EXHIBIT by DYE FUSION

FROM PRESS TO FABRIC

An exhibit by DyeFusion

DyeFusion is a group of seven women who enjoy playing with dyes and paints and creating one of a kind altered fabrics.  Their challenge for this display was to make prints on fabric.  Each of these quilts began as a monoprint created using a large etching press.  Since prints are usually created on paper, they experimented to find techniques for printing on this new surface.  They used oil printing inks with a large sheet of plexiglass, to create the original plate from which they printed.  They also created smaller companion prints on paper.

The exhibit will hang at the Esther Bone Library during July and August.

Esther Bone Library

950 Pinetree Road

Rio Rancho, NM

891-5012

www.riorancholibraries.org

Hours:

Tuesday 12-8

Wednesday – Saturday 9-5

Closed on Sunday and Monday

NNMQG SPEAKER - MICHELLE JACKSON

Michelle will be speaking at the Northern New Mexico Quilt Guild meeting on Monday, June 22...her workshop will follow.  Can't wait to hear your presentation, Michelle!
If you are attending, Michelle will collect your Seed Packet quilts.  Don't forget to get your application and entry fee to Betty.  All the information is on the Call for Entry page at the top of the blog.

June 22 -- Monday. 9:30 a.m. in the Main Room of the Women's Center, Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe.  Doors open at 8:30 a.m.
 
Program: Michelle Jackson “The Value of Value”. Michelle is an award winning quilter who started out in fashion and now specializes in art quilts and exaggerating color to capture moments and tell stories. “What tweak of color can I use to help people see what I want them to see or feel what I want them to feel.
Workshop: “Color Manipulation for Quilters” 12: 00 – 4:00 p.m. in the main room. Email Gale Oppenheim-Pietrzak at goppie@sbcglobal.net to register for the class. Fee: $40. 

For more information, nnmqg.org

CONGRATULATIONS to BETTY BUSBY

Betty has won the award for Most Innovative Use of the Medium at Quilt National 2015.  How exciting!

Betty Busby
Tribute ©BB
60 by 20 by 18
Linen, oil paintsticks, armature, fabric paint. Hand painted, stenciled, machine quilted, hand stitched.

Artist’s Statement: I majored in ceramics and spent almost 20 years operating my own business. I am revisiting the classical pottery forms of the past, this time in fiber, using the medium to push the traditional shapes in new directions. The title refers to the traditional Chinese ginger jar shape that inspired this work.

To read more about the exhibit, go to www.dairybarn.org.

NEWSLETTER from MICHELLE

SAQA New Mexico Newsletter

Our last meeting In May

Wow! It was interesting getting to Jennifer's in Santa Fe. It started to snow (blizzard like) about 10 minutes south of Santa Fe. I almost turned around, but then thought. "It's MAY. How can this continue?" By the time the meeting started it was clearing and there were even spots of sun on the the way home. We had 18 members and two guests despite the weather. Thank you Jennifer for hosting the meeting despite your busy schedule (class the day before and leaving for Mexico the day after) You are wonderwoman!

Our Next Meeting

Our next meeting will be July 18th in Silver City in conjunction with the Silver City Fiber Arts Fiesta. There will be more details in the next news letter. I hope you are planning to come. We had a wonderful little get away last year. Silver City is beautiful. Here is a link to find out more about the festival and hotel information. http://www.fiberartscollective.org/festival.html Please let me know ASAP if you plan to attend so we can plan our mini workshops for Saturday morning and the dinner for Friday evening. So far we plan to have mini-workshops on "Writing an Artist Statement". "Taking Photos 101 of Your Quilts" and "Using Photo Shop to Resize Images". If you would like to help with any of these workshops please let me know. They will be 20 minute workshops/discussions with handouts.  Look for more details to follow in the next email.

SAQA NM Blog

Don't forget to check out the latest happenings on our blog. Also If you have local art related information that others might be interested in this is the place to post it. saqanm.blogspot.com

Exhibition News

I have your pieces from "A Color Runs Through It". Please text me at 321-7847 if you would like to pick your piece up on a particular day/time. I will let you know if I will be at my studio then. Mornings are almost always good unless I'm teaching a class. Seeds for SAQA/How Does Your Garden Grow will premiere at the Silver City Fiber Arts Festival July 17 & 18, and then travel to the Hubbard Museum in Ruidoso April '16. Entries are due by July 1. Message from Betty, The entries for our seed packet show have been rolling in and they are looking great! Please don't wait until the last minute to send them in (which is July 1)- I have to order special printouts and mount each one on a custom board. I've assembled a few below so you can see how they look- the whole display should be outstanding! They will premiere at the Silver City Fiber Arts Festival in July, then travel on to Pennsylvania National in September, then the Hubbard Museum next April. There have been multiple entries for butterfly bush and clematis so far, so please try to think of something else if you haven't started yet. Also, I've been looking into getting cards printed of these that we could sell as a fundraiser so try to get quality photos of your work.  The inspiration for the Seeds show came from the Hudson Valley Seed Company, which has been using artwork to illustrate their seed packets.  http://www.seedlibrary.org/art-packs.html They have a call for entry every spring- maybe your fiber art can be on one of their products!

Future Call For Entries

Save some time to enter something for our NEXT call, which will go out later in June and be due by OCTOBER- It's called Natural Healing, and will feature any plants that are used in medicine. The size will be 20" wide by 30" high, and will premiere in Albuquerque at the Unitarian Church in October, then move onto additional venues. It is a SAQA showcase, and won't be juried.

Cultural Red

Cultural Red runs through August 14th. Tell all your friends!