunteers for the Museum.  It is always over too quickly and I want to gather all these people back again for more discussion and visiting.  These pictures were taken at events that happened today - a breakfast for the artists, a walk through with the artists talking about their quilts, a panel discussion about the process of jurying for Quilt Visions and Quilt National. 

 

 The Museum is not large and was very crowded, as you can see.  This is the reception area and gift shop with the Alcove Gallery on the left.  The artists with quilts hanging there are telling this squashed together crowd about their work.

These are the artists gathered for a picture.  I cannot identify each one, but will do so and run this picture again soon.  The quilt on the wall behind them is Emily Richardson's "Swiftly" which received the President's Award selected by the President of the Museum Board of Directors, Andrea Bacal.

 

A few of the artists didn't fit in one frame! On the wall to the left is "Points In Time" by Vicki Carlson of Fort Collins, CO.

 

Charlotte Bird is the chair of the exhibit and has managed, I believe, four of the previous Quilt Visions exhibits.  She is the person who puts all the pieces together and we all need to say "Thanks for a job well done."

Janet Steadman (Langley, WA) on the left is a long-time quilt maker whom I had not met previously,  yet one of her quilts has been in TCQC since 2000.   Friend, Visions volunteer and fellow artist Judy Warren-Tippets is on the right.  On the wall between them is Marianne Burr's (Coupeville, WA) "Eleven 3 Eleven" which won the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Recognition Award.  On the left above Janet's shoulder is Elizabeth Busch's (Glenburn, Maine) "Summer Walk". 

 

 

Mariam Machell is shown with the quilt that received the Mariam Machell Award for Beauty.  Mariam is one of the founding members of Quilt Visions.  The quilt selected by her friends at the Museum is "Ryu, Gwan-Sun by Shin-hee Chin of McPherson, Kansas.



Quilt from TCQC 05-17-09

This week's quilt is one that I purchased at the East Bay Heritage Quilters auction which is held in conjunction with their quilt show at the Oakland Convention Center in even numbered years. They always have very nice quilts, some made by 'world class' quilt makers. I had seen Ellen's work in Visions year after year and this small quilt spoke to me. It is a 'one-block' quilt - sixteen 7-3/4" blocks. Instead of using commercial fabric, Ellen has silk screened layers of pattern on the background fabrics. For some reason these maze like designs are difficult to photograph, so I am showing some details below.

"C-Block #6" Ellen Oppenheimer 1997 31"W x 31"L

I don't know which color is the background - I think the medium blue - but you can see the layers where the polka-dots disappear around their edges.

In these two blocks it appears that the polka-dots may have been the final silk screen used.

Here it is clear that the polka-dots were screened before the light blue.

Ellen won the Quilts Japan Prize at Visions 1997 and later went to Japan to teach and study, which is part of the prize. She describes her process in the Visions catalog for 2002, if you would care to read about it.

Thank you for all the good wishes that my health problem isn't serious. I'll have the test(s) this week sometime and will give an "organ recital" when I have something to share.

Another group picture 11-12-08

In this sort of side view you can see two of the artists that you can't see in the other picture. Second from left in the back row is Nelda Warkentin And fifth from the left in the back row is Terry Jarrard-Dimond.

Everyone else can be seen and is identified in the previous post.

At the Artists' Breakfast 11-12-08

As tradition dictates all the artists present at the breakfast lined up to have a group picture taken. Unfortunately some faces are hidden. Maybe next year we will get more organized about it and everyone will be seen.

Back Row: Dan Olfe, Nelda Warkinton, Linda Beach, Bob Leathers,Terry Jarrard-Dimond, Kent Williams, Pat Budge, Charlotte Ziebarth

Middle Row: Mary Tabar, Valerie Goodwin, Shulanit Liss, Nancy Cordry, Patti Shaw, Lori Lupe Pelish, Regina Benson, Karin Franzen, Rita Stephenson

Front Row:Diana Goulston Robinson, Linda Colsh, Wendeanne Sitt, Leslie Joan Noble-Riley, Leesa Zarinelli Gawlik,Lura Schwarz Smith, Dinah Sargent.

Not present: Patty Hawkins, Katie Pasquini Masopust, Mariam Nathan-Roberts.

And then there are the photographers, some with multiple cameras to keep track of. Right in the middle of this group in the bright red blouse is Patti Sevier, another hard working Visions volunteer.

And the remains of the breakfast buffet with all the flowers from the various tables lined up along the back. Nice!

It takes many volunteers to put together an exhibit like Visions, I didn't get decent photos of most of them and I apologize.

I hope all of you will have the opportunity to see these quilts "in-the-fabric", it is a fabulous collection of beautiful art quilts. If you can't travel to Oceanside, be sure to buy the catalog which has a CD inside the back cover.