tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1102286300454937822024-03-13T21:19:32.187-04:00Nancy TurbittTextile Art at Studio Girasole Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108851827696156988noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110228630045493782.post-44447617542294560812017-06-28T23:53:00.002-04:002017-06-28T23:57:44.634-04:00Summer Swelter, Yet Again<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here I am again facing the trials of summer heat. Still no air conditioner! I have so many UFOs to attack this summer. With a couple of Calls for Entry in my sights, including for the first time for me, <i>Quilt=Art=Quilt</i> at the Schweinfurth Art Center in New York and <i>Art Quilt Elements</i> at the Wayne Art Center in Pennsylvania. I have a plan and so far even with this spring's deviation from the goal list, I am on target.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What set me off of my planned goal list was a call for political art in <i>Threads of Resistance</i>. Feeling as overwhelmed and panicked as I still am about what is happening in my country, I felt a need to try to create a piece in just two months for the exhibit. Organized and run by The Artists Circle, a group of textile artists, <i>Threads of Resistance</i> received over 500 entries. I did not make the cut. I will, however, be traveling to The New England Quilt Museum for the opening on Saturday, July 15, 2017 because I just can't wait to see some of my favorite works up close and personal. For more information about the show go to threadsofresistance.blogspot.com.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is my entry, which I am very proud of:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This was my first dyptic. I chose to do a dyptic because I saw my issue as being a two headed monster of a problem. On the right is a close-up map of the US middle, red states. You can see all the tributaries of the Mississippi River reaching from the right across the piece. The black, gold and silver spots represent oil or gas leaks and the gold beadwork lines represent the network of pipelines that already exist in these states. My daughter, Andrea, actually was a strong influence in some of my creative choices and she did all the beadwork on the second panel. </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With so many leaks already a part of history, why would any administration actively support two more pipelines, the Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines. Which brings me to the left part of the dyptic and what I think is the second aspect of this problem. Someone is refusing to acknowledge or see that pipelines leak and cause havoc. Environmental issues are front and center with me. I am very worried about clean water, air and land being available for the future for all our children and grandchildren. </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You may not like my politics. I only ask as an artist and a citizen of the USA, that I still have the right of free speech in order to air my grievances in the most natural way possible, through my art.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I entered a couple of other calls for exhibits also showing in Lowell this summer. The first is at the Whistler House Museum of Art and is called <i>Contemporary Art Quilts 2017: A Juried Exhibition</i> and will be opening August 5 to September 1, 2017. The Artists Reception is on Saturday, August 5 from 2-4pm. I entered <i>Queen Bee</i> and <i>Lady Feather</i>, neither of which has ever shown. They accepted <i>Queen Bee</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since I didn't have to create a piece for this exhibit, that freed my time to consider creating a piece for another upcoming call also showing in Lowell this summer. This call is named <i>Little Black Dress</i> and is showing at The Brush Gallery & Studios from August 5 to September 16. The Artists Reception will be held on Saturday, August 26. Based on my reflections of the times I have worn this type of dress, it is more like a pictorial memoir than my usual art quilts. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I used two of my former "little black dresses" as some of the textiles for this piece.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> The blue in the title refers to the tall bearded irises that my mother grew for years and painted so well towards the end of her life. My mother's influence permeates this piece, culminating in the third and last dress being the one I wore to my mother's funeral.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I stretched my usual technique style a bit with this one using not only fabric which was printed with my own linoleum cut, but I incorporated the actual dress tissue-paper patterns, dresses and used a photo transfer onto silk fabric for the first time. This emotional piece may be the beginning of a new series, but with all that I have on my plate I won't be able to continue the series until next year. Memoirs was accepted into the exhibit at the Brush so both <i>Queen Bee</i> and <i>Memoirs</i> will be showing in Lowell, MA late this summer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Moving on to what I am working with right now, <i>Apollo</i> will be finished by mid-July. I have been working on it in fits and starts between the other pieces this spring. I am not far from completion. I will put up some pictures of the process in my next post. Also on deck for later this summer is<i> A Child's Eye</i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in which I must create a 3 foot wide drawing of a wicker settee by using discharge medium on fabric outside on my deck. Fresh air and good weather are a requirement for discharging.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I offer three workshops, <i>Fabric Markers & Pens: Enhance & Design, Floral Compositions with Fusible Web, </i>and <i>From Photo to Quilt: Landscape, </i>as well as a trunk show lecture<i>. </i>My topics for the teaching concepts draw from my strengths as an artist; simple landscape compositions, using fusible web to facilitate getting a strong composition, and using markers directly on fabrics to enhance the surface of a quilt.