Category: Art
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Tech Tuesday: Threading Motion Project – Quilt Vignettes
Sometimes it isn’t the technology that’s new, it’s what a person does with it. I must admit, I’m not usually a big fan of video art installations, but Merli V. Guerra’s video at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles had me riveted. To create Threading Motion Project: Quilt Vignettes, Guerra chose six quilts…
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Batik Watercolor Class At Blue Line Arts
We’ll be teaching a mini-version of our batik watercolor quilt class at Blue Line Arts in Roseville, CA on Saturday, June 22, 2013. You can sign up here: http://www.rosevillearts.org/events/adultworkshopseries.html. What’s different about this class, you might ask? To begin with, no sewing required! Painters, sculptors, politicians, and athletes alike can try their hand at this. Second,…
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Quilt National Part II
Here it is, our Quilt National entry. It’s called “American Still Life: The Weight of the Nation.” Here’s a detail below: You can click on the thumbnail to see the larger image. We wanted to create a still life. It seems as if every artist tries at one time or another to create a still…
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Book Giveaway – We Have A Winner!
We had fun reading what people would wrap in a furoshiki. We randomly drew a winner. Congratulations to Sharon, who said: “I would wrap my daughter’s birthday present, because I know when she gives me mine she would reuse it to wrap my present!” Hey, that sounds good to us! Our favorite wrap is the…
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Road Trip to Quilt National Part I
We made it to Pendleton, IN after spending an hour on the tarmac in Chicago, trying to avoid getting hit by lightening. We are spending a great time with our dear friend, Sherry Boram, enjoying a relaxing stay before the hullabaloo starts in Athens, OH. And what better way to start than with food. …
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Celebrate Radio And Win A Book!
Our segment on American Patchwork and Quilting Radio is today! You can listen live at 4 p.m. ET or wait for the recording to be posted. Click here to listen. We had so much fun chatting with Pat Sloan, that we wanted to celebrate the show with you. Pat asked us a lot of questions…
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Tech Tuesday: Try The Radio!
We just finished taping our segment for next Monday’s edition of American Patchwork and Quilting Radio. We hope you’ll “tune” in then. Okay, so it’s not your grandparents’ radio. You can listen to the show live via your computer, listen to previous broadcasts, or download different shows via iTunes (for free!). So, what was it…
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Batik Watercolor in Miniature
Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) is holding its annual conference this year in Santa Fe. Whoopee is all I have to say! Never having been there and having to listen to all of Deb’s ravings about the place – not to mention a blog post about the Folk Art Market – I can’t wait. I’m…
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Ode To Sacratomato
The Northern California/Northern Nevada Region of Studio Art Quilts Associates (SAQA) is mounting its first regional exhibit this April. We had always wanted to organize an exhibit when we were the regional representatives, but it remained our big regret. So, when Franki Kohler organized one in Oakland, we jumped at the change to submit. Titled “Put…
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High Tech Quilts
Welcome back. Today you can see what fun I had with parts I gleaned from taking apart computer hard drives, cd burners and cell phones. At our Studio Art Quilt Associates convention in Santa Fe, we’re going to have a silent auction of miniature art quilts just for people at the conference. This will be…
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See Us In “Metropolis” at the Blue Line Gallery
Kris likes to celebrate her birthday MONTH (January), but sometimes the DAY (Jan 10) can also be extra special. This is gonna be a good one. Our piece, “Hong Kong in Yellow” opens today at the Blue Line Gallery in Roseville, CA. The exhibit, Metropolis, focuses on cityscapes. “Hong Kong in Yellow” is really a peek…
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Don’t Forget to Wrap Your Holiday Gifts in Furoshiki!
If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you already know that we love furoshiki – the Japanese art of wrapping in cloth. Now that the holidays are upon us, we’ve started wrapping our gifts up – in furoshiki of course. What we love about furoshiki is that the object actually determines the type of…
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Going Local
The Pixeladies have gone local! We decided we haven’t done much on the local art scene, so we decided to go very local. Deb spent most of her adolescent years in Rancho Cordova, a former suburb of Sacramento and now its very own city, so we submitted three of our scarves for its first digital…
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SAQA Auction Starts Today!
