SAQA Events

The annual Benefit Auction is SAQA's premiere fundraising event! All proceeds help support SAQA's exhibition programs, publications, and education outreach. Plus, your purchase helps increase the recognition for art quilts and the artists who make them.

What does success mean to you? This Member Gallery theme reaches new heights as it seeks images of happiness and glee--or, you know, planes, birds, or superheroes. This theme seeks to be a takeoff on joy that lands with panache.

SAQA’s traveling trunk shows are designed to showcase SAQA’s diversity of talent and support our mission to “promote the art quilt.” Audiences at locations around the world are able to engage with the art quilts in an up-close and personal...

On Sept. 9, join IQM Collections Manager Jamie Swartz for an in-depth look at "Material Nation: 250 Years of American Quiltmaking." Swartz will discuss the "American Identities" gallery on display in the IQM's West Gallery. “American Identities” focuses on American...

What does it take to move a textile idea from notebook to public view? Join us for a conversation with mentors and mentees from The Lab, the Textile Society of America's mentorship incubator. We'll hear from participants about the projects...

Order. Simplicity. Harmony. Minimalism is line, shape, form, and color combined to simply highlight the very essence of the medium and materials used to create art. Erasing the distinctions between mediums to call attention to the artwork itself, without expectation...

Dr. Tony Jean Dickerson will discuss the deep connection between quilting and storytelling in the Black experience. As a member of the Racial Equality Speakers Bureau for Indiana Humanities, Dr. Dickerson reminds us that textile art is a way to...

This exhibition explores fire not just as a destructive force, but as a symbol of renewal, power, and transformation. Many pieces address themes of climate change, deforestation, and the renewal that comes after devastation, adding a thoughtful and timely narrative to the visual feast.

This exhibition explores fire not just as a destructive force, but as a symbol of renewal, power, and transformation. Many pieces address themes of climate change, deforestation, and the renewal that comes after devastation, adding a thoughtful and timely narrative to the visual feast.

You are invited to explore the fascinating realm of fungi, from the delicate gills of mushrooms to the expansive, invisible mycelium networks beneath our feet. Celebrate the diversity, mystery, and interconnectedness of fungi in all their forms.

Imagine an existence where you pull one string and reality unravels. Twenty-seven artists from the U.S. (including three from Florida), United Kingdom, France, and Canada have interpreted the riotous creativity and far-out fusions of punk (Steampunk, Biopunk, Atompunk and more)...

Our shared human history includes a violent and shameful component -- that of deliberate attempts to eradicate specific populations due to differences of culture, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender expression and race. Often motivated by those in power, collective trauma...

This exhibition explores fire not just as a destructive force, but as a symbol of renewal, power, and transformation. Many pieces address themes of climate change, deforestation, and the renewal that comes after devastation, adding a thoughtful and timely narrative...

Green is the color of new growth breaking through soil, of moss clinging to old stone, and of algae growing on the surface of a still pond. How does the color green breathe life into your own creations?

From the national and regional currencies to cryptocurrencies, money is a faith based tool we earn, acquire, spend, borrow, save and gift. We use it to consume, produce, impress, manipulate and control. For a concept that has absolutely no tangible...

This exhibition explores fire not just as a destructive force, but as a symbol of renewal, power, and transformation. Many pieces address themes of climate change, deforestation, and the renewal that comes after devastation, adding a thoughtful and timely narrative to the visual feast.

There is a continuum where beauty and function blend and diverge in the hands of the contemporary artist. Even when traditional materials such as thread, fabric, wood, reed, and paper are used, these artists combine skill, imagination, and vision to...

This exhibition explores the beauty, diversity and significance of pollinators and their impact on our future. Join us in raising awareness of pollinators and their importance through art. Selected pieces highlight the crucial role pollinators play in sustaining Earth's ecosystems...

Earth, from space, looks like a shimmering gem suspended in an inky, infinite expanse. A diverse group of artists from 11 countries around the world present their views of the universe in this fascinating collection of contemporary artwork.

Whether you’re reflecting on your own early memories or interpreting a child’s perspective, this lighthearted and imaginative exhibition welcomes artwork that captures the innocence, humor, and vividness of seeing the world with a fresh perspective.