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I use two different products in this class. One is the Fabrico Marker by the Tsukineko Company. They are developed specifically for use with fabrics and have dual heads, fine tip and brush tip. My chart to the right indicates all the colors available and I have used them to show how each tip looks when used on white cotton. We also learn to use Sakura's Pigma Micron pens which give a fine drawing line in archival quality dye-based inks. A small kit fee ($10) sends the students home with the markers and pens that they have used in their design.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In my many years of creating fused art quilts, I have developed a way of ensuring that segments of my drawings are placed well for the composition. I fuse colors of the quilt to a pre-fused, paper-backed muslin first, layering as much as I need, and then cut these sections from the muslin to pin them to a pre-stitched background.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Having taken so many photographs specifically for use as subjects for art quilts has given me a strong base for teaching my techniques. I manipulate my photos to get the highest range of contrast and then render them in black & white. Using a light table to draw out a simple design lets me focus then on choosing the right fabrics to illustrate my design.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In <i>Marsh Walk</i> you can see how the subtleties of patterning, and color within a batik or hand-dye can add to the overall visual understanding of a landscape. At the end of a day a finished 12" X 18" art quilt goes home with the student as well as the knowledge of how to produce a landscape quilt from their own photos.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you or your guild would like more information about my classes, you can go to <a href="http://www.nancyturbitt.com/">www.nancyturbitt.com</a> for information, prices, and supply lists. Would you like to have some brochures? Email me at <a href="mailto:artgirlri@hotmail.com">artgirlri@hotmail.com</a>.</span><br />
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Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108851827696156988noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110228630045493782.post-24909236759600620272017-02-05T16:18:00.000-05:002017-02-05T16:21:08.620-05:00A Whale of a New Year<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And so it goes, the years flow from one to another. Here we are in 2017 and that means it's time to assess and project all the actions in the studio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was a rejection from Quilt National. Expected, so I dusted myself off and entered Lady Feather and two others into SAQA's Layered Voices. That was a rejection as well. With over 500 entries each to this SAQA exhibit and the H2Oh call, my chances were better at Quilt National. I am rethinking my strategy towards entering all-SAQA exhibits. I will no longer go out of my way to create a piece for a SAQA themed show. If I have one done or if one of the ones I was planning on doing fits into their theme, good to go. If not, it won't be happening.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I also am forcing myself to do several drawings before choosing which will become my major piece for the year. Some of these are Balena plays chess with the octopus (he's winning), Balena has lunch in a kelp forest, Balena hitches a ride with a dolphin. The above drawing is Balena with the whale, my first fully completed drawing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And then I decided to push it a bit and see how the whale which is behind Balena would look alone. I actually completed this piece to stand alone and entered it into a show in Yachats, OR to which it was accepted. The show runs March 10-12, 2017 in Yachats Commons. My first acceptance of the year is <i>Giant </i>below.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So I am doing a dance between new work and finishing older concepts begun at various times. Here are some of the ones I hope to pull off finishing this coming year:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: cyan;">...the buildings behind the morning glory wicker bench</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These four are big projects partially begun. I don't have to reinvent the wheel, but there is a lot of work to do to complete even one of them. I have been plugging away at <i>Apollo </i>a little bit daily as I have also been drawing Balena. Once Apollo is complete, I will move to more samples of the Balena series, perhaps an octopus study next.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is a heavy load of work to attempt. As I step down as a SAQA Rep for MA/RI in March, I am expecting a reclusive and steady diet of STUDIO-time all year long. Whoopee, just what the doctor ordered or should I say just what Queen Bee ordered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Continuing from my first two posts about the "Lady", I found that creating this piece was way more full of layering than any other quilt I have done to date.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The flowers went on pretty easily as well. Each flower was fused to muslin first and then over the quilt to mask the stitching underneath for the sky. However the tiny bits of white at the tip of each dogwood flower were sewn separately and each thread had to be tied off and buried in the back. If I had a nickel for every time I buried cut thread, I'd be rich!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My good friend <a href="http://suebleiweiss.com/blog/Entries/2016/9/1_artists_and_fear.html">Sue Bleiweiss</a> just wrote an article for her blog on rejection and how necessary it is towards fueling the hard work we need to create growth and expertise. Her thoughts are right on the money! My first five entries into exhibits ever were met with acceptance, which is down-right unusual. Then I got a bucket full of rejections and I feel that I am somewhat numbed to the sting at this point. I have been twice rejected from Visions. But honestly, you can't let it get you down and you have to just keep trying harder.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, come the first week of October we all will know who did get into Quilt National. No matter what the outcome, I will be submitting a piece every time the QN call comes up from now on. I'm already thinking about 2019!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">SAQA MA/RI had a call for entry this spring and I juried into the exhibit called "Currents". It opened August 7 at the Brush Art Gallery & Studios in Lowell, MA. It was wonderful seeing so many people there to take in the opening!