Interview 2

Hello again, Today we have the pleasure of having Diane Nunez and Martha Warshaw in the booth with us. Diane has recently become a professional artist member of SAQA.

Hi Everyone, Welcome to Friday at the Festival. I am here in the SAQA booth with Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, Nysha Nelson, Michele Ellis Bell having a great time meeting lots of traditional and art quilters including Jackie Skarritt from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Jackie reports she was accepted into the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts West Michigan Area [...]

Hello from the International Quilt Festival in Cincinnati! It’s warm and wonderful here compared to Michigan. The grass and shrubs are green, the trees are starting to bud out, the birds are singing – oh, wait – no, that was me going 72 in a 55 . . . SAQA exhibits are up @ IQF [...]

I’m finally done with my last Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. Portfolio. I’ve been working on this project with SAQA for seven years. When I took over, the Portfolio was a wire-bound book we had to collate ourselves from pages provided by each artist. Dominie Nash (www.dominienash.com) worked on the Portfolio for 8 years before [...]

So, this is the Museum here. It looks incredibly governmental from the outside, as you would expect as it is a part of the Department of the Interior. There are some interesting sculpture outside near some pick-nick tables in the front of to the side of this image but most of the art works are [...]

My time as Visiting Artist in Montana is really going fast. The people I have met have been fabulous, as has the scenery. I have been staying in cabins in East Glacier, Montana about 12 miles south of Browning. Let’s see, the first night I stayed in East Glacier Motel and Cabins, right across the [...]

Good morning from Minot, North Dakota. It’s overcast and a little cool – but lovely on the train. Our overnight had a real camp atmosphere. A couple little girls were just mesmerized by my brothers knitting projects yesterday. The older girl, Alysa, expressed an interest in learning to knit. So, brother Bill had some extra [...]

Hi again, so, yes, I took the train to Chicago this morning. What an elegant way to travel. We passed a wetland just west of Porter, Indiana and I saw a bird that I thought was an egret-or a heron. I have a hard time telling them apart. I bet the artist Kathie Briggs of [...]

Hi all. I am on the train from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Chicago. But the journey does not end there. I have the honor of working with the Friends of the Museum of the Plains Indian as their 2010-2011 Visiting Artist. I’m heading to Montana to get started on a series of portraits of artists of [...]

Hi, I thought we might take a look at some of the upcoming exhibits I will be participating in over the next few months: going on right now through 09/19/10, 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Circle of Arts Gallery, Charlevoix, Michigan. This exhibit, curated by Kathie Briggs, is in a lovely town in [...]