Fund Raising for Visions Art Museum - San Diego 06-06-17

Visions Art Museum will be exhibiting quilts by 36 artists in the fall for Interpretations: Conversations opening October 21, 2017. The quilts were selected by jurors Pamela Allen, Eszter Bornemisza, and Rosalie Dace from 223 entries for this international, juried exhibition. A full-color catalog is planned with images of each quilt.  Del Thomas has pledged to match donations up to $5000 to support the museum toward the design and printing costs of the catalog, and with national advertising for the exhibition. Please add your donation to hers with a contribution in any amount. Your gift will help to create a beautiful publication that will celebrate these artists and the exhibition for years to come. You can make your donation on the Visions Art Museum website here, http://www.visionsartmuseum.org/donate/. All donations in the month of June will support the Interpretations: Conversations  catalog and advertising. .    
                                                                                                                              

Your name will be listed in the catalog as a donor for the exhibition. The catalog will be available worldwide through the Visions website and also at the Visions Museum Store. 
 

 Interpretations: Conversations catalog will feature quilts from these talented artists:
Margaret Abramshe, Naomi Adams, Gail Baar, Deborah Babin, Polly Bech, Marianne Burr, Betty Busby, Erika Carter, Jette Clover, Shannon Conley, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Jan Frazer, Helen Geglio, Mimi Ghauri-Young, Michele Hardy, Barbara Hartman, Beth Porter Johnson, Patricia Kennedy-Zafred, Jill Kerttula, Paulette Landers, Viviana Lombrozo, Valerie Maser-Flanagan, Kathleen McCabe, Sherri Lipman McCauley, Lorie McCown, Dan Olfe, Judith Plotner, Kathleen Probst, Melody Randol, Wen Redmond, Lisa Flowers Ross, Dinah Sargeant, Roxanne Schwartz, Mary Vaneecke, Linda Waddle, Charlotte Ziebarth 



Interpretations: Conversations, October 21, 2017 - January 7, 2018

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Supporting Quilt Related Organizations + Portals 12-13-13

Here is a commentary from Luana Rubin of eQuilter that I copied from their e-mail ad some time last summer. The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles was able to come up with the money they needed to stay open and are continuing their mission to introduce people to quiltmaking and support quilters everywhere. As Luana says, "..even $5 helps", but deciding which organization to help with the $5 is a hard decision. My involvement with Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts and Textiles is well known and I encourage others to support this outstanding venue for the quilts being made today. www.visionsartmuseum.org They are holding their own, but it takes a lot of strategic planning and penny pinching. If you hold dear the place of quilts and quiltmaking in your life, give a little, or a lot, to help worthy organizations over this yawning funding gap. I have decided to support Visions Art Museum, Alliance for American Quilts, Virginia Quilt Museum, and the Pacific Northwest Art School in Coupeville, WA. Check out your favorite quilt supporting organizations and decide which you would like to support with your $5. Or more!   Del

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From eQuilter e-mail ad:

Lately I've been working with board members of various organizations, brainstorming how to raise funds so they can upgrade equipment, attract new members, and thrive without constant financial stress.

As I mentioned last week, I am working with SAQA and Andover Fabrics on a fundraising design project.  I accepted an invitation a few months ago to sit on the development committee of the Boulder Philharmonic, and it has been interesting to look at the fundraising topic from another angle.  Recently crowd funding has been a popular and usually successful way to raise funds for projects, such as the recent (successful!) fundraiser for the Tentmakers of Cairo documentary.

Yesterday Karey Bresenhan posted a very humble plea for support to raise $ on Indiegogo for the Texas Quilt Museum to buy a new projector system so they can host programs at the Museum. (see my blog for this post) A smart investment for TQM! 
Just this morning I received a e-newsletter from the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, that they are in need of emergency funds. I hope they will get a crowd funding page up soon so we can all pitch in whatever amount is possible!

I really respect and admire those who sit on these boards, and who try to figure out how the heck to raise money to keep these organizations afloat. Raising membership fees or ticket prices is not always the answer - if you lose members because of the higher fees, then you are right back in the same hole.

So I just wanted to salute those who are working so hard behind the scenes, (as volunteers mostly!) to keep all the museums, non-profits, quilt exhibits, conferences, and other events in the black - i.e. with balanced budgets. It is not only our lawmakers who struggle with this issue!
Our Wonderful World of Quilting is a microcosm, and our leaders are privately wrestling with the same budget issues that the politicians are wrestling with publicly in the Macrocosm.

If you have a moment to visit one of those crowd funding pages, remember that even $5 helps, if 1000 people each give $5 or whatever they can afford. These organizations are incredibly rich sources of creative inspiration and technical design information for all of us, so your $5, $10, $50 or more will give you a rich return on your investment. I am going to go make a donation right now!

