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Quilts=Art=Quilts at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center • November 1, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Quilts=Art=Quilts is the Schweinfurth Art Center's annual juried international quilt exhibition. The Art Center has long recognized the importance of quilts as a visual medium, and has been presenting quilts in an art gallery setting since 1981.
Preview Reception: Saturday, October 31 from 6–8PM
Be the first to see our 29th annual juried quilt show. This event is free and open to the public.
Open House & Walk-About Tour: Sunday, November 1 at 2PM
Join us for the first official day of the 29th annual quilt show. Meet exhibiting quilters and enjoy a walk-about tour of the exhibit with Executive Director Donna Lamb at 2PM. Included with $6 general admission, free for Art Center members.
Director's Tour: November 3
Enjoy a second opportunity to tour the 29th annual quilt show with Executive Director Donna Lamb. General admission fee is $6, or free for Art Center members.
Trunk Show with Rochester Area Fiber Artists (RAFA), November 22 at 2PM
The fifty-member Rochester Area Fiber Artists, an eclectic group of textile divas, converge once a month to encourage new growth and ideas. These artists prefer working in fiber. While some of the art work uses a quilting process, many works use non-traditional fiber techniques. Their work celebrates the visual feast inherent in using fibers with surface ornamentation, mind-boggling piecework, painting as well as printmaking.
Trunk Show with Christine Wickert, November 29 at 2PM
Christine Wickert, a mainly self-taught artist, has been quilting for over 20 years and is an active member of the Genesee Valley Quilt Club in Rochester. Christine has won many prizes and has conducted a quilt residency with elementary school children in the Webster School District. After years of practicing her craft adapting designs by well known quilting teachers, Chris is now designing many of her own original pieces. Hand appliqué and hand quilting continue to be her favorite techniques defining her style.
Trunk Show with Aafke Steenhuis, December 6 at 2PM
Aafke Swart Steenhuis was born in the Netherlands and as a child learned to knit, crochet, embroider and sew, both in school and at home. In 1972 she moved with her husband Tammo, and infant daughter to the US and has lived in Ithaca since 1976. In 1998 Steenhuis got a new sewing machine and became more involved in quilting. Her initial quilts were very traditional using patterns and quilt blocks. Today Steenhuis is designing her own colorful quilts, though she still makes traditional quilts now and then.
Trunk Show with Pat Pauly, December 13 at 2PM
Known for her improvisational technique, Pat Pauly uses bold color and unusual juxtapositions of printed and painted fabric in her work. Her frequent lectures and workshops on contemporary art quilts carry the same qualities as her work - energized, spontaneous and definitive. A textile artist since 1981, Pat shows her quilts nationally as well as curates and designs exhibitions of contemporary and historic textiles. She maintains a studio near Rochester.
Trunk Show with Judy Sheridan, December 20 at 2PM
An art teacher for 34 years and a quilter for ten, Judy is noted for her fine hand appliqué, precise machine piecing and hand quilting. Her quilts have won awards and ribbons, been published, and have been exhibited on both state and national levels. Judy's originally designed quilts reflect her love of strong graphic designs used in traditional style. Now retired, she shares her passion for hand appliqué teaching both needle turn and reverse appliqué techniques in classes and workshops.
2009 Exhibition Jurors
Rosalie Dace • Durban, South Africa
Rosalie is a South African studio artist who has been working in the fiber art, quilt and embroidery world since 1975. Her work has been widely exhibited and published nationally and internationally, and she has won several awards. She has taught and lectured in South Africa, America, New Zealand and Germany, which has allowed her to indulge her passion for textiles, travel and meeting people.
Kerr Grabowski • Sussex, NJ
Kerr is a fiber artist and teacher known for her innovative approach to dyeing and screening processes. Kerr’s love of color, pattern and spontaneity is evident in her elegantly whimsical art wear. She is a NJ Arts Fellowship recipient and is the developer of Deconstructed Screen Printing, a technique allowing for a spontaneous, painterly approach to screen-printing. Kerr produced the DVD Deconstructed Screen Printing, and has been published in Ornament, Fiber Art, Surface Design Journal, Fiber Arts Design Book Six and Silk Painting for Fashion and Fine Art. Kerr exhibits and teaches internationally.
Margo Mensing • Saratoga Springs, NY
Margo, Assistant Professor of Art at Skidmore College, received her BA in English and MA in American History from the University of Michigan. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Art History/Theory/Criticism and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A diversity of interests informs both her work and teaching, resulting in provocative installations, collaborations and curatorial projects involving fiber arts and other mediums. Margo is currently working on a fifth segment of her continuing project, Dead at, which will focus on Joan Mitchellthis year and for which she is knitting a series of Mitchell-inspired socks. Her recent writings include a chapter in The Object of Labor, "Lace Curtains Troy" on the history of Collar City and an essay in Gastronomica: Journal of Food and Culture.
Exhibition Executive Consultant: Eugenia Barnes
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10AM-5PM, Sunday 1–5PM
Admission: $6
Call (315) 255-1553 to book your group tour. Exhibiting quilters, members & children under 12 are free. Closed: Mondays & major holidays; closing at 3PM Thanksgiving Eve, Christmas Eve & New Year's Eve. For more information visit: http://www.schweinfurthartcenter.org/exhibits/QAQ.html
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