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NEWS
Saturday, May 23
2:00-3:15 (choose either this panel or What's Next?)
The Jurying Process
Katie Pasquini Masopust, moderator, and Ned Wert
The panel of judges for Quilt National 2009 will openly discuss the decisions and challenges involved in selecting one of the finest art quilt exhibition venues in the world. Each juror will offer personal insight into the judging process.
Fiber artist Katie Pasquini Masopust has traveled all over the world teaching contemporary quilt designing. She has changed her style over the years, starting with traditional works, next creating Mandalas, followed by dimensional quilts. She then moved on to landscapes, fracturing them and adding transparencies and color washes. Her most recent work is based on her acrylic paintings.
Ned Wert is a Professor Emeritus at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he taught painting for 18 years before becoming its University Museum director. He is a producing, exhibiting and award-winning painter and has exhibited widely in the USA and Europe for more than 40 years.
2:00-3:15 (choose either this panel or The Jurying Process)
What’s Next?
Wendy Huhn, moderator, Sally Sellers, Susie Shie, Dominie Nash, and Darcy Falk
Have you reached many of your artistic goals: solo shows, major exhibitions, received awards & grants? Are you looking to further your career? Join us as we reflect on the past and look into the future.
Wendy Huhn works full time as a studio artist when she is not gallivanting around the country teaching and lecturing. She has long been fascinated with various methods of transferring image, design and pattern to cloth and has worked extensively for the last 25 years.
Sally Sellers has been creating art quilts since 1989. Although primarily known for her use of the house image, her recent work has become more abstract. She is currently experimenting with the use of beads as an integral portion of the design rather than as embellishment.
In Susan Shie’s work, politics and world events intertwine with small daily events in her up-close experiences, the personal is political and vice versa. She focuses on peace and healing of all things related to the Earth, incorporating astrology and tarot into her work. From 1989 through 2004, she founded and led the Green Quilts movement, which included artists from all over the Earth.
Dominie Nash is a full-time fiber artist maintaining a studio in Washington, D.C., where her passion is dyeing and printing the fabrics she uses in her fabric collages. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally and is included in several museum and corporate collections.
Artist and writer Darcy Falk has been making artwork and exhibiting in shows and galleries for over twenty years. Her essays and articles have been published in Threads, Fiberarts, and ArtQuilt Magazine.
3:30-4:45
SAQA’s 20 Years and Beyond
Judith Content, moderator, Yvonne Porcella, and Katie Pasquini Masopust
Join us in a celebration of what we have accomplished in twenty years of dedication to promoting art quilts. We will discuss the founding of SAQA, the goals of the organization, its history, and its volunteers.
Judith Content is SAQA’s current president. Her shibori-dyed silk wall pieces have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are represented in numerous museum, private and corporate collections.
Yvonne Porcella is the founder of SAQA, past president 1989-2000, artist, author, teacher, and juror. Her quilts are in major U.S. museum collections. She’s in the Quilters Hall of Fame and has served on several boards of quilt-related organizations.
Fiber artist Katie Pasquini Masopust served as SAQA’s president from 2000 through 2007.
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