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Art Quill Studio: Confluence2011 International Surface Design Association (SDA) ConferenceOrganized By: SDA & Textile Center, Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota, USA

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Art Quill Studio: Confluence2011 International Surface Design Association (SDA) ConferenceOrganized By: SDA & Textile Center, Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota, USA

SDA NY Member News June 27, 2011

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EXHIBITION NEWS

Sharon Bottle Souva

Sharon Bottle Souva, “Above the Falls”, 48” x 36”

Sharon won a third place prize in the Creative Crafts Soft category at the Allentown Society Arts Festival on June 11-12 in Buffalo.

K. Velis Turan

K. Velis Turan, Millbrook Picnic Tables, left, and Millbrook Wing.

Join Turan and 16 other artists as they help celebrate
Art and Wine in the Hudson Valley
Presented by Hudson Valley Wine Magazine

Still time to catch the exhibition at M Gallery
Show Runs June 11 - July 8, 2011
Opening - Saturday, June 11, 6-8 pm
350 Main Street • Catskill, NY 12414 • 518.943.0380
www.mgallery-online.com

Hudson Valley Gallery
Show Runs July 23 - September 5, 2011
Opening - Saturday, July 23 – 6-8 pm
246 Hudson Street •   Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY   •   845-401-5443
www.hudsonvalleygallery.com
Albany Convention & Visitors Center
Show Runs from Oct 7 - Dec 31, 2011
Opening - Friday, October 7 - (TBA)
25 Quackenbush Square   •   Albany, NY 12207   •   (518) 434-0405
www.albany.org/VisitorCenter.aspx

WINERY & ARTIST "PAIRS"
Applewood Winery & Jan Horton (acrylic)
Applewood Winery & Crista Pisano (oils)
Benmarl Winery & Sasha Chermayeff (oils)
Brookview Station Winery & Judy Reynolds (oils)
Brotherhood & Lee Anne Morgan (Fine Art Photography)
Brotherhood, America’s Oldest Winery & Barbara Rubin (oils)
Glorie Farm Winery & Virginia Donovan (oils)
Glorie Farm Winery & Patrick Milbourn (oils)
Hudson-Chatham Winery & Joan Damiani (oil & photography)
Hudson-Chatham Winery & Anne Gabriele (photography)
Millbrook Winery & Vineyards & Susan Togut (mixed media)
Millbrook Winery & Vineyards & K. Velis Turan (mixed media fiber)
Palaia Vineyards & Paul Gould (oils)
Robibero Family Vineyards & David Borenstein (mixed media)
Stoutridge Vineyards & Paola Bari (overglaze on porcelain)
Whitecliff Vineyard & Robert Breur (sculpture in clay and wood)
Whitecliff Vineyard & Vince Natale (oil and graphite)

Valerie Zeman

“Pathways” Showcased at Remsenburg Association Academy’s Summer Art Series 2011

Artist Valerie Zeman presents her textile and fiber art series “Pathways”

Huntington, NY : Valerie Zeman is one of the featured artists represented at the Remsenburg Association Academy of Art – 2011 Summer Art Series. Ms. Zeman invites the community to her Opening Reception on Friday, June 24, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. A Long Island-based artist whose work has been exhibited at different venues on the Island, Ms. Zeman explains, “My color palette reflects my Long Island origins in earth tones of marsh, beach and wood. Juxtaposition of color is one of the true joys of fiber art as canvas. In my designs, I strive for abstract, free-form interpretative expressions of large and small themes, such as “survival” or “family.” Other times, I find that the textile itself and the creative process yield their own results, much like sculpting.”

Ms. Zeman works with textiles and mixed media to produce extraordinarily complex abstract expressionist, multi-layered, fiber art that is technically and visually stunning. She is active in East End art and non-profit organizations, and is a member of the East End Arts Council.

The show runs from June 24th - July 10th, Friday, Saturday, Sunday of each weekend, from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m., during which times Ms. Zeman will be happy to welcome visitors and discuss her work.

The Remsenburg Academy is located at 126 South Country Road, Remsenburg. Known as one of the oldest private academies on Long Island, the Remsenburg Academy building dates to the time of the Civil War and serves as a truly lovely venue for art exhibits, such as the Summer Art Series.

M. Joan Lintault

A PASSION FOR QUILTS: JOAN LINTAULT COLLECTS

Joan Lintault, The Other Messengers, 1994, 89.5” h x 83” w. Collection of Shelburne Museum

View Gallery Quilts collected and made by M. Joan Lintault, one of the pioneering art quilt makers of the 20th century, May 15 – October 30 at the Shelburne Museum, 6000 Shelburne Road, Shelburne, Vermont.

Joan Lintault is an internationally renowned quilter who has been exhibiting her work since 1965 and is represented in the collections of Illinois State Museum, the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska and numerous public and private collections.
Joan uses a variety of techniques to achieve her visual effect but never relies on commercially patterned fabric, preferring to dye/screen print/paint her own canvas and then add quilting, appliqué and embroidery to create movement and depth. The Other Messengers, dating from 1995, is a tribute to fall—her favorite season. The leaves are joined with insects to create positive and negative spaces. The subconscious inspiration for this innovative design was born over thirty years earlier, when Joan made a sketch for an art class featuring the same elements.
The Other Messengers has been exhibited over a dozen times in the United States, France, Austria and Tokyo.
The Museum recently acquired The Other Messengers along with a group of quilts from the 19th and 20th centuries from America and India that represent a lifetime of collecting and influenced her work.

Marcia DeCamp

Marcia has three pieces in the juried all-media show, Images 2011, which is part of the Central PA Festival of the Arts at Penn State University, open until July 17. One of the pieces, “Storm Clouds at Sunrise,” won an Award of Merit. Follow this link to see the images of the work in this show.

Marcia de Camp, Storm Clouds at Sunrise

Marcia De Camp, Jet Trails #10

Marcia De Camp’s Jet Trails #10, is one of 60 works that will be published in Sandra Sider’s forthcoming book, The Studio Quilt, # 6: State of the Art.

The ArT-QuILT ExPERIENCE

The ArT-QuILT ExPERIENCE, an international juried art-quilt exhibition, opened on June 12 in Cazenovia, New York. Eleven countries are represented in the entries, and there are over 15 SDA members' work in the show. Twenty of the exhibiting artists joined the crowd of 150+ attendees for the grand opening of the competitively chosen quilts at the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park and the Cazenovia College Art Gallery.

In addition, the Cazenovia Public Library is hosting a show of small quilts
by the Rochester Area Fiber Artists, and the New Woodstock Free Library is displaying quilts created by the TAQE team – Pat Berardi, Julie Brandon (SDA), Val Schultz (SDA), Barb Seils (SDA), and Bonnie Robinson.

The show continues through July 31. For more information please visit www.theart-quiltexperience.com

WORKSHOPS

Color Principles Lecture & Workshop at Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center, Espanola, NM with Barbara Arlen August 5-7, 2011

info@evfac.org or www.evfax.org or b.arlen@mac.com

Lecture August 5, 2011 6:00-7:00 pm

Workshops: August 6-7, 2011 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Class Description:
Learn the color principles of Bauhaus Masters including Albers, Klee and Itten. This color workshop will be one of personal and creative discovery rather than just theory. This 6-part hands-on workshop will explore a series of exercises using screen printed colored papers and collage techniques. Participants will learn the dynamics and interaction of colors and how to see color with a different awareness. For fiber artists and color lovers – no prior experience necessary. Any skill level, love of color is the requirement. How to use color is the practical application. Materials list upon request.
Biography:
Barbara Arlen studied color theory and painting with John Opper (a student of Josef Albers) at NYU. She facilitates the Color Certificate at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Center for Professional Studies and teaches several color courses and workshops. She is a global home fashion design consultant for textiles, new products and sourcing. Barbara has consulted for long periods in India, Korea and China, both commercially and with artisans.

SDA NY Member News June 14, 2011

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New Publications from Sandra Sider

Sandra Sider announces the publication of The Studio Quilt, no. 1, a new monograph series focusing on contemporary quilt art. The first issue presents Sandra's essay concerning the work of Ludmila Aristova. (Available on Amazon.com for $11.00.)

Diane Savona, “Looted Artifacts”, 2010, one of the works selected for The Studio Quilt, no. 6, available this fall.

In addition, sixty artists (listed below) have been selected by Sandra for The Studio Quilt, no. 6: State of the Art, which will be available in the fall.

List of Artists and Quilts:

Annie Helmericks-Louder, Outlaw Jackrabbit (2010), Aryana B. Londir, Compartments #1 (2011), Barbara Wills, Land Marks #36 (2009), Benedicte Caneill, Units #9: Cityscape (2009), Bonnie J. Smith, View from Above (2007), Camilla Brent Pearce, Rustbelt Shade Garden (2008), Carolyn Carson, Deborah’s Decision (2011), Catherine Smith, Grey Hay (2011), Charlotte Ziebarth, Urban Reflections #2: Lake Merritt Series (2010), Clairan Ferrono, Darkness Surrounds Us (2009), Deborah Bein, Roots (2010), Deborah Fell, Witness Trees (2009), Deborah Weir, Daylily (2009), Denise Linet, Garden in Blue (2010), Diane Savona, Looted Artifacts (2010), Eileen Lauterborn, Breaking News (2010), Erika Carter, Cradle 6 (2011), Ezther Bornemisza, Pending Matters (2009), Gay Lasher, Abstraction I (2010), Gloria Hansen, Lost in Illusion (2010), Grace J. Errea, Le Chapeau Extraordinaire (2010), Holly Altman, Tidal Pool After the Storm (2010), Jamie Fingal, Apron as Personal Armor (2008), Jean Judd, Contaminated Water #1 (2010), Jennifer Day, Old Hands (2011), Jette Clover, White Wall 2 (2009), Jill Rumoshosky Werner, Dispensed (2008), Jo-Ann Golenia, Push (2010), Joan Sowada, Fall Line Up (2010), Judith Plotner, Soul of an Iris II (2010), Judy Langille, Splintered Forms (2010), Julia E. Pfaff, Contours V (2010), K. Velis Turan, Major Deegan 2 (2011), Katherine K. Allen, Peace Like a River (2011), Kathleen McCabe, Protea (2009), Kathy Nida, Primal Scream (2008), Kim Lakin, Rio (2009), Leisa Rich, Architects in Flux (2010), Linda Robertus, Magnificence (2009), Louise Schiele, Gecko (2009), Marcia Decamp, Jet Trails #10 (2011), Marianne R. Williamson, Babbling Brook (2011), Marlene Ferrell Parillo, Faces (2008), Mary Pal, Homeless Love (2011), Mary Vaneecke, Circlesss III (2008), Melisse Laing, Seeing the Light (2009), Micaela Fitzsimmons, The Road Home (2010), Nancy G. Cook, Kousa: A New Dogwood’s in Town (2010), Olga Norris, Snagged (2010), Pat Owoc, Return (2009), Patricia Gould, Coastal Symphony (2009), Peggy Brown, Alike But Not the Same (2011), Sarah Ann Smith, Joshua (2010), Sheree Rasmussen, Night Wind (2010), Sue Reno, Groundhog and Green Bean (2010), Susan Schrott, Fiddler on the Couch (2009), Tiziana Tateo, Unstable Balance (2011), Virginia Spiegel, Boundary Waters 51 (2010), Wen Redmond, Perception of Trees (2009), Yael David-Cohen, Mystery (2009)

EXHIBITION NEWS

Susan Schrott

Susan Schrott "A celebration of Women in Textiles!"
Exhibit on view June 2-23rd..closed June 24-26
Extended until July 3rd, 2011

"Stop by and see this exceptional exhibit of figurative wall hangings celebrating the joy of being a woman!!" For more info., visit: www.susanschrottartist.com

To see a review of this exhibition: http://peekskill.patch.com/articles/a-celebration-of-women-in-textiles-comes-to-peekskills-flat-iron-gallery

Flat Iron Gallery is open Thurs.-Sun. 12-6 and by appt. www.flatiron.qpg.com
Gallery Director: Wendie Garber

Flat Iron Gallery, Inc.
105 So. Division St.
Peekskill, New York 10566
914-734-1894

Kathy Grady

“Origins”, Kathy Grady

Kathy Grady will be having a solo exhibit, “Stratum: Works on fabric by Kathy Grady”, at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance
in Narrowsburg, NY in Sullivan County.

Dates: July 1- 29 ( Friday- Friday)
Exhibit: "Stratum," works on fabric by Kathy Grady

Sponsored by:
Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Alliance Gallery, Delaware Arts Center,
37 Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY. Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10
a.m. - 4 p.m. . Free.

Opening reception: Friday,
July 1, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

DVAA website:
http://www.artsalliancesite.org/index.html

Pat Pauly

Pat Pauly at the Quilt National opening with her piece “Pink Leaf 2”.

Pat Pauly's work "Pink Leaf 2" is now on view in Athens, Ohio in Quilt National 2011. The 17th biennial juried exhibition of contemporary art quilts will be on view at the Dairy Barn Arts Center May 28 through September 5, 2011. Over 1,000 entries were whittled down to the final 86, and Pat is thrilled to be part of this prestigious collection. The exhibit will tour starting in the Fall of 2011.

Pat Pauly, Mummy Bags/Canopic Jars, 2010

Sum of the Parts: Art Quilts of Pat Pauly

Pat Pauly will have a solo exhibition at the Nazareth College Arts Center
Gallery in Rochester, New York, June 30, 2011 – August 14, 2011. There
will be an opening reception Friday, July 1, 2011 6 – 8 p.m.

Entitled “Sum of the Parts: Art Quilts of Pat Pauly,” the show will
feature Pauly’s latest work in surface design and textile technique. An
award-winning and nationally-known fiber artist, Pat Pauly uses personal
imagery and freeform surface design in her modern take on a traditional
art form. Bold, graphic and non-literal narrative is the subject matter.
Commercial and artist-designed textiles are the medium intricately
assembled to emerge as the finished fiber work.

The exhibition will be free and open to the public during gallery hours
Thursday-Sunday from 1-8 pm. Call for additional hours (585 389 5073)
during Dance Week July 8 – 16. For further details, please contact Pat
Pauly pat@patpauly.com

Arts Center Gallery
Nazareth College,
4245 East Avenue
Rochester, New York
June 30, 2011 – August 14, 2011
Hours: Thursday – Sunday 1 – 8 p.m.
Call for Additional hours during Dance Week July 8 – 16 (585) 385 5073
Please call the Gallery information line to confirm summer hours
(585)389-5073.
(The Gallery is closed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.)

Natayla Aikens

Natalya’s work is included in “A Spin on Green” at ArtsWestchester, 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, NY

You are invited to the Opening Reception this Friday, June 13, 5:30 – 8:00 PM.

Please visit www.artswestchester.org/green for more information about the exhibition.

Sally Dutko

Summer Treasures—Prints and Fiber Art:
Sally Dutko & Rebecca Godin

Lamoreaux Landing Winery
June 1—August 1, 2011

You're invited to a 2-person exhibit featuring a wide selection of fiber art by Sally Dutko and the photographic, mixed-media prints of Rebecca Godin. Both artists have exhibited extensively in the Northeast.

A "Meet the Artists" event is Saturday, July 2, 1:00-5:00.

Lamoreaux is filled with artwork and is a wonderful winery, a beautiful building, and has a spectacular view of Seneca Lake. It is located on the east shore of Seneca Lake.
Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars
9224 Rt. 414, Lodi, NY 14860
www.lamoreauxwine.com

SDA NY Member News May 22, 2011

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EXHIBITION NEWS

Parallax / Views of Contemporary Quilt Artists Opens June 3, 2011 in Rochester

Judith Plotner, Soul of an Iris III

Parallax / Views of Contemporary Quilt Artists
Kunstler Gallery, Booksmart Studio
May 31 – June 25, 2011
250 North Goodman Street, Rochester, NY 14607

Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday 9 AM - 6 PM, Sat 10 AM - 4 PM

Opening Reception: Friday, June 3, 6 - 9 PM
BOOKSMART STUDIO
250 North Goodman Street
Rochester, NY
Information: 585 598-9322
Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday 9 AM - 6 PM, Sat 10 AM - 4 PM

Nineteen fiber artists embrace the concept of parallax view, where an
object or idea is seen from two different perspectives. From Kathleen
Loomis representation of two sides of the American Civil War, to Dorothy
Caldwell’s “An Island/A Pond,” where dichotomic views of Lake Ontario
serve as the imagery, this exhibition proves that textile art is a
compelling, complex and expressive medium. Many works have never been
shown, and were specifically created for this exhibit, organized by
contributing artist Pat Pauly.

Featured in this exhibition are artist Pamela Allen, Sandy Donabed,
Priscilla Kibbee, Bev Kondolf, Paula Kavorik, Jeanne Simpson, as well as
Surface Design Association members Nelda Warkentin, Terry
Jarrard-Dimond, Dominie Nash, Jette Clover, Judith Plotner, Kathleen
Loomis, Dorothy Caldwell, Sylvia Einstein, Jeannette DeNicolas Meyer,
Shelly Brenner Baird, Marcia DeCamp, Linda Bachman, Pat Pauly.

Visit Valley Fiber Life for an article on the exhibition.
http://www.valleyfiberlife.com/imported-data/curating-fiber-greats.html

This exhibition runs concurrently with FiberArt International 2011 at the
Memorial Art Gallery, in Rochester, New York and the gallery is just
across the street from Parallax / Views of Contemporary Quilt Artists.

http://mag.rochester.edu/exhibitions/fiber-in-rochester/

Jeanne Raffer Beck

Off the Page: Reinventing Alphabets, Solo Exhibition,Opens May 24

Jeanne Raffer Beck, Writing in Air, 24 x 48, 2011.

Arts & Cultural Council Gallery, 277 North Goodman Street, Rochester, NY 14607

Dates: May 24- June 16, 2011

Reception: Friday, June 3, 5:00 – 9:00 PM

Judith Plotner

Judith’s piece, SOUL OF AN IRIS I, will be included in Quilt National '11
from May 27- September 5. The show will then travel for two years. The opening reception weekend will be May 27-29 at the Dairy Barn in Athens, Ohio.

Sharon Bottle Souva

Sharon Bottle Souva, Imbricate Seasons

Sharon’s “Imbricate Seasons” has been accepted into the juried exhibition, THE ArT-QuILT ExPERIENCE

Dates: June 12 - July 31
Sunday, June 12 - Opening Receptions: Exhibition
3:00pm-5:00pm, John and Virginia Winner Memorial Art Gallery
4:30pm-6:30pm, Cazenovia College's Art Gallery in Reisman Hall.

An International Juried Exhibition
Jonathan Holstein, lead juror; Eugenia Barnes; Ann Clarke

The Cazenovia Public Library and the nearby New Woodstock Public Library will also be showing quilts in connection with the main exhibition. In addition, Cazenovia's Library will have several other quilt-related exhibitions, and Lorenzo mansion, a State historic site in Cazenovia, will feature an exhibition of American whitework bedspreads.

OTHER NEWS

SDA Grant Winner Laurie Wohl

Congratulations to Laurie Wohl , who has been awarded an SDA Personal Development Grant. As part of her grant proposal, Laurie wrote:

" I plan to create and to exhibit, in interfaith venues, a distinctive body of Unweavings®. These fiber art pieces – using unwoven canvas, textured papers, and other materials as a foundation – will serve as my medium for integrating visual and tactile elements with texts of interwoven Muslim and Jewish spiritual and secular poetry, using Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy. The calligraphy and my own iconography – raised from the surface of the textile - will serve as both conveyors of meaning and part of the abstract patterning of each piece. In addition to combining Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy, this new body of work will also reference, in form and materials, the iconography of the veil."

For more information about obtaining a personal development grant as an SDA member, please visit the SDA website.

SDA NY Member News May 7, 2011

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EXHIBITION NEWS

Susan Schrott

Susan Schrott: A Celebration of Women in Textiles

Solo Exhibition

Dates: June 2-June 23 and June 27-July 3, 2011

Location: Flat Iron Gallery, 105 South Division Street
Peekskill NY 10566

ARTIST RECEPTION SATURDAY JUNE 4TH FROM 1-5

Also, Susan’s piece, “Fiddler on the Couch”, has been Juried into Sacred Threads 2011.

CLASS OPENING

The Eastern Great Lakes Fiber Conference (EGLFC) October 7-10, 2011 in Chatauqua NY will include a two day class on Bogolanfini (Mudcloth) Modified, led by Judy Dominic.

The strikingly simple white design on black background cloth represents the serious artistic manner of telling the stories of village life in Mali, Africa. Learn about the traditional practice of bogolanfini, dyeing cotton cloth with mud, as well as how that process is modified two different ways in the Dominic version. During the workshop you will have the opportunity to create your own story designs using local muds on cotton and other natural fiber cloth. Connect with the earth - literally! - and gain an appreciation of the Mali culture. All level dyers are welcome.

For more information see eglfc.org.

SDA NY Member News April 25, 2011

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EXHIBITION NEWS

Kris Gregson Moss

Kris Gregory Moss, Chanson de Degas

Kris has two works in the Adirondack Region Textile Artists Alliance, ARTAA at Tannery Pond in North Creek, NY.

Show Dates: April 30 – May 25, 2011

Reception: Saturday, May 14, 2011, 5-7 PM.

ARTAA is a group of twenty textile artists who came together in 2005 to promote the concept that works of fine art may be created with textiles. Our premier show was mounted at Tannery Pond in April of 2006. We have since shown each year at the Adirondack Museum’s Fiber and Fabric Festival, as the invitational group at the Arts Center in Old Forge, at the Guilderland Public Library, at the Wings Falls Quilt Guild’s Spring Festival, and at the Spring Street Gallery in Saratoga Springs. Our members have won national prizes, mounted solo art shows and exhibited both nationally and internationally.

