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AQuA Member Pages
***Our Goal***
Our goal is to explore textile manipulation and the diversity of mixed media
as an art form.
BIO created for the Art Center, January 2008 and Exhibition List
***Definition of an art quilt***
An Art Quilt is an original exploration of a concept or idea rather than the handing down of a “pattern”. It experiments with textile manipulation, color, texture and/or a diversity of mixed media. An Art Quilt pushes quilt world boundaries. An Art Quilt should consist predominately of fiber or fiber-like material with one or more layers held together with stitches or piercing of the layers.
for further discussion of what constitutes an art quilt- click here
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***Membership and Meeting Information***
The Art Quilt Association welcomes all art quilters and fiber artists. Meetings are generally held at 9:30am on the third Saturdays of most months in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Location: The Goodwill Industries building, 630 24 1/2 Road, East side, just north and east of Mesa Mall. Click here for map. The door to the Community Room is to the LEFT of the retail entrance.
Visit one of our meetings and get to know us.
2008
June 21
July 19
August 16
September 20
October 18
November 15
No December meeting
Contact AQuA at info@theartquiltassociation.com to confirm date, time and place of our next meeting.
Print Membership Form to join by mail. Most of our members are located in western Colorado and Utah, but with our newsletter and website we welcome members to join and participate in our exhibitions at a distance.
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Call for Entries
and Future Show Information
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Art Center Exhibit, August, 2008
Co-chairs: Kathleen Bryan, Sandra Lee, Lezlie Sage
Liason to the Steering Committee: Christie Barton
"ENCRUSTED"
"Instinctively humans gravitate to things that shine. Sparkle, gloss, glisten, glow, radiance, reflection, luster, embellish, brilliant, adorn, garnish, ornament; the descriptive words alone are pleasing to us.
Encrusted: Art quilts celebrating all that glitters."
We will learn a more professional hanging system with this show. Velcro will be attached to the back of the quilt and to a slat for the wall. This hanging system is preferred by Translations Gallery in Denver for it's professional "hang". Sandra Hoefner will teach a workshop so delay putting on your sleeves. Older pieces are being allowed for this exhibit, pieces finished after August 2005 will qualify. Works should not have been previously exhibited in Grand Junction.
Call for entries and outdated entry form
Revised entry form
VELCRO HANGING SYSTEM
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Denver National IV
AQuA has been invited again to exhibit at Denver National,
a Mancuso Brothers Management Show
April 30 - May 3, 2009
Denver, Colorado
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Pacific International Quilt Festival, October, 2009.
Expect launch fall of 2008.
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Pick of the Litter III
November 2009
AQuA returns to the Creamery Arts Center in Hotchkiss, Colorado for our third exhibit and sale.
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***Calendar***
***Newsletters***
August 2008, Number 30
June 2008, Number 29
May 2008, Number 28
April 2008, Number 27
March 2008, Number 26
January 2008, Number 25
ARCHIVED NEWSLETTERS
Kathy Pfeufer, NEWSLETTER EDITOR
***WORKSHOPS!***
Cas Holmes of the UK
September 4-6, 2008
www.casholmes.textilearts.net
Organizer: Jolene Stratton.
***ETCETERA***
Taking the Fear out of Wearable Art
click here for Marla Ferguson's lessons on wearable art
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***BOOT CAMP***
Deborah Snider, member of AQuA as well as on the Arts faculty at Mesa State College, delivered a series of short lessons in 2006 and 2007, called Art and Design Boot Camp. Click here to see summaries of each lesson. This material was generously provided by Deborah. She requests that these lessons be used only for educational fair use and not for reproduction without her permission.
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Reference Items:
POSTCARDS How-To
ROSTER- contact the newsletter editor for a copy of the membership roster. This list is not to be sold, shared, or used for any commercial purposes.
SLATS for hanging and photography
SLEEVE REQUIREMENT for all shows unless otherwise instructed, April2008
VELCRO hanging system
How to get your own page on the WEBSITE
How to give a WORKSHOP
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Archived information:
Canyon Voices at Mesa Verde
Free Range Fibers
Stories of our Ancestors, Entry
Stories, Rules
Stories, Checklist
Postcards at the Creamery, November 2 to December 2, 2007, Entry form
Pick of the Litter 2007 Show Information
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