TIQE - 2012

Here is an opportunity for SAQA members to have their work in an exceptional exhibition in Taiwan in 2012. Taiwan Representative, Hsin-Chen Lin, is also the president of TIQE and the first festival she organized in 2009 was wonderful. The exhibition was very well received and the catalog is gorgeous. The 2012 exhibition will be from August to July and the theme is Moving Water and Rivers, with an emphasis on the life-giving and precious nature of water on the earth and the crucial environmental relationship we have with water. 

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

Details are posted on the SAQA website:  http://www.saqa.com/calendar-detail.php?ID=2850

Spring Regional Meeting

The Spring Regional Meeting began at the Burke Centre Library with introductions and a little show and tell from the 14 members that were able to attend.

Meeting adjourned and we were off for a wonderful lunch at a local restaurant on the Occoquan River.  Next stop was a tour of the Workhouse Art Center.  An added bonus was Co-Rep Judy Busby was Featured Artist of the month.

Exhibition Opportunity

National Juried Quilt Exhibition

Piedmont Craftsman Membership

Exhibiting Membership in Piedmont Craftsmen is open to crafts artists living in the southeast United States. Exhibiting members are accepted through a jury process and produce work recognized nationally and internationally. Jury applicants submit images of their work for a 2-part peer review jury.

Piedmont  Craftsmen uses an on-line digital image jury system hosted by CaFÉ a in partnership with Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF).   Our application is online and active from early January through mid April.  VisitCaFÉ and set up your artist profile.  The program is very user-friendly, and they have wonderful tech support. 

Radius 250

This is a multi media show. We need more quilted textiles in mainstream art galleries. You must reside within 250 miles of Richmond, Virginia to enter.

Call for Entries  http://www.artspacegallery.org/                    

Postmark and Online Deadline:April 15, 2011

April 15, 2011 

THE WHAT? A major art show featuring artists working within a 250-mile radius of Richmond. Why that area? Because it takes in some of the Mid-Atlantic and some of the Southeast, and juror Leigh Anne Chambers knows there are a lot of good artists out there, and she wants to find out who you are. 

THE WHO? Fine artists working in two or three dimensions, or in digital and video mediums. The only limitation is that they must work (create) within a 250-mile radius of Richmond. This includes Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Washington DC, Baltimore, and everywhere in between. If you aren't sure if you fall within the target area, check the map on the front of the prospectus to find out. 

THE WHEN? The show will run June 24 through August 21, 2011. Postmark and online deadline for submissions is 11:59PM Friday, April 15, 2011.THE WHERE? The show will occupy all 3,000 square feet of artspace gallery in Plant Zero, a renovated industrial building in Richmond's Manchester Arts District.PRIZES UP TO $1000 and a solo exhibition in artspace's Helena Davis Gallery.

Mary T. Buchanan exhibition "Vanishing Stories"

SAQA VA/NC Regional Member, Mary Buchanan, has spent the past year creating art with a focus on Alzheimer's and Dementia related illnesses. You can view her interview with Lisa Chipentine here.

SAQA's 2011 Benefit Auction

Early Bird DEADLINE - March 15, 2011

28 Auction pieces have already arrived - see the latest on the 2011 Auction pages!  Pat and Eileen report that the new donation form is making their jobs go much faster and more accurately.

SAQA's Benefit Auction is our largest fundraiser. In 2010 we received 288 donations for the SAQA Benefit Auction. It was a fantastic auction and we raised $52,450. This was SAQA's biggest income source after membership dues.

With your help, we're hoping to do even better in 2011. We hope that each of you will create and donate a wonderful piece of art for the 2011 Benefit Auction, but in order to make the process go as smoothly as possible, we need to ask you to follow the guidelines below.

To facilitate entry of your information, please use the new online submission form, available through a link under SUPPORT SAQA at saqa.com.