ARTAA’s signature element of display is their unique approach to use of materials and techniques and a willingness to venture forward into both two and three-dimensional art forms. Specific to Tannery Pond’s exhibit will be “Inspired by Degas”, a collection of pieces first produced for a show in conjunction with the Season of Degas and his Music, promoted by the Hyde Museum in Glens Falls during the summer of 2009.

In addition the group will be exhibiting, “Road Kill”, in which textile pieces must contain or reference an item found on or alongside a road.

OTHER NEWS

The Sketchbook Project will be on display on Thursday, April 28, 12-5 PM and Friday, April 29, 10 AM – 3 PM at the Mercer Gallery, Building 12, 114 North Atrium at Monroe Community College, 1000 East Henrietta Rd., Rochester, NY. For more information about this interesting project, visit The Sketchbook Project website.

Artists Reception for Contemporary Fiber in Rochester

The First Friday Artists Reception for the Contemporary Fiber exhibition, sponsored by SDA in conjunction with Rochester Contemporary Art Center, will be Friday, May 6, 6- 10 PM. Some of the 22 SDA artist members who were selected from the over 100 applicants from nine northeast US states will be attending. If you are in the area or want to see the fine work on display from these SDA members, please attend. This artist reception is the same weekend that Fiberart International opens at the Memorial Art Gallery (see notice below).

Fiberart International Opens in Rochester, NY Saturday, April 30.

Jeanne Raffer Beck, “Seeds of Compassion”, in the Fiberart International touring exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, April 30- July 3.

The opening night reception for Fiberart International at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY will be Saturday, April 30, 2011. NYS SDA member Jeanne Raffer Beck has a work in the exhibition.

Hours: 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Celebrate the opening of Fiberart International 2010! Dance to reggae and folk—with a touch of country—by the Sim Redmond Band. Relax to the sounds of guitar/harp duo Zach and Lacey Lee. Enjoy a cappella selections by Concentus Women’s Chorus. And of course, preview the show before it opens to the public.
Max at the Gallery will also serve dinner from 5 to 9 pm and offer cocktails, coffee, snacks and desserts for purchase throughout the evening.
Tickets are $25, available by calling 585.276.8939.

Artist Lecture: In conjunction with Fiberart International, Jeanne Raffer Beck will be presenting a lecture about her work on Thursday, May 12 at 7:00 PM.

SDA NY Member News April 10, 2011

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EXHIBITIONS

Katherine Knauer

Katherine Knauer, In the Money, 21” x 14”

Two pieces by Katherine Knauer are included in: “Fiber PLUS” at the Blue Door Gallery, 13 Riverdale Avenue, Yonkers, NY through May 17. Additional information available at www.bluedoorgallery.org.

Jappie King Black

Jappie King Black, “Wishful Thinking”

Jappie King Black, “Careful What You Wish For”

Black’s “Wishful Thinking” and “Careful What You Wish For” are included in "For the Love of Fiber" at the Arts and Cultural Council of Rochester Gallery, presented by the Rochester Weaver’s Guild, April 27 to May 19.

Jappie King Black, “Bark Blanket Not Your Average Afghan”, crocheted grapevine bark.

Jappie’s “Bark Blanket Not Your Average Afghan” will be exhibited at “Interlacements: Tradition and Innovation in Fiber Art”, April 15 – May 27, 2011 at the Arts Council for Wyoming County Gallery, Perry, NY.

Jappie will also have a bronze piece, “Large Lace Weave” at the Oxford Gallery in “Traditions”, April 23 – June in Rochester, NY.

Special Offer from Textile Study Group of New York

Become a first-time member of the Textile Study Group of New York NOW and you’ll be just in time to enter one or both of the two juried fiber art exhibitions we’re sponsoring.

Both exhibitions will be presented at prestigious locations in New York City:

Crossing Lines: the Many Faces of Fiber will open during November 2011 in the Courtyard Gallery of the World Financial Center in downtown Manhattan.

9x9x3: New Visions will open during February 2012 in the lobby gallery of 1155 Avenue of the Americas, a 42-story Durst office building in mid-town Manhattan.

The entry deadline for Crossing Lines: the Many Faces of Fiber is June 17.
The entry deadline for 9x9x3: NEW VISIONS is July 22.

Don’t wait. There’s no time to lose. Go to our website. Click on EXHIBITIONS to read about both exhibitions and download the entry forms. Click on HOW TO JOIN to download a 2010-2011 membership form.

BONUS WITH THIS SPECIAL OFFER ONLY: We’ll extend your period of membership to include our 2011-2012 program year.

As a TSGNY member, you can attend our extraordinary series of monthly lectures without paying a fee, you’ll receive our informative and inspiring bi-monthly e-newsletter, you’ll have access to timely announcements on our listserv, and you’ll be able to participate in our popular PowerPoint “Show of Members’ Work,” which ends our program year in June.

Offer expires June 30, 2011.

Current members may renew their memberships before June 30 using our current 2010-2011 membership form

Barbara Arlen Classes at FIT

May 2011 Spring Series–Arts Workshop – Newark Museum
Bauhaus Color Discovery Hands-On Workshop
with Barbara Arlen
Discover the color principles used by the Bauhaus Masters including Albers, Klee and Itten in this hands-on color workshop designed to provide color lovers with creative discovery. Experience a series of exercises using screen-printed Color-Aid paper and collage techniques to learn the dynamics and interaction of colors and nurture a whole new perspective. Program includes an introduction to Bauhaus methods and projects in chroma, value and color relativity, optical mixtures, the emotional aspects of color and a visit to see related work in the Newark Museum’s galleries.
Whether you are new to an artistic expression or in need of a boost to your color sense for professional and artistic development let this unique program elevate your taste and design creativity. All levels
Saturday & Sunday, May 14 & 15, 10 am–4 pm
Member: $153, Non-member: $170, Materials: $40 for half a Color-Aid box, paid to instructor at time of
workshop (will literally last you a lifetime).
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June 2011 at FIT School of Professional Studies
SXC 110 Color Discovery Interactive Workshop  $225 1.2 CEU Are you a color lover? Immerse yourself in this one-of-a-kind hands-on color workshop featuring the work of the Bauhaus Masters Albers, Klee & Itten. Experience a series of exercises using screen-printed colored paper and collage techniques to learn the dynamics and interaction of colors and nurture a whole new perspective. Program includes an introduction to Bauhaus methods and projects in chroma, value and color relativity, as well as optical mixtures, the emotional aspects of color , color critiques. Second day features a visit to MOMA, lunch at the Rubin Museum, and an afternoon studio session with a working fashion forecaster who will illustrate how to incorporate the Bauhaus art influences into the fashion market. Whether you are new to artistic expression or in need of a boost to your color sense for professional and artistic development, let this unique program elevate your taste and design creativity.  Museum visits held on Friday. Transportation and lunch are not included in course fee.  Open to 15 participants. Color Aid paper and eraser provided.  Bring to 1st session: Scissors, Exacto Knife, Heavy cardboard to cut on, 6 sheets of black construction paper 12”x18”, 6 sheets of white heavy paper 12”x18”, 3 sheets of 12"x18" multi-colored construction paper, rubber cement, ruler, paper towels, extra white paper to paste on. Some additional minimal expense possible. Workshop Leader: Barbara Arlen, Barbara Arlen Design & Associates; textile and product design, color, trend forecasting and sourcing consultant; creator of home fashion products; and Neville Bean, owner, Neville Bean Design, a trend-based design studio. 3 sessions: (55A) June 15, 16, 17 XXX 55A RFS 9:30am-4:30pm TBA

Still Time to Enter The ArT- QuILT Experience

We are interested in exhibiting YOUR quilts in THE ArT-QuILT ExPERIENCE. Please join this International Juried Exhibition at the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park June 12 - July 31, 2011.

1. Entry Deadline: April 15, 2011

2. Entry Fee: $30.00 for up to 2 quilt entries

3. Entries accepted by

MAIL: Visit http://stonequarryhillartpark.org/events_exhibits.htm
OR
ELECTRONICALLY W/ PAYPAL:
Visit http://theart-quiltexperience.com/onlineprocessing.php

We look forward to receiving your entries.

Buffalo State College Fiber Design Program Runway 4.0

Still time left to click here and buy tickets!

Fiber Design Program – Runway 4.0 & Display Sneak Preview

(Photography by Bruce Fox, Buffalo State College]

Deconstructed Screen Printing technique covered various methods from predictable to unpredictable and beyond. Experimenting with deconstructed printing, photo emulsion and stencils gave the students a wide range of possibilities. Using thickened dyes, textile paint and a wax resist on different materials allowed the students to explore mark making and textures in 2D as well as in 3D forms. Experimenting was a big part of the process and the variations were endless. Exploring different ranges of techniques such as felting, embroidery, shibori, appliqué, papermaking and mixed media was an exciting part of the creative process. Other new techniques featured at the Runway 4.0 were Nuno felting in combination with Deconstructed Screen Printing.

Our main focus for Runway 4.0 was on creating new patterns, yardage on silk, rayon and cotton – for actual garments as well as for wall hanging artworks at our stationary display. Diversity Mash was in our case also a celebration of different vintage textile materials, found objects, combined together in a search for a final form/transformation of those reclaimed/recycled pieces. Part of the wearable art collection is also included in a special Fiber Design Wearable Art category of the fashion show.

Jozef Bajus, Associate Professor
Coordinator of the Fiber/Design Program at BSC
EMAIL: BAJUSJ@buffalostate.edu

SDA Member News March 27, 2011

2011-03-27T09:23:00.001-07:00

EXHIBITION NEWS

Northeast Regional Juried Contemporary Fiber Exhibition Opening in Rochester, NY, Friday, April 1

The Northeast Juried Contemporary Fiber Exhibition at Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Avenue, Rochester, NY, presents 28 works by 22 artists that expand the definition of fiber art.

Dates: April 1 – May 9, 2011

Opening Reception: April 1, 6- 10 PM

Artists’ Reception: May 6, 6-10 PM

The participating SDA artists from NYS are: Marilyn Henrion, Tracy Jamar, Elaine Longtemps, Carol Ann Rice Rafferty, Elena Shandalow/Dana Connell, Betty Vera and Vivien Zepf.

Fiberart International also opens at the Memorial Art Gallery on May 1, so if you are interested in visiting both venues, you’ll want to time a visit to Rochester between May 1 – 9 and enjoy two intriguing exhibitions of contemporary fiber.

Deborah Bein

Deborah Bein, “You’re Fracking ’Killing Me”

Deborah Bein’s piece, “You’re Fracking Killing Me” has been selected for the Fiber Plus juried exhibition at the Blue Door Gallery, 13 Riverdale Avenue, Yonkers, NY.

The exhibit opens March 19 and runs through May 18, 2011

Gallery Hours: Friday 1-6, Saturday and Sunday, 12-5

Tracy Jamar

Tracy Jamar has two pieces in the Fiber Plus exhibit at the Blue Door Gallery, 13 Riverdale Ave. Yonkers, NY March 19 - May 18, 2011

Tracy Jamar, "Moss" 2010, approximately 13" x 15" x 1.5", wool, cotton and mixed fiber in fabric and yarn; hand hooked, knit, crocheted and embroidered on Monk's cloth.

Tracy Jamar, "Nest" (Mutation/Adaptation?) 2010 approximately 24" x 21" x 11" cotton fabric, sticks, wire, micro fiber. Commenting on the effect modern production has on nature.

Jozef Bajus

Bajus has two works in Overabundance of Detail show at Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo.

Overabundance of Detail
February 12–July 3, 2011

Sylvia L. Rosen and Charles Cary Rumsey Galleries

Overabundance of Detail focuses on artists who create intricate aesthetic experiences by focusing on minute variations and fluctuations in content and form. A commitment to detail borders on obsession in some works; while in others, it reveals to us the unique nature of the objects presented. Large-scale pieces can entice from afar with rich patterns, examined closely they reveal precision. Smaller works, because of their tooling or architectural reference points, seem monumental. Works as varied as paintings, drawings, metal sculpture, and cake designs will illustrate different artist's use of extreme detail work.

Jozef Bajus, Variation 1 On the Mirror

Jozef Bajus, Variation 2

K. Velis Turan

K.Velis Turan, Brooklyn Bridge #3

K. Velis Turan piece, Brooklyn Bridge #3, will be part of “Urban Landscapes” at the Guggenheim Pavilion at the Rensselaerville Meeting Center, 63 Huyck Road, Rensselaerville, NY 12147 – 518-797-5100

Dates: March 30 - April 29, 2011

Turan’s art represents the vibrancy of shape, line and color that makes up a city. Steel, stone, concrete and glass designed and engineered at its most functional, abstract and forceful. Her mixed-media fiber pieces are works in dyes, threads and a variety of other media on whole cloth that give the impressions of the hardness of the city but in the malleable surface of textiles.

Jappie King Black

Jappie King Black, Small Wall Collection

Jappie King Black’s “Small Wall Collection”, above is one of three pieces on exhibit at the Uncommon Threads show at Artworks in Trenton, NJ, March 12 – April 16, 2011.

Jappie King Black, Platter, bronze.

The artist also has three bronze baskets in Cast II an exhibit at Index in Newark, New Jersey.

Member News March 13, 2011

2011-03-13T12:13:00.001-07:00

EXHIBITIONS

Jeanne Raffer Beck

Jeanne is participating in “Something Old, Something New” as part of the Arena Art Group. The opening reception will be at Williams Gallery, First Unitarian Church of Rochester, 220 Winton Road South, Rochester, NY, on Friday, March 18, 5:30 – 8:00 PM. Dates: February 25 – April 4.

Jeanne’s “Pages 7” , above left, is one of the works in the Hungerford Urban Artisan’s “Flux” exhibition in Room 258, Hungerford Building, 1115 East Main St., Rochester, NY. The Hungerford Urban Artisans are participating in the Western New York area “Thaw” gallery events.

Judith Plotner

4 collages by Judith Plotner paired with jewelry by Stan Plotner will be included in an exhibition at
Mimosa Gallery
70c Beekman St
Saratoga Springs, NY
February 23 - Mar 20
Reception: Mar 5 from 5-8.
Gallery hours:
Sun 11-5, Fri, Sat 11-8, Tues, Wed, Thurs 11-7

Solo Exhibition : Judith Plotner Collages
Northville Library Gallery
341 S Third St
Northville, NY
March 1-30
Reception: Mar 8, from 6-8
Gallery hours:
Mon, Fri, Sat 9-12
Tues 9-8
Wed, Thurs 9-4

Judith Plotner will have one work included in Fiber Plus
Blue Door Gallery
13 Riverdale Ave
Yonkers, NY
March 19 - May 21
Reception: March 20, 2 - 5
GalleryHours:
Fri, 1 - 6
Sat, Sun 12 - 5

Reception for New York Fiber in the 21st Century

Reception: Monday, March 21, 6-8:00 pm
The reception for the artists will include a performance by
Vered Sivan. The public is invited to attend.

New York Fiber in the 21st Century

Lehman College Art Gallery · Bedford Park Blvd West · Bronx, NY 10468 · 718-960-8731

Through May 12, 2011

Curated by Sandra Sider

Participating Artists: Gema Alava, Blanka Amezkua, Xenobia Bailey, Erika Baker, Michael Cummings, Lisa Curran, Margaret Cusack, Andrea Dezsö,
Marilyn Henrion, Ai Kijima, Katherine Knauer, Nancy Koenigsberg,
Carole P. Kunstadt, Aristides Logothetis, Patricia Malarcher,
Ruth Marshall, Dindga McCannon, Norma Minkowitz, Leslie Pelino,
Don Porcella, Lina Puerta, Lacey Jane Roberts, Larry Schulte,
Donna Sharrett, Ann Shostrom, John Sims, Vered Sivan,
Arlé Sklar-Weinstein, Ludmila Uspenskaya, and Erma Martin Yost

New York Fiber in the 21st Century focuses on artists in and near New York City who work primarily in fiber/textile materials or modes, including quilt-making, knitting, crochet, tapestry, weaving, felt making, rug hooking, embroidery, needlepoint, basketry, book arts, and metal work. This exhibition offers a unique survey and features emerging artists beginning to make a name for themselves, as well as mature artists whose work was recognized in the first major wave of New York fiber art in the 60s and 70s. All of the works were produced since 2001, and four artists - Gema Alava, Lisa Curran, Don Porcella, and Vered Sivan - have created large-scale installations for the exhibition. This survey includes forty-seven works by thirty artists and demonstrates the vibrant diversity of fiber art on the New York scene.

An online catalogue is available at
www.lehman.edu/gallery

COMPANION EXHIBITION March 20 through May 17, 2011
                              Opening RECEPTION Sunday March 20th 2 - 5 pm
FIBER PLUS
               A National Juried Exhibition of 21st Century Fiber with Mixed Media
                           Juror: Arle Sklar-Weinstein
      BLUE DOOR GALLERY 13 Riverdale Avenue (south of Main Street), Yonkers, NY 10701
                   914-375-5100    HOURS: Friday 1-6, Saturday and Sunday 12-5
                              info@bluedoorgallery     www.bluedoorgallery.org

Member-to-Member Requests

Visiting Manhattan from Vancouver, CA

Ros Aylmer, an SDA member from Vancouver, Canada is traveling to NYC in April with some textile and Surface Design enthusiasts, and is wondering if our Manhattan based members have any suggestions for them while they’re in town. Their primary focus is on one-of-a-kind clothing design. They will be visiting museums as well as the garment district and as many fashion designers as possible. If you know of any textile related shows or studios they might visit, please send Ros an e-mail at rosaqed@shaw.ca. I’m sure she would greatly appreciate it.

New in Town and Would Like to Meet Fellow SDA Members

Karen in her SF Bay Area studio, upper left, holding a white bottle.

After spending 30 years in the SF Bay Area, Karin Moggridge has moved to Manhattan, NY. Being fairly new in town, she would welcome contacts with other textile people in Manhattan. Karin has a studio in Long Island City, as well as one at her home on The Upper West Side. Karin’s e-mail is karinmogg@mac.com

Upcoming: Buffalo State Runway 4.0 Fashion Show

Date: Saturday, April 16th, 2011

Location: Pierce Arrow Building 1685 Elmwood Avenue

TWO PERFORMANCES

4:00pm show

Available at Rockwell Hall Box office’s on Buffalo State College Campus, Please call 716-878-3005 or visit.

General $20

Student $10

*doors open @ 3:00pm

8:30pm show: Tickets $100 VIP, $50 Reserved and $30 General Seating

Doors open at 7:00pm, join us during the “high fashion red carpet pre-show party”…cash bar, DJ, New Era Photo booth, Raffle, Art Exhibitions and much more.

VIP

For more information, please visit their website at:

http://bscrunway.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/runway-4-0-where-when-what-time/

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ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE FASHION TECHNOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP FUND!

For VIP tickets call 716-878-6018, starting March 1st.

Any SDA members that purchase tickets for the evening event at Wegmans need to register their name with Elaine Pulvanen at epcad@oradrunner.com to get a reserved seat with their name on it and entrance into the evening VIP reception.

SDA NY Member News February 20, 2011

2011-02-20T13:24:00.001-08:00

EXHIBITION NEWS

Pat Pauly

Pat Pauly, “Leap of Faith”, 2011.

Pat Pauly’s "Leap of Faith" has been accepted into "Textiles in a Tube". This juried exhibition of contemporary textiles runs from March 4, 2011 to April 15, 2011 at the RIVERWORKS Gallery, Greenville Technical College’s downtown gallery at Art Crossing on Riverwalk in Greenville, South Carolina. The challenge was to enter works that could be shipped in a 3" x 36" mailing tube. Pat was intrigued with that odd set of rules, and "Leap of Faith" is the result.

Larry Schulte

Two of Larry Schulte’s woven paper pieces have been selected by Sandra Sider for inclusion in New York Fiber in the 21st Century.

New York Fiber in the 21st Century
Curated by Sandra Sider
Feb. 2 - May 12, 2011
Reception: Monday, March 21, 6-8:00 pm
The reception for the artists will include a performance by Vered Sivan.
The public is invited to attend.

An online catalogue is available after Feb. 2 at
www.lehman.edu/gallery
Lehman College Art Gallery · Bedford Park Blvd West · Bronx, NY 10468 · 718-960-8731

Larry Schulte, “Yellow Line”, 54” x54”, 2010, cut and woven painted paper.

Larry Schulte, “Red Field”, 54” x 54”, 2010, cut and woven painted paper.

Larry Schulte, “Flag 4”, 34” x 34”, woven painted paper.

Another work by Larry, “Flag 4”, will be included in an exhibition titled, “Fiber PLUS” at the Blue Door Gallery, 13 Riverdale Avenue, Yonkers, NY. The opening reception is Sunday, March 20 from 2:00-5:00 p.m.; the exhibit runs through May 17. Additional information available at www.bluedoorgallery.org.

Pat Hickman

JOAN HARMON AND PAT HICKMAN

“River That Runs Both Ways”
New Sculpture and Drawings

Pat Hickman, "River Teeth" (detalil) Fiber Scultpture and Joan Harmon, "Hudson River 2" (detail) Charcoal on Paper/Canvas

PHOENIX GALLERY
210 Eleventh Avenue @25th Street, Suite 902
New York, NY 10001
212-226-8711

March 2 – 26, 2011

RECEPTION: Thursday March 3, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
info@phoenix-gallery.com

-- In this new work, Pat Hickman and Joan Harmon speak to their relationship with the Hudson River, the body of water on whose west bank they both live.

