SAQA VA/NC Region

Monday, June 30, 2014

Sunny disposition

Good Morning. It's Monday and even though I am not known for my morning cheeriness, I'd like to start the day (and the blog) with a sunny disposition. So, here are some images to get you going. If you love color, then you must love summer too with all it's bright and beautiful flowers. Yellow.....the strongest color. Doesn't it wake you up and make you smile? It gets your attention that's for sure. So if you're feeling energetic and happy, splash a little yellow in your art and see what happens.
Cheers!
Eileen

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Deux

at Original Sewing and Quilt Expo

Raleigh, North Carolina

June 26 - 28, 2014

Hello to all the SAQA members from the NC/VA region. You may not realize that you have two new regional reps so I thought I'd take a moment to introduce ourselves. I am Eileen Williams and live along the coast of North Carolina. My co-rep is Lorie McCown, who lives in Va. We are both excited to be your regional reps and are looking forward to lots of good things happening in the future.

I'd really like to try to get this blog going and publish things of interest to our region. So, please let me know if there is some information you'd like to share.

Meanwhile, if you have a chance, be sure to visit the Raleigh Sewing and Quilt Expo and check out the SAQA Deux exhibition!

Marie-France Gosselin - "A fleur de peau"

Artists create their works to help them answer questions. Deux is a visual conversation that expresses the questions and ideas important to each artist. Two works show side by side, inviting the viewer to find the connections between them, and see how the artists handle the challenges of composition and technique.

Original Sewing and Quilt Expo

Raleigh Convention Center

500 South Salisbury St.

Raleigh, NC 60127

888-699-6309

Original Sewing and Quilt Expo

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Alice Walker Short Story

If you are interested in quilt heritage and tradition you may enjoy reading Everyday Use, by Alice Walker.

Here is the link. It probably requires a 15 minute commitment.

Mary

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/quilt/walker.html

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Anna Von Mertens

Anna Von Mertens Website

I recently had the opportunity to listen to a lecture give by this artist at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work is very well crafted, conceptually interesting and political. It is certainly worth looking at her web site. Anna considers her work scultptural but has been sewing since she was a child.

22004, hand-stitched cotton, 60" x 80" x 17"

Black and White is a diptych that examines the polarized way of seeing things only in black and white terms. The black sculpture (above) depicts the energy pattern of a nuclear explosion stitched in white thread, while the emanating radiation from the center is more subtle and silent, stitched in black. The accompanying white sculpture depicts the same drawing in reversed color thread, but the drawing is rotated in AutoCAD and seen from an aerial view, so the reference is abstracted.

PAQA-South Conference

We have many members that also belong to PAQA-South. Below is an attachment regarding a conference at the end of January. The Page Walker Arts and History Center is hosting the event. This may be a much needed break from what seems to be a cold winter. SAQA members receive a discounted conference fee.

PAQA-South Conference