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OPPORTUNITIES – CLASSES – BOOKS – WEBSITES 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:
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:
Online Quilting Communities
Notions, Tools, Publishers
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
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
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.
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