REMEMBER:
1.    Donations must be only 10 - 12 inches (25 - 30 cm) in either direction. 12 inches will be the maximum accepted so that we can use standard Priority shipping boxes to save time and money.
2.    Only ONE work per artist will be accepted.
3.    Works on stretchers will be accepted but they may not be any larger than 12 inches and should be no deeper than 1 inch (2.5 cm).
4.    ALL artwork donated must be ready to hang. If artwork not otherwise mounted, a sleeve or other method of hanging must be attached. Artwork on stretchers should have hooks and wire attached.
5.    All donations must have a label with title (or "untitled") and artist's name clearly written.
6.    There will be a space on the online submission to put a 25 word description of your work that should include materials/techniques to help bidders understand what the image on the website represents.
7.    Images will not be posted until the work is received.
8.    Please do not use peanuts, confetti, shredded paper, or padded envelopes filled with linty fuzz - all these things make a mess when opening the package and the confetti and fuzzy stuff sticks to the quilts.
9.    Please mail your donation with a tracking number or pre-stamped/ addressed postcard to let you know it arrived. Auction coordinator will not email donor when work arrives.
10.    International donations should be sent early enough to arrive by the deadline after clearing Customs. Be advised that it can take up to 3 weeks for boxes to clear customs.

Early Bird Deadline: March 15th
This will make your piece eligible for inclusion in Auction advertising,  Auction postcards, and display at IQF-Cincinnati, April 8 - 11, 2011.
Final Deadline: July 2nd.  This is a receive-by date.

No Excuses Art Marketing Workshop with Alyson B. Standfield

May 20-21, 2011

Durham, North Carolina

Artists:
Are your piles of unsold artwork stacking up?
Are you confused about the right way to promote your art?
Are you ready to start getting the attention you deserve?

Join us!

no-excuses art-marketing workshop

In just 2 short days, you'll be motivated and armed with the knowledge to do what needs to be done.

This workshop is for visual artists who want to be more strategic with their marketing. Maybe you've tried this or that, but you need to be more consistent.

We're talking serious sales here. This workshop isn't for hobbyists.

In order to get the most from the workshop, you have to be willing to put in the time and effort required to sell your art. No one can do it for you.

I've seen lots of progress from attendees of past workshops. I know you'll get a lot from the material if you're open minded and ready to get to work.

My workshops are about building relationships in a way that is comfortable for you. I don't hand out magic elixirs. This stuff is hard work!

Register Now!

Meet Susan Brubaker Knapp

"What started as hobby, has turned into a passion and business"

If you've ever thumbed through an issue of Quilting Arts Magazine, I'm sure you've run across an article or two by our very own SAQA VA/NC member Susan Brubaker Knapp.  She wrote a series of articles on thread sketching for Quilting Arts magazine. The six articles appeared throughout 2010, and her piece "Vanity" appeared on the cover of the April/May 2010 issue. 

"Candy Corn" is the October art for the 2011 Quilting Arts Calendar.

Her second Quilting Arts Workshop DVD, "Master Machine Stitching: Thread Sketching Beyond the Basics," was released in the fall of 2010.  Susan also appears in episodes #703, 707 and 712 of Quilting Arts TV, which will air early this year on some Public TV stations.

  "Magical Mistletoe" project was featured in the 2010 issue of Quilting Arts Gifts magazine. 
  

Susan's work is featured on the box of C&T Publishing's "The Art of Quilts Postcard Collection: Nature." The box contains 30 different art quilt postcards, and retails for $9.95. 

"Lepidoptera" appears in the December 2010/January 2011 issue of Quilters Newsletter magazine. 

 

"Lepidoptera" and "Coleus" are touring with SAQA's "Art Meets Science" exhibition. 

She has been invited to teach at New Zealand's Taupo Symposium 2013, and to appear on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims this spring. 

 

Susan is now a designated "Aurifil Expert," and is Aurifil thread's Designer of the Month for January 2011. Susan's "Leaves of Green" quilt is being offered through Aurifil's blog as a free pattern download. 

Call For Entry for SAQA VA/NC Region

"Bending the Rules", 2012 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival by Mancuso Show Management at the Hampton Roads Convention Center in Hampton, Va.

“Bending the Rules”, the opportunity to assert your independence from traditional rules of quilting is here at last!  Why make a circle if you can make an ellipse? Why draw a straight line if you can make it have (just a tiny) squiggle? Why create artwork that ends at the borders?  Explore, consider a new approach, experiment, and be unique as you create an art quilt with ingenuity. Why not bend the rules and let your imagination run free!

Click here to download prospectus