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.

Call for entry: TIME

“Nothing is of itself; everything exists of and in everything …. Everything starts and ends with time, from the beginning of life to death. Just as long in anticipation, just as short in memory. Even if time is always with us, it is always a stranger. And although there is so much of it, every moment is forever lost and irreplaceable. The loss of time is therefore both more significant and more common than any other loss we may suffer”.

(from: Anthony Grafton, Cardanos Cosmos, Berlin 1999, page 8)

CALL FOR ENTRY

Time has always been a determining factor of life. The competition “Art Quilt Award 2013” is dedicated to this theme.

The exhibition will take place from October 12 to November 16, 2013 at the Handmade Festival in the Nordwolle Delmenhorst Museum, Am Turbinenhaus 10-12, Delmenhorst, Germany. The exhibition is further planned to travel to Handmade Bielenfeld 2014 and Handmade Brunswick 2014, and the art work will be returned towards the end of 2014.

The opening is planned for Friday, October 11, 2013.

This competition is organized by MIX MAX Event  and Project Agency e.k. Brunswick in collaboration with Nordwolle Delmenhorst Museum of Industry and the Quilters-Insel.

1^st prize: € 1000 for the purchase of a quilt for the art quilt collection of Delmenhorst Museum.

2^nd prize: € 500

The competition is open to all artists residing in Europe.

For further information, registration form, fees and guidelines, please contact

Juliette Eckels under

 info@quilters-insel.de

Submission deadline is August 15, 2013.

Important Dates

August 15, 2013                closing date for submission

September 5, 2013            notification of acceptance per E-mail

September 27, 2013         art work to be received by Delmenhorst Museum

October 11, 2013              Opening of exhibition

November 16                      closing of exhibition in Delmenhorst

For further information about this competition please contact:

Quilters-Insel/ Juliette Eckel at info@quilters-insel.de

SAQA MEET AND GREET at the FESTIVAL OF QUILTS, Birmingham, UK

Come and join us for a cup of tea at the SAQA MEET and GREET at the Festival of Quilts, NEC Birmingham.

We’ll love to meet up with all SAQA members attending the Festival.  Bring your business cards to exchange with fellow members.

SAQA MEET and GREET is on FRIDAY 9^th August, from 3 pm, in the Mezzanine floor restaurant, opposite the Lecture Theatre, and accessible from the stairs or lifts just outside the Halls.

Please note that the SAQA Gallery Metaphors of Aging may be unmanned for a period during the gathering.

Alicia Merrett

Volunteers needed for Stewarding the SAQA stand at FOQ Birmingham

Sandy Snowden from Great Britain is arranging the rota for the SAQA exhibition in August.

We have been able to put one person on the rota for nearly every stewarding session. But we would like to have 2 people instead of just one to make the stewarding easier.

If you are coming to the Festival of Quilts, please would you consider helping? If you are already doing one session, perhaps you would also consider helping for another session?

If you are not confident about speaking English, we would still like your help because there are  many visitors who don't speak English. You can help them connect with the work and with SAQA. 

If you can volunteer, please email Sandy Snowden snsnowden@harmonyinformation.com . Tell her the day you can help and she will tell you what times we still need to fill.

Thank you in advance for your help. 

Pizza Parlor Meeting in Berlin

The first-ever SAQA Europe/Middle East Pizza Parlor Meeting took place in Berlin, Germany, yesterday evening, with 7 members (and three prospective members) from 3 different countries in attendance. We enjoyed a sunny and pleasant evening in a pizza place on the corner of Fontanepromenade/Blücherstr. in Berlin-Kreuzberg, chatted about quilting, SAQA, Berlin, and many other things, and had a wonderful time together.

Pizza parlor meeting in Berlin

Hope to see you at the next one - or perhaps you want to take the initiative and organize one yourself!

Uta Lenk