In her work Joan Harmon is charting the Hudson through the duel lenses of Google Earth and her daily view of the River. These new drawings combine her fascination with the river’s shape as an abstract form with the ancient art of mapping.

Pat Hickman is working with what is found beneath the surface. When trees fall into the water, over decades they decay, eventually disappearing into the river bottom. What resists this disintegration are the strange shapes formed where the branch joined the trunk, a cross-grained, pitch hardened core like a tooth in a human head. Hickman is exploring visual metaphors with these river teeth, the last part of the body to let go.

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11:30 – 6:00 PM

Laurie Wohl

Laurie Wohl, “Peace Like A River”

Peace Like a River" is featured in the current exhibit, "A Stitch in Jewish Time: Provocative Textiles" at the Museum at Hebrew Union College (NYC). Laurie will be speaking about this piece at HUC on March 29. The exhibit runs until June.

K. Velis Turan

K. Velis Turan is one of 16 artists juried into Artists’ Views of Hudson Valley,an exhibition of works that have been inspired by the Hudson Valley’s wineries. The exhibition is part of “A Year-long Celebration of Art & Wine in the Hudson Valley,” sponsored by Hudson Valley Wine Magazine.

This Celebration “pairs” professional Hudson Valley artists with select Hudson Valley wineries and vineyards. The jury-selected group of artists are creating, in their own chosen medium, a wine- or vineyard-inspired artwork by partnering with a specific Hudson Valley winery. The artists and wineries will be featured throughout the year in various promotions and press events, and will exhibit for the first time at the Grand Art & Wine event on May 21, 2011 in Tarrytown, NY.

The exhibit will then travel to several art galleries located in the Hudson Valley, including “M Gallery” in Catskill, and “Paul Gould Art Gallery” in Cornwall.

Opening Night Gala Benefit
Friday, May 20, 2011
from 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Tickets: $135 per person; $250 per couple

Grand Celebration
Saturday, May 21, 2011
from 1:00 – 6:00 pm
Tickets: $85 per person; $150 per couple

Visit www.HudsonValleyArtandWine.com for more details

Elaine Longtemps

Elaine Longtemp, “Hinoki”

Elaine’s fiber sculpture “Hinoki” will be included in the Northeast Regional Contemporary Fiber Exhibition at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center in Rochester, NY on view from April 1 to May 9th, 2011. SDA has partnered with RoCo to present this exhibition which will coincide with the FiberArt International Exhibition at Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery. Google www.rochestercontemporary.org for more information.

Elaine has also been invited to exhibit two sculptural works with text, “CORKGUN” and “BAILOUT” in Uncommon Threads, curated by Carol Schepps, at Trenton Artworks Gallery, in Trenton, NJ, on view March 11 to April 15, 2011. Opening reception: Saturday, March 19, 6-9 pm. Trenton Artworks Gallery, 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, NJ 08611. Telephone 609-392-9436.

Elaine Longtemps, “Offesa – Module One”

“Double Torque” and “Offesa – Module One” have been selected for Fiber Plus at the Blue Door Gallery in Yonkers, NY on view from March 20 to May 21st. The opening reception is also on Saturday, March 19th. www.BlueDoorGallery.com for more information and directions.

Elaine Longtemps, “Moon Carrot”

“Moon Carrot” has been selected for the National Fiber Directions Exhibition 2011 at The Wichita Center For The Arts in Wichita, Kansas, on view from March 19 to April 15. www.wcfta.com for more information.

A NEW BOOK BY MARGARET PEOT AVAILABLE MARCH 1

Inkblot: Drip, Splat, and Squish Your Way to Creativity

Leonardo da Vinci saw landscapes and battles in the swirls of a marble wall. The novelist Victor Hugo splashed coffee and wine on paper and found castles and monsters in the spatters. Now, author Margaret Peot shows how anyone can use inkblots as keys to creativity.

For decades, the author has been using the inkblots she makes to spark her own creativity. Now she shares her insights and techniques: From basic tips on paper and ink to advanced approaches for transforming splatters and ink blobs into works of art, she sets readers on a path to creating their own inkblot art. Her enthusiastic text and step-by-step approach will encourage even the most reluctant artist, and inspire readers to create works that are uniquely their own.

Each chapter features a step towards a more fluid relationship with the reader’s right brain:

Making Inkblots
Drawing Into Inkblots
How to Look, How to See
The Inkblot Sketchbook
The Final Fold

Inkblots are tools for overcoming creative blocks, for inspiring ideas, and for opening up avenues for creative expression. Anyone can use this fun and fascinating method to jump-start creative thought.

Boyds Mills Press, $19.95, ISBN: 978-1590787205

CALL FOR ENTRIES: EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY

*THE ArT-QuILT ExPERIENCE”

•Prize money: Now $2,000

•Exhibition dates finalized: 6/12/11 -- 7/31/11

•Venue expansion: Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Inc., co-organizer of the exhibition, will hang part of the juried art-quilts in the Cazenovia College Art Gallery in Reisman Hall, on the campus of Cazenovia College

•Juror selection finalized:

- Jonathan Holstein
- Eugenia Barnes
- Ann Clarke

•Entries: must be postmarked by 4/15/11

•Entry fee:$30 for up to 2 quilts

For further information: www.theart-quiltexperience.com

SDA Member News February 6, 2011

2011-02-06T06:39:00.001-08:00

EXHIBITIONS

New York Fiber in the 21st Century

Curated by Sandra Sider

Nancy Koenigsberg, “Light”, wire, knotting.

Lehman College Art Gallery
February 2 - May 12, 2011
Reception: Monday, March 21, 6-8:00 pm
The reception for the artists will include a performance by Vered Sivan. The public is invited to attend.

New York Fiber in the 21st Century focuses on artists in and near New York City who work primarily in fiber/textile materials or modes, including quilt-making, knitting, crochet, tapestry, weaving, felt making, rug hooking, embroidery, needlepoint, basketry, book arts, and metal work. This exhibition offers a unique survey and features emerging artists beginning to make a name for themselves, as well as mature artists whose work was recognized in the first major wave of New York fiber art in the 60s and 70s. All of the works were produced since 2001, and four artists - Gema Alava, Lisa Curran, Don Porcella, and Vered Sivan - will create large-scale installations for the exhibition. This survey includes forty-seven works by thirty artists and demonstrates the vibrant diversity of fiber art on the New York scene.

An online catalogue will be available after February 2.

Invited artists: Gema Alava, Blanka Amezkua, Xenobia Bailey, Erika Baker, Michael Cummings, Lisa Curran, Margaret Cusack, Andrea Dezsö, Marilyn Henrion, Ai Kijima, Katherine Knauer, Nancy Koenigsberg,
Carole P. Kunstadt, Aristides Logothetis, Patricia Malarcher, Ruth Marshall, Dindga McCannon, Norma Minkowitz, Leslie Pelino, Don Porcella, Lina Puerta, Lacey Jane Roberts, Larry Schulte, Donna Sharrett, Ann Shostrom, John Sims, Vered Sivan, Arlé Sklar-Weinstein, Ludmila Uspenskaya, and Erma Martin Yost

Lehman College Art Gallery · Bedford Park Blvd West · Bronx, NY 10468 · 718-960-8731

Jane Ellen Bartlett

Jane Ellen Barlett, kimono, multiple dyeing techniques and colorful designs that transform natural fiber cloth.

Mary Randall McMahon, complex weave structures masterfully combined with fiber and color.

The Kimono Project: Jane Ellen Bartlett and Mary Randall McMahon

January 27 – February 25, 2011

Mill Gallery & Art Center, 61 North Main St., Honeoye Falls, NY

Artists Talk: February 19, 11 to 3 PM

585-624-7740

Susan Schrott

Susan Schrott, NINE FACES, 2010, 42” x 58", drawn images, photo transfer, stamping and painting on hand dyed cotton, machine stitched.

Nine Faces has been juried into "Volusia Wrapped in Fiber"which will appear at the Gateway Center for the Arts in Florida.

ROSE SABRINA: 2009, 19.5" x 15.5 " mixed media on raw silk and hand-dyed cotton ,machine stitched and hand beaded.

Susan’s piece, “Rose Sabrina”, has been juried into the "Fiber Plus" exhibition at the Blue Door Gallery in Yonkers NY.

Susan, who works as a psychotherapist, has also designed BEHOLD, a pendant available for purchase by clicking on this link for the Cedar Associates Foundation. 100% of all proceeds from sales will be donated to the foundation to assist patients who cannot afford to pay for their eating disorder therapy.

Larry Schulte

Larry Schulte, “Not Quite a Quilt”, 2010, 11” x 11”, screen printed and stitched cotton shirting.

This art work was included in the holiday exhibition at Manhattan Graphics Center in NYC for the month of December.

K. Velis Turan

K. Velis Turan’s piece, “Wall Street”, is featured on the cover of the February/March 2011 issue of Quilting Arts magazine.

K, Velis Turan’s work and process are profiled in a feature article in the February/March 2011 issue of Quilting Arts magazine in a feature section called “In The Spotlight. Her piece "Wall Street" is in the cover,

You can find the issue at:
http://www.quiltingdaily.com/blogs/quiltingarts/archive/2011/01/17/quilting-arts-february-march-2011.aspx

Cynthia Schira

A view of the interior of the Snyderman Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.

Windows, 24” x 72”, 2010, Jacquard woven cotton, appliqued and stitched.

Cynthia Schira was the January 2011 Featured Artist at the Snyderman Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. The exhibition ran January 7 – January 31.

SDA Member News January 24, 2011

2011-01-24T07:43:00.001-08:00

EXHIBITION NEWS

Ludmila Aristova

"Vertigo", 25.5" x 25.5" by Ludmila Aristova, photo by D. James Dee

Ludmila Aristova's works from her Cityscapes and Illuminations series will be shown at Verde Art Gallery in Kingston, New Jersey, from January 23 through February 23, 2011:

The Fabric of Light and All That Jazz (works by Ludmila Aristova and Mitchell Seidel)
VERDE ART GALLERY
4492, ROUTE 27
KINGSTON, NJ 08528
(NEXT TO ENO TERRA RESTAURANT AND ALONGSIDE THE D&R CANAL)
Verde Art Gallery is open Wed-Sat, 11-5PM and by appointment - please email gallery.verde@gmail.com

Larry Schulte

Web/Net/Veil 86, 30" x 22", printed on paper, by Larry Schulte.

This unique screen print by Larry Schulte has been chosen by the International Print Center New York for their exhibition:
New Prints 2011/Winter

The exhibit runs January 13-March 5. International Print Center, 508 West 26th Street, New York, NY

OTHER NEWS

Marilyn Henrion Studio Sale – Just a Few Days Left!

Innerspace II by Marilyn Henrion, 41"x48" Pieced silks, cottons, metallic fabric, hand quilted

A note from Marilyn --- It seems that, far from slowing down as I get older, I grow more prolific each year. Which means that, in spite of continuing sales, the inventory keeps expanding. Which means that I am running out of space. Which means that collectors are the beneficiaries of a major studio sale currently under way. Selected works are marked down 20-30% (three works sold during the first week!).

To take advantage of this opportunity, which runs through January 28th, I invite you to visit
www.artfulhome.com/mhenrion

In addition to the sale discounts, you'll get an additional 5% off your total purchase if you use the Promotion Code MHENRION at checkout.

HAVE YOU SUBMITTED YOUR WEBSITE LINK YET?

Please send your website link to jeannerbeck@gmail.com It will be posted on the sidebar of the “In A New York Minute” blog. Hundreds of people read these post each month (750 in December,2010 alone); help make it easier for them to find you and your work.

And please consider adding this link to your own blog or website and helping blog readership to continue to grow.

SDA Member News January 2, 2011

2011-01-02T06:18:00.001-08:00

Wishing You A Creative, Focused, Expressive, Wonderfully Productive and Beyond-Your-Wildest-Dreams-Ever Successful New Year!

EXHIBITIONS

Laurie Wohl

"Valley of Dry Bones" by Laurie Wohl- part of the Dura Europos Project, through March 27, at the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art

"Sanctuary" by Laurie Wohl - part of Sanctuaries in Time, JWAN, Women's Caucus for Art, through March 1, at the Columbia/Barnard Kraft Center for Jewish Life

Marilyn Henrion

“Soft City: Angelika” by Marilyn Henrion, 2010; 40"x50" mixed media, hand quilted.

“Soft City” moves to New Jersey on February 1. Marilyn Henrion's mixed media works, recently on exhibit at Noho Gallery in NYC, will be at the Intermezzo Gallery in Englewood, NJ from Feb. 1-27, 2010

Intermezzo Art Gallery
Bergen Performing Arts Center
30 North Van Brunt St.
Englewood, NJ 07631
(201)816-8160 ext. 34

If you missed it in New York, now's your chance to see it......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru_1PvtGNw4

K. Velis Turan

“On the Road to Greenville” by K. Velis Turan

Turan has been invited to participate in “The Bridge - an Invitational Exhibition” of 15 artists from Green County Council on the Arts at the Tivoli Artists' Co-op. The artists will show landscapes from both sides of the Hudson.

Exhibition Dates: Jan 7- Jan 30, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, Jan 8, 2011, 6-8 pm

Sharon Bottle Souva

“Moonseed” by Sharon Bottle Souva

Souva will have an exhibit of quilts and collages at the Hamilton Center for the Arts, January 9th-February15th, with an artists reception on February 12th. She will be teaching a fiber collage workshop on January 22nd at the Center.

Arle Sklar Weinstein

“Cave Wall Herd Diptych” by Arle Sklar Weinstein

“An Exhibition by Arle Sklar Weinstein” is now on view at ArtPlace Gallery, The Watermark at 3030 Park, Bridgeport, CT.

Meet the artist, view her works and hear about their creation and meaning when she gives a presentation on Wednesday, January12 at 2:00 PM. Please RSVP to 1-203-502-7592 by January 10th.

Elaine Longtemps

“No One is Listening” by Elaine Longtemps

The narrative image of “No One Is Listening”, will be displayed in a continuously looping slide show at the exhibition “Green: the Color and the Cause”, at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC, April 16 through September 11, 2011

Link: (http://textilemuseum.org/exhibitions/upcoming/GREEN.htm)

The curators of the show, Rebecca A. T. Stevens, Consulting Curator of the Textile Museum, Washington, and Lee A. Talbot, Associate Curator, Eastern Hemisphere Collections, said of Longtemp’s work, “The link between the color green and modern environmentalism evident in your piece stands as a powerful example of the association between green and social value.”

Detail, “No One is Listening”, by Elaine Longtemps

“No One is Listening” has also been selected by Joan Young, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, for inclusion in the 25th International Juried Show being presented at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, January 14 through March 18, 2011. The opening reception is January 14, 2011 from 6-8 pm. (www.artcenternj.org)

Jeanne Raffer Beck

Jeanne Beck’s work will be part of the visual installation “60/20 Virtual Tour: Art in Motion”, presented by the Arena Art Group at Rochester Contemporary Art Center in Rochester, NY for two nights only, January 13, 6-9 PM and January 14, 6 – 10 PM.

The virtual installation celebrates the Art Group’s six decades promoting contemporary fine art and the closing of the Art Center’s 20th member show.

“60/20 Virtual Tour: Art in Motion” will feature multiple projections, video interviews with artists and moving people sculptures in which the audience can become part of the art.

BLUE DOOR GALLERY EXHIBITION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 15

The deadline has been extended to Jan 15th for the national juried exhibition, "Fiber PLUS: 21st Century Fiber with Mixed Media" at Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY.

It's a companion show to Sandra Sider's 21st Century Fiber invitational at Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx,NY.

For more information and to download the prospectus, please visit the Blue Door Gallery website.

The Joys of the Season to You and Yours!

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We live in different parts of the same state, some rural, some urban, but all inspire our creativity. Yes there’s nothing we can’t accomplish right where we are.

Opportunities for creating abound around us. What a great era to view the world with artistic eyes; there’s inspiration everywhere.

May your holidays and the New Year ahead bring you wonderful experiences and creative satisfaction in all that you do!

SDA Member News December 19, 2010

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EXHIBITION NEWS

Ludmila Ostrova

“Illuminations” at NOHO Gallery

“Illumination”, Ludmila Aristova, silk, 35” x 45”

View of the Noho gallery with Aristova’s works on display as part of the Illuminations” exhibition.

Ludmila Aristova "Illuminations", November 30 – December 24, 2010 has been on view at the Noho Gallery, 530 West 25 St., 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10001

A catalogue is available. Please call 212-367-7063.

Tegan E. Ford

“Fold”, Tegan E. Ford, 5” x 3” x 3”, copper leaf, felt, hemp, 2010.

Tegan E. Ford, a senior at Buffalo State College in the fiber art program, recently submitted and had a piece accepted in the "What's Next!: 2nd Annual Undergraduate Juried Show" held by Bradley University Galleries in Peoria, IL. The show runs January 3 - February 4 with the Reception February 3, 6:00 - 7:30 pm.

Here is the link to the show http://art.bradley.edu/bug/?p=965

Margaret Peot

Margaret Peot's solo exhibition, Woodcuts, Inkblots and Curiosities, will be on view at The Galleries at Saint Peter's Church from January 21-February 27, 2011.

Opening Reception, and a sneak preview of Margaret's new book:

Inkblot: Drip, Splat and Squish Your Way to Creativity

on January 31, from 6-8PM.

Saint Peter's is located at 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street (entrance on 54th)

(212) 935-2200

NEW VENTURES

Rachel Rose is launching a new business with a line of hand-painted silk tees and is eager to exchange marketing and sales ideas with other SDA members. Any veterans out there who would enjoy sharing your expertise with her?

Please visit her new website at www.byrachelrose.com

SDA Member News December 5, 2010

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EXHIBITION NEWS

Pat Pauly has two works on view in the current "Quilts=Art=Quilts" exhibition at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Gallery in Auburn, running October 31, 2010 - January 9, 2011. Her piece "Stacked Mummy Bags," was awarded first place in the juried and judged exhibition.

Pat Pauly, “Pink Leaf”, at Quilts=Art=Quilts.

Pat Pauly's work has also been accepted in the 2011 Quilt National Exhibition that will open May 28 2011.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, in collaboration with Red Dog Enterprises, Inc. and The ArT QuILT ExPERIeNcE, proudly present...

2011 Juried Exhibition

THE ArT-QuILT ExPERIENCE
Exhibition Dates: June 12 - July 31, 2011

THE ArT- QuILT ExPERIENCE exhibit celebrates the diversity and innovation found in today’s quilts.

* Call for Entry Deadline April 15, 2011

* Juror Jonathan Holstein, Quilt Collector & Author

* Entry Fee: $30 for up to 2 quilts

* $2,000 Prize Money

* Exhibit Location: Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY

For more information, please visit http://www.theart-quiltexperience.com

Marilyn Henrion Prints Now Available!

Fine museum-quality reproductions of Marilyn Henrion’s artworks are now available at affordable prices, starting as low as $63.50. Newly added images include digitally manipulated photographs from the artist’s mixed media series, "Soft City", as well as selected art quilts. Prints are available in various sizes and can be ordered with or without customized frames, mats, and other accessories! All prints are shipped within three business days and come with a no questions asked 30 day return policy..

NEW! The images are also available on customizable greeting cards.

SPECIAL HOLIDAY BONUS! Receive a 10% discount on all purchases between now and December 31, 2010 by specifying Code # VTALPY at checkout.

Click here to order original artworks through the artist’s website.

Barbara Arlen’s Color Classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s School of Professional Studies – Hot Topics! Winterim/Spring 2011

Munsell Color Wheel

SXC 100 Color Theory and Culture $270

No matter what type of work you do or career you pursue the ability to harness color’s powers can be your success factor. Discover the degree to which color crosses all market boundaries and impacts point of sale and consumer satisfaction. Learn to use color effectively as an extraordinary visual and sensual stimulus. Find out how to pick colors that affect moods, product sales and home environments and learn how color theory usage impacts culture and social issues. Progress into forecasting seasonal color themes and see how customized color ranges are developed for different products, consumers and markets. Participate in a color trends workshop and create a presentation reflecting your own unique color themes. A $10 materials fee will be collected at the second session. An art supply and a required text list will be available prior to the class by calling 212 217 7715 or visiting www.fitnyc.edu/colorspecialistcourses

Instructors: Barbara Arlen with Neville Bean

Winterim session-2 double sessions: (55A) Friday and Saturday, January 7, 8

55A 9:30am-4:30pm

Spring sessions-4 sessions: (55A) March 10, 17, 24, 31; (55B) April 28, May 5, 12, 19

10175 55A R 6:30pm-9:30pm 10618 55B R 6:30pm-9:30pm

SXF 840 Career Opportunities for Working With Color $75

If you are an artist, designer, Color Specialist Certificate student or have a creative eye and are looking for fresh career direction find out how color knowledge and talent is extremely marketable in fashion and related businesses. Meet a panel of successful professionals from a variety of fields that use color strategically for branding, cosmetics, fashion home markets, textiles and retail. How they use their color expertise is the bedrock of their success. Gain insight into how you can use your own color strengths to distinguish your employment opportunities and enhance your promotability in fashion and beyond.

Moderator: Barbara Arlen & color career panelists from several industries.

1 session: (55A) April 14 6:00 pm-9:00 pm

SXC 260 Color Painting Studio $250

Paint with color as a professional by learning how to mix, paint and create your own color chips and color schemes through this hands-on study for the use of mixing colors for fashion, accessories, home, branding, cosmetics, personal image, graphics and painting. Strengthen your ability to visualize the appearance of basic hues and their variant tints and shades, exploring the potential intensity and or muted effects of color combinations, lighter and darker. Use Josef Albers’ juxtaposition and harmonies of color and get tips on color mixing, matching and selection for different products. Most studio supplies included in course fee and basic supplies available in the classroom. Some additional supplies necessary, approximately $50 recommended at first session. Bring a smock or cover-up to all sessions.

