October 31 meeting at Su Butler's Please RSVP

SAQA ILWI Upcoming Events

October 31,2015 10am Meeting and lunch potluck at Su Butler’s house 2220 Mustang Trail, Woodstock, IL

Please RSVP to Su Butler by October 24,2015. email is best: subu@subudesigns.com or 815  337 6657

Bring work or brags to share, a dish to pass for lunch. Su will provide soup and salad. If you’d like to try your hand on her Tin Lizzie long arm, bring a 15”-18” quilt sandwich to stitch. Thread and bobbin thread will be provided. Or bring specialty threads that you prefer. Questions? Contact Su.

 Su Butler: first Art Quilt “Where I’m Meant To Be?"

About Su:

      Su Butler has been exploring quilting/art quilting for only 1.5 years, having spent the last 40 years focusing on handweaving and surface design. Her painter’s training in art school needed an outlet but her passion for working with fiber/cloth had not subsided and art quilts seemed to be the perfect vehicle for her emerging ideas. Su dyes her own fabrics and is eagerly learning everything she can about art quilting! 

September meeting and Mono-printing with Pat Bishop

  We had a  wonderful SAQA ILWI meeting at Pat Bishop's house in Appleton in September with Pat, Su Butler,(and Spouse,Al!) Pat Gaska, Colleen Anspaugh, Carole Frocillo,Gwyned Trefethen and Maribeth Schmidt After a great time sharing inspiring and interesting work and recent events, we enjoyed a delicious and "healthy" lunch complete with dessert!
Pat Bishop demonstrated mono-printing with Gelli mats. She provided a variety of tools and paints and everyone got a chance to dig in!
Here are some of the results!

Gwyned Trefethen

Su Butler with Gellli Mat

Pat Kroth

Pat Bishop    

Pat Bishop demos Mono-printing

SAQA ILWI Meeting September 12,2015

Upcoming SAQA ILWI Meeting

September 12, Saturday,10am Pat Bishop’s studio in Appleton,WI

 Don’t miss this fun studio visit and meeting.

N477 Foxwood Drive,  Appleton, WI  54914

RSVP: to Pat Bishop: Home 920.739.6664  Cell 920.460.0617 or

email: PBishop@agapeinc.org

Gelli plate printing: monoprinting

Bring some fabric you would like to print on, fat quarter size.  I will have paints and other supplies to give it a go.  If you have your own Gelli plate bring that along, but not necessary.  We can share.  You can choose to participate or just observe.

Show and Tell: Bring work, postcards, or a good story to tell!

 Pot luck lunch:  Pat will have soup and beverages.  Bring something to share.

If anyone is interested, after lunch we could travel to Oshkosh, for the Dressing Downton Abby fashion exhibit.  $14/person open until 7pm on Saturday.  Approximately a 30 minutes drive south from my home.   

 http://www.thepaine.org/art/exhibitions/

Directions:Coming from the South on Hwy 41 north of Oshkosh, take Hwy 76 exit and turn left on 76.  Go approximately 10 miles on Hwy 76.  Turn Left on Spencer Rd.  Go one mile on Spencer.  Continue one block after the Stop sign on Spencer and turn left on Foxwood Drive.  My house is straight ahead on the corner of Red Hawk and Foxwood.  Tan ranch with green shutters and red brick. 

Eye and the Needle final days

SAQA ILWI Regional exhibit,The Eye and the Needle  closes Friday, August 14,2015 at the Monroe Arts Center in Monroe WI. This is your last opportunity to see the show on it's last stop of the 2 year tour.
 Monroe Arts Center  Frehner Gallery
1315 11th Street, Monroe,WI 53566  www.monroeartscenter.com

Sue Jackan's Prairie Remembrance,Frieda Anderson's Woodland, and Pat Kroth's Branching

Reflections by Barbara Schneider

Land Lines Exhibit by Karen Stiehl Osborn and Virginia A. Spiegel

LAND LINES:  LYRICAL TRIBUTES TO NATURAL WORLD

Now - August 30, 2015

Land Lines, an exhibit featuring the artwork of Karen Stiehl
Osborn and Virginia A. Spiegel, is now open at the Jewish Community
Center Art Gallery in Omaha, NE.

Karen Stiehl Osborn and Virginia A. Spiegel both work with abstract imagery
drawn from the natural world.  They create lyrical and subtle tributes to
specific places incorporating memory and emotion.

The Jewish Community Center Art Gallery is located at 333 South 132nd Street

     in Omaha.  Gallery hours are 8 am-9 pm Monday - Thursday, 8 am-5 pm Friday,
      and 11 am-5 pm Sunday. Contact Gallery Manager, Lynn Batten, (402-334-6564)

for more information.

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Virginia A. Spiegel
Website - http://www.virginiaspiegel.com
https://www.facebook.com/VSpiegelArtist
http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/blog/
https://www.pinterest.com/virginiaspiegel/

Eye and the Needle Exhibit Reception at the Monroe Arts Center

Eye and the Needle Exhibit Reception

Work by Carole Frocillo, Joy Lavrencik and Mary Ellen Heus

The Reception for the SAQA ILWI Regional exhibit,The Eye and the Needle was Friday, June 26,2015 at the Monroe Arts Center in Monroe WI.

Still Life in Blue by Suzanne Riggio

     SAQA ILWI Co rep, Cynthia Wenslow, Esmay, and Val Rodelli were all in attendance. Pat Kroth, Exhibition Co-curator gave a few introductory remarks. 
    It was a fun event and well attended by the community. The exhibit was paired with Fond Du Lac glass artist Beth Campshure and a group exhibit by the Drifless Area Artists.

Fond Du Lac Glass artist, Beth Campshure with Barbara Schneider's Line Dance

Val Rodelli with Dusk in Argentina

Pat Kroth and Beth Campshure with Gallery Curators Sue Barrett and Dunnell.

Visitors enjoy the Eye and the Needle

The exhibit continues until August 14, 2015.    Monroe Arts Center  Frehner Gallery
1315 11th Street, Monroe,WI 53566    www.monroeartscenter.com

Work by Sue Jackan, Frieda Anderson and Pat Kroth

Barbara Schneider's Reflections

Visitors with work by Pat Bishop and Val Rodelli

Eye and the Needle Reception tonight

Eye and the Needle Exhibit Reception

The Reception for the SAQA ILWI Regional exhibit,The Eye and the Needle  is tonight Friday, June 26,2015 at the Monroe Arts Center in Monroe WI. 5-7pm. The exhibit  continues until August 14, 2015 at it's final venue.
 Monroe Arts Center  Frehner Gallery
1315 11th Street, Monroe,WI 53566
 www.monroeartscenter.com