Alicia Merrett: Colorful, Graphic, Beautiful
An award winning art quilter, Alicia Merrett lives in quiet corner of England. But her quilts are anything but quiet! Clairan Ferrono interviewed her.
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Jette Clover: Textiles, Texture and Text
Jette Clover, a well-known, award winning European fiber artist, has just won a major prize: Quilt Japan! Her edgy and contemporary work cites graffiti and urban landscapes. Clairan Ferrono interviewed her for this blog.
Shelly Burge Auction Quilt Creation
Don’t forget you can still enjoy seeing many SAQA members create their Benefit Auction art works on video at SAQA’s YouTube Channel. Here is Shelly Burge at work on hers:
At the Root of Jo Drueke’s Art
Jo Drueke recently shared the origins of her donation piece Going Deep: Drueke: My inspiration for this piece actually came from a weed I pulled out of my garden! The root system of this small plant fascinated me. I am experimenting with various paints on various fabrics and I selected canvas…
Lorna Morck’s Magic
SAQA writer Clarian Ferrono had another chance to interview an artist who donated a piece to this year’s Benefit Auction: Morck: The Magic of Crows was one of those serendipitous happenings that I especially enjoy when working creatively. I belong to Fibervision, a small fiber art group. At a meeting…
Sandy Snowdon’s Ramshackle Hillage
Clairan Ferrono interviewed Sandy Snowdon about her SAQA auction donation piece, Ramshackle Hillage: Snowdon: During the last two years I have been developing my Ramshackle series. The first one started with a Benefit Auction piece. The sort of happening that feels like the work falls out of the sky and…
Shades of Barbara Sferra
Clairan Ferrono interviewed Barbara Sferra about her SAQA auction donation: Sferra: I am a member of the local Weavers Guild of Cincinnati (all fiber artists, not just weavers) and each year we have a members’ challenge. This spring the Challenge was “50 Shades of Gray.” I created a five panel quilt in…
Donna Deaver and Visual Drama
Donna Deaver shared her thoughts on her auction donation piece with Clairan Ferrono: Deaver: Because of my deep love of the sea, I began a new series in early 2014 defined as the edge of the ocean. ‘Surf Dance’ is a variation of another larger work and the first that…
Judith Plotner’s Urban Vocabulary
Judth Plotner is an award winning artist from New York City who now lives in the Adirondack Mountains. She recently told Clairan Ferrono about her journey as an artist. Ferrono: Tell me about your journey to becoming an artist. Your education. Finding your voice. Plotner: I was always interested in art.…
Heidi Field-Alvarez and the Ephemeral
Heidi Field-Alvarez let Clairan Ferrono into the secrets of her auction piece: Field-Alvarez: Hard to Breathe is the first in a new series of work for me. Over the years I have been working with transparent materials and using lots of layering. In this series, in contrast to a traditional quilt,…
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