Innholdsfortegnelse for Summer 2022 i Quilting Arts Magazine

AS ARTISTS, travel often informs not only how we see the world, but also what we create in our studios. Although most of us have stayed close to home in recent years, we can still dream. How much of your art is influenced by wanderlust? Have your travels—real or imagined—been fodder for future work? If you are anything like me, the stamps in my passport (or entries in my travel sketchbook) are just the first souvenir of any trip. What I truly treasure are the memories I’ve collected: the smell of freshly mown hay on an alpine hike, the sound of prayer flags blowing in the wind, the arresting beauty of waves crashing against rocks, the serendipity of discovery amidst a familiar landscape. All these treasures are stored in my…

After retiring as an art educator, Margaret Abramshe dove into being a full-time studio artist. She exhibits her works nationally and internally in museums, galleries, and major quilt shows. Using her teaching expertise, she enjoys creating online courses. Her other interests include yoga and her local art guild. She can often be found with her nose buried in a book. metaphysicalquilter.com Susan Brubaker Knapp makes art quilts using wholecloth painting and fusible appliqué techniques from her home studio in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She is also a photographer, author, teacher, host of “Quilting Arts TV,” and co-host of the Quilting Arts Podcast. susanbrubakerknapp.com Jane Davila is a fiber artist, printmaker, and designer in coastal Connecticut. Most days she can be found working from her loft studio in a renovated corset…

BE PREPARED Have a cohesive body of work that has been professionally photographed, a CV, artist statement, and a website prior to beginning your search for residencies. RESEARCH Use online resources to locate a residency that matches your personality, interests, and comfort level. START EARLY Residency applications are complex and have many moving parts; give yourself time to prepare a detailed and meaningful application. DO YOUR HOMEWORK Research the residency’s mission, values, and areas of interest in order to write a quality proposal. Consider perusing what past artists have created. REVIEW Read the application directions carefully. Pay attention to the deadline, allowable word count, and required submittals. Follow the rules—failure to do so may disqualify you. DESIGN Create public presentations that are meaningful, easy to do, and easy to clean…

EXPLORING ART QUILTS: VOLUME 2 | AROUND THE WORLD STUDIO ART QUILT ASSOCIATES, INC. In this second book in a series titled Exploring Art Quilts, SAQA opens your mind not only to quilts from around the world but also displayed and featured around the world and made by international quilters (SAQA members hail from 39 countries). This visual treat of a book showcases several of SAQA’s current exhibitions plus additional themed galleries of work by Juried Artist members, all containing innovative, beautiful works of fiber art. Articles highlight the art quilts of artists in Norway, Australia and New Zealand, and South Africa. In addition, several SAQA members are interviewed, sharing their thoughts, work, and dreams. This is armchair travel at its best and most artistic! $22.99 • schifferbooks.com IMPROV QUILTING:…

art is all about what we see, our points of view, our angles on things. Not just seeing with our eyes but also our hearts and our hands. Whether we share a bird’s-eye view as we peer out a jet window or peek at living cells through a microscope’s lens, our perspective is unique. We challenged our readers to create an 8" × 10" vertical quilt that referenced a place they’d like to visit—a place once visited, on a travel bucket list, or even just in their imagination—and to look at it from a different angle, literally or figuratively. Our clever and creative readers surprised us yet again with their talents! We are pleased to share this gallery of our readers’ work and hope you enjoy the following pages of…

Now that you’ve experienced our latest issue, isn’t it time for you to become part of QUILTING ARTS? What do you want to read—how about writing it yourself! Share your inspiring work, unique techniques, and new ideas with us and our readers. If you are teaching, blogging about, or exhibiting your art quilts, we want to hear from you! To submit, send us a short summary of your idea along with three images and we’ll get back to you within 12 weeks. Visit QuiltingDaily.com/submission-guidelines-quilting-daily for our submissions guidelines. Questions? Email QAsubmissions@goldenpeakmedia.com.…

if you have an artist’s website, how long has it been since you’ve updated it? Your website is your online presentation to the world, so give it the respect it deserves! Maybe you have a lot of new work or your work has taken a change in direction. Perhaps you’ve altered your business model and need a website that can better handle product sales and provide a portal for online class signups. Maybe it’s clunky or simply outdated visually or you want it to be more stylish, more functional, more reflective of who you are, or easier to navigate. You may even want better integration with a blog or more control over your website updates. All of these reasons should compel you to take a critical look at your site…

