Meeting Update from August 20th

The regional SAQA meeting was held August 20, 2016.  11 people were in attendance; 8 members and 3 guests.  Here is a summary of the meeting. It looks like a fun time was had by all, if you're in the area, I encourage you to attend the next meeting which will be October 15.

1.    Introductions

2.    News

a.    Mary Kay has volunteered to help SAQA with a usability study of their website. If anyone has feedback that you’d like to pass along, send it to Mary Kay.

b.      Art Quilt Retrospective: 50 Years of Innovation will chronicle the movement decade by decade, from 1960 to today! We are accepting submissions online from Aug 24 - Sept 15. More details at: http://www.saqa.com/calendar-detail.php?ID=5168. You do NOT have to be a SAQA member to participate in this exciting opportunity. 

c.       SAQA benefit auction starts on Sept.16th this year. For next year, we would like to collect the region’s auction quilts, exhibit them for a short period of time and send them in to SAQA as a group prior to April 1^st.

                                                              i.      Sue Chaffee volunteered to check on a venue

                                                            ii.      Cindy Brendzel and Leslie Holmes volunteered to coordinate

d.      Regional exhibit, “Our Changing Landscape”

e.       Nebraska exhibit “Passages”

f.       SAQA conference will be in Lincoln, NE April 27-30, 2017 – registrations will open in late September.

g.      Other regional news:

                                                              i.      SAQA’s “Wild Fabrications” is on exhibit in Joplin, MO at the Spiva Center for the Arts until September 4, 2016

                                                            ii.      Regional member, Ada Neidenthal has work on display at the Kauffman Foundation in KC, MO

                                                          iii.      Andrea Luliak has a piece in the FAO (Fiber Artists of Oklahoma) exhibit in Oklahoma City at the IAO Gallery (Independent Artists Organization) until Sept. 3^rd.

                                                          iv.      University of Nebraska in Lincoln has an exhibit titled, “Vox Stellarum” through Sept. 16^th. 

                                                            v.      Crystal Bridges Museum is featuring a Folk Art exhibit which includes fiber art through Sept. 19^th.

                                                          vi.      Greater Kansas City Quilt Guild will have a show Aug. 26^th and 27^th at the Abdallah Shrine Temple, 5300 Metcalf, Overland Park, KS

                                                        vii.      Karen Hansen and Mary Kay Fosnacht will present an Art Quilt Bed Turning on September 10^th at 1:30 at the Overland Park Arboretum. 8909 W 179^th St, OP, KS. Weather permitting.

3.      Technique discussion / demonstration

a.       Carmen Rinehart – Tsukineko inks, Pentel gel roller for fabric – available at JoAnn’s, Nancy’s Notions

b.      Karen Hansen – Louise Schmidt technique; pieced background with applique over intersections

c.       Andrea Luliak – Rust dying with grates using ½ water and  ½ vinegar solution, Ice dying, tyvek painted with Lumiere paints, red line tape – double sided, used to affix small objects to quilt

d.      Cindy Brendzel – Low water immersion dying using pfd fabric (prepared for dying), soda ash, dye

e.       Cathy Audley – dyed, inked fabric, screen printed ink on fabric using Speedball or Jaquard inks, Sun prints with Setacolor paint, gelli plates

f.       Sue Chaffee – Lyric Kinard method of screen printing, wax batik, sun printing using pebeo, Setacolor or Jaquard paints – transparent works best. Available from Dick Blick or Dharma.

g.      Jim Brown – Raw edge applique, small pieces used steam-a-seam and stabilizer – 910 pellon stabilizer works well.

h.      Mary Kay – Paper piecing curved seams with white glue

4.      Next meeting, Saturday, October 15, 2016 - Mary Kay will go over how to submit an online entry. She will also cover how to take and save a good photo in the proper size. And, of course, we’ll have show and tell. Note: meeting location may be different – watch the newsletter. We will also decide 2017 meeting dates and ask for volunteers to host / facilitate those meetings.

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Announcement from Cindy Parry

Hi all, Cindy Parry's Daishinsai Quilt Series of the Japan Triple Disaster has been advertised on the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo site that is running this month in Fredericksburg, VA.  The quilts will travel on from there to Chicago then  Minneapolis in October and November.  Cindy will be doing gallery talks in Minneapolis in November, so if you have a chance to attend any of these shows, please check out her work!

Here are a couple of pictures from Cindy and an excerpt from her write up:

"This series is the result of my need to express the profound sympathy and compassion I felt for the people and the country of Japan as they struggled to recover from the horrific triple nightmare of March 11, 2011.  My husband was working in Osaka, Japan when the disaster happened. Though he felt the quake, he wasn’t personally affected. Several friends and family still live in Japan and I think about how it affects their daily lives and future. I am now on a mission to educate the viewers of my pieces about Japan and the triple disaster that continues to affect life there.  This series started out as and was planned as a single piece. Ideas flooded me and kept me up nights. It became what it needed to become: a series of twelve. Fabrics, color and quilt stitches are chosen with great deliberation, striving for the emotive quality that the subject demands."

Congrats to Cindy!