AUGUST NOTES FROM MICHELLE

It was wonderful to see you all last month in Albuquerque. We had 25 in attendance at that meeting. The show and tell was inspiring as well as all the ideas in the works for Cultural Red. It is going to be a fabulous show! Please see the info about Cultural Red at the Capitol Rotunda Gallery, April –August 2015 below and look for the entry form which will be attached to another email/newsletter sometime later this month.   Our next potluck meeting will be at 11:00 am on September 13th  tentatively at the Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe. I will confirm the location and let you know for sure with the next newsletter. We are making plans for another fun workshop/weekend of fun with the opening of Cultural Red. Stay tuned for the details! Also, start thinking about another opportunity still in the making and way off in the future “Healing Quilts”. This is just a tease! More to about this to come. We talked about local photographers for quilts. I used to have some names and I think I sent them out in a newsletter about a year ago, but I can’t find them. If you know of any locally would you respond to this email with their name and contact information. I will then forward them to the group with the next email. Thank you. Until then…. Happy art quilting! Michelle Jackson SAQA NM Representative

SHADES OF THE SOUTHWEST

Here is a new Call for Entries for an American Quilters' Society Exhibit coming to Albuquerque next January.  Just to be clear this is not a SAQA exhibit.  It will be a great show curated by the familiar Albuquerque stars Gail Garber and Donna Barnitz!

  

DYE FUSION EXHIBITION IN RIO RANCHO

 ARTISTS EXHIBITING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT ARE MARY MOYA, LYNN ROGERS, DONNA BARNITZ AND COLLEEN KONETZNI

DYE FUSION PRESENTS:

A Breakdown in Printing

Ester Bone Library
950 Pinetree Road
Rio Rancho
Hours:
M&W 9-5
T&T 12-8
F&S 9-1

Who knew that when a few friends got together one summer day to share ideas on surface design that it would develop into the lively group it is today?  DyeFusion is a 7 member group which meets regularly to explore all manner of altering cloth using dyeing, silkscreening, katazome, shibori, batik and other techniques.

Their 3rd show at the Ester Bone Library, runs through September 3rd, and features fabrics made using a technique known as deconstructed screen printing.  SAQA members Elizabeth Dawson, Colleen Konetzni, Lynn Rogers and Brenda Williams have pieces in the show.  Also exhibiting are Donna Barnitz and Mary Moya.