Art Quilt Events in Zanesville

The Zanesville Museum of Art proudly announces several art quilt events to be held at the museum beginning in May 2011. ART WATCH takes place on Saturday, May 14 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Quilts, demonstrations, and talks by Ohio quilters: Deborah Melton Anderson, Sue Cavanaugh, Sandra Ciolino, Rebecca Cross, Nancy Crow, Linda French and June O'Neil will take place at this FREE event. This is the second in a series of four unique Arts Alive Art Watch events funded by PNC Arts Alive.

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Superlatives: Contemporary Ohio Quilts will also be featured at the Zanesville Museum of Art. This event will feature six acclaimed Ohio artists and will be on exhibition from May 14 through July 14, 2011.

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Zanesville Museum of Art, 740-452-0741 or www.zanesvilleart.org

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SAQA Ohio members interested in attending this event as a group should contact Sue King at 740-687-6208 or sKing@SueKingArts.com Please note that Sue Cavanaugh and Deborah Melton Anderson are both SAQA Ohio members. Let's give them our support.

IQF Cinncinati 2011 and Other Breaking News

The International Quilt Festival changed venues this year, moving from Chicago to Cincinnati. From all accounts, it was quite a success. SAQA was well represented with two exhibitions: Creative Force and Sightlines, which featured SAQA Ohio member, Shelley Brenner Baird's work, Seeing Around Corners. In addition, Susan Shie, SAQA Ohio member, had a solo exhibition of her distinctive and world renown work. Carole Staples, another of our Ohio members also had a booth, selling her fabulous textile art. Way to go Carole!

Daren Redman, SAQA Indiana Rep and Nysha Nelson, SAQA TN/ KY Rep

SAQA Ohio members were extremely well represented among the volunteers that manned the booth for the four days of the show and included: Dr. Mazloomi, Terry Ann Hartzell, Mindy Marik, Barb Sferra, Martha Warsaw, Carol Staples, Maxine Thomas, Lisa Quintana, Shelly Brenner Baird, Linda Witte Henke and Sue King. A great big thank you to all of you for your hard work in making the show a successful one for our organization.

Terry Ann Hartzell in SAQA Booth

Many other members stopped by to say hello. In addition to our members, the booth was graced with visits from some pretty important members of the art quilt community including Pokey Bolton from Quilting Arts Magazine, Susan Shie, Jamie Fingal and Cheryl Ferrin, SAQA Marketing Director, who lent her technical expertise and support throughout the show. She even hosted a party in her room on Saturday night.

SAQA 2011 Auction Quilt

During the show SAQA sold a total of $ 4846.00 in merchandise and memberships and helped to educate the public about art quilts and the SAQA mission. A total of 27 new members joined our organization and 12 of these are from Ohio, so our membership role is growing.

2011 SAQA Auction Quilt

SAQA OHIO Members Invited to Open Studio

Shelley Brenner Baird, SAQA Ohio member and featured artist in Quilting Arts Magazine and SAQA's Sightlines Exhibition, will be hosting an open studio in her home for SAQA Ohio members on Saturday April 30, 2011. The event will take place in Columbus, Ohio from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Members are asked to bring snacks or drinks to share with other attendees. Shelley's entire home is her studio and members will be able to learn about her surface design and quilting techniques. Please RSVP to Sue King at sKing@SueKingArts.com. You will not want to miss this opportunity to learn about Shelley's textile art career and mingle with other SAQA members.

Shelley Brenner Baird

Now Showing....

Take note of the following opportunities to view Art Quilts in Ohio.

Diane Eyerman has a solo exhibition of her quilts on display at the Ohio Department of Mental Health on the 8th floor of the Rhoades Tower in downtown Columbus.

Sue King is exhibiting her work in a solo exhibition at Stuart's Opera House on the Square in Nelsonville, Ohio until April 25th, 2011.

Grapes of Wrath: Jackson, Ohio, 1936

The International Quilt Festival opens April 7 through the 10th at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio located at 525 Elm Street. Stop by and see us at the SAQA Ohio booth located near the SAQA Creative Force and Sightlines exhibitions, featuring our own SAQA Ohio member, Shelley Brenner Baird. A great big thank you to all of our SAQA Ohio members that volunteered to staff our booth: Dr. Mazloomi, Terry Ann Hartzell, Shelley Brenner Baird, Mindy Marik, Barbara Sferra, Martha Warsaw, Sue King, Carole Staples, Lisa Quintana, Linda Henke and Maxine Thomas. Stop by to say hello and meet your fellow members. See you there.

Paula Nadelstern Exhibition Coming to Ohio

Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern will be on exhibition at the Akron Art Museum, Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries, from June 18, 2011 to October 2, 2011. The museum is located at One South High, Akron Ohio 44308.

For internationally renowned quiltmaker Paula Nadelstern the word kaleidoscope"promises surprise and magic, change and chance." Nadeslstern (born 1951) has spent over two decades capturing in cloth the excitement of the ever-changing relationships of color, pattern, light and texture of kaleidoscope images.