Workshop leader: Barbara Arlen

4 sessions: (55A) March 2, 9, 16, 23; (55B) April 27, May 4, 11, 18 6:30pm-9:30 55B 6:30pm-9:30pm

SDA NY Member News November 21, 2010

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EXHIBITIONS

Carol Ann Rice Rafferty

Carol Ann Rice Rafferty has two works at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts current show, re.CYCLE.fiber, that opened November 19.

“re.CYCLE.fiber”, presented by the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, will run through January 23, 2011.

Carol Ann Rice Rafferty, “Took my Breath Away”,
glass bell jar, death mask made from used coffee filters, bees wax, feathers from my pillow, steel wire, paper pulp, rust, hair, skeleton key.

Carol Ann Rice Rafferty, “Better With Experience”,
steel wire, paper pulp, rust.

OTHER NEWS

Jeanne Raffer Beck Interview

Read an Interview with Jeanne Raffer Beck, published on Terry Jarrad-Dimond’s Studio 24-7 Blog

Studio Open House Invitation – Visit Jeanne’s Beck’s fiber studio #366 during “Hungerford Unwrapped”, a semi-annual open studio event. Over 30 artists will be participating Friday, December 3, 5-9 PM, and Saturday, December 4, 12-4 PM at the Hungerford Building, 1115 East Main St. Rochester, NY.

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Winter/Spring 2011 Classes Announced! Adult Courses for Jan - April are now up at the Textile Arts Center

The usuals: Intro to Weaving, Intro to Screen Printing, Basic and Intermediate Sewing, Embroidery.
As well as some newbies: Millinery (hatmaking), Shoe making, Crochet, Shibori, Advanced Weaving, Recycling for Jewelry, Book Binding, Silk Painting and more more more.
There is something for everyone, so check 'em out or come visit us at the studio!

THE TEXTILE ARTS CENTER 505 CARROLL ST
BKLYN (PARK SLOPE), NY 11215
TEL (718) 369-0222
FAX (718) 228-7187
info@textileartscenter.com

HOLIDAY GIFT WORKSHOP SERIES! Featuring a few from Uproar Art
If you don't have the time, we understand. Which is why we've teamed up with BK Craft Central and Littlefield's to bring you the BEST Craft Fair of the season!

On December 18 + 19, go between Textile Arts Center and Littlefields, just a few blocks away, for your favorite craft and food vendors, and free workshops:
Saturday, Dec 18 - 2-5PM -- Recycle-A-T: Screen Printing
Sunday, Dec 19, - 2-5PM -- Recycle-A-T: Dyeing

SDA NY Member News November 7, 2010

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CALL FOR ENTRIES

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD -- EXCITING NEW EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY FOR SDA MEMBERS

Northeast Regional Juried Contemporary Fiber Exhibition

The Surface Design Association is partnering with Rochester Contemporary Art Center to present a contemporary fiber exhibition in Rochester, NY. April 1 – May 9, 2011.

The timing will create a spotlight on fiber in the entire region because the SDA exhibition will overlap the touring FiberArt International exhibition at Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery May 1 – July 3, 2011.

Entries may include or combine surface design, mixed media, felting, quilting, hand embroidery, knotting, weaving, knitting and crochet, fiber sculpture, basketry and/or handcrafted paper.

Who May Enter: Open to artists living in New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Entry Deadline: January, 17, 2011.

For more information, please download the full prospectus.

EXHIBITION NEWS

Natayla Aikens

The Gallery on 3 presents works by Natalya Aikens and Ekaterina Piskareva.

Dates: November 1^st through 30^th, 2010

Artist Reception: Sunday, November 14^th from 1 – 5 PM

Location: Mahopac Public Library, 668 Route 6, Mahopac, NY

Natalya Aikens and Ekaterina Piskareva, both artists of Russian heritage, are exhibiting their paintings, textile and mixed media collages, and drawings together.

Natalya’s art is an exploration of her heritage. St. Petersburg, her birth city, inspires her with its elegance, grace and grittiness, and Russian decorative traditions infuse her work with their fanciful spirit. Her current work focuses on her fascination with sheer, translucent effects and creative recycling. Adding intense hand stitching and free hand machine embroidery further enhances her work.

Jappie King Black

Jappie King Black, Large Lace Weave Fragment, bronze lost wax casting, blue patina, approx. 12" diameter x 6"high

Jappie King Black, Color Study with Bronze Baskets, cotton, over paper rush, bronze lost wax casting, approx. 3" diameter x 1" high.

Jappie, an assistant professor of fine art at Kean University in Union, NJ, has baskets, bronzes and an installation in the Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, November 1 – December 17, 2010 in the James Howe Gallery at Kean University, Union, NJ. Artists’ reception to be announced.

SDA NY Member News October 25, 2010

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CALL FOR ENTRIES: Textile Arts and Video

The Textile Arts Center

505 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215

invites artist submissions for:

“Missing/Missed”, a fiber show curated by Scott Henstrand

We all have things we yearn for in the future and from the past that drive us. These things (lovers and pets and cars and mothers and ideas and…) drive us. They swirl around under the surface. We desire to capture and recapture the thing in memory or actuality. Most of the time we don’t know exactly what any one thing is; we can’t quite put our finger on the exact demand.

Artists are asked to submit the missing or missed piece, searching behind their memories and yearnings for that created thing that will bring it all together.

Artist Postmark Deadline: Nov 30, 2010

Exhibition Dates: Jan 14 – Feb 25,2011

Opening Reception: Jan 14, 8-11 PM

For full prospectus, please visit The Textile Center website.

NY Guild of Handweavers Program

Adrienne Sloane will speak on “Knitting the Political Landscape” at the next meeting of the NY Guild of Handweavers on Saturday, October 30 at the School of Visual Arts, 214 E 21 St. The meeting begins at 1:00; there is a social gathering beginning at noon. This slide show will cover recent work by artists and activists who are helping to change the landscape of knitting art, as well as including images from Sloane's own work.

Exhibitions

Marilyn Henrion

Marilyn Henrion, Soho Unfolded, 18” x72” mixed media textile.

Soft City: New Works by Marilyn Henrion

November 2- 27, 2010

Noho Gallery
530 West 25 St., 4th flr., New York NY 10001

(212)367-7063

Receptions: Thursday Nov.4 , 6 to 8 PM & Saturday Nov. 6 , 4 to 6 PM

Catalog available

K. Velis Turan

Capital Repertory Theatre now exhibiting “Urban Landscapes” by K. Velis Turan.

K. Velis Turan, Empire Street

K. Velis Turan's
Urban Landscapes
On display at Capital Repertory Theatre
from Oct 22 - Nov 14
In conjunction with their play Cactus Flower.

Capital Repertory Theatre
111 North Pearl St. Albany, NY 12207
Box Office: 518-445-SHOW (7469)

SDA Member News October 12, 2010

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EXHIBITIONS

Arle Sklar-Weinstein

Arlé Sklar-Weinstein's newest Fiber-Photomontage transparently layered art works will be on display from Oct 9th's Opening reception through the month at A.R.T. S. Gallery 4 West Cross Street, Croton Fall, NY 10519 914-276-2209 Gallery hours Wednesday - Saturday noon-6 Contact: arts6gallery@gmail.com www.arts6gallery.com

More work will be also be featured October 2010 – February 2011 at Human Body Works (formerly Secrets Gallery), 32 Main Street, Hastings on Hudson, NY 10706. FMI 917-445-1767

Julie Branch

Julie Branch will have a show of her mixed media figurative sculptures 10/15-11/13 at The Sow's Ear Studio & Gallery, 1597 Upper Union St., Schenectady,
NY 12309 518-370-2042.
The opening reception is Friday 10/15 from 5-8pme. Gallery hours are Mon-Sat. from 10:30am to 5pm.
Julie creates sculpted figures that are dressed in garments made
using a variety of fiber techniques including felting, rya weaving,
knitting and sewing.

Julie Branch, "Shaman Dance I"

K. Velis Turan

K. Velis Turan’s work will be included in “The NYFA MARK 10 Artists of Troy”
Dates: October 6 - November 27
Location: House of Creative Soul
38 Van Dam Street
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
(518) 226-0010

Opening Reception:
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
6 - 8 pm

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday 11 - 6
Closed Sunday and Monday or call for appointment

NYFA MARK is a new professional growth program for visual artists throughout upstate New York.

Marilyn Henrion

“Soft City Red Door”, 40” x 50”, by Marilyn Henrion

Marilyn Henrion: “Soft City” (new mixed media textile works)

Solo Exhibition at Noho Gallery November 2- 27, 2010

530 W. 25 St., 4th floor

New York, NY 1000 (212)367-7063

Katherine Knauer

Katherine Knauer: Outspoken Quilts” at New York Institute of Technology, 16 West 61st St., 11th floor, NYC

Dates: October 14 – November 25, 2010,

Mon-Fri, 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM, Saturdays Noon – 5 PM.

Opening Reception Thursday, October 21, 2010, 5:00 – 7:00 PM

OTHER NEWS

WANTED: Qualified artists, industry designers & educators needed to teach COLOR THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY at a Major Manhattan college:
Teach Four, 3 Hour evening classes at a major Manhattan college - each semester, including in between semesters.
Need a qualified educator interested in teaching or who teaches adult
evening professionals at a college in NYC, Manhattan. Needs to have
experience with different color theories that are scientific and have
to do with aesthetics and color psychology, including cultural and
social issues relating to color. Knowledge of color trends,
psychological shifts in colors, etc. Munsell Color Book will be used
as textbook.
Please contact b.arlen@mac.com for more information. Only qualified
teachers and professionals should apply.

GRANT OPPORTUNITY

New York Foundation for the Arts Invites Applications for Artists'   Fellowships
The fellowships provide $7,000 to individual originating artists
living and working in the state of New York for unrestricted use. Grants are
awarded in sixteen artistic disciplines, with applications accepted in eight
categories each year. The artistic disciplines for the 2010 Artists'
Fellowships are: crafts/sculpture,digital/electronic arts, nonfiction literature, poetry, and
printmaking/drawing/book arts.
Artists' Fellowships are not project grants but are intended to fund
an artist's vision or voice regardless of the level of his or her artistic
development. For application information, please visit New York Foundation for the Arts’ website.

SDA NY Member News September 28, 2010

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EXHIBITION NEWS

Laurie Wohl

“There is a River” by Laurie Wohl

"On Wings of Prayer"
Laurie Wohl is having a solo exhibition of her work at the Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
The opening reception will be October 14, 2010.

Judith Plotner

“Hello October” by Judith Plotner

A new book The Art Quilt Collection, Designs and Inspirations from Around the World produced for Sixth and Spring Books by Penn Publishing Ltd, has just been released. Judith’s piece, “Are We Safer Now?”, is included in this book.

”The Horrors of War”, a three panel quilt will be in the upcoming exhibition Quilts = Art = Quilts, at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY from October 31 – Jan 9, 2011. Information at www.myartcenter.org

“River Notes” received the President’s Choice Award at Quilt Visions 2010 which will open October 24- March 13 at Oceanside Museum of Art, CA. Information at www.quiltvisions.org

“Cooperstown Sky” will be included in The Guild of Adirondack Artists Exhibition at the Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St Cooperstown, NY with an opening reception Friday, October 1 from 5-7. Information at 607 547-9777

“The Zen of Black and White I and II” will be at LARAC Lapham Gallery, Glens Falls, NY in an exhibition Black and White. Opening reception October 1, 5-7 until October 30. Information at 518 798-1144

OTHER NEWS

Continuing Ed Class at FIT

GETTING PRESS & PUBLICITY II
A continuing education seminar for practicing designers and creative
professionals at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City.
Four evening sessions, Oct 20, Oct 27, Nov 3, November 10, 2010
fee: $145. Pre-requisite: some knowledge of promotional writing

Learn how to approach print, online and broadcast journalists
with newsworthy pitches that get noticed. And once you've achieved
initial press coverage, how to maintain media interest over the long
term.

Instructor: Susan Harkavy, public relations consultant specializing in
lifestyle and home furnishings design

Info: www.fitnyc.edu/3064.asp (see course number CEO 017)
Registration: http://www.fitnyc.edu/3212.asp

SDA NY Member News September 14, 2010

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EXHIBITION NEWS

“Under the Influence- Objects of Obsession”, Susan Martin Maffei

“ Exploring Woven Tapestry”, Archie Brennan

September 10^th to October 3^rd, 2010

Archie Brennan & Susan Martin Maffei are internationally-known tapestry artists who have been working in their chosen medium for a combination of more that 85 years. They have exhibited and taught in Museums, Universities, Galleries and Art Centers around the World and have work in both public and private collections. The spacious GAGA Arts Center galleries allow for the presentation of a large gathering of their more recent works.

Susan’s work focuses on the narrative of everyday life and personal events. Influenced by ancient & historical tapestry forms, her exhibit is an exploration of scrolls, storyboards, murals & miniatures.

Over many decades and some hundreds of woven tapestries, Archie has sought to identify and extend this ancient medium via a range of graphic pictorial themes presented in this exhibit.

Gallery Hours: Fri. 4 – 8, Sat. 2-6, Sun. 12-4 or by appointment at 646-796-9798

Artists’ Talk: Fri. September 24^th, starting at 6 PM

Cornell University’s Dept of Fiber Science & Apparel Design

Fiber arts + wearable arts exhibition

Albert R. Mann Library, 2nd floor Gallery

September 13 – October 2

Jozef Bajus

Glory# 1 from recent the Mini-textile show at X Gallery in Bratislava, Slovakia

Jozef Bajus, Glory, front and side views, 2010, mixed media, 15” x 13” x 12.5”.

K. Velis Turan

K. Velis Turan, Red City, mixed media fiber, 34 x 34.

The NYFA MARK 10 Artists of Troy
October 6 - November 27, 2010

House of Creative Soul
38 Van Dam Street
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

A Selection of Work by:
Rebecca Adams, Paul Bouchard, Ashley Cooper, Jeri Eisenberg, Dave Heb, Carlos Loret De Mola, Amy Madden, Leslie Parke, Leah A. Rico, Yolanda Sharpe, K. Velis Turan, and Deborah Zlotsky. Opening Reception
Thursday, October 14th, 6-8pm

MARK is the New York Foundation for the Arts'(NYFA) statewide six-month program for visual artists who want a unique opportunity for individualized focus on the professional side of their creative practice. MARK is designed to address the concerns of artists living outside of New York City while providing them with a new network statewide. Participating artists can expect MARK to spark goals and help to define concrete steps while providing individual and group feedback on how to better present yourself.

Berenice Pliskin

Berenice Pliskin, The Bottle Gleaners

Silk Paintings and Prints

From October 19 to December 1, Berenice will be exhibiting her work at the First Unitarian Society of Westchester, 25 Old Jackson Avenue, Hastings-on- Hudson, New York. Opening Reception October 24 from 1 to 3pm. Otherwise by appointment through the society office at (914) 478-2710, or by contacting Marilee@scheuneman.com

Berenice notes, “For the past few years my main thrust has been silk paintings of the Latino and Latina day laborers in the New York area. This exhibit features silk paintings and prints from this series, including a scroll using new technology. Additionally there will be a group if silk paintings of various subject matter.”

OTHER NEWS

Judith Plotner

Judith Plotner has been featured in an interview published in The Free George, an on-line magazine covering the Lake George area of the Adirondack Mountains in NYS. To read this excellent article:
http://thefreegeorge.com/thefreegeorge/from-nature-to-politics-an-interview-with-fiber-collage-artist-judith-plotner/

Jeanne Beck

A profile of Jeanne Beck’s work has been published on-line in The Textile Blog.

Jeanne Beck, “Etruscan Relic”, 38” x 118”, silk broadcloth, center, at Redcliffe City Art Gallery.

Jeanne’s piece, “Etruscan Relic” is touring Australian galleries for two years in an invitational exhibition called “Art Cloth: Engaging New Visions”, curated by Marie Therese Wisnioswki. The exhibition was at Redcliffe City Art Gallery in Queensland, Australia, August 11 –28, as part of the gallery's 10 year celebration.

Note From Raylene Marasco at Dyenamix

If you have a chance to see one of Louise Bourgeois last pieces, "Do
Not Abandon Me" at Carolina Nitsch, you will not be disappointed.

The project was a collaboration between artists Louise Bourgeois and
Tracey Emin. The show opened Sept 9th and runs through Nov 13th 2010.

The collaboration was an interesting process. Louise painted images of
male and female figures, those images were reproduced on cloth, using
archival dyes by Dyenamix and then sent to Tracey Emin for
manipulation. After a much intimidating pause, Tracey began writing text, doing monoprints and drawing on top of Louise’s figures.

The results are cohesive, leaving the viewer to wonder which artist did
which marks. Those manipulated works were then printed back onto cloth
by Dyenamix in the full edition of 18 sets and 6 artists proofs.

It was an honor and a privilege to be part of such an important piece.
I am humbled by the experience for producing such powerful work.
Here is the link to Carolina Nitsch and an article in the Huffington Post.

SDA NY Member News August 22, 2010

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STILL TIME TO REGISTER FOR FIBER MEETING AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

“Under the Moon”, 2010, silk and bamboo weaving by Sarah Saulson, SU faculty member.

DATE: September 11, 2010

LOCATION: The Warehouse, Syracuse University

TIMES: 10 AM – 4 PM

Program includes a tour of SU fiber and surface design classrooms, MFA studios, presentations by SU fiber faculty and an opening reception for the faculty exhibition at the Warehouse Gallery, “Pliable Planes: Cloth and Beyond”

For more information and to register, please e-mail jeannerbeck@gmail.com

DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS IS AUGUST 30.

CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Pat Hickman Curates Tapestry Exhibition

Exploring Woven Tapestry
Archie Brennan & Susan Martin Maffei

Location: GAGA Arts Center, 55 W. Railroad Ave., Garnerville, NY 10923

Dates: September 10 - October 3

Opening Reception:
Friday, Sept. 10th 6 to 9 PM

Gallery Hours: Friday - 4 PM to 8 PM
Saturday - 2 PM to 6 PM
Sunday - 12 PM to 4 PM

Archie Brennan & Susan Martin Maffei are internationally-known tapestry artists who have been working in their chosen medium for a combination of more than 85 years! They have exhibited and taught in museums, universities, galleries and art centers around the World and have work in both public and private collections.

Textile Society of America Symposium and Silent Auction Opportunity

The Textile Society Symposium will be held October in Lincoln, Nebraska October 6 –9, 2010.

“COLOR IT TWILL”- a tapestry by Lillian Elliott 1973

TSA Silent Auction

In conjunction with the Symposium, the Lillian Elliott Award Committee is conducting a silent auction for a beautiful, small tapestry woven by Lillian Elliott. The proceeds support the fund, from which an award is offered every two years to a promising artist working in the textile medium. The tapestry can be seen at the Tugboat Gallery during the exhibition “Surrounded: Large and Small Work by Lillian Elliott Awardees”, October 1-29. This exhibition features awardees Frances Dorsey (1995), Marcie Miller Gross (1996) and Soonran Youn, (2002)

The successful bidder of the Silent Auction will be announced at the Textile Society of America Symposium banquet, Friday, October 8.

SDA Member News August 8, 2010

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NEW SDA PROGRAM

SDA Gathering at Syracuse University on Saturday, September 11

Detail “Golden Beara” by Eileen Gosson, Assistant Professor, Surface Pattern, Syracuse University, and one of the afternoon presenters at this exciting SDA program.

SDA Visits SU Meeting Day Schedule:

9:30 – 10:00 Meet at the Warehouse (SU’s design departments facility)

10:00 – Welcome

10:15 AM – Noon -- Tours of fiber buildings, classrooms, student displays and grad student studios.

Noon – 1 PM – Lunch on your own (cafe downstairs)

1 PM – MFA students present their work

1:45 PM – 2:45 – SU fiber and design faculty present their work

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM – “ Five in Five”: SDA members can introduce their work with five images and five minutes.

4:00 Farewells and future gatherings

Art faculty reception for “Pliable Planes” immediately follows the program in the Warehouse Gallery.

#6, 26.25 x 20.25 x 2in, from the series “ A Moment in Time”, by Mary Giehl. This work is muslin clothing painted with encaustic, then covered with 20 layers of Elmer’s glue.

Mary Giehl teaches part time in the Fiber Art at Syracuse University. This is one of three works that will be in the show "Pliable Planes: Cloth and Beyond" at the Warehouse Gallery.

RSVP NOW : E-mail jeannerbeck@gmail.com

DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS IS MONDAY, August 30

EXHIBITIONS

K. Velis Turan part of Hudson Valley Art & Wine Invitational

An aerial view of the beautiful Hudson Valley

"Millbrook Winery is pleased to welcome K. Velis Turan as their “paired” artist for the Year-long Celebration of Art & Wine in the Hudson Valley"

Professional artists were selected to be a part of the "A Year-long Celebration of Art & Wine in the Hudson Valley”. The selected artists will create two pieces of work based on their visits to their chosen wineries.

"Working in conjunction with Hudson Valley tourism agencies, museums, and galleries, the event will pair Hudson Valley artists with Hudson Valley /wineries and vineyards. A juried selection of professional artists will be invited to create, in their own chosen medium, a wine- or vineyard-inspired artwork by pairing with a specific Hudson Valley winery. Their art will be featured throughout the year in various promotions and events, and will be featured at a Grand Art & Wine event to be held in Westchester County in May 2011 at Lyndhurst, a National Trust Historic Site. The exhibit will then travel to four art galleries located in the Hudson Valley, including “M Gallery” in Catskill, and “Hudson Valley Gallery” in Cornwall."

