SAQA benefit auction opening date approaching!

Please remember that the SAQA Benefit auction will start soon - on Monday, September 9, 2013 at 2:00pm Eastern (US) time.

Please share this information with all your friends and any supporters of art quilts, and encourage them to participate in the bidding!

For a preview of the quilts available, click here. 
For a look at some "Dream Collections" of six pieces each, curated by various SAQA members, click here.

SAQA board member Judith Trager calling for meet and greet in London

We have received the following message from board member Judith Trager who is eager to meet as many European SAQA members as possible at this meet and greet in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Please let her know directly if you are coming. Uta and Elisabeth

Dear U.K. SAQA Members,

I will be in London for three days in a few weeks and hope to be able to meet up with many of you to talk about SAQA generally and get your feedback and ideas. I've talked with a couple of U.K. members trying to figure out where to meet and times, and have settled on meeting at the Victoria and Albert Museum's Cafe at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, October 1. I know many of you from my teaching time in England, and hope to reconnect with you. And, there are some wonderful things happening with Studio Art Quilt Associates--new Board members, new programs and exhibitions, our twenty-fifth anniversary, and a brand new website to talk about. I hope you can come.

The "meeting" will be very informal--we can grab tables and put them together if we are able, but at least we'll have a little time to talk to one another. And, the V & A has a very nice Cafe--and they even have beer and wine! 

Please let me know if you are coming before September 18. I will be on the road from September 18 and my internet connection will be "iffy" during the journey. I don't want to miss any of you. 

Here are the details again:

Studio Art Quilt Associates Meet and Greet
The Cafe, Victoria and Albert Museum
Exhibition Road (the easiest entry to find the Cafe), London
2 p.m. 
October 1, 2013

PLEASE RSVP  to me at judithtrager@icloud.com. Thanks!

With best wishes,

Judith Trager


Board Member, SAQA
Art Quilts & Textiles
345 Erie Drive
Boulder, Colorado 80303
www.judithtrager.com

Art Quilt Award 2013 - Extension of Deadline

We have already posted the call for entry for Art Quilt Award 2013. However, this piece of information needs to be added:

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We are pleased that in recent weeks we have received many applications. The last days we have been asked whether it would be possible to enter applications even after August 15 for the Art Quilt Award 2013.

 To give more interested persons the opportunity to participate, we are pleased to inform you that we postponed thedeadline to September 8.The notice of acceptance of the quilts made by mail on September 12. Good luck to all of you!

Exhibition in Grünstadt, Germany

Beginning on August 2, 2013, Uta Lenk will be showing quilts from her series Play of Lines, Shapes, and Illuminated at "Im Patchworkhimmel" in Obersülzerstr. 35c,  67269 Grünstadt, Germany.
Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., closed on Wednesday.
Exhibition will be shown until August 29.

"Illuminated", 2010, detail. By Uta Lenk.