</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After making sure the fabric would give me the right look with a couple of samples, I painted on all of the twigs and grasses by using my light box and the drawing. As you apply it the areas appear wet but that is the only indicator that you have painted your design. Color does not come out until you hit it with the strong heat of an iron. You need to be methodical in your application of product. </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The fluid needs to dry after applying before the next step, so I set it in front of my studio fan and waited impatiently. A watched pot never boils!</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally it was dry enough for the next step, which is applying heat with a dry iron until the design areas show with the desired degree of contrast. I used a press cloth below and above so neither my board or my iron was in direct contact with the chemical. You can actually see the smoke lifting off the fabric as it works.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I moved on to work other areas of <i>Lady Feather</i> which needed to be completed before the nest. Finally I got to set it onto the quilt with stitchwork. I decided to stitch crazy wild stitching in the negative areas around the twigs so that they would pop a bit and I accentuated that with an extra piece of batting beneath the nest. I used three colors of rayon thread, gold, rust and brown to give some shading and roundness to the nest. The best part of the stitching is looking on the back to see the saturation of the stitches. </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While it was a lot of work, I think it really helped to define the complexity of the twigs better than any other technique might have. Ultimately, I am pleased with how it came out and will not hesitate to use deColourant again for any other similar project.</span></div>
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Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108851827696156988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110228630045493782.post-56196383862060910852016-07-28T00:40:00.001-04:002016-07-28T00:43:07.245-04:00Process - Lady Feather<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Despite the heat, I have been working (and sweating) on Lady Feather. I have been taking my time getting things right. I am about to begin the stitching on her body and I just got a brand new bottle of deColourant for using on her nest. I may work on that Friday out on the deck with my respirator, which is oh so much fun to use on a hot day. I will walk you through what has happened the past few weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My first step to creating her was to prepare a piece of lightweight muslin by backing it with Wonder Under 805, leaving the paper backing in place. I then traced the outline of Lady Feather onto the muslin top with a peach Fabrico fabric marker.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I started the long and drawn out process of selecting the fabrics. No matter how much I plan to have just the right ones to pull from, I end up looking for something else through my stash and my baskets of prepared scraps. Here I am cutting out her face and neck from a base fabric of pinks, whites and golds with a touch of lavender thrown in for good measure.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My next post will continue the process with a glimpse of how the stitching is coming on her body and my process of using discharge on the nest, complete with a respirator selfie. True to my word, the butterfly quilt (Apollo) background has begun on my other summer piece. But I am keeping that one under wraps for now. There is just not enough time in a day!</span></div>
Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108851827696156988noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110228630045493782.post-75559970570299386492016-06-25T01:11:00.000-04:002016-06-30T02:36:49.810-04:00Dog Days<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here we are again, 80 degrees and rising in the studio! While I often have much to do in the summer, it is awfully hard to work in this heat. One of these years I have to get air conditioning installed in the studio.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This was such a successful exhibit for the SAQA artists in </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">MA, RI and CT. Six pieces sold while at Highfield Hall, so </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">there are six very happy artists. The opening in Falmouth was on May 1 and the place was just packed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The shot to the right approximates the look I am trying to achieve with the background, which is a landscape of an Alpine grassland valley. My drawing is almost finished, the fabric sandwich is ready so I should be sewing this one soon.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My last bit of news is that I am published! I have an article in "Art Quilting Studio's" June 2016 issue. </span><i style="color: cyan; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Queen Bee Says No to GMOs, Mariposa</i><span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and </span><i style="color: cyan; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Empress of the Pines</i><span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> are featured in an article I wrote called "Nature's Portraits: Tapping into Imagination." I must say I am over the moon excited. I was just in a JoAnn's shopping the other day and I looked through the magazine section and found the issue I'm in. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well that catches me up for a bit. I am busy, busy, busy. I have taken on so many projects at once and they all have to be done by fall and winter so I may not be writing much. So tomorrow is another day with the heat, a fan and a sewing machine.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My first small sample piece became my donation to SAQA's Spotlight Auction this March in Philadelphia. It began with a photo I manipulated in Photoshop and then a black and white adaption of that photo.