See the complete story at http://hudsonvalleyartandwine.com

Jozef Bajus Work at Kourosgallery

Jozef Bajus has been invited to participate in ACCROCHAGE: A Multi-media Exhibition of Works by Gallery & New Artists at Kourosgallery

Dates: August 4 – September 3, 2010

Summer Hours: Monday - Friday, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Kourosgallery is located at
23 East 73rd Street NY, NY 10021
t 212.288.5888 f 212.794.9397

NEW PUBLICATION FROM SANDRA SIDER

Pioneering Quilt Artists, 1960-1980: A New Direction in American Art by Sandra Sider (paperback, via Amazon.com, by Photoart Publishing, NY, 2010), on the origins of the quilt art movement, complete with index and extensive bibliography. The 54 color illustrations feature the work of 46 artists, most of whom are now internationally known. Many of the works illustrated have not been exhibited since the 1970s, and several have not been previously published in color, or in book format. $28.95 plus tax and postage; 144 pages, 7 x 10 in. ISBN 145157679X.

UPCOMING CLASSES

Barbara Arlen’s Color Workshops for Fiber and Art to Wear

Dates: October and November 2010

Where: FIT School of Continuing Education

SXC 260 Color Painting Studio

Four sessions: Oct.13, 20, 27 at 6:00pm-9:00pm

Cost: $250

SXF 820 Color Forecasting for Product Creation and Promotion Knowing what colors are being touted as new and exciting is only helpful if you really understand how to use color effectively for your market or to communicate to your audience. This program concentrates on how fashion and design color forecasts are used to successfully evolve future commercial lines and products far beyond fashion goods. Among the subjects stressed are: color cycles, color symbolism and cues, color and geography, national color preferences, color codes and color as a cultural experience. The trickle down of color popularity from apparel to consumer goods and services is examined in relation to overall consumer color preferences and timing. Included are explorations of international color trend and color services. Seminar leader: Barbara Arlen, owner, Barbara Arlen Design & Associates; textile and product design, color, trend forecasting, and sourcing consultant; creator of home fashion products.

3 sessions: Nov. 1, 8, 15 6:00pm-9:00pm

Cost: $155

Barbara Arlen, owner, Barbara Arlen Design & Associates, is a textile and product design, color, trend forecasting and sourcing consultant, and the creator of home fashion products.

For more information, please e-mail Barbara at barlen@mac.com

SDA Member News July 26, 2010

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EXHIBITIONS

Judith Plotner’s Work at Latham Gallery in Glens Falls

“Cooperstown Sky” by Judith Plotner

Judith Plotner's work will be featured in “VIEWPOINTS”, a five-person show at
Lapham Gallery of the Lower Adirondack Regional Art Center
7 Lapham Place
Glens Falls, NY

Dates: AUGUST 13 –SEPTEMBER 18, 2010
Opening reception: Friday, August 13 Time: 5:00-7:00 PM

If any of you are in the area, Judith would love to see you at the opening.

NY SDA Members Meet at Blue Mountain Lake Opening Reception

Brand new SDA member Debbie Bein, left and long-time member Judith Plotner, center, surprised Jeanne Beck by attending her reception on Saturday, July 10 at Blue Mountain Lake Center for the Arts. They’re all looking forward to getting time together again.

OTHER NEWS

You’re Invited! SDA GATHERING AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Saturday, September 11

Time: 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM ( with gallery opening reception following)

Location: Syracuse University @The Warehouse, 350 West Fayette St., Syracuse, NY 13202

Meet fellow SDA members, tour the Syracuse University fiber facilities, hear presentations from fiber faculty about their work, visit MFA studios and discuss grad students’ work. We’ll end the day with a session where for all participating SDA members can share images of their work and talk briefly about them.

For those who can stay beyond 4 PM, enjoy the opening reception for the surface pattern design and fiber faculty exhibition, “Pliable Planes: Cloth and Beyond”.

There is no cost to participate, although you’ll have to pay a $5 parking fee. And you are welcome to bring friends who are not SDA members. (We may pass the hat to make a donation to the SU fiber department for hosting us.)

Please e-mail jeannerbeck@gmail.com to reserve your spot.

A final schedule will be posted on the August 8 In A New York Minute blog. You must reserve by Wednesday, September 1.

We are hoping to hold more of these exciting, informative program days at colleges and universities with fiber programs all around New York State.

What a great way for students, faculty and members out in the field to interact and learn from one another. As you must know, there’s a lot of creative energy that starts flying when artists get together.

Please get in touch with NYS SDA area representative Jeanne Beck at jeannerbeck@gmail.com if you’d like to be involved in the planning process for other program days around the state.

Exciting News From Sandra Sider:

Quiltcritique.com is now a free service! If you would like a completed quilt or work in progress critiqued, please go to www.quiltcritique.com and follow the instructions. You will be notified when the program featuring your work is posted on the site. All programs will be available to the public at no charge. (Artists remain anonymous.)

SDA Member News July 9, 2010

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Sharon Bottle Souva

A solo exhibit highlighting Sharon Bottle Souva's work from 2007-2010.

Opening reception is part of Earlville Community Days on July 10th from Noon to 3pm!

Shown: Current Study, 2009, 18" x 22"

"...The needle is an extension of my fingers, the threads and fabric my palette. For me, color and pattern are equally important as my finished work. Fabric art is appealing to me, due to the fact that it is more than a visual art. It is very much linked with our sense of touch and with our memories."

EARLVILLE OPERA HOUSE

Earlville Opera House
P.O. Box 111
Earlville, NY 13332

315-691-3550

Sharon Bottle Souva
July 10 – September 19, 2010
Arts Cafe Gallery

SDA Member News May 24, 2010

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EXHIBITIONS

Jeanne Beck

“Entwining Alphabets: New Works by Jeanne Raffer Beck”

The Arts Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

June 18 – July 19, 2010

Gallery Reception: July 10, 6-8 pm

UPCOMING CLASSES

Canandaigua, NY

LOCATION: Canandaigua Fire Hall, 335 South Main Street

For more information please contact SARA BURNETT at sjburnett@frontiernet.net or phone 585-554-3540

SEDUCTIVE FELTS TO WRAP YOURSELF UP IN : JULY 5-8...One place open..Felting experience required.

This class will approach felted fabrics for body wraps, such as scarves and shawls through smaller items as preliminary study for independent work on a larger scale. Jorie has co-authored an advanced feltmaking publication on scarves (Fabulous Felted Scarves, Lark Books) and will use these published examples as her departure point.

TRADITIONAL NOMADIC DESIGN THROUGH CUSHION AND MAT MAKING : July 10-12...one place open

Learn "your" nomadic heritage and practice the simplicity of feltmaking. Through slide talks and demonstrations we will focus on the history and elemental design of the world's most beautiful felt carpets. Working with vegetable dyed and natural color wool we will add to the richness of the objects we choose to make through the choice of contemporary shape. Participants will be working in small groups which offers everyone "assistants" and makes the work more enjoyable while the sports muscles are put to use.

MICHELE WIPPLINGER: AUGUST 18-24

CLASS ONE: AUG. 18-20 BASALAN ...MAKING MUDCLOTH WITH TANNINS,MUD DYES,OCHRES AND EXTRACTS

CLASS TWO: AUGUST 22-24: DYEING AS IF THE EARTH MATTERED,DYEING 16 SKEINS IN ONE POT AND ADDING TO THE POT TO GET 16 DIFFERENT COLORS...EACH STUDENT GOES HOME WITH 6-8 GROUPS OF 16 SMALL SKEINS IN HARMONIOUS COLOR WAYS SUITABLE FOR KNITTING, WEAVING AND CROCHET PROJECTS.

JOHN MARSHALL:

Combining Katazome and Shibori Techniques

October 26-28

Working with Natural Pigments

October 29-31

Japanese Garment Design

November 1-2

SDA Member News May 10, 2010

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Events and Exhibitions

Runway 3.0’s “Technology: Progression/Obsession” presented by Buffalo State College Fashion Technology Program pulled in a packed house to the Pierce Arrow Bldg. on Saturday, May 1st.

One of senior Tegan Ford’s necklaces for the stationary student exhibit that accompanied the runway event.

Wearable art designs by Carol Ann Rice Rafferty

The event featured fashions by alumni designers Carol Ann Rice Rafferty, David Brinson Shantell Reid; WEARABLE ART fashion by Stephanie Abelson, Basia Poletowski, Diane Meyer, Jackie Hopper; STUDENT DESIGNS by Annisha Smith, Tony Bruce, Melissa Stoll, Brenda Hamilton, Jaida Van Putten, Dridget Demeis & Katie Gariepy, Brittany Learn, Emily Tolnay-collection, Tinh V. Nguyen-collection, Melissa Marchand, Basia Poletowski-collection; SENIOR COLLECTIONS by Diane Meyer, Tess Hinterbichler, Anthony Scaparo, Lyudmila Kennedy, Brittany Chonka; LOCAL DESIGNERS Holly Jue, Aella, Morgen and ADAM LIPPES.

Rafferty’s collection Ultra Feminine Warrior was among those featured in the alumna segment of Runway 3.0 along with collections from graduating seniors in Buffalo State College’s Fashion Technology Program

View an excellent video of some of the runway collections at

http://video.artvoice.com/artvoicetv.php?permalink=0000001074&sms_ss=facebook

or check out images of individual fashions at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/finn1flintlock/sets/72157623810160700/show/

Three SDA Members Part of Kenan Center Exhibition “Extraordinary Forms: 40 Years of Craft Media”

Small Lace Weave by Jappie King Black

In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of 100 American Craftsmen (June 4-6), the Kenan Center’s annual juried show of craft art, a special exhibit has been organized that will feature the work of 23 established Western New York craft artisans who served as past jurors of the show. The exhibit will open at the Kenan Center House Gallery, 433 Locust Street, Lockport, with a free public reception Sunday, May 16 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. and will run through July 11. Work featured will include metal, fiber, wood, clay, and mixed media.

SDA artists included are Jozef Bajus, Jappie King Black and Barbara Murak.

Extraordinary Forms II will be open to the public during 100 American Craftsmen, except for Friday, June 4th. Dates and times will be Saturday, June 5th, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 6th, Noon to 4:00 p.m.

For more information, call (716) 433-2617

Sandra Sider to be Panelist at Dorsky Gallery

Sandra Sider, SAQA Vice President, is participating in a panel titled “Quilts Extended: Structure as Vocabulary” on May 16 from 3-4:30 at the Dorsky Gallery in Long Island City for the exhibition ASSEMBLING NARRATIVES: QUILTING IMPULSES IN CONTEMPORARY ART. The public is cordially invited to attend.

Jozef Bajus: Made in New York

“Summer Reading 4 ” by Jozef Bajus

“Made in New York” at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY, March 27 – May 16, is an annual juried exhibition. This year it is featuring 73 contemporary works of art by 58 New York State artists, including “Summer Reading 2 & 4” by Jozef Bajus, assistant professor, textiles , at Buffalo State College.

Betty Vera

Betty’s Jacquard weaving Red: Five won Third Place in the 2010 Kreft Juried Exhibition, Creative Adaptation in the Visual Arts, which opened February 16 at the Kreft Center for the Arts, Concordia University Ann Arbor, and was on view through March 28.

Betty Vera, Red: Five, 13.5 x 13.5 inches, Jacquard damask, cotton and synthetic fibers

Stack: Top was in the 33^rd Annual National Juried Art Exhibition Small Works, at Harper College, Palatine, IL, March 29 - April 22.

Betty Vera, Stack: Top, 13.5 x 20.5 inches, Jacquard damask, cotton and rayon

Other News

Openings for Summer Classes in Canandaigua

Michele Wipplinger: August 18-24

Class 1: August 18-20, Barsalan – Making mudcloth with tannins, mud dyes, ochres and extracts

Class 2: August 22-24, Dyeing as if the Earth Mattered – Dyeing 16 skeins in one pot and adding to the pot to get 16 different colors. Each student goes home with 6-8 groups of 16 small skeins in harmonious color ways suitable for knitting, weaving and crochet projects.

JOHN MARSHALL: OCTOBER 25-31

Class 1: Katazome and Shibori, October 26-28.

Class 2: Working with Natural Pigments, October 29-31

Class 3: Japanese Garment Design, November 1-2

Location: Ontario County Arts Council, 65 South Main Street, Canandaigua, NY

For more information, please contact:

Sara Burnett, 585-554-3540 orsjburnett@frontiernet.net

SDA Member News -- April 25, 2010

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Exhibitions

Marilyn Henrion

Soft City: Red Door, 40”x50,” Mixed media textile ©Marilyn Henrion 2010

A selection of works from Marilyn’s new series, Soft City, will be on exhibit at Betty Dare Art Gallery in Chicago from April 17 – May 14, 2010.
You are invited to attend a reception at the gallery on May 2nd from 8 to 11 PM in conjunction with Art Chicago.

Betty Dare Art Gallery, 1319 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago IL, 60642

Pat Hickman

Left: Churchill, Endless Streaming, Acrylic on Canvas, 54”x28”. Photo: Joe Giunta
Right: Hickman, Currents, Mixed Materials, 41”x48”. Photo: George Potanovic

“Cascading Time”: Spring Exhibition at The Pomona Cultural Center

Diane Churchill - Pat Hickman

Dates: April 11 – May 22

Gallery Talk: Sunday, May 16, 3-4 pm

Gallery Hours: Friday - Sunday, 2-6 pm

Address: 584 Route 306, Pomona, NY 10970'

Directions: PIP, Exit 13; right onto Rte 202, 2 mi. to left onto Rte 306. The Center is on the left 1 mi. Phone: 845.362.8062

Arle Sklar-Weinstein

Total Immersion : Fiber-photomontage by Arle Sklar-Weinstein

at Artplace Gallery

Dates: April 28 – May 29, 2010

Opening Reception: Sunday, May 2, 2:00 – 4:00 PM

Address: 11 Unquowa Road, Fairfield, CT. 06824

K. Velis Turan

Wearable Art – Out & About

Vanguard Showhouse - Schenectady, NY

K. Velis Turan’s Artwear, which includes surface-designed, one-of-a-kind, Kimono style jackets and silk and rayon scarves, will be featured in the Master Suite of the 2010 Vanguard Showhouse.

Address: 245 Menlo Park Road, Schenectady, NY 12309

Dates: April 27 through May 16, 2010 (closed Mondays)

The Vanguard Showhouse is a benefit for the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

This year’s house is called “Simply Beautiful - a Modern Classic.”

KVT Artwear at Lea’s - Chatham, NY and Art Spring – Silver Spring, MD.

Throughout the spring and summer KVT Artwear one-of-a-kind Kimonos will be on sale at Lea’s, a charming clothing boutique in picturesque Chatham, New York. Address: 33 Hudson Avenue, Chatham, NY 12037, phone 518-392-4666.

A selection of KVT Artwear surface-designed scarves and cook’s aprons are now available at ArtSpring, 8519 Georgia Ave.,Silver Spring, Maryland. ArtSpring presents handcrafted works by talented artists and craftspeople from the community and beyond. Phone: 301-495-3425.

Myra Schwartz

Myrna will be doing her only spring show this weekend, April 24+25, at the Unitarian Church in Deerfield. Don't forget there is no sales tax and 15% of your purchases are tax deductible! Myrna will feature new Victorian themed work in patina brass and mixed metals, new gemstone & pearl designs, plus a continuation of her numbered Pipe Series, which has now passed the #100 mark!

If you can't make it to the show and would like to see Myrna’s work, please call call 847-251-6220 for an appointment at her home showroom beginning the week of April 26, leaving plenty of time for Mother's Day and graduation gifts.

Betty Vera Wins Fiberart International Director’s Award

Betty Vera, Gesture, 27 x 41 inches, Jacquard damask, cotton and rayon. Photo: D. James Dee. Winner of the Director’s Award, Fiberart International 2010.

Fiberart International 2010

Location: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and the Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA

Dates: April 16 – August 22

Betty’s artist statement about the work:

Linear elements are the materials with which I render woven imagery, and in many works they are part of the subject matter. In the Jacquard weaving entitled Gesture, forms are depicted through their shadows—in this case, the contours of a human hand and a sinuous coil of oxygen tubing. Constructed of fine cotton warp threads and luminous rayon wefts, these soft shadows enable us to see what is otherwise not always visible; the image is a poignant reminder of the fragility of life.

Upcoming Workshops and Classes

Hudson River Valley Art Works

Carol Soderlund: June 27 - July 3, 2010 (5-day workshop) Dyeing to Discharge. Carol leads you on a discover of the possibilities of discharge - the removal of color from dyed cloth. Using both commercial fabrics and cloth dyed specifically for discharge, you will selectively remove and replace color, gaining an in-depth look at both thiox and bleach discharge processes. Safe studio practices are emphasized.

Larkin Van Horn: July 8 - 11, 2010 (3-day workshop) Beaded Medallion Quilts. This workshop explores the possibilities of beadwork as a design element on art quilts. You learn design, structural techniques, and the ins and outs of fused applique and beadwork as it relates to art quilts.

Rayna Gillman: July 17 - 20, 2010 (3-day workshop) Working spontaneously with thickened MX dyes, explore deconstructed screen printing as well as simple screen printing with stencils, textured resists, and other mark-making tools. This exciting and unpredictable way to print lets you create as you go, transferring your own marks from screen to cloth.

For more information contact: Hudson River Valley Art Workshops at 800-665-0044

Runway 3.0 Presented by Buffalo State College

Runway 3.0 will be held on Saturday, May 1st, 2010, with a presentation of Buffalo State College’s Fashion program senior designers, fiber design students, alumni, and local designers. There will be two shows: 4pm & 9pm. All proceeds go to the Fashion Technology Scholarship Fund.
The current Runway event is made possible due to support from a wide scale campus/community collaboration. The Runway production is a class of fashion students that are guided by Erin Habes. The senior collections are created in a class guided by David Brinson.

The growth of the Runway event is a result of support from the Fashion Technology program and faculty, The Fashion Advisory Board [especially Genesee Community College], the Technology Department the School of Professions, the Burchfield Penney Art Center, College Relations, Instructional Resources, Events Management and numerous other campus support services. It is becoming a showcase for Design student exhibits [Students of Jozef Bajus and Carol Townsend] as well as incorporating a special section into the Runway show for original fashion designs created by students of Jozef Bajus.

This year, in addition to the $1000.00 Nancy Belfer award for the senior collection, there will be a $500.00 award sponsored by Elaine Polvinen for the Art-to-Wear design student category of the show.

Also new this year, Hospitality Department students will be catering the VIP pre-party and the post Runway dessert reception. The event is supported by the participation of alumni and WNY designers and members of the business community.

Go to the blog link above to learn more about purchasing tickets and view some youtube videos featuring some works from the senior student collections.

SDA Member News -- April 12, 2010

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Announcing a new opportunity for SDA members: SDA is renting booth space at Convergence (July 18-25, in Albuquerque) and the Houston Quilt Festival (Nov 4-7). For a $100 fee, members can have a three-hour window to do demos of techniques, process, books, DVDs or simply show their own work. Mentorship for participating in one of these opportunities is available. It's a great collaborative effort for both SDA members and the organization as a whole.

Class Opportunities

Improve your skills or learn new ones at upcoming classes in New York and nearby NJ.

Classes Organized by Sara Barnett in Canandaigua, NY

Michele Wipplinger: August 18-24

Class 1: August 18-20, Barsalan – Making mudcloth with tannins, mud dyes, ochres and extracts

JOHN MARSHALL: OCTOBER 25-31

Class 1: Katazome and Shibori, October 26-28.

Class 2: Working with Natural Pigments, October 29-31

Class 3: Japanese Garment Design, November 1-2

Location: Ontario County Arts Counil, 65 South Main Street, Canandaigua, NY

For more information, please contact:

Sara Burnett, 585-554-3540 or sjburnett@frontiernet.net

Summer Workshops at Peters Valley Craft Center

Only 60 miles NW of NYC in Layton, NJ

by Kate Anderson

Peters Valley Craft Center is offering over 30 different 2-5 day fiber workshops this summer with talented and inspiring guest artist/instructors. Peters Valley (PV) is nestled in the picturesque hills of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area, only 60 miles northwest of NYC and is easily accessible to SDA NY members. The peaceful natural setting nurtures personal vision and creativity. Workshops run May – September. Lodging and meals are available. PV features 2 Fiber studios: one dedicated to surface design and one dedicated to weaving and structure. Fiber workshop topics and instructors for 2010 include:

Hillery Sproatt: Embroidery & Collage C. Pazia Mannella: Reusable Tote Bags

Colleen M. Stepanic: Structured Fibers Pat Hickman: Tensile Translucence

Tatiana Ginsberg: Japanese Papermaking Bird Ross: Fabric Manipulation Techniques

Joan Dreyer: Hand Quilting Carol LeBaron: Wool Resist Exploration

Hollie Heller: Photo Transfer & Collage Lorrie Fredette: Composing with Textile & Wax

Wendy Huhn: Transferred Imagery

Kerr Grabowski: Working in a Series

Lorraine Roy: Fabric Collage with Nets Lorraine Glessner: Explorations in Mark Making

Ana Lisa Hedstrom: Shibori Briony Jean Foy: Needlefelting Adventures

Richard Aldorasi: Turkish Ebru Marbling Carol Owen: Personal Shrines

by Kerr Grabowski

Mary Ann Kirchhoff: Creative Spinning Kari Scott: Sculptural Knitting

Erin M Riley: Tapestry from Photographs Rachel Chambers: Material Studies in Vessels

Kate Anderson: Love Me, Love Me Knot Pamela A MacGregor: Felted Vessels,

James Koehler: Color Gradation for Tapestry Renie Breskin Adams: Crochet Made Personal

Meg Little: Contemporary Rug Hooking Nicole Licht: Contemporary Soft Sculpture

Lindsay Ketterer Gates: 3D Wire Technique Molly Cosgrove: Special Effects in Hooked Rugs

Nancy M Bess: Pillow Baskets Rita Schwab: Something to Dye for

Jan Huling: Oddball Assemblages B. Setsu Pickett: Handwoven Velvet Techniques

KE Pannepacker: Weaving Cairns Brenna K Murphy: Using Hair in Your Art

by James Koehler

For dates and details and to register, please visit www.petersvalley.org. Register and pay in full by April 30^th and save $20 per workshop.