OCEANIA IS A VAST REGION, mainly comprising Australia, New Zealand, and many smaller islands. The work of the contemporary quilters in this gallery is as varied as the landscapes of Oceania, which range from snow-capped mountains to arid deserts, from lush rainforests to wild surf beaches and tropical islands. With the vast distances between cities and towns in Australia, many artists rely completely on the world of virtual interaction to communicate with others. New Zealand is much smaller but still has issues feeling part of the global art world. We are all grateful for the internet and international connections through groups like Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). Oceania artists are as varied as the region—some take inspiration from the landscapes, others from their travels, and still others from social issues and observation.…

as a painter who also loves textiles, it was only a matter of time before I started painting fabrics to make quilts. My first painted quilt was made way back in the early ’90s. Those earliest pieces were painted and then quilted but later, my work exploited the texture of the quilted surface and color was applied only after the quilting was complete. Much as I favor the ‘hand of the maker’ being the dominant force in a quilt, I also love to work with new technology. I enjoy creating original designs and printing them digitally on a wide-format printer. Recently, I began using an embroidery machine to layer stitched designs onto the prints in combination with the free-motion quilting I always favor. Today’s embroidery machines include built-in designs and…

LAST FALL, I PARTICIPATED IN MY FIRST OPEN STUDIOS event as part of my local artists’ guild. This was an opportunity to meet lots of potential customers, make contacts, and sell my work. I knew I needed to create a fair number of new pieces that were small, easier to make, with lower price points that would appeal to customers looking for holiday gifts. Most of my work is larger and, correspondingly, more expensive (much of it in the $1,000–$3,000 range). I also figured that some people would be unfamiliar with fiber art and concerned about how to hang it. What to do? Part of my solution was to create small pieces in series. Each series was based on a black-and-white line drawing from my sketchbook—sea urchins, a raven, a…

AFTER READING JANE DAVILA’S ARTICLE about The Migrant’s Alphabet, we were moved by the breadth of reasons humans migrate, for reasons both positive and, potentially, negative—unplanned and often undesired—and how art can comfort and soothe. The alphabet letter quilts featured in the article are beautiful and poignant. The concept of creating a small quilt featuring letters intrigued us so much, we chose it for our reader challenge. Inspired by the phrase QUILT ART, create a 10" × 10" quilt as part of a Quilter’s Alphabet—but limited to one of the following letters: A, I, L, Q, R, T, or U. You may use any technique and design choices, however, special consideration will be given to quilts using one or more techniques featured in past issues of QUILTING ARTS. Our hope…

I was profoundly moved and inspired by Liz Kettle’s stitch meditation ideas in Issue 101 and I took them to heart in an effort to bring calm fun into my busy life. Her simple idea of creating many 4" squares of purpose-free art seemed doable. But what could I do that would be a little different yet still truly fun, I wondered? I have played with textile art for several years, but I wanted to bring more paper and natural elements into my work—incorporating some of the bits of ‘this and that’ I collected over my life. This seemed like a great way to experiment with that. Having recently moved from the East Coast to Texas, I missed the beautiful New England autumns and wanted to bring that ‘feel’ into…

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Put your best foot forward! With a clear vision and a bit of effort, you’ll gain the benefits that a professional website can deliver. 1. Update your site regularly. It should go without saying, but here it is: Keep your website current. New works should be added on a regular basis. Blog posts and newsletter updates should be linked properly. Your contact information (more on that below) should be correct. All this will make your art shine. 2. Make it easy for your customers to find you online. If your business name and website URL are different from your actual name, make sure you own the URL with your own name (if you can), and redirect it to your website. 3. Keep your website presentation simple. Think twice about type…

• To make the design your own, you can substitute thread colors to suit your subject but it’s usually a good idea to use similar tonal values as those suggested on the screen of the embroidery machine. • When painting on a quilted and embroidered piece I mostly use fabric paints. However, if I don’t have the exact color I want, I mix artist-quality acrylic paints with a little fabric medium to help maintain the soft hand of the fabric. • Paint doesn’t flow as easily on fabric as it does on paper so it’s tempting to add water to the paint to stop the brush from dragging—but don’t do it! If the paint is too wet, it may bleed beyond the outline you want. • Fabrics take paints differently…

Quilting Arts Magazine has included a reader challenge or contest in almost every issue since its beginning. Many readers tell us seeking out the latest challenge is one of the first things they do when a new issue arrives! We have featured the handmade original artwork of creative readers—responding to one challenge or another—for over 20 years. Recently, we began thinking of the many contributors who have participated in these challenges—what if we created a special opportunity to share their best work? In late 2021, we issued a call for submissions to more than 100 artists whose work has been part of one or more Reader Challenge galleries in the recent past. Light on rules, they were invited to submit their best, original work from the past year, no larger…