Here is a call for entry I thought some of you would be interested in. If anyone else has local or regional calls that they would like to announce,  let me know and we can put out in the SAQA email and on the blog.

Call Type: Exhibitions
Eligibility: International
City: Peoria
State: Illinois
Fee: $35.00
Entry Deadline: Rolling

The Peoria Art Guild is currently accepting artist submission and exhibition proposals. Established in 1878, the Peoria Art Guild is a contemporary art gallery based in Peoria, Illinois. For over five decades it has provided guidance and exposure to up and coming artists as well as nationally known works of art.
The Peoria Art Guild has three newly renovated galleries with modern appointments and aesthetics totaling nearly 5,000 square feet. The Peoria Art Guild presents a diverse array of multi-disciplinary contemporary art and strives to inspire and educate all levels of art enthusiasts through exhibition, outreach and collaborative art initiatives.  

 Also, a reminder that the SAQA Trunk show deadline is approaching. I hope many of you are working on submissions - it would be great to have our region well represented! See the SAQA site or earlier email/blog for how to submit.

Barbara

Thanksgiving

Article for Bernina

Check out the Bernina WeAllSew.com website to see an article I wrote on my Leaf process.

We had a great turnout this afternnon for the reception at The Fineline Creative Arts Center in St. Charles. The show looks great, lots of good comments about being able to see the source photos transformed into the artwork.  We also had the SAQA Trunk Show in an adjoining room which made for a great experience - 2 for 1 exhibits!

Hanging The Eye and the Needle exhibit

 Our banner!

 The Fineline entrance

The Fineline garden

Work in progress

 Frieda and Laura

Here are a few photos from the hanging of the show yesterday at The Fineline Creative Arts Center in St. Charles, IL. The exhibit opening reception is Saturday Octover 19 from 2-4:30. Please come out and see the show! Thanks to Frieda Anderson and Laura Wasilowski for helping with the hanging.
Hope to see you at the exhibit, Barbara and Pat

The Eye and the Needle exhibit reception date corrected!

My bad! The correct date for the opening is Saturday, October 19 from 2-4:30.

The time is almost here! We are hanging the Eye and the Needle exhibit this coming Wednesday at The Fineline Creative Arts Center in St. Charles, IL.

The opening is Saturday, October 19 from 2:00 to 4:30 pm. We would love to have everyone come and be part of that event.

The work is great, we have great support from the Fineline staff and we are almost ready to go!

What we need from YOU:

Please find an opportunity to come see the exhibit!
If you are one of the artists, please send out our postcards to everyone you can think of! Show your catalog to other people and other venues.

The more people that attend the show the more likely we are to have the Fineline invite us back for another exhibit.

Details:
The Kavanugh Gallery, The FIneline Creative Arts Center
37W570 Bolcum Rd, St. Charles, IL
October 11 to November 16, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 19, 2-4:30 pm
www.fineline.org

Barbara and Pat

Jean M. Judd update

Greetings All,

Join award winning textile artist and author Jean M. Judd as she shares her first artist residency in this book, Quetico: An Artist’s Experience (ISBN-13:978-1492735571). Discover the experience she has on her first Artist in Residency. She shares some of her thoughts, inspirations, and breathtaking images from the two weeks in the interior of Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada.

Jean also shares the creative process in the making of her textile artwork, Quetico: New Day…Day’s End. This artwork will become part of the Quetico Permanent Art Collection.

The book is available on http://www.amazon.com worldwide http://tiny.cc/25ty3w , as well as at independent booksellers such as Barnes and Noble.

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Sincerely,

Jean M. Judd, Textile Artist and Author
2807 State Road 87
Cushing, WI 54006-3209
Phone: 715.566.0212
Email: jean@jeanjudd.com
Web Site:http://www.jeanjudd.com
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LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanmjudd
Online Galleries:
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