Special Edition

2010-04-04T04:46:00.001-07:00

Exciting news from Raylene Marasco, who was the SDA rep for five years:

Hello All:
Just wanted to let you know that Dyenamix was featured on Project Runway this week.

The name of the episode was "Hey, that's my fabric!" . The contestants had 30 minutes to design their own fabric to be used in their looks.

This was a Project Runway first. We worked with the designers to choose colors from our colorbook based on the designs created on the new HP touch screen computers. They then went off to Mood to purchase coordinating fabrics and trims and began their garment construction.

At midnight, that same day, Dyenamix delivered their custom printed fabrics just as the contestants were leaving for the night. As they arrived the next day, their fabrics were printed and sitting on their desks, as if delivered by fairies. The response of the contestants was amazing!

They were very excited to see their designs realized on to fabric in such a short amount of time, and with such vivid color. I think it was a really fun challenge.

I have included some photos from the show but if you'd like to view the entire episode, please go to mylifetime.com or http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/project-runway/video.

Raylene Marasco
President,Dyenamix Inc
Raylene@DYENAMIX.com
151 Grand St 2nd floor
NYC, NY 10013
212-941-6642
www.DYENAMIX.com
www.DYENAMIXHOME.com

SDA Member News -- March 28,2010

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Exhibitions

Linda Van Alstyne

Linda Van Alstyne is one of the participating artists in RiverFront Studio's Spring Opener in Schuylerville NY, March 13 – April 23, which features the work of five women, including three sculptures, one in clay, one in fiber and one in metal.

Here are two of Linda’s collections in the show. Photos courtesy of Clifford Mealy

Pat Hickman Exhibit at Eric David Laxman Gallery

Nancy Koenigsberg’s Work in Poland’s 13th Triennal

Nancy’s piece, “Morning Night” will be shown at the 13th Triennal in Poland.

Morning Night, 78” x 88” x 15”, coated copper wire and glass beads

Pat Pauly Organizes “The Almighty Dollar” Exhibition in Rochester

“George”, by Pat Pauly, part of “The Almighty Dollar” exhibition.

The Almighty Dollar: Art Quilts Inspired by the Dollar Bill

Dates: March 24 - April 30, 2010
Location: Lower Link Gallery of The Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County,115 South Avenue, Rochester,NY

Opening Reception April 15, 5-8 p.m.

Two lectures will be given in conjunction with the exhibit:
April 12, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.“A Dollar for Inspiration: Art Quilts and the Creative Process”, by Pat Pauly
Kate Gleason Auditorium, Central Library

April 19, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.“The History of US Paper Money (By George!)”
Gerard Muhl and John Zabel
Kate Gleason Auditorium, Central Library

Seventeen artists took up the challenge to create a new work for “The Almighty Dollar: Art Quilts Inspired by the Dollar Bill” now being exhibited at the Central Library’s Lower Link Gallery in downtown Rochester.

Pat Pauly, a contemporary quilt artist, organized the exhibition and invited regional artists to create an art quilt whose theme was generated from the US dollar bill.

“The Almighty Dollar” exhibit is reaching a segment of the population that would seldom encounter new art quilts. It is open during regular library hours.

Pat was awarded funding for the project, in part, by the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester with a Fiber Arts Program grant made in collaboration with the Genesee Valley Quilt Club.

Spring Classes at Hudson River Valley Art Workshops

Carol Taylor: April 11 - 17, 2010 (5-day workshop) Improvisational Piecing
In this workshop, Carol teaches 20 different improvisational piecing techniques and free ways of creating designs. Learn to play with color, value, and design without anxiety. All constructions methods are fast and easy! For more information contact: Hudson River Valley Art Workshops at 800-665-0044. www.FiberArtWorkshops.com

Kathyanne White: April 18 - 24, 2010 (5-day workshop) Mixed Media Journals
Create digital mixed media fiber journals in this innovative workshop with Kathyanne White. Discover digital printing on surfaces such as lutradur, tyvec, pimatex cotton, organdy, painted muslin, and watercolor paper. Expand your thinking on how to use photos and images in your mixed media art.
Create writable pages, a funky cover, and combine images with textures and found objects.

Natalie Sewell: April 29 - May 2, 2010 (3-day workshop) Designing Landscapes in Fabric and Paint
This workshop requires no measuring,
templates, or patterns. Learn how to create a unique landscape that reflects your own artistic definition of a favorite scene. Starting with a favorite photo, Natalie shows you how to use fabric and scissors as your canvas and paintbrush. The emphasize is on design techniques, but includes tips for choosing borders and finishing your landscape quilt. No sewing machine required.

For more information contact: Hudson River Valley Art Workshops at 800-665-0044. www.FiberArtWorkshops.com

Hudson River Valley Art Workshops
PO Box 659
Greenville, NY 12083
(518) 966-5219
www.artworkshops.com
www.fiberartworkshops.com

Barbara Arlen Teaching Classes at FIT School of Continuing Education

Barbara Arlen Classes for March, April, May, June 2010

Private Color Sessions for Fiber contact: b.arlen@mac.com 212-628-1289

FIT School of Continuing Education

SXC 260 Color Painting Studio $225 1.2 CEU Paint with color as a professional by learning how to mix, paint and create your own color chips and color schemes through this hands-on study for the use of mixing colors for fashion, accessories, home, branding, cosmetics, personal image, graphics and painting. Strengthen your ability to visualize the appearance of basic hues and their variant tints and shades, exploring the potential intensity and or muted effects of color combinations, lighter and darker. Use Josef Albers’ juxtaposition and harmonies of color and get tips on color mixing, matching and selection for different products. Studio supplies included in course fee. Some additional supplies recommended at first session. Bring a smock or cover-up to all sessions. 4 sessions: (55B) April 28, May 5, 12, 6:00pm-9:00pm

Hot Topics!

SXF 820 Color Forecasting for Product Creation and Promotion $150 Knowing what colors are being touted as new and exciting is only helpful if you really understand how to use color effectively for your market or to communicate to your audience. This program concentrates on how fashion and design color forecasts are used to successfully evolve future commercial lines and products far beyond fashion goods. Among the subjects stressed are: color cycles, color symbolism and cues, color and geography, national color preferences, color codes and color as a cultural experience. The trickle down of color popularity from apparel to consumer goods and services is examined in relation to overall consumer eye adjustment and timing. Included is a trip to the Color Association of the U.S., the oldest fashion and design forecasting organization in the country. 3 sessions: (55A) April 19, 26, May 3 10535 55A M 6:00pm-9:00pm

SXF 840 Career Opportunities for Working With Color $75 If you are an artist, designer, Color Specialist Certificate student or have a creative eye and are looking for fresh career direction find out how color knowledge and talent is extremely marketable in fashion and related businesses. Meet a panel of successful professionals from a variety of fields such as advertising, cosmetics, fashion home markets, textiles or art education who share how color expertise is the bedrock of their success. Gain insight into how you can use your own color strengths to distinguish your employment opportunities and enhance your promotability in fashion and beyond. 1 session: (55A) April 15 55A 6:00-9:00 pm

Color Discovery Interactive Workshop at FIT’s Hot Topics!

$225

Discover the color principles used by the Bauhaus Masters including Albers, Klee and Itten in this hands-on color workshop designed to provide color lovers with creative discovery. Experience a series of exercises using screen-printed colored paper and collage techniques to learn the dynamics and interaction of colors and nurture a whole new perspective. Program includes an introduction to Bauhaus methods and projects in chroma, value and color relativity, as well as optical mixtures, the emotional aspects of color and a museum visit for inspiration. Whether you are new to artistic expression or in need of a boost to your color sense for professional and artistic development let this unique program elevate your taste and design creativity. Open to 15 participants.

New Gallery – Avivartes -- Opening

This notice arrived too late for our previous blog post, so the opening for this new gallery was last week, but we wish them every success in this new endeavor.

Artist Owners Deborah "Cobra" Kruger and Stephano Qualiotti and his wife, Rosalia Tinajera (owners of Manhattan Ice Cream Shop) cordially invite you to join them to celebrate the Grand Opening of Avivartes.
When: Saturday March 20th 6pm - 11pm
Where: On the Carettera West of Colon across from the Post Office
Same side as Manhattan Ice Cream Shop
Expect: Delicious refreshments, Scintillating conversations with the artists and their friends & Lots of exciting new art!
For More Information: avivartes@gmail.com or call our local cell phone: 331-410-1707

SDA member News March 14, 2010

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Exhibition News

Jessie Fair

“Growth 1” by Jessie Fair

Jessie Fair’s piece, “Growth 1” has been accepted into “Fiber: TwentyTen”, an exhibition of contemporary fiber art co-sponsored by the Foundry Art Centre and Missouri Fiber Artists (MoFA). The show will take place at the Foundry Art Centre (St. Charles, MO) from April 2 – May 14, 2010 with a Public Opening Reception April 16, 6-9pm.

Suzanne Punch

Suzanne Punch will participate in “Hand and Heart” the first of a series of explorations on the artistic process at a program presented by Artsweekend.

Date and Time: Friday, March 26, 8 PM

Location: Orchard House Cafe, 1064 1st Avenue at East 58th Street in Manhattan.

Suggested Donation: $15 ($10 students and seniors)

What is the source of creativity? What is the work in art or craft? Perhaps one of the materials worked on is also the person engaged in the process.

Three artists who teach at the Artsweekend each July will discuss their aims and efforts to produce high quality work in a variety of mediums. Sylvia March will explore the mysteries of pottery making, Suzanne Punch will demonstrate painting on silk and Barbara Spiegel will describe how she teaches creating a character in acting classes. There will be opportunities for hands-on experience and participation.

Elaine Longtemps

“CORKGUN” has been selected for inclusion in Fiber: TwentyTen, an exhibition celebrating contemporary fiber art, co-sponsored by Missouri Fiber Artists (MoFA) and The Foundry Art Centre in Saint Charles, Missouri. The exhibition opens April 2, 2010 and closes May 14, 2010. The opening reception will be held on April 16, 6-9 PM. The address is 520 North Main Center in St. Charles, telephone:636-255-0270.

CORKGUN, which was also exhibited last year at the ARC Gallery in Chicago, has also been selected for the Exposures Section of Surface Design Magazine, 2010 Winter Issue

Textile Society of America Study Tour Day Trip Announcement

Trip to Paterson, New Jersey's Silk City
Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010

On Saturday, April 17th, join Textile Society of America members on a day tour of Paterson, the leading producer of silk fabric in the United States from the 19th century until well into the 20th century. Learn about the nation's first planned industrial city.

Visit the Great Falls of the Passaic River and the raceways that transferred power to the mills. See the Paterson Museum’s extensive collection of textile manufacturing equipment. Observe the jacquard process from initial design to finished fabric.

Examine narrow ribbon and broad loom textile samples. Tour the opulent home of textile mill owner Catholina Lambert. Hear the story of the 1913 Paterson Silk strike at the modest Botto House.

You can choose to join the tour bus in midtown Manhattan or meet the group in Paterson, NJ. The trip costs $125 per person for TSA members and $150 for non-members. The priced includes lunch, snacks, admissions, tips and a $30 donation to TSA.

For more information or to register for this trip, visit http://www.textilesociety.org/events_tours.htm . TSA is also offering a scholarship for one TSA member to participate in this tour of Paterson. To apply for the scholarship, go to:
http://www.textilesociety.org/awards_scholarship_workshop.htm

From:
Textile Society of America
PO Box 193
Middletown, DE 19709
302-378-9636 (office)
302-378-9637 (fax)
tsa@textilesociety.org
www.textilesociety.org

SDA NY Member News February 28, 2010

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Exhibition News

K. Velis Turan

Freehold, NY – The Broderick Fine Art Gallery is please to announce the opening of “Urban Landscapes” a show of mixed-media fiber art by K. Velis Turan. It features works motivated by the architecture and life of the contemporary urban environment, especially in New York City.

George Washington Bridge, by K. Velis Turan

Velis Turan is moved by shadow, light and color as well as the patterns of nature and man as she “surface designs” her own fabrics. The art in this show is inspired by roads, buildings and bridges. Her techniques include screen printing, dying, painting, stamping, photo transfer, embroidery and beading. The surface of the work may explore all of these options, experimenting and engaging new techniques. She uses a sewing machine to “free-motion” stitch into the surface. Velis Turan says “For me, my pieces are not done until I have added the ‘thread strokes’. No other medium offers the interesting textures and depth as the art- designed, quilted surface.”

About the show – March 12th - April 17th, 2010
Gallery Hours: Fridays 5-10 pm • Saturdays 5-10 pm
Opening: Saturday, March 13th 5-7 pm

Broderick Fine Art Gallery – located “Upstairs at Ruby’s Hotel” at 3689 County Route 67 in Freehold, NY. Visitors there may also dine at Ruby’s where Chef Ana Sporer will treat their taste buds to creatively and freshly prepared culinary delights using the finest in-season organic produce from local purveyors. Sporer was formerly a chef at the Pierre in Manhattan and chef instructor at New York Restaurant School and the Institute of Culinary Education. For directions or more information on Ruby’s call 518-634-2559 • www.rubyshotel.com

For more information on the art contact:
k. velis turan • (518) 731-8615 • kvelisturan@hotmail.com • www.graphicfiber.com
Beaver Lane Studios • 176 Beaver Lane • Earlton, NY 12058-4116

“Torsion” by Elaine Longtemps

Elaine Longtemps

Her piece “Torsion” has been included in the national exhibition GALEX 44 in Galesburg, Illinois.
The show takes place at the Galesburg Civic Art Center, 114 East Main Street, from March 13 to April 10.
The opening is on March 13, from 6-8 PM.

SDA NY Member News February 14, 2010

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Happy Valentine’s Day! There’s a lot going on in New York State right now.

NYS SDA MEMBER QUESTIONNAIRE

You hopefully received a brief questionnaire earlier this week about your ideas for programs and activities that might be of interest to you to be held in New York State.

Tomorrow’s the due date for your responses. PUH-LEESE fill it out.

If you forgot to do it, here is the link again:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFlmUGZNSGlnSmM2S3VvaFBoT0ExU3c6MA

SU FIBER ALUMNI INVITATIONAL EXHIBIT

Jappie King Black’s fiber installation now on display at “Elongating the Thread”

SDA members Barbara Jean Weingart, a silk painter and Jappie King Black, who creates fiber installations, have been selected along with six other textile artists for “Elongating the Thread”, an exhibition of works at Syracuse University XL Gallery, 307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse, NY, February 3 – 27, 2010.

The opening reception is February 18th (Thursday) from 5 to 9. At 5:00 PM several exhibiting artists, including Barbara, will participate in a panel discussion about their work.

ART FROM THE HEART FOR HAITI

Four of Judith Plotner’s fiber collages will be included in “ART FROM THE HEART FOR HAITI”

Dates: February 19 – March 28

Opening Reception Saturday, February 20, 5:00-8:00

Location: Mimosa Gallery
70C Beekman Street
Saratoga Springs, NY

Each year Mimosa Gallery organizes a group show to benefit a different charity. The past fundraisers have been for the American Cancer Society and Alzheimer's Association of Northeastern New York.

The 2010 fundraiser will benefit the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. A percentage of the exhibition's proceeds will be donated to this organization.

The Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund is working towards providing immediate relief and long-term support to Haiti's earthquake survivors. This fund was chosen because 100% of the proceeds go to the re-building of Haiti.

BLOG LINKS GROWING

Please check out the growing list of blog links on our sidebar, both from New York State SDA members and other states/provinces sharing news from fellow SDA members from both the U.S and Canada.

New additions are SDA Colorado and Connecticut.

EVENTS OF INTEREST TO NY SDA ARTWEAR COMMUNITY

Rodarte Show at NDM

http://cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/quicktake/rodarte.asp

Fashion Camp at Parsons

http://www.fashioncamp.org

SDA Member News January 31, 2010

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Introducing New York State’s First Ambassador

New York State SDA has a new ambassador, Gordana Vukovic, who lives in the Albany area. Ambassadors partner with State reps to help design and implement local programs and spread the word about SDA.

Gordana moved to the Capital Region from Arizona several years ago. Soon after she relocated, her love of color, texture, and patterns led her to take classes with Gail Harker, Ruth Issett, Jane Dunnewold, Kerr Grabowski, Elizabeth Busch and others. Gordana's art is best described as layered mixed media. She experiments with materials and techniques, and finds beauty in the ordinary.

Gordana is developing a questionnaire that you’ll soon be receiving via e-mail. It’s short, simple and asks, “What would you like to see happening in New York State for SDA members?” Your suggestions and input will be most appreciated.

A Little Mid-Winter Boost

If winter is starting to wear on you, take a few minutes to watch this video. It’s a nice boost and celebration of the power of creativity, even in the most unlikely places.

Prisoners at the Cela Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines choreograph and perform a dance in the prison yard once a month for visiting family and friends. This year they were visited by Michael Jackson's long time choreographer, who spent several hours with them choreographing and filming a routine from "This Is It."

NY SDA Member News January 10, 2010

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EXHIBITION NEWS

Marilyn Henrion's "Look Again" is included in an exhibition of art quilts from the collection of John Walsh III that will be at the Morris Museum in Morristown New Jersey from January 13 to April 15, 2010. You are invited to attend the opening on Wednesday, January 13, at 6:30 PM.

“At the Opening”, a silk painting by Berenice Pliskin will be on exhibit at the Katonah Museum of Art, 134 Jay Street, Katonah NY, from February 28 – June 13, 2010. Pliskin has been chosen as the featured artist of the Katonah Museum Artist Association.

SELLING VIA INTERNET FORUM DISCUSSION INVITATION

Did you give ETSY or another online sales site a go in 2009? Does your website attract new customers? Do you have information or anecdotes to share about your experiences in the growing online market? What’s hot, what’s oh-so-NOT? If so, would please share them with fellow SDA members! Please contact jeannebeck@gmail.com with your thoughts and experiences in this arena. The input will be posted on future In A New York Minute blogs.

CALL FOR SUGGESTIONS

What would increase the benefits of your SDA membership to you personally? We already have excellent national and regional conferences as well as an excellent magazine and newsletter. Those are national/international in scope and attendance. On a local scale, would you be interested in helping to create new programs, events, exhibitions or special interest groups (wax resist, silk painting, knitting, natural dyeing, felting, wearables, textile design for example) right here in New York State?

Please send your opinions, thoughts and suggestions to jeannerbeck@gmail..com

SDA NY Member News December 27, 2009

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Felted Art by Naomi Tarantal, Steinhardt Staff Member, on Display

Naomi Tarantal, an administrative secretary in Steinhardt's Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions is among 18 artists whose work

Photo: 'What the Arusticated Bear Done Wear,' by Naomi Tarantal; felted wool and found metal. Credit: D. James Dee

is featured in 'Collective,' a multimedia art exhibit sponsored by the Union of Clerical, Administration & Technical Staff (UCATS) and NYU.

Tarantal is a textile artist who works in the ancient medium of felting, combining wool, silk, and fabric along with found metal to create innovative art pieces, as well as hats, shawls, and jewelry, which appear under the label, 'Sveltefelt.'

In keeping with the art’s nomadic roots, Tarantal has traversed the 'Felt Road,’ traveling to Kyrgyzstan to attend the First International Felt Symposium, and most recently to Petäjävesi, Finland, where she studied and exhibited a shawl at an invitational exhibit.

Her piece, 'Licorice on the Lam,' was part of 'Fiber for the Future,’ an exhibit at the A.I.R. Gallery in Chelsea, New York, juried by Matilda McQuaid of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

A graduate of Steinhardt's s tudio art program (BS, '95), Tarantal is a member of the Textile Study Group of New York. 'Collective,' a collaboration between UCATS and NYU, is aimed at showcasing the talents of NYU union members and employees.

Tarantal’s work can be seen in the first-floor windows of the Kimmel Center at 60 Washington Square South. Art is also exhibited in the Kimmel Center's Commuter Lounge Gallery on the 2^nd floor and Stovall Family Gallery on the 8^th floor.

.K. Velis Turan Accepted into NYS MARK Program

MARK is the New York Foundation for the Arts'(NYFA) new statewide six-month program for visual artists who want a unique opportunity for individualized focus on the professional side of their creative practice. MARK is designed to address the concerns of artists living outside of New York City while providing them with a new network statewide. Participating artists can expect MARK to spark goals and help to define concrete steps while providing individual and group feedback on how to better present yourself.

What will the MARK Program include?
- Focus on strategies for expanding your visibility as an artist.
- Curriculum emphasizes goal setting and includes using the internet effectively, strengthening grant or project applications, improving writing and speaking about your work and identifying exhibition opportunities.
- Between seminars, artists will be assigned projects related to their specific goals.
- Individual feedback given to all participants.

(Ed. note: We hope we will get additional reports from K. Velis about this worthwhile program as it unfolds).