Nadelstern's dazzling quilts employ crystalline patterns composed of painstakingly assembled slivers of jewel-like fabrics. Her creations encompass science, history and artistic tradition, This exhibition places the artist's quilts within a historical context for the first time, exploring the kaleidoscope's impact on the decorative arts, including quilts, and the intimate relationship between Nadelstern's quilts and the art of the contemporary kaleidoscope.

The original inspiration for Nadelstern's kaleidoscopic quilts came from the bilateral symmetry of the design on a bolt of Liberty of London fabric. This type of imagery was unimagined before the invention of the kaleidoscope in 1816 by Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster. The device reached American shores by 1818 but not until the 1870s were significant refinements made by Charles G. Bush.

The potential of the kaleidoscope as a design source for decorative applications was immediately recognized and its abstractions had a particularly profound effect on quilt making. In this exhibition an early 19th century star pattern quilt joins 19 contemporary quilts and 12 kaleidoscope quilt blocks by Paula Nadelstern; contemporary kaleidoscopes; and two rare early kaleidoscopes, one patented by Brewster and one by Bush. Akron will be the only Midwest venue for this stunning exhibition.

Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art 0f Paula Nadelstern is organized by the American Folk Art Museum, New York. The tour of the exhibition is supported in part by the Leir Charitble Foundations in memory of Henry J. and Erna D. Leir, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and with public funds from the New York Sate Council on the Art, a state agency.

Its presentation in Akron is made possible by Exclusive Sponsorship gift from the Robert O. & Annamae Orr Family Foundation

Contact Person
Barbara Tannenbaum
Director of Curatorial Affairs
Akron Art Museum

From the Desk of Sue King...New and Noteworthy

February 13, 2010 - From the Desk of Sue King, SAQA Ohio Rep

NOTEWORTHY NEWS

SAQA Ohio Member, Beth Schillig from Columbus, Ohio recieved a big spread on Ricky Tims website! You can read all about it at http://www.rickytims.com/. The spread features an interview and photos of Beth and her quilt. Congratulations Beth!!!

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Member Maria Elkins of Beavercreek has devised a new tool to assist quilters in documenting their work. You will find the Quiltmaker Documentation Form on her website: http://www.mariaelkins.com/.

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SAQA Ohio member, Sue Cavanaugh of Columbus, Ohio, will have her work exhibited in "Ohio Artists" at A Muse Gallery, April 15 through May 15, 2011. The gallery will be moving to it's new location at at 188 and 190 Whittier Street, Columbus, Ohio 43206 prior to the event.

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We still need volunteers to staff the SAQA booth at the International Quilt Festival - Cinncinnati. The event runs from April 7 to 10, 2011 at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Downtown Cinci. Members willing to volunteer their time will recieve free admission and chocolate. Please contact Daren Redman, the Indiana regional SAQA rep, at darenredman@gmail.com to volunteer. I will be there all four days and would love to meet and greet our Ohio SAQA members. You will not want to miss the Sightlines (featuring our own Shelly Brenner Baird!) and Creative Force SAQA exhibitions.

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Don't forget to send me your news. What is going on in your studio, your quadrant of the state?

Dayton, Ohio Parlour Meeting Held in January

On Saturday, January 8, 2011, twenty-seven SAQA Ohio members and their guests met in Beavercreek, a suburb of Dayton, for a Parlour Meeting. The event was hosted by well known quilt artist and SAQA Ohio member, Maria Elkins and her charming daughter. The event combined members from the Southwest and Central Ohio regions of Ohio. In many cases, this was the first time that members had had the opportunity to meet each other. A spectacular "show and tell" session served to introduce members and their work. In addition, Maria and her daughter provided a wonderful selection of snacks and beverages and attendees were able to network and share resources. A small selection of photos of the event were shared by member Terry Ann Hartzell. Unfortunately, artists names and titles of work were not available at press time. If your work is represented, please comment on the blog and identify yourself and the name of your art quilt. To date, parlour meetings have been held in Central Ohio and Southwest Ohio. How about it Cleveland? Any volunteers to get a group together in the Northeast?

Terry Ann Hartzell's Work in Travelling Exhibition

Moth & Rust, Luna

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Still Travelling!

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The quilt pictured here, Moth & Rust, Luna, by Ohio SAQA member, Terry Ann Hartzell, is still on the road. Curator, Lois Jarvis has extended the travel schedule for the lovely "Rust Collection" of twenty-four innovative quilts which feature fabrics dyed with rust. The exhibition will be making a stop in Cleveland, Ohio, so don't miss this opportunity to view one of our member's outstanding works. The exhibition schedule is:

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Duluth, GA, March 10, 11 & 12, 2011 at the Gwinnett Center

Lakeland FL, March 17, 18 & 19, 2011 at the Lakeland Center

Cleveland, OH, March 24, 25 & 26, 2011 at the I-X Center

Schaumburg, IL, March 31, April 1 & 2, 2011 at the Schaumburg Convention Center

Worcester, MA, April 7, 8 & 9, 2011 at the DCU Center