Current Events

The Autumn 2021 Studio Art Quilting Magazine has so many amazing photos of textile art work.  Beth Shibley's Heat Challenge entry is featured on Page 130. Beth also has a Youtube channel where she teaches traditional quilting. My Sewing Room with 27 thousand followers.  https://www.youtube.com/c/mysewingroomwithbeth.  The article entitled Pigment Patchwork discusses the use of markers to create realistic portraits. Page 58.  Gloria Loughman's beautifil naturescapes appear on page 12.

Guest speaker Andi Perejda provided members with an exceptional presentation of her  textile art  work at the July 10th Zoom Meeting. If you missed the presention, visit Andi's website at https://andiperejdaquilts.com/. After the meeting, Andi, an experienced quilt judge, selected 19 entries for the Challenge "Endangered"

 Nelda McComb - Endangered; Joann Sarachman - BOTO Pink River Dolphins;  Carol Churchill - Hanging By A Thread;  Bunnie Mauldin - Grinnell Glacier;  Janet Tranbarger - The End;  Sharon Jaeger - Whooping Cranes;  Karen Gutherie - Out of Time;  Janice Willis - Truth;  Laurie Mutalipassi - Going, Going, Gone?;  Ardis Bucy - Vulnerable Beauty;  Tara Ritacco - Monarch's Risky Reigh; Sally Freeberg - Borderland;  Judy Crotts - Vanishing Paradise;  Marilyn Gourley - Ancient Voyager;  Charlene Tuch - From Sparks to Flames;  Ann Turley - The Woody;  Guila Greer - Lunch Break for Bees;  Karen Johnson - Endangered in the East;  Jennier Beatty - Survival of the Vulnerable;

Visions Art Museum in San Diego

First Responders

Congratulations to Quilts on the Wall Members Tara Ritacco and Deborah Weir and to SAQA Regional Director:  Kathleen McCabe

Congratulations to Guila Greer, Katherine Pellman,

Sally Wright, Laurie Mutalipassi and Linda Anderson,

current and former members,

for being selected for this years Road at Home show.  

Visit Road2CA at:

https://online.roadtocalifornia.com/

Congratulations to Linda Stone and Guila Greer

who are exhibiting their art work at Extreme Quilter's Art From Cloth on line exhibit. 

Spotted in the Garden, Life's a Beach, Black and White with a Twist

and other Quilts on the Wall Challenges by both artists are featured.

The on-line exhibit replaces, for now, the annual Gallery exhibit many of us have attended.

Check out the link.

http://www.extremequilters.com/2020-art-from-cloth-show/

You will enjoy the variety of art quilts and bring some sun shine into your day.

The Violet Protest. Each and every one of you, whether red or blue, has stepped up to say that

we believe in the core values we all want to make real in America.

It is with great hope that we believe that our hands will make a tangible representation of our belief in these values -

a gesture that cannot be ignored because of the spirit each Violet Protest square will carry with it to the members of the 117th Congress. 

Violet Protest Square - made by Tara Ritacco from Carlsbad, CA

​• Respect for the other   • Citizenship   • Compromise 
• Country over party and corporate influence
• Courage     • Candor    • Compassion   • Creativity 

 

Five entries by Tara Ritacco that will be part of Exhibit and delivered to U.S. Congress.

“Soar Into Spring”
2021 Mini Challenge

2021 brings us a new year with the budding of spring.

Let us welcome this year with a mini excursion to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
At the Museum we find a world renowned collection of art: statuary, paintings, photographs, decorative furnishings, textiles, porcelain…on and on.

Artists visit the Museum to learn and be inspired.
The museum’s vaults are filled with objects collected from all corners of the world and throughout world history.

The Board has selected two pieces of art from the collection for this challenge.
Quilts on the Wall invites members to create a miniature textile art piece.

Use the art work of Henri Matisse and Mariano Rodriguez to
get your imagination to “spring” into action.

Do you see colors, shapes, moods, images, textures, and
objects that bring the feeling of Spring’s rebirth?

Let your artwork Soar Into Spring
The size is 12” x 16” - portrait or landscape orientation.
Your tour de spring will debut at our April 2021 Happy Hour.

Madame de Pompadour by Henri Matisse                                       The Painted Cock by Mariano Rodriguez

The theme that received the most member votes was  
Endangered _ Due July 2021
Size:  30” by 30” square

The theme for the 2021 non-juried challenge is

It’s All “A Round” Us - Due November 2021
Size:  maximum dimensions are 30” by 30” but the quilt does NOT need to be square.

 In can be round or whatever shape the artist chooses

as long as it is no bigger than the maximum dimensions.  

In addition, at least 50% of the shapes in the quilt have to be round.

 It is fine to have more than 50% of the shapes in the quilt round - there is no maximum percentage of round shapes.

Contact Laurie Mutalipassi or Carol Churchill for more information

Update Your Calendar

 July 25,  September 12, November 14, 2020, Meetings will be held on ZOOM.

Members will receive an Invitation with access information.

Contact Guila Greer for help using Zoom. Her email is on the Roster.

Look for Happy Hour on ZOOM in the months of August, October, December 2020.

No programs...just good conversations...catch up...and Show and Tell.

Invitations will arrive in your email.

PROGRAMS ON ZOOM

Saturday, July, 25, 2020 - Speaker - Jean Impey - “Are You Crushing Your Creativity?”

Power Point Presentation

Saturday, September 12, 2020 - Speaker - Johanna Wissler - “Taking Better Photos of your Quilts at Home”

Show Your Art Work to Its Best Advantage

CHALLENGES

“It’s Not All Back and White” juried challenge - last day to deliver to Carol Churchill is August 15, 2020

“Fiddling With Fabric” non-juried challenge due November 14, 2020

You may vote for only ONE of the entries.

Compare the original fat quarter, a piece of which is located on the BACK of each entry.

Look for the fabric on the FRONT of the entry, and decide which entry best turned "trash into treasure".

Here is your chance to be a JUDGE and ask....

Did the artist address the theme?

Was the fabric transformed?  Was the technique unusual or creative?  

Is the entry special and cause you to "stop and take a closer look" as you walked through a gallery?

Send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the name of the artist you select.

Please send your email NO LATER THAN May 20th

I will collect the names and forward them to the Board to determine the "winner".

Everyone will be notified and a special "gift" delivered to the 2020 Ugly Fat Quarter Queen.

 Photos and Artist Statements are set out BELOW