If you’ve been following our blog, you might remember that we both wrote about our dream collections from the SAQA auction. Studio Art Quilt Associates holds a yearly online auction to benefit its programs. You won’t believe how many great pieces of art are available! Here are our dream collections again. But don’t trust us…
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Curating a Dream Collection Part II
Well, Deb had so much fun curating a dream collection of 12″ sq. art quilts for SAQA’s Benefit Auction (the online auction starts September 10, 2012), that I just had to try it, too. Where to start? I could have just stayed on the first auction page and created a dream collection from there, but…
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Curating a Dream Collection
Kermit the frog sang about how it’s not easy being green. Well, it’s not easy being a curator either. Just try choosing six 12” square quilts from the 394 quilts donated to the Studio Art Quilt Associates’ (SAQA) benefit auction. That was the opportunity given to us by Executive Director Martha Sielman. Six quilts, SIX,…
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Beatrice Lanter, Masters II, and Titling Artworks
We received our copy of Masters: Art Quilts, Volume II a while ago but have yet to review it on our blog. Of course, lots of people have beaten us to the punch because it’s such a rewarding find: good quality photography, well chosen photo details, and helpful essays on 40 accomplished artists. Martha Sielman…
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Amber Waves of Grain: Tetsunori Kawana’s Bamboo Sculptures
For this post, we’re heading back to Denver again. I just love it when you go to a favorite spot and there’s something new to capture your attention. The Denver Botanic Gardens has once again come through for me. For the past few years, they’ve commissioned site-specific art for the garden. This year, in the…
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Denise Wallace
Okay, I’ve got to add a museum to our list of favorite museums. Denver Art Museum has been one of my faves for quite a while. Last month I went to DAM with a friend to see the Yves St. Laurent show and Madeline Albright’s collection of pins. Both were good, but I have to…
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Top 10 Reasons to See the Gaultier Exhibit in San Francisco
The Pixeladies met up with fellow artists Dee Danley-Brown and Susan Else as well as Kris’ big sis, Noni, to take the trek over to the city to see the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit at the De Young Museum. As the four of us left the exhibit, we all just looked at each other and…
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Book Giveaway!
C&T, our wonderful publisher, is giving away a copy of our new book! Follow this link for more details. The giveaway runs through February 26. Everyone’s support of our book is just the bee’s knees! By the way, we love going to consignment shops and thrift stores in search of vintage scarves to use as…
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The Book is Here – Party on March 24!
We drove down to Concord, home of C&T Publishing, this past Tuesday and picked up a few copies of our book, Furoshiki Fabric Wraps. Let’s say we were pretty excited when we sold our very fist copy to Wanda of the Piecemakers Guild in Newark. We are giving free wrapping demos at Shared Stitches in…
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Now, That’s Some Lace!
I’m sure you’ve all had one of those serendipitous events. You know, you planned for one thing and it just wasn’t meant to be, but then you got to do or learn something you never would have done in a million years. For me it was visiting the Lace Study Center at the Powerhouse Museum…
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Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
As we start this new year – and Kris’s 54th birthday today (whew!) – Deb started looking around for inspiration that will keep us happy and young. We can’t wait until we don’t have to explain our wardrobes or our love of boas (in the case of Deb) or all things pink (in the case…
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Mapping the Family-Part I
On January 18th, we are going to be teaching a workshop for the River City Quilters’ Guild based on the commission quilt we finished in October. I just realized we had not posted a photo of the finished commission, so people who weren’t at the RCQG show or meeting wouldn’t know what we’re talking about. …
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Happy Holidays!
It’s that time of year when the Pixeladies furiously attempt to clean the studio, sweep all the bad spirits out the door, and look forward to a new year. What better way to do that then to receive advance copies of our book! The FedEx driver said this was her favorite delivery! And, while we…
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Having Fun with our Sequin Stash
The theme was snow. We went to our local hospice thrift store and found 4 painted plaster (?) snowflakes and one brass one. The mission was to create ornaments worthy of Gail Bird’s ornament exchange. The real challenge was to only use embellishments from our stash. Well, I’m not sure if that was really a…
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NYC Part II – The Garment District
Well, you can’t expect the Pixeladies to go anywhere without seeing if there is some store, museum, or event involving fiber. Needless to say, we had our choice during our October trip to NYC. We decided on Mood Fabrics because 1) we knew they would have a lot of fabric (and they did), 2) we…
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Furoshiki Countdown Coming Soon!
We know we still have three months to go, but C&T Publishing just listed our upcoming book entitled Furoshiki Fabric Wraps: simple, reusable, beautiful. We couldn’t wait until February to let you all know about it. If you want something new to do with your fabric, you want to use less paper, or just want…
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NYC Part I – Faith
It was a whirlwind trip to the Big Apple during the three most beautiful days of the year. Would you believe mid-70s and clear? We have so much to tell you about, but we’ll start with the reason we went – Faith Ringgold received the City College of New York’s First Cultural Arts Award, and …