Tag: SAQA

Earth Stories

Good news arrived this morning via email…I was accepted to SAQA’s 25th Anniversary exhibition, Earth Stories, which will open at the Michigan State University Museum in May 2014. That’s like a million years from now, but the pictures are already popping into my head. I went kind of around the bend on this one, trying to come up with a group I thought was having a significant effect on essentially saving the Earth. I’ll be back later with that process, once the snot clears from my nostrils and I know what guidelines to follow about discussing this exhibit. Just know that you’ll probably laugh at me. Or be mad at me. Whatever.

The other accepted artists are listed below…some I have exhibited with before in Sightlines and other exhibits, and some are brand new to me…I’m looking forward to the next few months as I start to flesh out my ideas (ironic term)…I love it when art gets this exciting…

The artists:

Britta Ankenbauer
Brooke Atherton
Regina Benson
Benedicte Caneill
Maya Chaimovich
Marion Coleman
Nancy G. Cook
Jennifer Day
Noriko Endo
Jean Herman
Annie Helmericks-Louder
Patty Hawkins
Paula Kovarik
Lynn Krawczk
Carol Larson
Alicia Merrrett
Kathy Nida
Mary Pal
Mirjam Pet-Jacobs
Marilyn Prucka
Valya Roenko
Susan Shie
Cynthia St Charles
Leni Wiener
Kathy York

SAQA Auction: Susan Lenz

The last 5 years, I’ve made an effort to buy one piece from the SAQA Auction in September. They’re all about 12″ square, so they’re easy to hang around the house, and they’re affordable if you’re willing to wait (and possibly lose the piece because you waited too long for the auction to come down in price). This year, there were (as always) a couple of pieces that caught my interest…I ended up buying Susan Lenz’s grave rubbing…

Death of Desire. It’s a grave rubbing on silk, which is even nicer in person than it is in the photos. It’s been quilted and hand-stitched around the edges. The girlchild expressed interest (uh oh). The back is also interesting…

with the information about whose grave it was from, and the addition of doily tatting in a 9-patch pattern.

Now I just have to hang it…before the girlchild wanders off with it.

I’ve been reading Susan’s blog for a long time, and have always been interested in her use of antique fabrics and graves, as well as her work in the Decision Portraits, so I’m pleased to own a piece of hers. She has a piece in my curated exhibit I’m Not Crazy and is a Quilt National 2013 exhibitor, so if all goes well, I should meet her in May.