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

SAQA's Wide Horizons III in Berlin

On June 8 and 9 the Wide Horizons III is making yet another appearance on its year-long concourse through Europe. At the combined Patchworktage und Textile Art Berlin.

Wide Horizons III in Nidau (Switzerland)

SAQA’s European exhibition «Wide Horizons III» is continuing its tour through Europe and 

will make an appearance at Art Quilt Gallery – Nidau 

from 4-10 May 2013.

Ida Ziv, Groundsel, on display with SAQA's
Wide Horizons III

A look into the Artquiltgallery in Nidau,
with Wide Horizons III on display

In memoriam Lutgard Gerber-Billiau

Lutgard Gerber-Billiau

With heavy hearts and loving memories, members yesterday unfolded and hung Lutgard's quilts for Q.Art Belgium’s exhibition in Essen, Belgium. Lutgard’s long struggle with cancer is over. Leading the Belgian National Guild as President for many years and long-time SAQA member, Lutgard was also a founding member of Q.Art Belgium 16 years ago. We miss our colleague & caring, warm friend so very much. We hope our exhibition will be a tribute to a wonderful woman, a fine artist and a great friend. Our condolences, thoughts and prayers are with her family.

A view into Q.Art's exhibition in Essen (Belgium)

Linda Colsh, Belgium

Lutgard was the moderator of SAQA's regional yahoo-group for several years, which she only gave up a few weeks ago. Our grateful thoughts and wishes are extended to her family in this sad time.

Uta Lenk, co-rep Europe/Middle East