Fibre Fall Exhibition featuring Susan Lilley

The Chester Art Centre's Fall Exhibition will feature four local artists working in four different fibre art forms.  Our member, Susan Lilley, will be showing her quilted and hand-dyed work.  

The socially-distanced opening reception is October 15 and the show runs from October 16 to 28.  Please see exact dates and hours on the poster above.  

The Forest Bath is one of the works on display.

The Forest Bath
by Susan Lilley 2019
36"x36"

See a Show: Lunenburg Art Gallery

 

SAQA Atlantic's Cathy Drummond and Susan Lilley are currently exhibiting work in The Lunenburg Art Gallery's Fall Showcase. This exhibition will be running until October 24 and is open Thursdays to Mondays from 12pm to 5pm.  

The Lunenburg Art Gallery is run as a non-profit by the Lunenburg Art Society.  The Society's members include both amateur and professional artists, working in many media.  Fall Showcase features over 140 pieces of artwork by society members in every style and price range.  It is the Gallery's last official show of 2020.

Where Land Meets Sea
Cathy Drummond 2018
18"x 24"

Bound and Unbound 
Susan Lilley 2019
36"x 38" 

If you are unable to make it to the gallery,  there are 2-3 pieces being added to instagram daily.

See an Exhibition: Regina Marzlin!

After long months of wondering if artists would ever get to show their work again, many galleries have re-opened in Atlantic Canada. Several of our members have their work on show this fall. First up is Regina Marzlin who is featured at the Red Sky Gallery in Antigonish until October 7. The show, A Sense of Place, has many prints that Regina created during a recent artist residency where she experimented with differernt methods of printing with local foliage and other found objects. The following are a few glimpses of her work on display, starting with a very happy Regina on opening night.

Do try to get there if you can and, for readers outside of the Atlantic Canada bubble who are interested in these works, contact the Gallery here or Regina here. Information on other shows will follow shortly. Stay tuned!

2019 Grand National Fibre Art and Quilt Exhibition

As a member of the Grand National Fibre Art and Quilt Exhibition committee, SAQA Atlantic member Kathy Tidswell is inviting quilt and fibre artists from Atlantic Canada to participate in the 2019 thematic exhibition, Still. 

Solitude by Terry Aske

STILL

The Grand National is “Still” an entity and the committee challenges you to create a piece using the theme “Still”. For example, your piece could celebrate the longevity of a place, event or idea; demonstrate the ability of an object to be motionless; slice out a millisecond of time in which a continuously moving object can be viewed as frozen in time or let your imagination interpret this theme some other way.

Entries are due April 13, 2019. The show opens in Portage LaPrairie, Manitoba on July 6th 2019. All entrants must be Canadian residents. Additional information and entry forms are available online now. 

The committee is hoping to make the 2019 Grand National a travelling exhibition. Any galleries or groups interested in hosting the exhibition can find out more at www.grandnationalquiltshow.ca or by emailing  grandnationalexhibition@gmail.com

Kathy Tidswell's work in Contemporary Art Quilts

Congratulations to SAQA Atlantic member Kathy Tidswell, from Burtt's Corner, NB, who recently learned that two of her pieces were juried into the multimedia art quilt exhibition, Contemporary Canadian Art Quilts: From Fine Craft to Fine Art. 

The exhibition, curated by Joan Hug-Valeriote, includes a selection of actual quilts and a video collage of over 100 contemporary Canadian art quilts displayed continuously over a 5-foot square array of 20 screens. 

Raining Cats and Dogs  by K. Tidswell
w18" x h14"

Kathy's piece, Raining Cats and Dogs, was accepted in the actual category and will hang in the venue throughout the show. This quilt was also accepted into the Canadian Quilters' 2017 National Juried Show, so will also hang in Vancouver later this spring.

Kathy Tidswell's second piece, Majestica, will be shown in the virtual Contemporary Art Quilts show. 

Majestica by K. Tidswell, w38" x h30"

Kitchener City Hall, in the Berlin Tower Artspace,
200 King St. W. Kitchener, Ontario
April 8th to May 30th, 2017

Visit Kathy Tidswell's website to learn more about her work.

Call for artwork of a spiritual nature

A detail of Creation by Paul Krampitz; part of the Common Threads Indigo Quilts at Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver. Photo: Martin Knowles

Christ Church Cathedral, in Vancouver B.C, is mounting a juried exhibition of textile art of a spiritual nature, including perspectives from First Nations artists and a range of faith traditions. The Canada-wide call for entry is now open.

(in)finite: exploring the finite limitations of humanity
and the ineffable, infinite nature of the Divine.
A Canadian Textile Exhibition
May 25 to June 4, 2017
Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, BC


Submission Deadline: Friday, February 17, 2017


For details, see (in)finite: a Canadian Textile Exhibition.

