Lovely day + another trip to Visions 02-10-09

Not as many blooming wildflowers or escaped flowers as last year this time, but they are coming on. This is an escapee, a type of ice plant which is extensively planted on hillsides and comes in a bunch of different colors. Seems to me this magenta color is the most common.

Friend Toni Mahoney and I drove down to Oceanside to see the Visions quilts again. I find something new every time I look at them. It always makes me sad as the exhibit comes to an end and I know I will never again see this group of quilts together. The people at Oceanside Museum of Art do such a fabulous job of arranging and hanging, that the experience of the viewers is enhanced by the juxtapositions of the pieces. There are only seventeen days remaining, if you have a chance go to Oceanside to see these first class art quilts.

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.

People at Visions 11-11-08

Sorry, I am continuing to have computer problems, guess I am still on Blog probation. Hope it is over soon.
Here are some of the people who labored long and hard to make Visions a great success. These pictures were taken at the Opening and at the Artists Breakfast on Sunday, some of them are not great - lighting, moving bodies, and a lousy photographer.

Charlotte Bird, Quilt Visions 2008 Exhibition Chair

Linda Colsh, Visions artist and part of the panel discussion, talking to Ann Olsen, President of Quilt Visions

Judith Content, Visions juror. Judith gave a great gallery tour on Sunday morning and moderated a fascinating panel of artists in the afternoon. Judith is the president of SAQA which sponsored the panel discussion.

The panel discussion included Visions artists:
Nelda Warkentin (with her head turned) and Wendy Huhn. Wendy is the winner of the 2008 Quilts Japan Prize sponsored by Nihon Vogue Co., LDT.

Also on the panel were Linda Colsh and Lori Lupe Pelish, winner of this years Sponsors Award given by Rosie Gonzales of Rosie's Calico Cupboard Quilt Shop.

Regina Benson, Visions artist, talking with Judith Content. I will post a few more pictures, including one of all the artists who were at the Artists' Breakfast on Sunday. Later today perhaps.

A Lovely Sunday 11-10-08

It was a great drive to Oceanside yesterday morning for a day of events in connection with the opening of the new Visions -2008 exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art. There were many clouds against the bright blue sky and the ocean was all shades of blue-green. It wasn't really a 'pacific' ocean as there was a wind making little whitecaps all over the place.

These pictures were taken from I-5 and show two of the glimpses I had of the ocean. Sometimes there is a steep cliff to the beach and only the distant view is possible.

In other places the highway, though separated from the ocean by dunes and beach, gives views of the waves as they start to run up on the sand. Of course, if one stops at the official "View Point" or even at the southbound "Rest Stop" there are better ocean views. But, you know me, I don't stop!

During our lunch break I sat outside and listened to the wind in the palms and watched the whipped cream clouds roll and pile and disperse. These pictures look over some buildings toward the west, so these clouds are out over the ocean.

This picture is due west so the sun is just above the center giving a sort of glow to the sky.

There were (I think) 28 of the Visions artists at the opening on Saturday evening, but several had to leave Sunday morning due to teaching commitments to Art Quilt Tahoe. On Sunday at the Artists' Breakfast the artists went around to sign every one's catalog - sort of a tradition now. It provides a quick mingling of everyone in attendance and puts a face to the quilt in the catalog. Tomorrow I'll finish up the pictures I took and will post a few in tomorrow's blog. No quilts though - just artists and Visions volunteers.