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Contemporary Quilt Art Association Blog: November 2014
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Sunday, November 16, 2014. JoeTheQuilter Cunningham shows his unique voice. San Francisco quilt artist Joe Cunningham at the Nov. 8 CQA meeting. Jules is a slut! This wasn't the opening line of Joe Cunningham's presentation to CQA members and guests at the group's November 8 meeting, but it was just one among many laugh-provoking comments that marked the San Francisco artist's highly entertaining program. (The pertinence of this line will be disclosed in due course.). This is Joe's "anti-medallion" quilt...
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Contemporary Quilt Art Association Blog: April 2015
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Sunday, April 19, 2015. Kathy Hattori and "sustainable color for artists". Kathy Hattori at the April 11 CQA meeting. Around 2000, Hattori was a hobby spinner, weaver and dyer with a tech job in Silicon Valley- "doing okay, not great"- when, in the space of a couple years, she lost her job in the internet bust, sold her house and ended her marriage. Building on her earlier experience with dyes, she started a small, online natural dyes company and was now enjoying what she was doing. Hattori says the dye ...
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Contemporary Quilt Art Association Blog: August 2014
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Friday, August 15, 2014. Deborah Kapoor uses ancient technique to create very modern art. Artist Deborah Kapoor at CQA meeting. Seattle-area artist Deborah Kapoor calls her work mostly experimental as she continually pushes to new boundaries. That she does this using one of the most ancient of art media- encaustic- intrigued the members of Contemporary QuiltArt Association as she spoke at the group's August 9 meeting. The materials of encaustic: beeswax, pigment, resin (R&F Paints). Encaustic pieces are ...
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Contemporary Quilt Art Association Blog: July 2014
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Saturday, July 19, 2014. Ross Palmer Beecher's "metal quilts and flags" fool the eye. Artist Ross Palmer Beecher at July 12 CQA meeting. One man's trash, etc." was never more true than for Ross Palmer Beecher. The Seattle-area artist wowed Contemporary QuiltArt Assn. members at the group's July 12 meeting with images and samples of her flags and quilts, which are definitely the epitome of mixed media. One of Beecher's cloth quilts/flags. Closeup shows presidential flags from placemats. Created from disca...
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Contemporary Quilt Art Association Blog: January 2015
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015. CQA holds annual "Play Day," prepares for StashFest. A "free-form" marbled design, right after being pulled off the "gel" medium. A large turnout of enthusiastic CQA members gathered January 10 in the workroom of the Bellevue Art Museum, eager to learn some new surface-design techniques as well as to play with favorite art materials. All the activities were aimed at producing unique fabrics for "The CQA Collection," which will be unveiled at the. Marilynn Dondero-Rich (right) w...
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Contemporary Quilt Art Association Blog: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014. Lois Gaylord introduces "Threads of Spirit, Cloths of Meaning". Artist Lois Gaylord recommends a book during her talk at the CQA December 13 meeting. Anything with more than a practical purpose can be a cloth of meaning," said Gaylord. Representation of a thick rope of three 2-strand fibers, reconstructed from a fossil found in cave in Lascaux, France, from 15,000 B.C. Ancient Anatolian kilim depicts the weaving goddess in several ways. In those times," Gaylord said, "there wa...
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Contemporary Quilt Art Association Blog: Art=Toys=Art in Cathy McClure's hands
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Friday, July 17, 2015. Art=Toys=Art in Cathy McClure's hands. Cathy McClure at July 11 CQA meeting. Seattle-area artist Cathy McClure was one of 10 kids in her Arkansas farm-country family when she made a visit to a local carnival, an event that was to provide the key direction for her ensuing artistic journey. McClure led a fascinated CQA audience along this journey- complete with a menagerie! McClure demonstrates one of her "bots" at the CQA meeting. When she felt she could be doing.more. The plastic "...
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Contemporary Quilt Art Association Blog: Rachel Brumer presents "Work and Meaning"
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Saturday, June 20, 2015. Rachel Brumer presents "Work and Meaning". Rachel Brumer contemplates a question from the audience at the June 13 CQA meeting. CQA's June 13 speaker, Seattle-area artist Rachel Brumer, is a thoroughly modern person who includes some antique methods in depicting her chosen themes that also tend to look back: "tribute" and "memorial.". One of Brumer's first quilts, "Danny, Are There Really Five Moons? Why does my work harken back? Mathilde Dziubas 2/11/28" above; closeup below....
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Contemporary Quilt Art Association Blog: February 2014
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Saturday, February 15, 2014. How does she do that? Carol Milne knits with glass. Carol Milne, speaker at February 8 CQA meeting. At the group's February 8 meeting, speaker Carol Milne showed a fascinated Contemporary QuiltArt Assn. audience exactly how she "knits" with glass. Milne can produce colorful knit gloves in yarn. And even more complex knits in yarn. These may be simpler.but they are glass! And her tool wall. Once off the needle, the coils are opened up. Cup "funnels" and wax "stems" are attached.