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Completed April, 2016 </span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So I am sitting here in relative quiet and it's late at night. A train has derailed this morning throwing myself and several others into a panic about how to get home. This morning I woke in Philadelphia; tonight I am in my own bed in Smithfield. Last night I marveled at crashing thunder up in a twenty-third floor window with patterns of gust driven rain on pavement below as the temperatures fell at home sending a white blanket to cover my daffodils.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am getting used to rejection. Entering calls for entry creates thick skin. Even if you have some successes the ones that don't end up getting picked up for shows can definitely have an impact on the way you view your work, like it or not.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I go forward to my next work in this series, <i>Lady Feather</i>, I am looking to the things I think were successful and the things I think may have failed in both of these works in a critical way. To the right is my cougar. I see him as the greater success of this piece. His colors are well integrated; his eyes are the strong focal point and they do not disappoint. Colors are balanced and the yellow makes him pop.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The month of July flew by as summer months usually do, however, this one was one very hot laborious day after another as I completed a large quilt for entry into a call. <i>Empress of the Pines</i> finished out at 43" x 55". She was photographed on Thursday the 30th by Joe Ofria, a fantastic professional photographer in Groton, MA. Friday morning she was entered nervously into the Visions Art Museum Interpretations exhibition. As with most large shows, this one must remain unviewed unless rejected from the show.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">This detail shows the many colors in the fabrics used to create the tree trunk and my bubbles and strings stitching which holds all the fused pieces in place, but only loosely. Some of the edges of the fabrics are pulling up a bit giving the trunk "bark" texture.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">So that is my new small piece, inspired by <i>Empress of the Pines</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">I have come to the realization that even though I live in an area which is one of the most moderate temperatures in the country right now, I need air conditioning in the studio. My window filled, south exposure studio rises 10 degrees above the rest of the house on any given sunny day. I am now headlong, in the dog days of August, plunged into another large quilt for a call for entry deadline at the end of September. Wish me luck. I have a lot of tiny pieces on this one.</span></div>
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<br />Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108851827696156988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110228630045493782.post-31981681582289101872015-06-19T00:57:00.000-04:002016-06-28T12:15:16.736-04:00My Baby Is Live Online<span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am very excited to announce the birth of my new baby. I now have a new website and you can view it at: </span><a href="http://www.nancyturbitt.com/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">www.nancyturbitt.com</a><span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. I also have a new email address linked to it. You can still </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">reach me at the old one but the new address is nancy@nancyturbitt.com. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On June 6, I was invited to attend an Etsy Seller's Event in RI so I decided to try it out. It was held in the mill complex next to RYCO in Lincoln. It took me a few days to prepare, however it was good experience. I was one of only a few vendors inside the mill, while other vendors were outside with tents. I actually sold a small piece and some fabric and trim too. It was a profitable day for me and lots of people got to see my work hanging all around me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My work is now a part of my Etsy shop. My shop was primarily started as an outlet for my remnant fabrics and sewing sundries that I don't use. Called Zipper Tailor Fabric Snap, I originally had no intent to add my artwork into the mix. Not wanting to create a separate shop just for art, I finally decided to feature some of my pieces in the shop. My views increased quickly and have kept up. Below are my small pieces, matted and framed. The first, <i>Medusa Awakens</i>, has sold. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here we go again, lol. I am embarking on a summer, fall and winter full of creativity in my studio. I came back from the SAQA Convention in Portland feeling pumped. I took a look at my exhibition goals for the year again and gave them a tweeking. I have dropped two calls for entry out of my 'wish list' and added three more to it. In order to apply to those calls for entry, I need to get cracking and make 4, yes that's four, new major quilts. All of them are in the range of 40" x 50" with one of them being only slightly smaller. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first one I tackled needs to be completed and photographed by the end of September. I have been waiting for the right time for this one and I have two exhibitions that it could fit well into. It is an image of my son sitting on a wicker settee that has an enormous morning glory vine woven through it as he waters the roots with a watering can. A city skyline of dark ominous buildings with smoke stacks rise behind it. It is a story of youth and hope for the nurturance of the natural world despite the overwhelming expanse of a growing technological society.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The photo above is a process shot of the last area of my drawing, which is the architecture in the background. You can see that to avoid confusion with a very detailed drawing I have color coded areas with green and yellow sharpies. I will be showing many process shots here as I get going creating this piece in four distinct parts. The first is to create the background which will have the buildings and the foreground. I will quilt all of this before going to my next step. I will be drawing the wicker settee with discharge onto a lovely deep blue hand dye as the second step. Once the settee is complete I will fuse it to the background and then as a third step, add the leaves and morning glories. They will get stitched before continuing to the last step. The fourth step will be to create Peter, my son, by fusing him onto a light pre-fused muslin. Once he is complete I will fuse him onto the quilt in just the right spot and stitch him down. Simple steps, lots of time and work!