Arle Sklar Weinstein

Arle has an upcoming exhibition/installation at Silvermine Guild Arts Center called “IN RELATION TO: An Art Adventure between Jody Silver and Arle-Sklar Weinstein”.

Dates: January 10 – February 19, 2010. Opening Reception January 10, 2-4 PM.

In addition, Sklar-Weinstein, in her role as the BLUE DOOR GALLERY Director, is issuing a call to women artists for an upcoming exhibition called “Women About Woman: A BROAD Introspective Retrospective,” scheduled to open on May 20, 2010. Go to the BLUE DOOR GALLERY website for the Prospectus and more information.

SDA NY Member News December 13, 2009

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Exhibitions

Conversations by Berenice Pliskin

Berenice Pliskin will be showing her silk painting “Conversation” in the exhibit "Interiors", a group show of area artists.

Dates: December 10 – January 31, 2010

Location: Paramount Center for the Arts, 1008 Brown Street, Peekskill, NY (914-739-2333)

Introducing SDA Member Linda Van Alstyne

Pietroglyphs by Linda Van Alstyne

Linda, who has been an SDA member for four years, has been exploring the “endless possibilities of handmade felt” since 1994. Working with felt allows her to sculpt wearable masks and other artful objects. Prior to that she worked with on and off loom weaving, including basket weaving, natural dyeing and spinning.

The Pietroglyph series developed in response to a theme, “What’s out is IN” for the NEFG ‘08 exhibit season. Layered immersion dyeing using reverse stenciling creates the various images, which are then hand stitched together. Shibori dye techniques as well as surface stitching develop further textural contrast and interest.

Linda is the president of the Northeast Feltmakers Guild (NEFG). Linda exhibits her work with NEFG and by invitation to galleries throughout the United States. She also teaches in her home studio and upon request. She will be teaching the FUNdamentals of Feltmaking at Augusta Heritage Center at David Elkins College in the summer, 2010.

Linda is also a doctor of physical therapy who provides specialized treatment for individuals experiencing pelvic pain and dysfunction.

SDA NY Member News November 29, 2009

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HOLIDAY EXHIBIT & SALE

Jewelry by Joanne Espinosa, Painting on Silk by Suzanne Punch and Pottery by Sylvia March

Location: Manhattan -- 119 West 85th St Apt #1 between Columbus and Amsterdam

Dates: December 4-6 and December 11-13

Hours: Friday 4-8 PM, Saturday 1-7 PM, Sunday 1-7 PM and Appointments through December 22, 212-721-4930

Join us at Joanne’s for a festive gather of beautiful objects and wonderful gifts to celebrate the season. REFRESHMENTS AND HOLIDAY CHEER!

A-MAZE-ING HUNGERFORD OPEN STUDIOS DECEMBER 4-5

You're invited to visit Jeanne Beck's studio, #366 (third floor), during A-Maze-Ing Hungerford, a building wide open house and holiday sale.

Dates: Friday, December 4, 5-9 PM and Saturday, 10-5 PM

Location: Hungerford Building, 1115 East Main Street, Rochester, NY.

Enter door #2 or door #5 to get a map that will guide you through the building. Twenty-five artists will open their studios.

Jeanne will be selling original cards and matted works, along with special "Inspiration Packs", clear bags each filled with one pound of fat quarters and half yard pieces of dyed , painted and surface designed silks or cottons to inspire new creations-- or give to a fiber-loving friend! There will also be some bags of sheers and synthetics for sale for those who love glitz and shimmer!

While you stroll, you can listen to musicians playing on each floor and have a bite to eat at the Red Osier booth inside door #2. Play the A-Maze-Ing Hungerford Game (it’s a challenge to find your way through three floors in three buildings to the artists’ studios) and you can enter to win one of a number of door prizes.

Hope you can come join us for A-Maze-Ing Hungerford!

CAROL ANN RICE RAFFERTY

Carol Ann has an art dress in the front window of Luke & Eloy Gallery in Pittsburgh, Pa. Here is the link:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/museums/s_652704.html
Carol Ann’s Devore Scarves as well as other items of apparel are now available on her Facebook page and at:

ShopSCAD Savannah
Burchfield Penny Art Center Store
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Shop

SDA Member News November 16, 2009

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Raylene Marasco, Dyenamix

Dyenamix has been collaborating on a long term project for Guillermo Kuitca. It has been a journey spanning more than a year resulting in one of the pieces (a series of 3, 10ft x 13ft scrim panels, shown above) being featured in his mid-career Retrospective beginning in Miami, traveling to the Walker, the Albright Knox, and ending at the Hirshhorn Museum in DC.

Additionally, Dyenamix printed and Raylene hand painted 25 images that were hand sewn and constructed into a book. This book portion was mentioned in the November issue of W Magazine, sighting Dyenamix as the printers for the "exquisite silk book" based on his drawings.

Dyenamix also printed and painted a Wall Suite comprised of a selection of the book images, at a larger scale and shown framed for the wall.

Check out the November issue of W and look for Dyenamix mention in the article about Guillermo Kuitca. He is truly an artist to watch and Dyenamix is proud to have been able to collaborate with him on these works.

Jeanne Raffer Beck

Jeanne’s piece, “Seeds of Compassion”, has been accepted into Fiberart International 2010.

Jurors Mary Ruth Smith, Rebecca Stevens and Vibeke Riisberg met in mid-September to evaluate over 1,600 works by 703 artists from 30 countries. The jurors chose 87 pieces.

The opening reception will be held on Friday evening, April 16, 2010. Juror Rebecca Stevens will present a talk that evening. There will also be a symposium on April 17 where a number of the selected artists will speak about their work.

SDA NY Member News October 25, 2009

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LARRY SCHULTE

“ Larry Schulte: Pattern and Order” will be at the Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa, December 8, 2009 through March 28, 2010.

Opening Reception, Friday, December 11, 5:30-7:30 PM

Artist's Talk, Saturday, December 12, 1:30 PM

This exhibition contains three bodies of works. The first are 34"x34" woven painted paper pieces based on the Fibonacci Sequence. The second are 12"x12" unique screenprints from the Chaos Series. The third are 30"x22" unique screenprints from the Web/Net/Veil Series.

Flag 3 by Larry Schulte

WNV-16 by Larry Schulte

Barbara L. Kuhnman Foundation, Inc. Fiber Arts and Wearable Arts Scholars Exhibition

The Barbara L. Kuhlman Foundation, Inc. provides annual scholarships to students in the Fiber Arts and Apparel Design programs at Cornell University’s Fiber Science & Apparel Design Human Ecology Department. Here is a sampling of the student scholarship winner pieces that were on display in October at Cornell:

“Monsters Under My Bed”, by Nhu-Thu Nguyen

“Red Skies” by Nicole Castelli

Innovative work by these students – you would have enjoying seeing the creativity and craftsmanship in these pieces.

SDA Member News October 11, 2009

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Sharon Bottle Souva had two pieces chosen for RUDE AND BOLD WOMEN, which was held October 2&3 at 81 State Street (5th floor), Binghamton, NY.

Urban Pathways 2: Curbside, by Sharon Bottle Souva

This annual art show highlights visual and performance women artists from the region and beyond.

See www.rudeandboldwomen.com or find it on facebook.
Two of Sharon’s quilted wallhangings, Moonseed and Urban Pathways 2: Curbside were chosen for the show this year.

Jeanne Raffer Beck will present a lecture, “Written: Word as Image” at SOFA Chicago on Saturday, November 7, at 10:30 AM. In her talk, she'll discuss how combining fragments of contemporary and ancient texts and letterforms with invented language has become a rich source of inspiration for her work.

Phoenix Gallery Reviewing Artists for Membership:

PHOENIX GALLERY, CELEBRATING ITS 51^st YEAR, 210 Eleventh Avenue @ 25^th St., Chelsea, New York, NY 10001, is accepting applications for ACTIVE, INACTIVE or ASSOCIATE membership. Download info from Website: www.phoenix-gallery.com or Send SASE for membership application/or Email: info@phoenix-gallery.com

SDA Member News September 27, 2009

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Cornell University College of Human Ecology Student Exhibition

The Mann Library at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY is currently displaying the Barbara L. Kuhlman Scholars' Fiber Arts & Wearable Arts Exhibition, which runs through October 17th.
Gallery Hours:
Mon through Thurs 8am to midnight. Friday 8am to 6pm. Saturday Noon 6pm. Sunday 10am to midnight.

Patricia Hickman

Eye Chart by Patricia Hickman

Pat Hickman is exhibiting art work in an invitational group show entitled “Designing Women” at the Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, Sept. 12-Oct. 24. She is part of an invitational exhibition, “Knitted, Knotted, Netted” at the Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, Oct. 11, 2009-Jan. 24, 2010. Other artists in that group exhibition, funded by the Coby Foundation, Ltd., include Karen Ciaramella, Abigail Doan, Kazue Honma, Ed Bing Lee, Norma Minkowitz, Ruth Marshall, Leslie Pontz, Ann Coddington Rast, Hisako Sekijima, Noriko Takamiya, and Carol Westfall.

Pat will teach a workshop, “OPENINGS: Knotted and Knotless Netting” at the Hunterdon on Nov. 15.

She is also participating in “Garnerworld”, Oct. 16-Nov. 15, an exhibition celebrating the history of the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center, an old calico factory built in 1838, where she has her studio.

“Through the Eyes”, her solo exhibition, will be at the Phoenix Gallery, NY, Nov. 4-28, 2009.

Patricia Spillane, Barbara Vanseloe, Kris G. Moss, Diane Evans and Joanna Monroe Exhibiting in ARTTA show

As part of the Hyde Museum's "A Season of Degas", the Adirondack Regional Textile Artists' Alliance (ARTAA), has just opened a show at Kris and Joanna’s shared studio in the Shirt Factory, 21 Cooper Street in Glens Falls, NY. All the work in this exhibition is inspired by Degas' "Dancer with Red Stockings", a piece from the Hyde collection.

This show will be up through October 18: Wed - Sat, 10 - 4, and Sun, !2 - 4. More info is available from the Hyde Museum. Participating SDA members are Patricia Spillane, Barbara Vanseloe and Joanna Monroe.

"Grace", 25.5" W x 15" H. Acrylic painted image on satin, commercial cottons, machine quilted using cotton & metallic threads.

Deux Danseuses: Hommage a Edgar Degas, by Diane Evans.

Rouge et Noir, by Joanna Monroe

Ballerina I, by Barbara Vanseloe

Marilyn Henrion

Disturbances 7 by Marilyn Henrion

In conjunction with their major quilt exhibition, “Full Spectrum: Quilts & The Textile Arts”, Binghamton University Art Museum presents internationally recognized quilt artist, Marilyn Henrion, giving a trunk show-lecture chronicling over 30 years of her life and work. Date and Time: October 10, 3-5 PM. Admission: $5. For further information, contact Jack Braunstein, (607) 777-2911.

SDA Member News September 13, 2009

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Suzanne Punch

Liberty House display window featuring work by Suzanne Punch

This month, Suzanne Punch will be featured in articles in both the SDA Newsletter and in the Silkworm, an international journal for silk painters.

Both articles focus on the relationship between Suzanne and Liberty House, a boutique in Manhattan near Columbia University. This store shows both fine art and hand-painted wearables by Suzanne. Often there is one of her large silk paintings in the window, along with BoHo clothing, local artisan-made jewelry, African carvings, folk art furniture and hand-woven rugs.

Mary Hertert is the author of a monthly column in the SDA Newletter. This month’s article is “Business Bites: Marketing- Two Artists’ Perspective”.

She interviews Nelda Warkentin and Suzanne Punch about how they are getting through this economic downturn. Liberty House integrates fine art with the every day life of the store, for the enrichment of all.

Betty Vera

Four of Betty’s Jacquard weavings will be exhibited in “Environs,” a group show at the Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, Oregon, October 2–30, 2009. Opening reception will be Friday, October 2, 6-8 PM. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 11AM - 4PM.

Nest by Betty Vera

“Nest,” Jacquard tapesty, 47 x 46 inches, cotton, 2008, shown on this image, is one of the pieces that Betty will have in the exhibit. Further details of the exhibition are available at www.eou.edu/art.

Kathy Velis Turan

Day Becomes Electric, K. Velis Turan

KATHY VELIS TURAN solo show
September 2nd- September 27th, 2009
Opening: Sunday, September 13th -
2-4pm
Wellington’s Herbs &Spices
649 Rickard Hill Road • Schoharie, NY 12157
518-295-7366 —
Gallery Hours:
Wed-Sat—10am-4pm , Sun—11:30am-4pm
For more information please
contact Kathy Velis Turan
@ 518-731-8615 or
kvelisturan@hotmail.com

Jeanne Raffer Beck

List, Jeanne Raffer Beck, 30” x 30” framed

Three of Jeanne’s pieces will be part of the Empire State College 4th annual art exhibition September 14-30, 2009

Location: Lower Link Gallery, Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, 115 South Ave., Rochester, NY. 14604

Reception: October 1, 2009, 5:30 PM Artist Reception, 6:00 PM Discussion with the Artists

Barbara Hillery Van Elsen

Teaching New Class September 26 – FreeForm Knitting and Crochet

"Swirls, Twirls and Spirals", is a three-hour knitting and crochet class that can be used as an introduction to freeform. You’ll learn patterns and routines that will enable you to play with the colors and textures of different types of yarn and learn how to combine them.

Date: September 26 in the afternoon in Plainview, NY. People can email anjanette.s.cooper@hofstra.edu for a copy of the registration form and more information.

There is also a gallery of some of the class models that can be seen here: http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/7189493

SDA Member News August 30, 2009

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EXHIBITIONS

Jeanne Beck

Jeanne Raffer Beck’s “Parables” is on display at the Ohio Craft Museum’s “Conversations in Fabric”, an exhibition of 30 contemporary quilts that incorporate text, word or language references.

Parables, 42” x 48”, 2008, silk broadcloth, screenprinted, machine and hand stitching.

Barbara Murak

Memories III, 151/4” x 25.5”, monoprint, machine quilted

Barbara Murak’s “Memories II” and “Memories III” monoprint quilts have been accepted into the Art in Craft Media 2009 exhibit at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, running from Sept. 12- January 3, 2010.

Barbara will also be in the Invitational Exhibit for those artists who have been accepted to 4 or more shows (this is her 6th), that are judged by curators from U.S. Art Museums.

Gordana Vukovic

"MARK-Makers"
Nine artists, all New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) MARK Program 2008 Award Recipients, display nine ways of making their marks in oil, sculpture, textile, mezzotint, mixed media, installation, and video. Participating artists: Julie Casper Roth, Brendan Cohan, Katarina Holbrook, Gail Kort, Mara Lefebvre, Ingrid Ludt, Rebekah Rice, Denise Saint-Onge, and Gordana Vukovic

Where: The Arts Center of the Capital Region, President's Gallery, Troy
When: From September 19 through October 16, 2009
PRICE: Free
PHONE: 273-0552
Opening Reception: 5-9pm, September 25, 2009
Gallery Talk: 1:30pm, September 27, 2009

PUBLICATION

Sharon Bottle Souva

The Syracuse Cultural Workers have chosen Sharon’s "Above The Falls" for their 2010 Poster Calendar. It can be purchased through www.syracuseculturalworkers.com
They also have a Woman Artist Datebook available where another of her quilts "Autumn Reflections" was selected for 2010.

FOR SALE

For Sale:
Panasonic Wide Carriage Dot Matrix Printer KX-P2624,
with desktop stand, parallel cable, and documentation.
Worked fine when last used a few years ago. Husband reluctantly parting with it.
The KX-P2624 was well regarded and beloved before laser printers took over.
$75.00 in cash.
If interested, please contact:
Bonnie Epstein
Phone: 212-866-0386
bonnie.epstein@earthlink.net

SDA Member News August 16, 2009

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AWARDS

Congratulations to SDA member Jappie King Black, who has been named one of the 2009 recipients of a NYFA grant. Below are samples of the work that have earned her this highly competitive and distinguished grant award.

Collection 2009 is a mixed media installation, approximately 12' x 30' x 4'. It was made using various techniques: coiling, crochet, twining and wrapping of grapevine, bark, fiber, wood, wire, wax and quills.

Three Figures is a grapevine and bark sculpture approximately 6' x 7' x 8'. It was part of Evolution 20 @ 10 at the Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, New Jersey.

Jappie lives in Brockport, New York and teaches during the school year at Kean University in Union, New Jersey.

EXHIBITION NEWS

An exhibition of Larry Schulte’s paper-weave paintings and prints, "Weaving Cosmic Reality into Art" is on display at Bayer Healthcare in Montville, NJ and Wayne, NJ from July 9 – November 4, 2009.

NEW MEMBER?

Are you a new member? We’d like to introduce you and your work to other NY State members on our SDA blog.

LINKS TO SHARE?

Many of us stumble across excellent links to websites and blogs that can inspire, inform or entertain. Please send links and we’ll post them on this blog.

ITEMS TO SELL?

My bullet steamer found a new home thanks to my announcing it was for sale on this blog. You can list items here too!

SDA Member News May 25, 2009

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"Lotus Shoe: Grandmother Chen" by Joan Pao.

SDA member Joan Pao's "Lotus Shoe:Grandmother Chen" will be part of the "Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories" exhibit at Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak Street, Brockton, MA, June 6,2009 - January 3, 2010. Opening reception Sunday, June 14, 2009, 2-5 PM.

Joan constructed this shoe in memory of her paternal grandmother. She also made a "Lotus Shoe: Grandmother Wong" for her maternal grandmother as well. Both grandmothers had their feet bound. To recreate the shoes they wore, Joan used polyester curtain fabric with straight pins.

Larry Schulte's exhibit of woven painted paper at the Lobby Gallery of 499 Park Avenue, NYC, has been extended through June 30, 2009.

SDA Member News May 18, 2009

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EXHIBITION NEWS

River Notes by Judith Plotner

Four new fiber works by Judith Plotner, Gloversville, will be in juried exhibitions around the country. "River Notes", one of two pieces inspired by a kayaking trip in the Adirondacks, will be included in Images 2009 at the Robeson Gallery at Pennsylvania State University from June 10-July 12, 2009, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Arts Festival.

Another piece from this series, "Notes on a Stream," will be in Quilt National at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio, opening May 22 - September 7. The show will then travel for two years. For a list of venues please go to the Quilt National website.

Judy will also have two pieces in the upcoming show, "Musings", at the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, MI this summer.

Jeanne Beck's "Parables 3" will be on display at "The Quilted Surface V", May 18 - June 20, 2009, at the Columbus Cultural Arts Center, 139 W Main Street, Columbus, OH 43215.

MEETING NOTICE

The Textile Study Group of New York (TSGNY) invites you to its next meeting.

Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM

Speaker: Mia Pearlman

Location: Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist
40 East 35th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues), New York City

Admission:
$5 special guest fee for members of other textile organizations
$10 for unaffiliated guests attending a TSGNY meeting

REMINDER: JOHN MARSHALL MINI-WORKSHOP FRIDAY, MAY 22 at All Things Art, Canandaigua, NY, 7-9 PM.

SDA Member News April 26, 2009

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CORRECTION ON JOHN MARSHALL CLASS

CLASS OPENINGS-- My apologies, I listed the wrong date for this class last week, so let's try again.

John Marshall's class on traditional Japanese Katazome has ONE opening left.

Dates: May 19- 24, 2009.
Location: All Things Art, 65 South Main Street, Canandaigua, NY
Cost: $575 plus $140 materials fee.

Michele Whipplinger's class on African Mudcloth, learning how to use tannins and traditional mud dyes plus a session on indigo dyeing has ONE opening.
Dates: August 13 -15, 2009
Location: All Things Art, 65 South Main Street, Canandaigua, NY
Cost: $425 plus $85 materials fee.

If you are interested in attending either one of these excellent classes, please contact Sara Burnett at sjburnett@frontiernet.net

EXHIBITION NEWS

Elaine Longtemps

Corkgun by Elaine Longtemps

"Corkgun", a statement about gun control, responds to the story of an inner city boy playing cops and robbers with his friends and a toy cork- gun. Security police mistook him for a real gunman and fatally shot him.

"Bearing Witness: Arts as Social Action"
Dates: May 17 - June 20, 2009
Opening Reception May 29
Hours: Wed - Sat, 12-6, Sun 12-4

ARC Gallery
832 W. Superior St., #204
Chicago, IL 60622

Larry Schulte

"S068" by Larry Schulte, 20" x 20", printed in an edition of five.

Larry Schulte had a print selected by curator Polly Apfelbaum for the International Print Center exhibition, "New Prints 2009/Spring." IPCNY is located at 526 West 56th Street, 8th floor, New York City.

The exhibition will run through May 30th.

Arle Sklar-Weinstein

"A Local Gallery Spreads Its Wings" by Susan Hodara This is a link to an article about the new gallery.

A juried exhibition of 37 works inaugurates the Blue Door Gallery, located at 13 Riverdale Avenue, Yonkers, NY. Hours are Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-5 PM and Friday, 2 - 7 PM.

Arle Sklar-Weinstein, Director
Blue Door Gallery
Cell: 914-584-6291

Patricia McKasty, Manager
Blue Door Gallery
BDG 914-375-5100

OTHER NEWS

Barbara Murak presented a hands-on workshop, Fabric Painting and Printmaking Techniques, at The Society for the Arts in Healthcare's 20th Annual International Conference, April 22-25.
The Center for the Arts at the State University of New York at Buffalo hosted this year's conference, highlighting the new Healthcare Initiative at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Women and Children's Hospital in Buffalo.

SDA Member News April 19, 2009

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CLASS OPENINGS

John Marshall's class on traditional Japanese Katazome has ONE opening left.

