SAQA New Mexico March 2019 Meeting Recap

Exhibition News

***LARG

LARG continues to be a great show.  Next exhibition venue is Fiber Arts Fiesta from May 30 to June 1.  From July 1 – 31 the show will hang at the library in Los Alamos.  Then it will be at the Museum of Art in Farmington, NM from August 31, 2019 to January 1, 2020:

 There won’t be room for all 35 quilts to hang there.  Below is the list of quilts that will hang in Farmington from August 31, 2019 to January 1, 2020:

Sandbar

Ann Anastasio

Santa Fe, NM

Lily Pond at Shady Lakes

Betty Busby

Albuquerque, NM

Somewhere Along the Rio Grande

Carolyn Castaneda

Santa Fe, NM

Around The Bend

Vicki Conley

Ruidoso Downs, NM

The Young Entrepreneur

Rhonda Denney

Canon City, CO

On the Rio Grande

Nicole Dunn

Los Alamos, NM

The Headwaters Near Creede, Colorado

Theresa Maguire Ely

Gunnison, CO

Meandering River

Cheryl FitzGerald

Albuquerque, NM

Dawn Patrol

April Whiteside Foster

Santa Fe, NM

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Diana Fox

Denver, CO

Presidio Chapel of San Elizario, Texas

Elaine Hengen

El Paso, TX

Turquoise Trail

Michelle Jackson

Sandia Park, NM

Ripples on the Rio Grande

Sue Lewis

Arvada, CO

Life Blood of A Nation

Anita Marsh McSorley

Albuquerque, NM

Oasis

Ginny McVickar

Pleasant Hill, OR

Bosque Pond #2

Anne Moats

Albuquerque, NM

Live Water

Mary Olivea

Santa Fe, NM

Cottonwood

Gale Oppenheim-Pietrzak

Santa Fe, NM

Life Blood

Char Punke

Albuquerque, NM

Watermelon Mountain

Lynn Rogers

Rio Rancho, NM

Layered Landscape

Karen Stalgren

Frederick, CO

Living in Lamy

Mary Jo Stipe

Lamy, NM

***OUT OF THE BLUE : The opening reception for Out Of The Blue has been moved to May 10, from 4 – 6 PM.

A catalog for Blue is available at Amazon.com.  Betty is willing to do a bulk order of these.  If you want one, please contact her.  Gale is organizing food for the reception.  If you can bring something to share, let Gale know. It need to be at the Capitol by 3:45 on the 10^th and it needs to be something easily eaten (finger food) and not too messy.  She has serving bowls and trays.  If you bring your own, make sure to label it.

FIBER ARTS FIESTA

From Mary Jo:

A big thank you to everyone who brought Doo-Dahs to the March meeting and also to those who signed up to volunteer at Fiesta. Please note, however, that we do not have another bi-monthly meeting until May 18, a day after the last Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta (AFAF) meeting before the big event.

So far, we have received 30 items. It’s a great start toward our SAQA NM goal of 150 items. Needless to say, keep making Doo-Dahs! We still 120 more to go. Once you have Doo-Dahs finished, if you live in the Santa Fe area, please contact Mary Jo Stipe, to arrange to drop them off or have them picked up. In Albuquerque and Rio Rancho, Mary Jo will be taking Doo-Dahs to the next Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta meetings in ABQ on April 19 and on May 17. We are still in serious need of volunteers for various duties at Fiesta including manning the SAQA booth, Betty Busby’s featured artist exhibition, the LARG art quilt show, and as white glovers in the quilting division show. Volunteers have free admission on the day you volunteer and are entered in drawings for door prizes provided by the many vendors. Again, please contact Mary Jo Stipe to sign up for specific dates, times, and locations. We love having our core SAQA NM members who invariably come through. It would be great to have the majority of our members participate. Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of AFAF. It’s a fun-filled event with fascinating exhibits, tempting vendors, and the camaraderie of hundreds of fiber arts enthusiasts. 

We discussed the requested video that the education committee is putting together to showcase each organization within Fiber Arts.  Pat Gould volunteered to find out about the short video that SAQA makes available for promotional information. 

The Fiber Art Spring Show is scheduled for April 3 & 4, 2020. 

AUCTION SQUARES

            These are the 12” x 12” squares that are auctioned off on-line.  All the money raised through the sale of these small quilts goes toward funding traveling exhibitions and NM SAQA has had its share of those.  This is a good chance to spend a small amount of time and help out in a big way.  Pat Gould is collecting these this year.  You can contact her or bring them to our meeting in March.  The final deadline to turn in your auction square is June 1.

LOTS OF GREAT MISCELLANEOUS STUFF!!!

            *Schatzi Brimer, our Blog mistress, would like to hear from you.  Do you read the Blog?  What do you find helpful?  What would you like changed, or included?  How can she make this better for all our members?  This is a big job and we really appreciate Schatzi’s efforts.  Give her some feedback.

            *Judith Roderick invites us all to check out her show and the work of other artists at Wild Hearts Gallery in in the Homestead Shopping Center in Placitas.

