TEXTILE TALK
Date – July 6, 2022, at 2 PM EDT (GMT-4)
Title – Conversations with the Artists: Haven
Link — www.saqa.com/textiletalks
Description – Join three exhibiting artists from SAQA Global Exhibition Haven for our next Textile Talk! Words and communication continue to be Jette Clover’s primary source of inspiration. Instead of writing with a pen or printing text segments, she is ‘writing’ with a needle on fabric. This process has created an even closer relationship between writing and textile. Helen Geglio will focus on her recent work exploring ideas about protection and how she has discovered the protective nature of slowly making stitches by hand. Anne Bellas’ art is mostly abstract, focusing on nonfigurative designs, surface design techniques, and bold colors. In these times of pandemic and economic and political instability, Anne’s goal is to lead her viewers through open windows, hoping they can experience a feeling of well-being, serenity, and inner peace.
I am so honored to be asked to be one of three artists speaking about works in the SAQA Global Exhibition, Haven, juried by Eszter Bornemisza.
Premiere Exhibition Location
International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas, October 2022
Use the link www.saqa.com/textiletalks to take you to the registration page for this free Zoom event. Recordings will also be available on the SAQA Textile Talk video channel.
My talk will focus on the protective objects I have been making these past few years. After the recent few weeks of upheaval, hearings, and court decisions, I am even more mindful of the need to protect ourselves and protect the ideas and principles we value. Important things can be easily lost.
One More Spot!
There was a cancellation for Experimental Hand Stitching at Quilting by the Lake (see sidebar for details and links), so if you have been wanting to do some interesting hand stitching and find your own vocabulary of stitches, consider joining us!
Some Summer Reads:
Metropolis, by B A Schapiro; The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley; Let’s Not Do That Again, by Grant Ginder; Portrait of an Unknown Lady, by Maria Gainza; Book of Night, by Holly Black; and Perfect Little World, by Kevin Wilson.