Dates: May 19- 24, 2009.
Location: All Things Art, 65 South Main Street, Canandaigua, NY
Cost: $575 plus $140 materials fee.

Michele Whipplinger's class on African Mudcloth, learning how to use tannins and traditional mud dyes plus a session on indigo dyeing has ONE opening.
Dates: August 13 -15, 2009
Location: All Things Art, 65 South Main Street, Canandaigua, NY
Cost: $425 plus $85 materials fee.

To register or ask additional questions about these classes or future ones, please contact Sara Burnett by phone at 585-554-3540 or via e-mail at sjburnett@frontiernet.net

EXHIBITIONS

Bonnie Epstein's work is included in Pulp Function, an exhibition of contemporary works made of paper at the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, from March 28 -June 28, 2009.

Pulp Function was curated by Lloyd Herman and organized by the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA where it opened in June 2007. It has traveled to venues across the country since January 2008. The James A Michener Art Museum is Pulp Function's last venue.

BULLET STEAMER FOR SALE

Contact Jeanne Beck at beckwriter@aol.com if you are interested in purchasing a stainless steel full-size bullet steamer. It does not have an inner core but it does work. I bought it used and have used it only once. Cost: $150. They sell for about $1100 new now. Would be ideal for a fiber arts program at a college or university or for a production silk painter.

SDA Member News March 30, 2009

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Special Evening Lecture by John Marshall
Date: Friday, May 22, 7-9 PM
Location: Ontario County Arts Council Building, 65 South Main St., Canandaigua, NY 14424
Tickets Available at the door: $35

Elaine Longtemp's Trapped has been selected by Roy Slade for inclusion in the Katharine Butler Gallery 4th Annual National Exhibition in Sarasota, Florida.

March 27 to April 26, 2009
Tuesday - Friday, 12 -5 PM, Saturday April 15 - May 9, 2009
Towles Court
1943 Morrill Street
Sarasota, FL 3423612 -3 PM, or by appointment

Artists Reception in the Towles Court Courtyard April 17, 2009, 6 - 10 PM

Clay- Fiber- Metal- Wood
at Indigo Art - 74 Allen Street - Buffalo, NY 14202 - 716-984-9572

An exciting opportunity to see the accomplished work of six members of the Buffalo State College Design faculty:

Jozef Bajus - Sunhwa Kim - Tara Nahabetian - Stephen Saracino - Carol Townsend - Robert Wood

Artists' Reception: Friday, April 3, 6 - 9 PM.

Surface Design Classes
SDA member Sara Burnett is sponsoring a variety of surface design classes in the Rochester area. Although classes with John Marshall and Jorie Johnson are currently filled, there are three spaces in Michelle Whipplinger's three-day class, "Mudcloth with Mud Pigments and Tannins" (with an afternoon of indigo dyeing), scheduled for the week of August 11-17, 2009 (exact dates not available yet.). If you are interested in attending this class or would like to be on Sara's contact list for future classes, please send your contact information (e-mail, phone number and mailing address) to Sara at sjburnett@frontiernet.net.

Hijacked Blog; New Address

Jeanne Beck's blog Exploring the Surface fell into the hands of ruthless pirates. If any of you were readers and wondered why the address suddenly brought up a random spam ad site, that's pretty much it's sad demise. If you would still like to read about Jeanne's art explorations, it's now on line again with a new name, Art by Jeanne Beck.

SDA Member News March 9, 2009

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Fiber + Thread = Art

SDA member Natalya Aikens is one of 31 fiber artists participating in this exhibit at the Mohopac Public Library. Please check the library website for hours and directions.

The exhibitors in Fiber + Thread = Art are all members of a fiber arts group that meets in Somers, NY. The members hail from surrounding areas in Westchester County, Dutchess County and Eastern Connecticut. Many people in the group are also members of SAQA.

The show opened March 2 and the work will be on display until April 3.

Women's History Month Celebration Exhibit in Buffalo

The Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County, the New York State Council on the Arts and Empire State College SUNY, in collaboration with National Fuel, are proud to celebrate Women's History Month with the third Virginia Weiss Invitational exhibition. Select local women artists will commemorate Virginia Weiss' legacy through their art.

SDA member Barbara Murak is one of the Western New York women who has been invited to participate in the exhibition.

This year's exhibition theme is Silver Linings. The exhibition, open March 6-31, 10 AM - 5 PM weekdays, will be held at Empire State College, Appletree Business Park, 2875 Union Road, Cheektowaga, NY, 14227. Please contact Empire State College at 716-686-7800 and check availability before visiting as the viewing schedule is subject to change.

SDA Member News March 1, 2009

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Textile Study Group News
Lectures and Workshops

A Lecture/Demo by D.James DeeThursday, March 12, 6:30 - 9:30 PM
The SOHO Photographer's Studio
12 Wooster Street (1st floor)
New York, NY 10013

Open to Non-members for $35.00
Seating limited to 25

James Dee's lecture will cover most aspects of shooting with a digital camera: 1.Lighting: Quality vs. quantity and the proper exposure. 2. The camera: technology terms, their meanings and where to use them; file formats and exposure. 3. Camera specifics: manual vs. automatic, what each means and what each does (you may bring your camera). 4.Choice of file formats: raw, tiff or jpg. 5. Post production: what to do with a file after you shoot the picture. 6. Question and answer.

D. James Dee opened his studio in 1974 to provide photography of the highest quality at affordable rates for the art community. Many TSGNY members have been his customers.

TSGNY Class for Knitters and Crocheters

Saturday, March 14, 12:00 - 5:00 PM

Ann Loeb's apartment:
1111 Park Avenue, #10A (at 90th St.)
New York, NY

Spend an adventurous afternoon making fabulous fabric using a diversity of yarns and stitches. Under Arlene Mintzer's expert guidance, participants will knit or crochet their own swatches, switching between techniques as inspiration directs and changing from one traditional or nontraditional material to another. You might choose to exchange swatches and continue working while learning from someone else's creative approach. Come and play. Good basic skills are required.

Arlene Mintzer has been a faculty member at Parsons School of Design for 29 years. She has taught workshops throughout the country, most recently in New York City at Habu Textiles and the Museum of Art and Design.

Limited to 10 participants. Deadline for payment is March 7. Non refundable unless the workshop is filled.

For each individual lecture/demo and workshop, please mail your name, address, phone number and e-mail address with check payable to Textile Study Group of New York c/o Barbara Arlen, 210 E. 68th St., #6E, New York, NY, 10065

Call or write Barbara if you have any questions: 212-628-1289 /b.arlen@mac.com

Discover Hidden Hungerford
Artists' Studios' Open House

Hungerford Building
1115 East Main Street
Rochester, NY

Friday, March 5, 2009
5 PM - 9 PM

It's a first! Over 25 artist studios in the converted Hungerford factory building will be open to the public on Friday, March 1st as part of Rochester's growing First Friday gallery opening nights.

Visit Jeanne Raffer Beck's studio, #366, enjoy a glass of wine and see selected works from her Pages, Parables and Seeds series.

All visitors will have a chance to enter their names in a drawing to win one of her "Notations" pieces.

SDA Member News February 22, 2009

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UPCOMING AND CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Arle Sklar Weinstein at ART EXPO

Pat Hickman at GAGA Arts Center
BETWEEN THE LINES
Three Artists:Three Processes

GAGA Arts Center, 55 W. Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY
March 13 - April 4, 2009

Artists Opening Reception: Friday, March 13, 6-9 PM.

The use of line is the central element in this exhibition, which includes drawings, paintings and sculptures by Ursula Schneider, Ann Pachner and Pat Hickman.

SDA member Pat Hickman is a Professor Emeritus of the Art Department, University of Hawaii, and has a studio at the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center. Hickman twice received NEA Individual Artist Grants. In 2005, she was elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council. She is also President of the Textile Society of America.

GAGA is located at the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center in the Village of West Haverstraw,Rockland County. For directions and additional information, visit the GAGA website or email gaga@garnervillearts.com

Linda Abrams at The Graphic Eye
Melange, The Graphic Eye
301 Main St, Port Washington, NY
March 4, March 29, 2009

Opening Reception: Sunday, March 8, 2PM - 6 PM
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays-Sundays, 12-5 PM

Reflections by Linda Abrams

Linda Abrams is one of three new members being introduced at this upcoming exhibition at The Graphic Eye. Linda's award winning quilts, as well as her prints and photographs, will be displayed in the show along with work by Dr. Ray Saperstein and Sharon Bourke.

Linda is an award winning art quilter. She recently won an award for her quilt "On the Move" in Tokyo, Japan's Quilt Nihon International Quilt Competition. Her work hung in the Metropolitan Museum in Tokyo and is currently traveling with the exhibit for two years.

DYENAMIX LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE FOR ITS HOME COLLECTION
President Raylene Masarco of Dyenamix Inc. reports that the company's home collection has been growing and it was time to separate the service end of her business from Dyenamix as a brand. In addition to their two existing showrooms, the company has recently acquired a west coast showroom called Sloan Miyasato, which is located in the San Francisco Design Center Showplace.

At the beginning of February, Raylene participated in "Design San Francisco:, a design conference geared toward architects and interior designers. The presentation was met with great enthusiasm from the audience, who realized they were able to customize our patterns to suit their client needs. The new website allows the designers a glimpse at the applications of our patterns in "room vignettes" or provides an overview of the entire line in "collection."

Please view DYNAMIX' new website --- (http:www.DYENAMIXHOME.com) -- and pass it along to any designers that you feel would benefit from the collection.

SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITY
Deadline: June 1, 2009. Phoenix Gallery, NY, Fellowship Program 2009. The Phoenix Gallery, celebrating its 51st year, will sponsor a 2009-10 Fellowship Program.

Fellowship Benefits: Sponsored membership in Phoenix Gallery in 2009-10 for 18 months, a solo exhibition in the gallery and participation in member group shows. Access to the gallery space and resources during membership. Please go to http://phoenix-gallery.com/opportunities.html and see "Fellowship Prospectus" for further information. Phoenix Gallery, 210 Eleventh Avenue @ 25th St., 902, New York, NY 10001. 212-226-6711.

SDA Member News February 8, 2009

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Blog Recommendations:The New York Public Library has fascinating blogs. Two that may be of particular interest to SDA members are Handmade and Fashion History

February Meeting Textile Study Group of New York

Felt artist Janice Arnold will speak about felt making.
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist, Hall of Worship
40 East 35th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues)
New York City, NY

Admission: $5.00 special guest fee for members of other textile organizations
$10 fee for unaffiliated guests

Exhibition News

Elaine Longtemp's piece "Adieu Ma Bonne Amie", 14"h x 22" W x 14.5", has been juried into and awarded Honorable Mention in the 23rd Annual Juried Show, 2009, presented at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. The show runs February 13 - March 27, 2009; an opening reception will be held Feb. 13, 6:00 - 8:00 PM.
The two-part piece was created in memory of a dear friend, Sherry Miller, who died of breast cancer in 2007. During Sherry's five year battle with cancer, Elaine hung one part of the piece in her studio, where it was protected, and one part outside, where it battled the elements as Sherry battled her illness. After she died, Elaine took the outside piece down and made it into "An Unexpected Turn." Then she dismantled the second piece and created "Adieu Ma Bonne Amie", which is French for "Farewell My Good Friend.

Julie Branch has a piece in "A Common Thread 2009", Annual Textile Center Members Exhibition at the Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN, January 16 - February 21, 2009.

Berenice Pliskin invites you to a solo exhibit of her silk paintings in Pound Ridge, NY. She would be happy to arrange a guided tour of the exhibition for SDA members; please write her at silk.art@verizon.net if you are interested.

Panel Discussion at Phoenix Gallery

Need, Demand, Desire: Reevaluating the Artists' Artifact, will be presented at the Phoenix Gallery, 210 Eleventh Avenue @ 25th St, Suite 902, New York, NY on February 19th at 7:00 PM in conjunction with the show Fluidity and Fragments featuring the work of Joan Harmon, Pat Hickman and Barbara Yontz.

Panel members Janet Thormann, Jeanne Gerrity and Jill Magi will examine a question: what is the artists' role and the artifact produced in the current commodity market? Need, Demand, Desire: Reevaluating the Artists'Artifact will bring together a theorist, curator, poet, video artist and architect to discuss the complex role of the artists' artifact in a culture geared towards consumerism. What makes the art object different from a Pottery Barn couch, a commercial jingle or a well-crafted phrase?

SDA Update February 1, 2009

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Barbara Schauwecker and Tom Hohmann Invitation

Tom and Barbara have been living in Bedford Stuyvesant, NY for the past seven years. Barbara enjoys making one of a kind garments for her company, Bobbi Clothes, making music with the experimental group, Animental, and hanging out in parks with their dog Jimmy. Tom enjoys fishing, reading Native American poetry as well as playing music with the Usaisamonster and Elvish Presley. This is Barbara and Tom's second collaborative art show. Their first, "new Wijiji, New Age Frontier, was shown at
Mountain Fold Gallery, in September, 2008.

If you'd like to see more of their elf themed work, visit their etsy site

Exhibition Dates Extended

Due to the overwhelming response, Lyons Wier-Ortt Gallery has extended the "Narrative Thread" exhibition for one more week.

EXHIBITION CLOSES: Monday, February 9, 2009
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 11-7, Sunday 12-6.

SDA Update January 26, 2009

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Berenice Pliskin's "Hudson View towards Hoboken" now on display at the Paramount Center for the Arts, through February 28.

REVIEW OF "NARRATIVE THREAD" by Bonnie Epstein

LAST WEEK FOR THIS EXHIBITION -- CLOSES JAN 31.If you are interested in hand embroidery and will be in NYC this week, try to see Narrative Thread. Co-curated by Orly Cogan and Michael Lyons Wier, Narrative Thread is an invitational exhibition featuring the work of 15 international fiber artists.

Narrative Thread
Lyons Wier- Ortt Gallery
175 Seventh Avenue @ 20th St, NYC, NY
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 AM - 7 PM.

Bonnie wrote: "As a hand embroiderer I was particularly intrigued by the work of three of the exhibiting artists: Cayce Zavaglia, Darrel Morris and Adam Cohen.

Each of them chose embroidery after having worked in other media, and it is immediately obvious that each is well aware of the potential of his or her new medium. Their work is fresh, honest, straight forward and deliciously untainted by trite embroidery-related irony, prejudice or politics.

Zavaglia's background as a painter is definitely evident in her powerfully expressive stitched portraits. Both "Elly" and "Gregg" appear to have been painted with a carefully wielded palette knife rather than with a needle and yarn.

Morris's intimate, evocative, snapshot-like scenes such as "Homemade Hair Cut" and "My Brother's Keeper" are composed of applique covered with richly textural stitching.

Cohen, a glass and wood artist in his early twenties, discovered stitching while studying in Japan. Each of his meticulously outlined and satin stitched robotic army ants and his "Killer Bee" stand in stark contrast to its camouflage fabric environment. Cohen's work is glaringly political without apology, but the political message is totally unrelated to his medium."

SDA Update January 18, 2009

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TEXTILE STUDY GROUP OF NEW YORK PROGRAM

Mordant Tears by Polly Baron, 48" x 48", Pictorial ikat, painted ikat warp.

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The Textile Study Group of New York (TSGNY) invites you to attend a presentation by artist Polly Barton at their January Meeting.

Date and Time: 7:00 PM on Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Location: Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist, 40 East 35th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues), New York City, NY
Admission: $5.00 Special Guest Fee for members of other textile organizations;$10 Fee for unaffiliated guess attending a TSGNY meeting.

ROCHESTER, NY OPENING NIGHT FOR RAFA "NEW YEAR, NEW DIRECTIONS" EXHIBITION

Despite an Arctic front that held temperatures in the single digits, a record-setting 211 people attended the opening reception for Rochester Area Fiber Artists' (RAFA) new exhibit at the city's Arts and Cultural Council Gallery. NY State Rep Jeanne Beck's "Parables 4" is one of the pieces in the exhibition.

"New Year, New Directions" features work by 23 RAFA members; visit the exhibition Mon - Fri, 10 AM- 4:00 PM until January 30, 2009 at Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Gallery, 271 North Goodman St., Rochester, NY.

EXHIBITION

One of Berenice Pliskin's silk paintings, "Hudson View towards Hoboken" is currently being shown in a group exhibition by area artists at the Paramount Center for the Arts. The Paramount Center for the Arts is located at 1008 Beacon Street, Peekskill, NY.

January 11, 2009 Updates

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CYNTHIA SCHIRA IN ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM'S 30TH JURIED SHOW

JAZZ, by Cynthia Schira, 72" h x 108" w, woven on a Jacquard loom, is part of the Allentown Art Museum's 30th Juried Show, February 1- April 26, 2009.

The opening reception is January 31st, 6:00 - 8:00 PM. The Allentown Art Museum is located at 31 North 5th Street, Allentown, PA, 18108.

NEW YORK GUILD OF HANDWEAVERS WORKSHOP OFFERED

Silk Fusion with Karen Selk
1 1/2 day workshop

Presented by the New York Guild of Handweavers at the School for Visual Arts
214 East 21st St, New York, NY.

Saturday, March 28, 2009, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM and Sunday, March 29,2009, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM.

$120.00 members/$140.00 nonmembers. Materials fee: $75 per person, paid at workshop.

Send your registration check to: New York Guild of Handweavers c/o Susan Weltman, 71 Carroll St., Apt 5C, Brooklyn, NY 11231.

OPENING: PATTERNS AND PROGRESSIONS, LARRY SCHULTE: 25 YEARS ON PAPER
THE LOBBY GALLERY AT 499 PARK AVENUE

First News of 2009!

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Piggy Back by Elaine Longtemps

Elaine Longtemps Openings

Elaine Longtemps' piece, "Piggy Back", has been juried into the Allentown Art Museum's 30th Juried Show, February 1 - April 26, 2009. If you are interested in attending the opening on January 31st, 6 -8 PM, please RSVP by January 29 by e-mailing events@allentownartmuseum.org The Allentown Art Museum is located at 31 North 5th Street, Allentown, PA 18101.

Another work by Elaine, "We Are But One World", shown in a previous SDA blog, will be included in CONTINUUM at the George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ, 07042 from March 10 - April 11, 2009. An opening reception will be held on March 14, 2:00 - 5:00 PM.

INVITATION:

You are cordially invited to attend the opening reception Thursday, January 8, 6-8 PM, for "Economies of Scale", a juried exhibition of miniature works in fiber created by the artist members of the Textile Study Group of New York at the Phoenix Gallery. Dates: January 7-31, 2009.

Location: Phoenix Gallery, 210 Eleventh Avenue at 25th Street, Suite 902, New York City. Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11:30 AM - 6:00 PM.

"On the Move" by Linda Abrams, 53" w x 57" l.

Linda Abrams Announcement
Linda Abram's work, "Wild Woman" won an award at the Quilt Nihon Japan, was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum in Tokyo and has been part of a traveling exhibit.

Linda describes this piece in her artist statement as "two powerful figures on the move. They are moving out of darkness into the light with conviction and vigor, confident and proud."

Learn more about Linda's art and multiple techniques for creating her work by visiting her website.

Ringing In a New Year!

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ART/PLACE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION AT HOUSATONIC MUSEUM

Works from Arle-Sklar Weinstein's "Artist Portrait Project" are on display as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of Art/Place artists at Housatonic Museum in Bridgeport, CT. The Museum's press release states,"A highlight will be a wall with a grid of artist portraits created by member Arle Sklar-Weinstein."

The seeds of the project sprouted in 2007 when Arle was participating in an artist residency in Spain. This inspired her Artist Portrait Project, a series of photo montages of eight international artists and writers. Arle explains that her artist portraits are usually transferred to fabric and then stitched; the works in this current exhibit are 16" x 20" gallery wrapped canvas portraits.

Art Consultant and Reviewer Camilla Cook writes that Arle's work "captures the essence and soul of each artist and their work, but it is the selection of 'artifacts' and montage presentations that displays her astute eye."

Arle will be giving an artist talk and doing a book signing at the exhibition on January 8, 2009, 5:30-7:00 PM.

OFF THE GRID Registration Reminder

It's time to send in your registration for the 2009 Surface Design Association Conference "Off the Grid." For more information, visit the Surface Design Association website.

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Fiber Design Program – Runway 4.0 & Display Sneak Preview

SDA Member News March 27, 2011

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Member News March 13, 2011

Location: Pierce Arrow Building 1685 Elmwood Avenue

4:00pm show

Available at Rockwell Hall Box office’s on Buffalo State College Campus, Please call 716-878-3005 or visit.

General $20

Student $10

*doors open @ 3:00pm

8:30pm show: Tickets $100 VIP, $50 Reserved and $30 General Seating

VIP

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ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE FASHION TECHNOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP FUND!

SDA NY Member News February 20, 2011

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The Joys of the Season to You and Yours!

SDA Member News December 19, 2010

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Betty Vera, Red: Five, 13.5 x 13.5 inches, Jacquard damask, cotton and synthetic fibers

Betty Vera, Stack: Top, 13.5 x 20.5 inches, Jacquard damask, cotton and rayon

SDA Member News -- April 25, 2010

Betty Vera, Gesture, 27 x 41 inches, Jacquard damask, cotton and rayon. Photo: D. James Dee. Winner of the Director’s Award, Fiberart International 2010.

Fiberart International 2010

SDA Member News -- April 12, 2010

Special Edition

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SDA NY Member News February 28, 2010

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SDA Member News January 31, 2010

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Felted Art by Naomi Tarantal, Steinhardt Staff Member, on Display

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SDA Member News February 22, 2009

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SDA Update February 1, 2009

SDA Update January 26, 2009

SDA Update January 18, 2009

January 11, 2009 Updates

First News of 2009!

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