            *Also in Placitas, check out http://placitaslibrary.com/library-activities/art-exhibits/artist-exhibit-submission-form/  for exhibition opportunities.  Thanks to Cheryl FitzGerald for this info.

         

Our next meeting is May 18, 2019 at the Eldorado Library in Santa Fe.

Lynn Rogers
New Mexico Regional Co-rep
Studio Art Quilt Associates

Reminder - Next SAQA NM Meeting is Saturday, March 16

The next New Mexico SAQA Regional meeting is Saturday, March 16, 2019 at Hip Stitch Fabric Store in Albuquerque at 10:30.

Hip Stitch

2320 Wisconsin Blvd NE

Albuquerque

505-821-2739

Hip Stitch is located near the intersection of Wyoming and Menaul NE – near Hoffmantown.

There is parking at the store lot and also in the small strip mall across the street.

Bring your completed pieces for Out of the Blue.  Be sure to also bring a slat cut ¼” shorter than the width of your quilt.  Small 1/8” holes need to be drilled into each end of your slat.  The reception of Out of the Blue is May 10 from 4 – 6 at the Capitol.  More info at the meeting.

Also if you have made a 12” x 12” auction quilt to donate to the SAQA auction please bring that.

We will have sign ups for volunteering at Fiber Arts Fiesta.  Bring your calendar and get ready to spend some fun time at the Fiesta!

Hip Stitch has generously offered us the use of the classroom on Saturday afternoon after the meeting to work on doo-dahs for the Fiesta.  If you already have a plan and are working on things bring them to show and use this time to continue your project.  OR if you haven’t started making things, I’ll have everything needed to make cards.  If you have any card making supplies that you’d like to share, feel free to bring them.  Just be sure to label your things.

Look at the SAQA New Mexico Blog for information and contact Schatzi Brimer with updates. 