Call for Entry – Contemporary Canadian Art Quilts

 Moonlight Over Cordova Bay by Joan Hug-Valeriote

Ontario artist and SAQA member Joan Hug-Valeriote is mounting a multi-media exhibit of Canadian art quilts to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary in 2017. She invites all Canadian art quilters to be part of this unique presentation of both photographed and actual art quilts:

"Be part of celebrating Canada’s Sesquicentennial Year by submitting photographs of your Contemporary Canadian Art Quilts for inclusion in an exciting multimedia Video and Art Quilt display."

The exhibit will take place in the Berlin Tower Artspace, Kitchener City Hall, during April and May 2017. Entries will be accepted until October 24th, 2016.

For more details, click on Call for Entry or email: cdnartquilts@horizonsquilting.ca

Exhibiting Work - Kate Madeloso, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

How do you go about choosing where to show your work?

By Kate Madeloso, April 2015

I have a number of criteria for exhibiting my work.

1.Deadline. Can I meet the dates required to send in the entry form and photos? Entries fees are sometimes refunded (depending on the show) if you are not chosen to show by the juror. Most often you lose your entry fee if not chosen. NB: For most shows now, photos are acceptable with entry instead of actually sending in your piece.

2.Venue. I check out the venue(s) to see if I would want to exhibit there, and if so, would it be a good fit for my work? i.e. a gallery vs. a church?

3.Theme or not. Can I meet their theme, if there is one, and their criteria, i.e size restriction, 2 or 3 dimensional pieces accepted? If they are accepting 3D pieces I assume the show will be more interesting and gain a wider viewing audience.

4.The Juror. Who is selecting the work? Who is the curator and who is the juror? Sometimes I look at the juror’s work and read about their esthetic to determine if my work might resonate with them. That might even influence the direction I take with my piece. Or not. But I do investigate it.

5.Shipping. I intended to send a piece off to the States about 8 years ago but the red tape, insurance, cost of shipping etc was so overwhelming that I just let it go.  So I chose to show in Canada only. Our SAQA regional rep is working really hard to find a smoother process for us to easily ship our work down to shows in the States so stayed tuned! If you decide to enter any show do your shipping homework.

6.How often – I look for 3 to 4 shows to enter a year. In Canada that is hard. The main shows are:

A.     CQA National Juried Show (NJS). You have to be a member of the Canadian Quilters Association to enter. The main show is every two years with a smaller one the other year. I work well to deadlines and entering shows keeps me motivated.  Previously: CQA NJS – held in even numbered years and called Quilt Canada. The odd numbered years the name of the province in the title, i.e. Quilt Alberta. That has changed this year, Quilt Canada 2015, Lethbridge. – Lots of categories and prize money. 100 – 200 entries. First show was in 1983.  http://njs.canadianquilter.com/

B.     The Grand National, started in 2003, every year except no show in 2012. Usually at the Joseph Schneider Haus Historic Site in Kitchener ON. 2015 May 10 to Sept 27^{th .}    Smaller show with 40 to 60 entries. No categories but do have cash prize awards. http://www.grandnationalquiltshow.ca/

C. NS Fiber Arts Festival 8^th Annual, October 13th -17th 2015 – claiming to be Canada’s Largest Fibre Arts Festival - creative workshops, exhibits, hands-on demonstrations, regions most beautiful fibre work.

·  Proposals for Independent Projects: The Nova Scotia Fibre Arts Festival invites artists to organize and curate their own exhibitions. Could be a SAQA Atlantic show.

·  Artwork and Interior Gallery Installations: call to all fibre artists for submissions of their work—rug hooking, quilting, felting, knitting, crochet, needle and handwork (to name only a few) to be displayed at various location during the week of the Festival. Individual entries.

Deadline for all submissions was March 15th 2015.

http://www.fibreartsfestival.com/

D. Threadworks 2016 is a special project of the Ontario Network of Needleworkers'(ONN) 1,000+ members. It showcases exceptional and creative needlework by artists from across Canada. Threadworks is a juried exhibition that is mounted every three years and travels across Ontario to many museums and galleries. http://www.onnguilds.ca/threadworks/threadworks.html

E. World of Threads Festival 20^th anniversary, Oakville, ON Nov 2014– no categories, no prize awards. Over 200 entries from around the world.

-   An international showcase of contemporary fiber and textile art.

-   Not-for-profit initiative with charitable status.

-   They exhibit innovative fibre based art from around the world and highlights the strength of local talent.

-   The Festival is run by dedicated volunteers Dawne Rudman (Chair & Festival Curator) and Gareth Bate ((Festival Curator). Exhibitions are carefully planned by various curators.

     Beginning in 1994 as a single Oakville exhibition, the festival continues to grow in size and ambition. The exhibitions feature work submitted by hundreds of artists from around the world. Huge range of textile work, lots of very large pieces. A must see at least once in your life. http://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/exhibitions_menu.html