Our Community

When you join SAQA, you become a member of a worldwide community of artists, curators, collectors, and art professionals who appreciate and love art quilts.

We foster community through online and local connections. Our members host local meetups, workshops, exhibitions, and retreats with others in their regions

Our Live Chats and Special Interest Groups allow members to meet virtually using video-conferencing to discuss and learn about specific art quilt topics. We also have a thriving members-only Facebook group where we talk about art, our creative journeys, and what inspires us.

Come share your artwork, ask your questions, and make new friends around the world!

Upcoming Online Events
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Dive into the details of how to best store, pack, ship, and exhibit textile- and fiber-based work with an eye towards preservation. Curator and Gallery Director lydia see and Textile Conservator Amanda Holden will present on a range of methods...
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Artist Ai Kijima spent six months in Rajasthan and Gujarat, India, based at an artist residency in a tribal village while also traveling extensively to cities and rural areas across the region. She observed how textile and craft practices are...
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Join the Quilt Alliance as we look at the enduring appeal of contests and challenges in the quilting world. Why do quilters participate in challenges? What can we learn from challenging ourselves? We’ll share a slideshow of contest entries from...
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Based in Philadelphia, Da Vinci Art Alliance (DVAA) is an intergenerational artist collaborative. Their work promotes creativity as a tool to build collective resilience. This Textile Talk features DVAA fiber artists Gloria Davis, Richie Lopez, and Heather Marie Scholl. We’ll...
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Exploring Contemporary Art meets each month on the 4th Tuesday at 1pm ET (New York time) - time zone converter Come learn about this SIG, ask questions and talk a little bit about contemporary art. Connection information and additional information...
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R. Mertens triangulates between the poetics of electricity, the production of the hand and artifacts of eschatology. In his Artwork, he explores the temporal nature of Fibers and Sound focused on a type of saudade that the writer Manuel de...