http://saqanm.blogspot.com/

There are opportunities for show entry at

http://www.saqa.com/calendar

Lynn Rogers
NM Regional Co-representative
Studio Art Quilt Associates

Highlights from the January 19, 2019 meeting in Santa Fe

Here are highlights from the January 19, 2019 meeting at the Eldorado Library in Santa Fe. Exhibition News ***LARG LARG is now hanging at the Roswell Art Museum.  The show will be up until January 26, 2019. The Roswell Art Museum is located at 1011 N Richardson Ave.  575-624-6744. Plans are in the works for LARG to hang in Farmington in late August. ***OUT OF THE BLUE             This is the theme for the next Capitol Rotunda show in 2019.  Complete information can be found at SAQANM.blogspot.com or at SAQA.  Or at the end of this e-mail is a document entitled Out of the Blue Call for Entry.  It has all information about requirements and how to enter the show.             You can enter up to 3 wall pieces and 2 3-D pieces.  There is no charge to enter pieces initially.  IF you have a piece that is chosen, then there is a $35 fee to SAQA.             There will be a catalog produced for this show so good photos are IMPERATIVE!!  At the November 17 meeting at HipStitch, Betty set up lights and a backdrop and took photos for people who brought their entries.  Again, at the end of this post is a segment entitled From the Exhibition Committee.  This is a recap of information Betty talked about for taking good photos and has links and helpful resources for good photography.  The opening reception for Out Of The Blue has been moved to May 10, from 4 – 6 PM. FIBER ARTS FIESTA             Important dates to put on your calendar now:  Set up May 29, 2019.  Show runs May 30, 31 and June 1.  Please check out www.fiberartsfiesta.org to see categories and entry deadlines. Also at that website you can access the schedule for having your quilt(s) photographed for your entry.  The next date for photography is the afternoon of February 22.             A big THANK YOU!! To Beverly Tones and Char Punke for volunteering to serve on the Education Committee at Fiber Arts.  This is a big job and we’re thankful to them for volunteering their time.   We will also need to provide small “doo-dahs” for the Fiesta as we have done in the past.  Several ideas were discussed and you are all encouraged to begin making at least 2 – 5 small things (need fit into a Ziploc sandwich bag) to donate.  Ideas included greeting cards, cup sleeves and fiber beads. Suzanne, at HipStitch, has graciously invited up to use the classroom after the March 16 meeting for working on doo-dahs.  More information to come. From Mary Jo: Call for Volunteers for Fiber Arts Fiesta 2019 As an affiliated member of the Albuquerque Fiber Arts Council, SAQA is actively involved in Fiesta 2019, May 30 & 31 and June 1 at the Expo Center in ABQ. Life Along Rio Grande will be the featured exhibit; Betty Busby is the featured artist; and SAQA will have a booth. We will be asking for many volunteers to help in those areas during the show, including on set-up day, May 29. A list with volunteer opportunities, times, etc., will be available at the March meeting. But we have an urgent need for at least three volunteers to join the Fiesta Quilt Committee right now. As one of the quilting members of Fiber Arts Fiesta, SAQA participates in developing, jurying, judging and hanging of the approximately 200 quilts that will be on display during Fiesta. The Quilt Committee is already at work. SAQA Quilt Committee members will need to attend a few meetings in ABQ prior to Fiesta to help with planning and to be actively involved in all aspects of setting up the quilt display. In addition, we will need other SAQA members to help with the set-up of the quilt display and the SAQA booth. To volunteer for the Fiesta Quilt Committee, please contact Mary Jo Stipe.  AUCTION SQUARES             These are the 12” x 12” squares that are auctioned off on-line.  All the money raised through the sale of these small quilts goes toward funding traveling exhibitions and NM SAQA has had its share of those.  This is a good chance to spend a small amount of time and help out in a big way.  Pat Gould is collecting these this year.  You can contact her directly or bring them to our meeting in March.  The final deadline to turn in your auction square is June 1. LOTS OF GREAT MISCELLANEOUS STUFF!!!  If you are active on FaceBook here are a couple of sites to check out: TheMourningProject.com a fiber arts project spearheaded by Mary Vaneecke from the Tucson region.  She is hoping to raise awareness of infant mortality in the US. Join SAQA members only page.  Just put that in the search bar of FB and if your membership is current you can be added to this all SAQA group. The 2019 SAQA conference in San Jose is full, so if you hoped to go and haven’t registered you’re out of luck.  BUT you can make plans now (and start saving your $$) for the 2020 conference, March 19-22 in Toronto.  Should be a great time! ArtQuilt Santa Fe is also full.  If you had hoped to work with Betty Busby at this year’s retreat but didn’t get registered, you can contact Ann Anastasio or Gale Oppenheim-Pietrzak to be put on a waiting list in case there are cancellations. Ann Ferkovich is teaching her “Ferkovich It” at Santa Fe Quilting February 17 & March 10. Carolyn just returned from a great trip to Morocco with a company called Craft Tours.  She highly recommended them. Congratulations to Kay Sutt who had a piece accepted into the reader’s challenge “Heat it Up” in Quilting Arts.  Look for it in the June/July issue. Cynthia is taking a class at SF Community College entitled Art Jump Start.  It begins March 31 and she hopes some SAQA members will join her.  www.sfcc.edu Our next meeting is March 16 2019 at HipStitch in Albuquerque. Lynn Rogers New Mexico Regional Co-rep Studio Art Quilt Associates From the Exhibition Committee:  Out of the Blue Call for Entry Please click on the following link to apply for Out of the Blue. The form consists of two main parts, entry info and image upload. Please complete both parts (then click submit) for each entry. http://www.shannonconleyartquilts.com/show-entry-form/ The procedure is self explanatory after you click on the link, if there is anything that isn't clear, please click HERE for detailed instructions Note the following: >>three wall entries and two 3D entries are permitted, for a total of 5 per artist (sizes are in the entry form) due to venue restrictions, artists must be New Mexico residents or property owners. >>there are no fees to enter- upon acceptance (in March), there will be a $35 participation fee for each artist that will be payable online. additional entries may be added at a later date, until the deadline Feb 1 at 12am mountain time. the complete prospectus is available online here- http://www.saqa.com/media/file/ExCom/Regional/blue%20call.pdf CALENDAR April 2018: Call for entries issued. October, 2018: Entries will be accepted February 1, 2019: Deadline for receipt of entries March 2019: Notification of acceptance will be emailed April 22, 2019: Accepted artwork delivery to the Capitol. April 26, 2019: Exhibition opens. May 10, 2019 artist reception, 4-6 pm- no charge, friends and family welcome August 9, 2019: Exhibition closes. August 12, 2019: pick up of all works at the Gallery If you have difficulties with the entry form/upload, please e-mail your questions to Shannon Conley. Please do not e-mail your entry to Betty or Shannon, e-mailed entries will not be accepted for this call. Remember we're all volunteers- doing the best we can for our member artists. We had a photo session during the meeting, and saw some amazing entries for Out of the Blue. Below are some basic photography tips that we discussed, as well as links to products and additional online tutorials. Image Basics for Show Entry Using small pins that do not show, attach your quilt to a vertical, plain backdrop. Avoid hanging from a quilt stand. Use photo lights- link below Use a tripod! Use the timer on your camera Zoom in a little bit to avoid edge distortion Set your camera for maximum file size Always enter the biggest file you have unless there are upper limits set on the entry form OR contact Mark Hollingsworth for professional images- https://www.mwholli.com/index Holly Knott posted a great photo tutorial here-https://www.hollyknott.com/stq/ Kestrel Michaud has a more advanced one here- http://kestrelmichaud.com/2018/basics-of-copy-photography/ Photo light set up on Amazon- 58 bucks! https://www.amazon.com/MOUNTDOG-Photography-Professional-Continuous-Advertising/dp/B07G32T189/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1542470544&sr=8-2-spons&keywords=photo+lighting+studio+kit&psc=p1 There seems to have been bit of misunderstanding about the insurance notice for Out of the Blue - it is NOT necessary to have an appraisal of your work to enter the show. In the (very unlikely) event that you would need to make a claim, you would have to provide proof of value. This is true of ANY insurance.