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July 2010

 

SHOWS TO ENTER: * for newly added

 

 

*ART QUILTS XV: NEEDLEPLAY, DEADLINE: SEPT 3, 2010. Chandler Center for the Arts, Contact Diane Howell at sdihowell@aol.com for details.

 

*LINES INTO SHAPES, Estes Park, CO. DEADLINE: Sept 10, 2010. Prospectus at: www.artcenterofestes.com

 

* DEEP SPACES, Latimer Quilt and Textile Center, Tillamook, OR. DEADLINE: May 1, 2011.

 

QUILT NATIONAL 11, DEADLINE: September 10, 2010. Prospectus at: www.quiltnational.com

 

QUILTS=ART-QUILTS, Schweinforth Memorial Art Center, DEADLINE: August 20, 2010. For prospectus: www.myartcenter.org

 

ELEMENTS, Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro, Oregon. DEADLINE: August 6, 2010. Catalog to be produced. For prospectus: www.ci.hillsboro.or.us/WCAC or email to lynn@lynnadamo.com  or 503-640-0660.

 

 

SKETCHBOOK PROJECT: LIBRARY. DEADLINE: Ongoing. Receive a sketchbook and fill it with art, send it back. Exhibition will tour galleries in LA, Chicago,Atlanta and St Louis. www.thesketchbookproject.com

 

 

INSPIRATIONS FROM NATURE. DEADLINE: August 13, 2010. Prospectus at : www.ncfhg.org

 

 

TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Ongoing Call for Exhibition Proposals. No deadline and no entry fee. www.tucsonairport.org/html/tia_terminal_exhibits.html or email art@tucsonairport.org for questions.

 

 

ART SOURCE FOR DESIGN – NEW SHOWROOM OPENING IN SCOTTSDALE.

Sells artwork to art-buying professionals as well as the general public for over 2 decades is opening a showroom in Scottsdale, Looking for emerging artists in wide range of media. For details www.artsourcefordesign.com or contact Judi Bagnato at artsubmissionsartsource@gmail.com

 

Additional Calls for Art at:

www.artcalender.com

www.saqa.com

www.fiberarts.com

www.surfacedesign.org

 

 

 

 

WEBSITES TO CHECK OUT:

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

                                     artist’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          Visula 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 crafts 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.

 

NEW BOOKS

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

 

500 ART QUILTS: Lark Books, ISBN 978-1-60059-058-0

 

1000 ARTISANS: Lark Books, Susan Vassallo has a quilt in the book

 

BEADWORK: A WORLD GUIDE. ISBN 978-0-500-28801-6

 

Indian Textiles in the East: From Southeast Asia to Japan. ISBN978-0-500-28829-0

 

CATALOG: Kibe Seiho and Yamaguchi Ryuun, Tai Gallery New Mexico exhibition. www.taigallery.com to order

African Textiles John Gillow, ISBN 978-0-500-28800-0

 

FELT, Willow G Mullins, ISBN978-1-84520-439-6

 

FREE STYLE MACHINE EMBROIDERY, Carol Shinn, ISBN 978-1-59668-042-5

 

INSPIRED TO QUILT, Melanie Testa, ISBN 978-1-59668-096-8

 

KNITTING ARTS, INNOVATIVE WORKS FROM CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS, Karen Searle, Voyaguer Press,Minneapolis

 

PAPER & METAL LEAF LAMINATION: A MIXED MEDIA APPROACH WITH CLOTH, Claire Benn, Jane Dunnewold, Leslie Morgan, www.committedtocloth.com

 

DIGITAL  ESSENTIALS, Gloria Hansen – all about working with images,sizing,etc

Quilt shops should have this

 

SAQA newest edition of PORTFOLIO 15  www.saqa.com

 

ECO COLOUR: BOTANICAL DYES FOR BEAUTIFUL TEXTILES: ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE DYES  ISBN978-1741960792

 

BOGOLAN: SHAPING CULTURE THROUGH CLOTH     ISBN978-0-253-22029-5

 

FABRC ARCHITECTURE    ISBN 978-0-393-73268-8

 

AUSTRALIAN ARTIST BOOKS  ISBN 978-0642-54186-4

 

SURFACES AND TEXTURES: A VISUAL SOURCE BOOK ISBN 978-0-7136-8859-7

 

THE PEOTICS OF CLOTH: AFRICAN TEXTILES/RECENT ART   ISBN978-0-615-22083-3

 

CONTEMPORARY QUILTART ASSOCIATION 20TH ANNIVERSARY 

ISBN 978979893902

 

CONTEMPORARY TEXTILES: THE FABRIC OF FINE ART  Black Dog publishing London.