Sharing your Passion for Fabric...   Luana and Paul     [Rubin - of eQuilter]

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Garage Doors - Placentia, CA  08-15-13

Wordy Wednesday 10-30-13

Miscellaneous 'stuff'.

Charles Chocolates - http://www.charleschocolates.com/online-store/

I don't remember when or where I heard about Charles Chocolates.  It was a time that I wanted a special gift for special people. How special are you to receive a box of ten chocolates costing $24?  And each piece is about half of a See's chocolate.  As it turned out my friends and I agreed that See's doesn't have exotic fillings, but we like See's best!  Chuck wasn't doing so well and had to close his shop.  But he found a spot on a crowd funding site and I pledged some money against his 50K goal.  He made the goal and opened a new shop in San Francisco where he seems to be doing better and has expanded into offering afternoon teas.  As a reward for my donation I was entitled to over $200 in chocolates.  But the requirement was ordering the entire amount at one time.  Fortunately this month Visions Art Museum was having their annual fund raiser Sip, Savor, Stroll + Chocolate.  So, I ordered up the entire amount and we used them in the raffle baskets, each one had either chocolate or a certificate for buying chocolate.  We had chocolates from many sources including the little shop across the street from VAM.  Their offerings, like Chuck's, are expensive and delicious - a special occasion treat.

 

 

"Songbird in the Pumpkin Patch"  2013  Del Thomas Postcard 4" x 6"

Fused and edge stitched.

Yes, I am sewing again, but I'm going to need some practice, especially on the edge finishes.  Guess it has been so long I have lost my touch.

 

Motorcycle with a sidecar!  I thought they only had these in WWII movies!

This one was on the I-5 just going into Camp Pendleton yesterday. 

Keeping quilt/textile organizations alive 03-16-13

Here is a commentary from Luana Rubin of eQuilter that I copied from their e-mail ad today. I don't know that it settles anything in my mind about supporting SJCMoQandT, but it is food for thought. I was a contributor to the Tentmakers of Cairo film funding project and regularly support other textile and quilt organizations. I definitely don't have eighty grand to rescue SJCMoQandT, but I will make a donation and encourage others to do so. As Luana says, "..even $5 helps." Deciding which organization to help with the $5 is a hard decision. My involvement with Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts and Textiles is well known and I encourage others to support this outstanding venue for the quilts being made today. www.visionsartmuseum.org They are holding their own, but it takes a lot of strategic planning and penny pinching. If you hold dear the place of quilts and quiltmaking in your life, give a little, or a lot, to help worthy organizations over this yawning funding gap.

Del Thomas, Placentia, CA

Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection

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From eQuilter e-mail ad:

Lately I've been working with board members of various organizations, brainstorming how to raise funds so they can upgrade equipment, attract new members, and thrive without constant financial stress.

As I mentioned last week, I am working with SAQA and Andover Fabrics on a fundraising design project.

I accepted an invitation a few months ago to sit on the development committee of the Boulder Philharmonic, and it has been interesting to look at the fundraising topic from another angle.

Recently crowd-funding has been a popular and usually successful way to raise funds for projects, such as the recent (successful!) fundraiser for the Tentmakers of Cairo documentary.

Yesterday Karey Bresenhan posted a very humble plea for support to raise $ on Indiegogo for the Texas Quilt Museum to buy a new projector system so they can host programs at the Museum. (see my blog for this post) A smart investment for TQM!

Just this morning I received a enewsletter from the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, that they are in need of emergency funds. I hope they will get a crowd-funding page up soon so we can all pitch in whatever amount is possible!

I really respect and admire those who sit on these boards, and who try to figure out how the heck to raise money to keep these organizations afloat. Raising membership fees or ticket prices is not always the answer - if you lose members because of the higher fees, then you are right back in the same hole.So I just wanted to salute those who are working so hard behind the scenes, (as volunteers mostly!) to keep all the museums, non-profits, quilt exhibits, conferences, and other events in the black - i.e. with balanced budgets. It is not only our lawmakers who struggle with this issue!

Our Wonderful World of Quilting is a microcosm, and our leaders are privately wrestling with the same budget issues that the politicians are wrestling with publicly in the Macrocosm.

If you have a moment to visit one of those crowd-funding pages, remember that even $5 helps, if 1000 people each give $5 or whatever they can afford. These organizations are incredibly rich sources of creative inspiration and technical design information for all of us, so your $5, $10, $50 or more will give you a rich return on your investment. I am going to go make a donation right now!

Tuesday night I will be writing to you from a textile show in Las Vegas.

sharing your Passion for Fabric...
Luana and Paul [Rubin - of eQuilter]

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And a picture as a reward (or punishment) for reading this far.  Del


"Four Dwellings" Del Thomas  2005  24“ Sq.   Machine pieced and quilted.  Cotton fabrics.