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I was getting in the frame of mind for this piece, I have been thinking about it's meaning and I have been drawn backwards in time to think about Peter and his ideals when he was the age in the picture. There was another quilt made at that time by Peter, 17 of his classmates and myself, which we called the "I Have A Dream" quilt.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This photo was taken thirteen years ago, back when I volunteered at my kids' elementary school as a visiting artist teacher. We made several community quilts but I refused to let them just do patchwork. We translated their drawings into art quilts. It was magical seeing all those light bulbs going on at the same time. These kids were around 11 years of age when they did their drawings and learned to fuse and stitch.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For this project I knew we would never be able to work a piece as large as we had planned, so we broke it up into sections and pairs of two children had to work together to create a single drawing that spoke to both of them. They were asked how they interpreted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech and what it meant to them. Then they drew their images separately. We paired like minded kids together and then they had to fuse their drawings together into one cohesive drawing. Two of the children actually got the fun task of drawing Dr. King in the center two segments.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There was my son knocking down buildings we didn't need to build a farmer's market with his friend. He was 11 when he did this. He is now 24. He is still something of an idealist who wants nothing more than to fall off the grid and live in a remote spot fully dependent only on himself. The reality is that he is working a bar in an establishment in Florida for the tourist trade. But I have to admire where this young man's head is and has been for almost all his life. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I am letting the spirit of a young man who wants to see the natural world honored and cared for in a nurturing way be the spirit of this new quilt of mine. All the kids whose dreams of a wonderful world in which to live, who let their dreams spill into that fantastic quilt so many years ago, are inspiring me as I work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Welcome to Portland, Oregon! I took a trip out to attend SAQA's yearly Convention, leaving April 28th and returning to Rhode Island May 4th. This was my view from room 1558 on the 15th floor of the Doubletree Hilton. I nearly got myself in the door and met up with Co-Rep Sue Bleiweiss and Lyric Kinard for lunch in the Lloyd Center. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This statue carved from marble is a stack of coins and had poetry and words carved all around the outside of the coins having to do with wealth, money and prosperity. Interesting central piece for the entrance to a mall. Inside this typical mall our first sight was a window full of frilly prom gowns. Hilarious. They also have an indoor </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">skating rink in this mall, rather progressive!</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After attending two wonderful break out sessions with Sue Reno and Lyric Kinard, I started to prepare for the SAQA Maker Space. Run by Kate Themel of CT, it was a fun evening event filled with learning and creating experiences. I was there doing my demo on how fabric markers and pens can enhance a design. Thanks have to go to three companies who provided pens for me to demo with, Tsukineko, Sakura and Jacquard. As you can see by the 1st photo to the right, I was drawing a crowd all night. Thanks to Elizabeth Bamberger of Portland, I had a light box to do </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">demos on and for members to use.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We then took in a SAQA Oregon Regional exhibition called Exploring Layers. It was a well put together show with plenty of eye candy. Seeing quilts always makes me want to get into the studio and work, work, work!</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then....I had the ultimate pleasure of meeting up with a high school 'bestie', Teenamarie Callahan who I last saw at her wedding as she and her new husband left to start their life in the Pacific Northwest. Our screeching and whooping in the lobby of the Hilton alerted everyone that something special was happening. Teenamarie and I spent the day catching up in a way that emails just can't touch. With the backdrop of Multnomah Falls, two best friends found each other again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let me begin by officially posting the news that <i>Angelina's Eggs</i> was accepted into the SAQA exhibition 'Balancing Act'. It will be showing for the first time at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX this fall and then traveling to both Chicago and Portland. I have also heard that my piece, <i>Mariposa</i>, which is still out on exhibit with 'Butterfly Whirl' will be travelling to Houston this fall as well. I will have two pieces showing in Houston! Boy do I wish I could go. Not in the cards this year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The only time to breathe was Easter weekend because it started to roll again with the start of MQX in Manchester, NH. This was a wonderful large show full of vendors and amazing quilts. I didn't take or teach any classes but they were going on all weekend. Perhaps next year I will apply to teach. I got to see one of my favorite art quilts of late, which I watched being created online last year by very talented, Andrea Brokenshire. Titled "A Passion For Purple", this clematis is the most amazing job of both painting and stitching that I have ever seen. Kudos to Andrea for winning two ribbons and a Janome Memory Craft sewing machine. I was just tickled to see it up close and personal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well the calendar continues marching on. This Friday, April 17, I will be up in Worcester, MA at the Sewing and Quilting Expo. I will be helping to man the SAQA booth, #812, all day with other MA/RI members. I will be bringing the SAQA MA/RI Trunk Show with me to display. Come by and say "hello". On April 25, SAQA MA/RI is sponsoring a lecture and photo shoot for registered members with professional photographer, Joe Ofria. Joe has been photographing fine art for over 34 years in the Boston area and will be speaking to our members about how to successfully use a point and shoot digital camera to get quality photos of your work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then it's off to Portland, OR for me on April 29 through May 4 for the SAQA yearly Convention. On Friday, May 1 from 7-10pm, I will be providing a demo on the use of fabric markers to enhance art quilts at the SAQA Maker Space at the DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton in Portland. This whole extended weekend promises to be so much fun. I will be posting from Portland, hopefully, with lots of pictures and updates of what is happening.