Here are highlights from the July 20, 2019 meeting at HipStitch in Albuquerque.
We had a great turnout for this meeting with several visitors who got excited about SAQA during Fiber Arts Fiesta. We watched a short video from the SAQA website entitled “
Stitching Together a Global Community.” It is a great overview of SAQA as an organization and details some of the many benefits your membership provides. You can access it at the website by going to About Us on the Homepage and clicking on Watch video about us. If you haven’t spent much time browsing the website, see if you can make some time to do so. LOTS of information!!
Exhibition News
***LARG
LARG is currently hanging at the Mesa Public library in Los Alamos. Then it will be at the Museum of Art in Farmington, NM from August 31, 2019 to January 1, 2020. In September 2020, the show will travel to the Pennsylvania National Quilt Festival. At this writing, not sure if quilts will be kept by Betty in between Farmington and Pennsylvania or distributed and then recollected. Details will be forth coming.
There won’t be room for all 35 quilts to hang in Farmington. 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
Take down for Blue is Monday, August 12 at 8:30 AM. You must be at the Roundhouse to pick up your work. If you cannot be there please make arrangements with someone to pick up your work
Selected works from the show had been slated to be hung at the Farmington Art Museum next April, 2020. However, there is a new director at the museum and the decision to hang the show is on hold at this time. We will let everyone know when the museum makes a decision, and what works they choose.
But there is some great news from our SAQA friends in Oregon. Twenty pieces from Blue will be chosen by the director of the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, Oregon to hang alongside the Oregon exhibit, “Habitat”. The exhibition dates are February 12 – April 10, 2021. We will let everyone know when the director chooses the works to be shown. They will be shipped as a group to Oregon in March, 2021.
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. Consider watching the SAQA website beginning September 13. You might want to bid on a small quilt. Our region has had many wonderful exhibit opportunities and this is a way to help off-set some of the expenses involved. And if purchasing a small quilt isn’t in your budget this year, think about starting your own 12 x 12 now so it’s ready to donate to the auction next year.
SAQA Conference
MaryJo again encouraged all of us to think about attending next year. It will be held in Toronto, Canada, March 19 – 22. The conference and hotel rooms often sell out, so if you think you might want to attend, sign up early.
2019 US Capitol Christmas TreeThe Carson National Forest is providing one large tree for the West Lawn and 70+ smaller companion trees to adorn offices throughout Washington, DC for the 2019 holiday season. That means a lot of decorations! They are requesting help to meet the goal of providing 10,000 (!!) handmade ornaments from New Mexico. We decided that SAQA as an organization was not interested in producing ornaments, however you are welcome to donate as an individual, or encourage other groups you may be a part of to participate. Here’s the link for more information:
www.uscapitolchristmastree.com/participate/decorate.html
Ornaments are due by October 1, 2019.
Fiber Arts Fiesta
Perhaps the interest for making ornaments came too close on the heels of our doo-dah making. But you should know that all those donated lovely doo-dahs raised $5000 for Fisher House. So even just a couple of ornaments for the Christmas Tree could be helpful. A small effort from lots of people can really add up!
NMBlog
Our wonderful blog mistress, Schatzi Brimer has moved to California and feels she can no longer be responsible for our blog. Kelly Butterman has tentatively volunteered to do this, but doesn’t have much experience. She would love to partner with someone else to take over this responsibility. Please contact Lynn or MaryJo if you have some interest.
Future workshops
Suzanne Kelly, Hipstitch owner gave us tentative dates of May 22 – 24, 2020 for a Rayna Gilman workshop. She will be sending out more information as it becomes available.
MaryJo talked about a possible Susie Monday workshop. More details coming.
As usual we had a wonderful show and tell. Thanks to everyone for getting to the meeting. And if you weren’t there, we missed you!
Our next meeting is September 21, 2019 at the Vista Grande Library in Santa Fe.
Lynn Rogers
New Mexico Regional Co-rep
Studio Art Quilt Associates
www.saqa.com
