The Craft Alliance has opened a new exhibition: Fail-Safe: Discomforts Close to Home. Fail-Safe features a wide range of artists creating textile and fiber-based works of contemporary art. Although the media these artists are working with are familiar (embroidery, found objects, textiles, etc.), each piece is loaded with incendiary content…
Iowa fiber artist, Judy Bales, was interviewed January 13th about her exhibition at The Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, Georgia, “Quilts, Textiles and Fibers.” Click here to be directed to a video of the interview.
Not too long ago a reporter, Meg McConahey of the Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California, contacted us to interview Martha Sielman. The article appeared in the paper yesterday and covers many of the highlights and concerns that art quilters experience in the marketplace and in exhibiting their work. In addition…
The Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, New York is host to the annual juried quilt exhibition Quilts=Art=Quilts. This exhibition captures trends in art quilting and is one of the top exhibitions for art quilts in North America. The current exhibition runs through January 5, 2014. SAQA member Kit Vincent…
Judy Hooworth of Morisset, NSW, Australia, was seen on SAQA.com’s Featured Artist program in November 2013. Our writer, Clairan Ferrono, recently chatted with Judy via Skype about her life and her art. Ferrono: Where were you born? Did you grow up there? What was it like to grow up there?…
The American Craft Council has opened their extensive photography archive to be reinterpreted by artists. The Vintage Photo Project is a participatory challenge in which duplicate copies of vintage photos from the American Craft Council Library’s archives have been transformed and re-imagined in a myriad of ways. Most recently, the…
This is a photo of the artists whose work is in Text Messages who were able to attend the premiere in Houston and participated in the gallery walk led by Leni Wiener. Amalia Parra Morusiewicz was kind enough to share this image with us. She said “it was an…
Reprinted from the SAQA Journal, Fall 2013, page 30-35 by Cindy Grisdela How do you get started as a collector of fiber art? For many people, the journey begins with one piece that speaks to them on an emotional level. For others, it’s the opportunity to own a piece by…
Click on the following link to see an interview with SAQA member Carol Ann Waugh of Denver. You will need to advance the recording to 18 minutes into the broadcast to see Carol. She discusses her journey in the local art scene, her work as a textile artist and her…
Our friend, Lisa Broberg Quintana, died on Sunday, October 6, 2013. Self-described as “Planted in Michigan, divided to Connecticut and transplanted to Ohio; Stage IV breast cancer survivor for 20 years, 1st occurrence at age 34; rabid quilter and gardener, lover of beauty,” Lisa was an energetic and trusted SAQA…
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