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I arrive home I will be joining Sue Bleiweiss and Cheryl Rezendes in jurying our SAQA MA/RI exhibition, 'Art As Quilt' which will open in September of this year at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. The call for entry for all MA/RI and CT members is open from May 1 through May 31.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Phew! You may be wondering how anything is happening in the studio. It is happening every day. I feel so blessed not to be working outside the home and to be able to be in my studio every day. I enjoy a day off a week to play with my granddaughter, Riley but every other day I spend a good chunk, if not near all of my day playing with fabrics, markers, pencils and sewing machines. Above is a sample piece, in process, that I have done for my demo in Portland on using fabric markers to accentuate an art quilt. There are three of these sample pieces and their step outs being prepared.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And when I get home from Portland I will be visiting my Exhibition goals again to crack the whip at completing a few more large pieces, starting with <i>Empress of the Pines</i>.</span></div>
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<br />Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108851827696156988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110228630045493782.post-30478668726340637712015-03-05T18:35:00.000-05:002016-06-28T12:05:49.846-04:0028 Days<br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Setting goals and achieving them are two very different animals. Late last fall I did some planning with my mentor's guidance. Ultimately I came up with a list of major pieces I want to create this year and a calendar set for the exhibitions in which I wish to enter them. Easy enough task. I have more ideas in my head than time to complete them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Time is a valuable commodity to an artist. I have learned a lot about what time means to my practice of art. I have never been one to seek the easy or quick way to do something. My art is evidence of the fact that my techniques take a great deal of time. The more time I put into a piece, the more technically sound it becomes. Conversely when the clock seems to be ticking way too fast, I feel the pressure and it often shows in the stitching.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My last piece was drawn, fused and stitched in 28 days. I conceived of the idea years ago but only recently did I see an exhibition come up that was a possible fit; SAQA's Balancing Act. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My paternal grandmother was a strong woman and a very important role model for all of her granddaughters. She wasn't formally educated, growing up in rural Italy, the daughter of peasant farmers. After immigrating and working a lifetime in this country, my grandfather's social security check was not quite enough to make ends meet. So Angelina</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> found a way to grow the cookie jar. She peddled her chicken's eggs door to door in the neighborhood along with </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the vegetables from their garden. Now called cottage </span></span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">industry, my grandmother worked hard for that extra cash.</span><br />
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Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108851827696156988noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110228630045493782.post-14915076286813526842015-02-19T14:13:00.001-05:002016-06-28T12:06:41.426-04:00Absorbing Disappointment <span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Two more rejection letters from the SAQA exhibition 'Wild Fabrications' leaves me to internally question, "What do I need to fix in order to get a more favorable outcome?" Knowing that sometimes a piece just doesn't work with other chosen pieces, I still am questioning what it might have been this time. I entered both 'Caught' and a new piece, 'Crazy Eights' and neither were accepted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My composition on 'Caught' is a bit bottom heavy but there is good color movement to offset it. 'Crazy Eights' has a wonderful flow, great color contrast and movement, interesting fabric choices and a solid composition. So, other than the pieces not fitting into the show, I am left with two possible culprits. Either my stitching is not as consistently professional as it should be, or my photographs did not read well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am still working to get the hang of free motion quilting. Thankfully my Sweet 16 allows me to choose a percentage of the speed it does at full throttle. I have mine still set low at 35%. But I still have issues with my brain working slower than my foot. I wonder if I will ever really get the hang of it. Here are two shots of the background quilting for Crazy of the swirly moon and the still dark sky.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you look closely you will see how even though some areas are working well with even lines and stitching, there are wonky lines every so often and occasional uneven stitches. Judges look closely. This is a dilemma for me because the artist in me can envision the work but my skill is not keeping up. Practice, practice, practice, you might say.</span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well, I have taken years to do just that and it hasn't really paid off in increased skill. