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A short video showing SAQA Global Exhibition 3D Expression at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.
Keidra Navaroli shares "A Curatorial Perspective" in this video conversation. Navaroli is the Assistant Director and Curator at the Ruth Funk Center For Textile Arts in Melbourne, Florida. She encourages fiber artists to take risks with their work and create...
Learn more about the SAQA Global Exhibition Beyond the Mirror through our series of videos. More videos are being added - subscribe to our YouTube channel to make sure you get the latest ones.
Luana Rubin, co-owner of eQuilter.com, explains how the Color Marketing Group operates and how forecasting predicts color changes in all aspects of your life: clothes, cars, hotels, appliances, and more.
Courtesy of Arnold's Attic, enjoy a virtual walk-through of the Concrete & Grassland exhibition at the Knitting and Stitching Show in London, United Kingdom
Join Martha Sielman in a conversation with exhibiting artists from the SAQA Special Exhibition at Intersect Chicago: The Future of SOFA. Artists Mita Giacomini, Marie Bergstedt, and Linda Colsh gave us a look into their process, studios, and inspiration...
In this video, Ginni Fleck is interviewed by Jeanne Marklin about "Creating a Textile Art School". Ginni is the founder of DIY Textile School in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Hollis Chatelain joins us for Unit 1: Dye and explains her process of creating beautiful dye-painted artworks. See more of her work at hollisart.com.
Carol Anne Grotrian explains her unique process of creating whole cloth pictorial quilts using shibori, indigo and dye. Also included below is a great list of books and other resources.
Learn more about the SAQA Global Exhibition Ebb & Flow through our series of videos. More videos are being added - subscribe to our YouTube channel to make sure you get the latest ones. You can access these video via...
Camille Hawbaker is a printmaker and fiber artist interested in using silk and thread to create fine art. This video conversation leads the viewer through her techniques in various works in the order that she made them. Along the way...
SAQA's Director of Global Exhibitions William Reker demonstrates all the best practices for preparing and shipping art quilts for travel. Find out more about the right tissue paper to use as well as shipping and product recommendations.
In this video, Jane Dunnewold shares expert advice with artists Merran Phillips, Martha Phair Sanders, and Ree Fagan. Dunnewold's critiques focus on specific technical advice and offer wisdom on how to push successful pieces even further. She also emphasizes the...
Lightning Talks are always a highlight of the annual SAQA conferences. Each speaker creates a presentation of 20 slides and speaks about each slide for 20 seconds resulting in a fast-paced informative talk that around six minutes and 40 seconds...
Four presenters shared their creative process in a fast paced Lightning Talk presentation. Each speaker creates a presentation of 20 slides and speaks about each slide for 20 seconds.
Linden Lancaster (Victoria, Australia) - Where Vision and Surface Design Meet...
Each speaker creates a presentation of 20 slides and speaks about each slide for 20 seconds.
Bobbi Baugh (Florida, USA) - What Poetry Can Teach Visual Artists
Reading poetry can open doors to inspiration and to digging deeper. Bobbi Baugh...
This Live Chat with Lisa discussed ‘Marketing and Selling your Art’ with guests Judith Content, Judith Trager, and Helen Godden and took place on May 2nd, 2019 at 5pm EDT (GMT -4).
Meet art quilt collector John M. Walsh III. The John M. Walsh III Collection has had exhibitions throughout the US and one in France. The Collection has been featured in articles in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal...
Courtesy of The National Quilt Museum, please enjoy this walk-through of the SAQA Global Exhibition Musica!
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In this video, Sue Benner is interviewed by Clara Nartey about "Navigating the Commissions Process". Sue Benner is a textile artist who lectures and teaches workshops nationally and internationally in the areas of surface design, textile collage, fused quilt construction...
Selling Art Quilts with Wen Redmond, Roxane Lessa, and Frieda Anderson
Formerly a painter, Sharon McCartney is full time artist who now works with mixed media to create her layered textile constructions. Sharon incorporates hand-stitching, found objects, and printed fabrics in her pieces.
Change has been all around us: COVID, global warming, politics, social justice issues, and personal changes. Linda Anderson, Charlotte Bird, and Marty Ornish are all accomplished artists. The last three years have brought lots of opportunities to test...
At sixty, Akiko Ike began creating stitched pieces using remnants of indigo-dyed cloth and old work clothes. Giving used textiles from her environment new life, she transforms found cloth by stitching with a strong thread in a manner she calls...
In 2007, Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims united with a simple mission: to create a show that would celebrate the stories and artistry of quilting. Thus, "The Quilt Show" was born. Now, with 17 years and 500 episodes behind them...
Have you ever created a piece that captured an emotion or opinion you felt strongly about, only to be told it's too edgy or controversial? Do you struggle with watering down the context of your work, hoping for more widespread...
Get to know the Art Cloth Network, a diverse group of professional artists from the United States and Canada who have come together with a common goal: to promote the medium of cloth as an art form and share...
Art Evolved: Intertwined is a collaboration between SAQA Global Exhibitions and National Basketry Organization. This exhibition is the first of its kind, featuring the best in art quilts and basketry.
For this Textile Talk, we're joined by Pam Morton, NBO...
Natalya Khorover is motivated by plastic pollution and overconsumption. She strives to use materials that would be condemned to the landfill and uses stitching and sewing to bring her artwork to life. Let’s talk about how to start creating a...
We had a great time talking with selected artists from SAQA Global Exhibition Beyond the Mirror. We heard from Bobbi Baugh, Al Krueger, Fuzzy Mall, and Katherine Wilson about their work, process, and inspiration. In this digital age...
For over 30 years, browngrotta arts has advanced the field of contemporary art by exhibiting renowned artists from the US and abroad. Their gallery showcases art textiles and unique sculptural, ceramic, and mixed media works with an emphasis on concepts...
In 2014, Maria Shell was an artist-in-residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, North Carolina. There, she worked weekly with a formerly chronically homeless community now living in Moore Place. She developed a relationship with the...
Cecilia Koppmann is an award-winning artist based in Argentina who is known for her striking, modern quilts, as well as her generous teaching style. Throughout her adult life, Cecilia believes the art of quilting has rescued her multiple times, specifically...
