Friday 28 March 2008
Have you renewed your membership?
To be eligible to enter the Canberra Quilters Exhibition, you must be a financial member as at 31 March. Download a membership form and post it off today!
Sunday 23 March 2008
re-fabricating environments: Call for Entries
After consultation with Braemar Gallery, Springwood, the re-fabricating environments exhibition, expected to be held in the first half of 2008, has now been postponed to the end of the year. The new dates for the exhibition are 31 October to 7 December 2008 and the new closing date for submissions is Friday 3 October 2008.
You are invited to explore and give material expression to your connection with the various environments that surround us as members of communities – globally, locally, personally, living in natural worlds and those human-made.
Entry is open to all quilters resident in Australia. Quilts must be an original design and will be selected on the basis of innovative use of the medium, must be predominantly textile, and comprised of at least two layers stitched together. Size: no more than 150cms wide; any reasonable length. Entries must be submitted no later than Friday 3 October 2008. Please contact Annabelle Solomon with any further inquiries.
Download re-fabricating 2008 Entry Form
You are invited to explore and give material expression to your connection with the various environments that surround us as members of communities – globally, locally, personally, living in natural worlds and those human-made.
Entry is open to all quilters resident in Australia. Quilts must be an original design and will be selected on the basis of innovative use of the medium, must be predominantly textile, and comprised of at least two layers stitched together. Size: no more than 150cms wide; any reasonable length. Entries must be submitted no later than Friday 3 October 2008. Please contact Annabelle Solomon with any further inquiries.
Download re-fabricating 2008 Entry Form
Friday 14 March 2008
Tifaifai workshop with Dijanne Cevaal
Dijanne Cevaal will be running two two-day workshops on "Playing with Tifaifai" (Polynesian-style quilting) at Braidwood Townstay Workshop Arts Space. See Dijanne's blog for some images of student work from last year's workshops - some of the participants came up from the south coast for the workshop, and really loved it.
- Dates are: May 24th & 25th (Saturday & Sunday)
or May 26th & 27th (Monday & Tuesday
- Workshop cost: $180
- Accommodation cost (if staying onsite): $40 per person per night
Contact Fiona Hammond for bookings or more information on: (02) 4849 4489 or email chiatanya@goulburn.net.au
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$500 acquisitive art quilt award for Braidwood Quilt Event
Many members of Canberra Quilters will be aware of the Braidwood Quilt Event, with its famous "Airing of the Quilts", which is held in November each year. This year (2008) it will be held on November 22-23, and the local FyreGallery will be offering a $500 Acquisitive Award for a quilt that focuses on Women.
In the two weeks within which Quilt Event 2008 will be held, FyreGallery will hold an exhibition at No 84 Wallace Street, Braidwood (November 14-29) of wood-block prints, etchings, lithographs and dry point with the focus on women.
Artists include Thea Proctor, Adelaide Perry, Vera Blackburn, Lisette Kohlhagen, Napier Waller, Christian Waller, Eileen Mayo, Eveline Syme, Frank Weitzel, Jesse Trail, Ethel Spowers, Ethleen Palmer and any others who created masterpieces of printmaking from the 1800s to the late 1900s in Australia.
FyreGallery will offer a $500 acquisition prize for an art quilt that celebrates Women inspired by one of the artists listed above. Suitable quilts of any size submitted to the Braidwood Quilt Event in 2008 are eligible to nominate for the prize.
For details and entry forms please contact Jill McLeod in Braidwood on (02) 4842 2626 or email her on dunvegan@activ8.net.au.
In the two weeks within which Quilt Event 2008 will be held, FyreGallery will hold an exhibition at No 84 Wallace Street, Braidwood (November 14-29) of wood-block prints, etchings, lithographs and dry point with the focus on women.
Artists include Thea Proctor, Adelaide Perry, Vera Blackburn, Lisette Kohlhagen, Napier Waller, Christian Waller, Eileen Mayo, Eveline Syme, Frank Weitzel, Jesse Trail, Ethel Spowers, Ethleen Palmer and any others who created masterpieces of printmaking from the 1800s to the late 1900s in Australia.
FyreGallery will offer a $500 acquisition prize for an art quilt that celebrates Women inspired by one of the artists listed above. Suitable quilts of any size submitted to the Braidwood Quilt Event in 2008 are eligible to nominate for the prize.
For details and entry forms please contact Jill McLeod in Braidwood on (02) 4842 2626 or email her on dunvegan@activ8.net.au.
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