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Imagination, draftsmanship, color theory, composition, construction, fabric knowledge. These are my strong suits. I very seldom get stuck in choosing my fabrics. In the dragon I have chosen lots of complementary colors for drama, lime greens and raspberry reds, fiery oranges against the deep blue of the sky, pale yellows and light lilacs in the moon.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fabrics can also add interest in how they play with light. The wings not only reflect light but are two layers of organza which create moire patterns when cut across the grain and are transparent giving depth to the design. One of the wings is sewn to the quilt </span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">only at one edge, free floating over the body, tethered with one stitch and wired along</span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the top.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The wing's transparency is allowing the moon and </span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">sky to show through. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In this shot above, the relief work is more evident and the left wing is showing the curl of it's wired edge. All of these effects took some brain-power to figure out. The quilt stitching was done on the front body pieces with interfacing behind before stitching a tube (below) and filling with fiber fill. The flanges on the head were completely made with a lining and stitched before both fusing and stitching to the background. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I continue working on this piece I am ever mindful now of the need to keep my stitching as perfect as I can. I wonder if my photographer will render me a great shot. And I wonder if with three strikes you are out or if my luck will come back. Ultimately, an artist can't be thin skinned. I need to just keep making my art and hope for the best. Absorb the blow. Wish me luck.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well I thought it was about time to finish up a design I first drew in 1995 which was inspired by the story of Peter and the Wolf, music and story by Sergei Prokofiev. I had just seen an article in Smithsonian Magazine featuring the exhibit "A Deck of Cards" and I was so moved and excited by the work I viewed that I knew instantly I wanted to work with fabric. I had no supplies, as you can clearly see, not even decent paper to draw on. I taped 8 1/2" x 11" paper together to create a larger field to draw, put on some appropriate music, and began to draw. What I ended up with is a very complex drawing of the four characters involved in that scene and a sample of the music for each of them complete with their instruments.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I began working the center piece by creating the background of grass, sky and one very rigid tree. I didn't understand about 'take-up' and the grassy area shrunk by a whole inch, frustrating the dickens out of me. I pushed on to sew the wolf out of every scrap of wool I had and hand stitched him down with extra padding to the background. I moved on to create Peter and the bird and two of the musical panels. Again using every scrap of fabric I had, upholstery, velvet, lace, lame, knits, etc. You name it, it's in there! Needless to say it was an epic fail and I let it sit as a UFO for many years as I moved on, having learned some invaluable hard lessons about construction.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In 2010, after having just joined SAQA in September of 2009, I decided to give the wolf a second shot. I entered the Visions Program offered by SAQA which is a program created for artists to set goals and with the help of other artists to achieve them. One goal was to finish "Peter and the Wolf". I redrew (still limited in supplies, I pieced the paper again with tape) both the tree and the wolf. I wanted to make the tree more life-like and gave it some flex. I edited the wolf, keeping the same general shape but giving him a more graphic nature. The sky and grass became two large background pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Peter was drawn separately and made to set into the tree. </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I Made my background out of two pieces of batik. I added fused branches in reds, russets and golds. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then I set to work on the wolf. This time I fused him onto muslin, a technique I now use often. My plan was to satin stitch the pieces onto the muslin and hand stitch the muslin to the background with extra batting under the wolf. I ran into problems. I forgot to add interfacing and many of the curvy lines puckered horribly. I had used a silk/wool blend for the inside of the ears. The iron singed it so that it's white fibers were now an uneven tan. And the hand stitching was impossible around the fine points of his ruff. Ugh, I gave up again not really knowing how to proceed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In 2014 I became determined to get this piece finished and when I saw the call come out for a SAQA show called "Wild Fabrications" which was all about animals, my wolf, wild and imaginary, seemed to fit the bill. This gave me a deadline to shoot for, which seems to be my only successful incentive. I also had a drawing for a dragon which would be a possible for the same call. So after discussing goals with my mentor I added both quilts onto my list of works to accomplish in 2015 for that specific call for entry.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then came the fun of leafing out the tree. I cut about a hundred leaves or more, fused them, quilted veins and then satin stitched them. The satin stitches have to be done with my Bernina (6" neck) and I couldn't use the Sweet 16. Boy do I wish the Sweet 16 could do simple satin stitching. It took hours more than I expected to complete. Can you say labor intensive!</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The blizzard last week near gave me a heart attack as I was uncertain if the photographer would be able to make it. But he was able to come up to the studio on Saturday morning on the last day of the call. So I was able to enter both pieces for that call and I am now waiting to hear if one of them will be chosen or not.