Preparing for the Quilt Exhibit

The last few weeks we've been getting everything in order to mount an beautiful exhibit of contemporary and traditional quilts.  The contemporary quilts are 43 gems from SAQA's trunk show "THIS is a Quilt!"  (photos to come later on these).

The traditional quilts come from the Stratford Perth Museum's collection.  We're busy sewing on channels for hanging, and doing some stabilization and repair.

Juxtaposing these is beginning to look wonderful!
The exhibit opens Saturday - Feb 11.

"THIS is a Quilt!"

Studio Art Quilts Association's SAQA second trunk show is a traveling exhibition. There are 7 exhibits in different regions of  the U.S.A with a variety of small works in each. Here is the show in the North West. I'm pleased to have a a piece in it. THIS is a Quilt! 

Fibras Musicales

Destined for a fundraiser for the Brott  Music Festival, the textile works  for the Fibras Musicales exhibition  will be mounted for each of the three concerts at St. Christopher’s in Burlington and for each of the five concerts at Mohawk college. In the interim the works will be on display at the Burlington Arts Centre. Audiences will have a chance to view and bid on the works before and after each concert. The pieces were developed especially for the Spanish Night, August 11, where the symphony will perform Ravel's Bolero and De Falla's Three Cornered Hat. The final tour date and closing bid concert at the Royal Botanical Gardens concert on August 14. The works will be on a special internet website as well as the Brott Festival website.

It's been a fun and challenging  project. If you get a chance to view a YouTube video of the ballet Bolero, you'll see where the orange circle come from.