MEMBER NEWS

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SAQA New Mexico Talent Shines!

Three New Mexico members have sold their work from two SAQA special exhibitions in the opening days of the Quilt Market in Houston, preceding Festival.

From Dusk till Dawn,

Anne Moats, Above the Galactic Plane

Vicki Conley, Serenity at the Bosque

and from Metamorphosis,

Betty Busby, Third Colony.

Thirteen more sales were recorded from these two shows, it's wonderful to see our artwork becoming collectors' items.

Congrats to all! 

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Our own SAQA NM member, Shannon Conley, recently became a Juried Artist Member (JAM). Congratulations Shannon!

This is what Shannon says about her work:

"My work is informed by experience as a cell biologist and by scientific research—mine and others. I grew up in southern New Mexico, and the high desert and mountains serve as a continuing source of inspiration for work on diversity and interconnectedness in ecosystems. The work uses non-traditional fibers and fiber-like materials, as well as surface design techniques such as painting, dyeing, and screen printing. The challenge is to make a piece still convincingly identifiable as a quilt, yet employ layering, sculpting, and cutting to create dimension and shape." What is a JAM? A JAM is a juried artist member of SAQA who has successfully presented a portfolio of professional quality images and documents to the JAM Review Panel (JRP). The portfolio presents a body of work that represents a singular point of view or signature collection. The artist’s resume demonstrates a record of juried exhibitions beyond the local. Documentation and images are of high quality, as expected by gallery and museum personnel, as well as collectors and publishers.