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Nov 2011

 

SHOWS TO ENTER: 

 

TAIWAN INTERNATIONAL QUILT EXHIBITION

DEADLINE FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Theme: Moving Water and River. Water and river are full of life, nutrient, novelty, freshness and sustainability. Symbolize a source of vitality, expecting to convey an energetic, broad and microcosmic angle if view, as well as each kind of life and existence that water and river embrace.

1st Venue : National Taiwan Living Art Center, Taiwan

Dates: Aug 11 – Sept 7, 2012

2nd Venue: Taichung County Culture Center, Taiwan

Dates: Sept 22 – Oct 29, 2012

www.tags.org.tw for prospect

 

CIRCLE CRAFT GALLERY CALL FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS

DEADLINE: JANUARY 23, 2012 ( receive)

Circle Craft Gallery in Vancouver BC is accepting applications for 2013.

Commission on sales is 60%

No entry fee.

For prospectus: www.circlecraft.net

 

EVOLUTIONS QUILT CHALLENGE

DEADLINE: March 15, 2012

Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO.

Juried by Robert Shaw         Show Dates: July 30 – Oct 27, 2012

For prospectus: www.rmqm.org

 

NOHO GALLERY REVIEWING CANDIDATES FOR MEMBERSHIP

Located in Chelsea area of New York City.

All info at: www.nohogallery.com

 

QUILT VISIONS: BRAINSTORMS

DEADLINE: FEB 13, 2012

Show at Visions Art Museum San Diego CA

Show Dates: Oct 20, 2012 – Feb 17, 2013

For prospectus: www.quiltvisionsbrainstorms.org

 

 

Additional Calls for Art at:

www.artcalender.com

www.saqa.com

www.surfacedesign.org

www.quiltingart.com

 

 

 

 

 

WEBSITES TO CHECK OUT:

 

The Textile Museum show Weaving Abstraction is a show featuring Kuba textiles and the Woven Art of Central Africa.

For images, etc: www.textilemuseum.org

 

Online Fabric Shops:

www.quilthome.com                               

www.modabakeshop.com                                    

www.fabricworm.com

www.quiltinggallery.com

www.equilter.com

www.maisonetteoceanside.com

www.cityquilter.com

www.imaginefabric.com

 

Online Quilting Communities

www.decor8blog.com

www.designspongeonline.com

www.quiltqua.com

www.lostquilt.com

www.quiltart.com

www.themodernquiltguild.com

 

Notions, Tools, Publishers

www.electricquilt.com

www.needletravel.com

www.stachbooksblog.com

 

MISC

Textile Forum magazine: www. Tfs-etn.com

 

2012 Quilt Shows

These listings are just some of those listed in the new Annual IQ Quilts and Quilters,

A new magazine about International Quilting

 

Road to California, Jan 19-22, 2012  www.road2ca.com

 

Denver National Quilt Festival, May 3-6, 2012  www.quiltfest.com

 

International Quilt Festival Long Beach, July 27-29, 2012  www.quilts.com

 

American Quilter’s Society, Paducah, KY  Apr 25-28, 2012  www.americanquilter.com

 

National Quilting Association Quilt Show, Columbus, OH  June 14-16, 2012

www.nqaquilts.org

 

Pacific International Quilt Festival, Oct 11-14, 2012, Santa Clara, CA  www.quiltfest.com

 

International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX  Nov 1-4, 2012  www.quilts.com

 

 

 

 

 

Inter face San Antonio 2013 The Surface Design Association 17th International Conference Dates: June 6 - June14, 2013

For information: www.surfaDcedesign.org/conference/future-conferences

 

New  DeCoularant – Removes and Replaces Color and is good for fine line work discharging. www.deColourant.com

 

Identity: Context and Reflection Joint conference between SAQA and Surface Design

West Conshohocken, PA  March 30 – Apr 1, 2012

For more info: www.surfacedesign.org or www.saqa.com

 

 

 

 

 

NEW BOOKS

Art Textiles of the World series; Canada. Includes Dorothy Caldwell. ISBN 978-1-902015156

 

 

SAQA PROTFOLIO 17 features work of SAQA’s Professional Members

www.saqa.com

 

EXTRA/ORDINARY CRAFT AND CONTEMPORARY ART,  Editor Maria Elena Biszek. ISBN 978-0-8223-4762-D

 

Nomadic Felts by Stephanie Bunn, ISBN 978-0-7141-2557-2

 

37 Sketches by Gwen Marston  ISBN 978-0-615-49663-4

 

THINGS TO SEE AND DO AROUND TOWN

 

ART QUILTS: Year XVI, Something to Say

November 28, 2011 – January 28, 2012

Chandler Center for the Arts

250 North Arizona Avenue

Chandler AZ 85225

Gallery Hours

Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Saturday, Noon – 5 p.m.

Artist Reception

December 2, 2011 _ 7 – 9 p.m.

For more information call us at 480-782-2695

 

Van Gogh’s Ear Gallery Prescott, AZ is now representing Barb Wills

 

2011 HIDDEN IN THE HILLS STUDIO TOUR   Nov 18,19,20 and Nov 25,26,27, 2011

10AM-5PM    www.hiddeninthehills.org for details and map

 

JOY, HARMONY AND LIGHT AT First American  Baptist Church, Scottsdale, AZ

Thru November 27, 2011    7025 E Osborn Rd 480-945-6346  www.fbcscottsdale.org

Features work by several Mavericks members

 

HEARD MUSEUM, Navajo Textiles 100+ Years of Weaving, thru Jan 8, 2012

2301 N Central Phx, 602-252-8848

 

AMERICAN FINE ART EDITIONS, Picasso and His Muses, thru Nov 30, 2011

3908 N Scottsdale, 480-990-1200.  Focuses on the artist’s life and work through the eyes of important women in his life.

 

OLDER ENTRIES FOR WEBSITES TO SEE

www.gildthelily.com         Textile designer and professional printer create fabric, print on fabric and make garments and accessories to sell.

www.color-improvisations.com – website of the Color Improvisations exhibit curated by     Nancy Crow which includes 26 artists from around the world. Under artists tab are links

                                     artists’s website to see more of their work.

www.pburch.net              Paula Burch dyeing info central – very good website

www.pburch.net/drupal/    Dyers Forum linked to pburch site – for hand dyers

www.dyeartist.com           dyeing supplies and info

www.textilearts.net          Visual arts center for creative textiles

www.scfabricprinting.com   specializes in custom digital fabric printing. No minimum                  yardage

http://blip.tv/file/1501721    Film clip of Dream Girls, a sewn book by artist who draws with her sewing machine

www.beadingdaily.com/galleries/galleries/aspx   Lots of links to forums, etc for beaders

www.fiberscene.com        Anna Lisa Hedstrom exhibition

www.textilemuseum.org    Classical Persian carpet fragments

www.digitalthreads.ca      Canadian artists

www.ten-4-ten.com          ten artists creating 10 works each 10” square

www.metmuseum.org       The Essential Art of African textiles

www.asianculturalcentervt.org       A Celebration of Bhutanese Textiles

www.tribaltextiles.info/     Collections and info from collectors of textiles from China and SE Asia

www.craftmaker.co.uk/gallery/textiles         Features work by hundreds of craft makers in Britain and Ireland

www.craftunbound.net/medium.textiles/australia-looks-at-tapa   about a touring exhibit of Pasifika Bark Cloth in Queensland

 

www.fibre2fabirc.org/index.html    Nonprofit gallery in Laos

www.dyepot.com                        Vancouver textile artists who dye fabric for movies.

www.techexchange.com/textile-printing.html            Research and information on digital printing on textiles.