Section 2 is open for bidding After just one week of bidding, the 2018 SAQA Benefit Auction has raised almost $28,000 for our exhibition and outreach programs! All the remaining Section 1 quilts are available for sale in the SAQA Store. Section 2 quilts will be available for bidding this…
Diamond Day is a success! The 2018 SAQA Benefit Auction has started off with eight Diamond Day sales. Each of the pieces below sold for $1000, raising a total of $8000 so far for SAQA’s exhibition and outreach programs. Section 1 is open for bidding this week Starting Monday…
SAQA’s Benefit Auction is now entering the second week of bidding! At 2pm EDT today, Section 2 quilts will be available for bidding for $750. Each day of the week, the price drops. Monday: – $750, Tuesday – $550, Wednesday – $350, Thursday – $250, Friday – $150, Saturday -$100.…
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:
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…
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…
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 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…
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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