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know that we are halfway through January, but it's been a busy end of year. I'm just getting around to reflecting. As I try to wrap up work on two decent sized quilts this month, I am thinking about how I pushed through the month of December half in a daze. From mid November through the end of the year, we have 4 birthdays, one of which is Riley's. The three holidays are enough in and of themselves! I'm tired.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On a personal level, I started 2014 with surgery and recovery. It was a tough start. Tony lost his Mom in the spring and my dear cousin, Jeff passed this fall. Tony's business took the hit of three of his clients shutting down for good. We buried our cat, Maddie out under the trees this year too. Our son Peter moved permanently to Florida, the first child to move far away. Quite a few of our plans went awry this past year and there were plenty of sad, difficult and teary moments. I must say, I am not sorry to see the year gone! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However many challenges we faced, there were some bright spots for me, a lot of them tied to my studio. I became a SAQA Co Rep in early summer, working with Sue Bleiweiss to set in place two upcoming exhibitions in our region. Even with time constraints, I completed 5 pieces in 2014. <i>Mariposa</i> showed with the <i>Butterflies and Their Kin</i> exhibit in Texas in the spring and continued on to other venues. <i>Nancy's Garden</i> showed at the Whistler Museum this summer. I got a new addition to my studio, an HQ16, which has made the world of difference in my quilting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The last few projects of the year began with a blast from my past. I did much of my learning how to sew and construct as a teen making dolls. I thought it was time to get back into it, so I made Mary Lennox from </span><i style="color: #f1c232; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Secret Garden</i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> for my granddaughter Riley's Christmas present.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So the first hurdle I had to face was in setting goals. Not unlike most moderately ambitious people, my first attempt at a list had way too much on it and in much too vague a way. It had 28 items on it. In my second draft I split my ideas into "artist goals" and "professional goals" but pretty much had the same amount of goals combined on the two lists. So then, as suggested, I broke what I had into "short term" and "long term" goals. This got me thinking about time, ability and reality.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I slipped things into the long term list, I wondered if I was just tabling things that would never be realized due to lack of time. I will turn 59 in 2015. I have always found the "nine" years to be brutal and as I face the inevitability of aging, the looming 60 seems a mountainous hurdle with a hell of a backslide. How much longer will I be allowed to do this work? Will my eyes go, or my hands get shaky, or perhaps an illness or disease will table my goals. So I decided to burn rubber on the short term goals. Seize the day, right?</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My business goal list has 11 items on it. My artist goals are 5. I have completed 4 items on my business list already. They were easy, relatively. I now get to dig in to the harder goals. Without listing all of them I will discuss a few key goals. My first artist goal is to create 5-7 pieces in 2015 for entering into specific exhibitions. I have now a detailed list of all the calls I want to enter with their important information, the submission due date and the piece I want to have completed for entry. While a heavy list, I will push to get all 7 done if possible. Having this list in front of me gives me a daily reminder that goal #3 which is to develop better discipline, is absolutely necessary. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of my business goals is to smarten up my blog page so that I can use it like a website, offering it to anyone who wants to see what I do. If you read my posts, you will see subtle and even some not so subtle changes happening. I am adding pages to my blog. One for a resume and artist statement, and one for my artist portfolio. Until I start receiving income from my art, I have to make due with an old, slow computer and I can't commit to paying for a website's monthly charges yet. As suggested by my mentor, "You don't need a website, just use your blog." Using my blog not only means adding pages, but also designing it to be a professional extension of my art. Soon you will see a redesign. It also implies that I have to be much more diligent about posting. So the simple goal of having stronger and more professional internet presence entails a moderate amount of work in making changes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I will be talking about the progress I am making in defining and developing some of my other goals as time permits. In my next "Goal Post" I will talk about how I am developing a few concepts for articles as well as taking those concepts one step further into planning demos and teaching workshops around them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As our professional lives as artists are so closely interwoven with our personal lives, I have allowed a certain amount of my life into these posts. I have a west coast family. My mother grew up in California with her three sisters. They all stayed in the west with the exception of my mother who moved to her husband's home town in the east. My maternal cousins are all much older than I, as my mother was the last of the sisters to marry and the last to start a family. I have seen some of my cousins on occasion, many of them I have not seen since I was very young. One of these cousins kept in touch with me via snail mail and an occasional phone call. Jeff had been battling with cancer for seven years and has recently lost his fight. In sadness over the loss of him, and in respect for his kindness, gentleness, and his sensitive, generous spirit, I honor his passing here with all the love in my heart. You will be sorely missed, dear cousin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;">Called "Pine Needles" this piece is a cutwork of triangular shapes. It is mounted several inches from the wall and with direct lighting on it, cast amazing shadows behind, creating very exciting imagery. Joy Stocksdale of Sebastopol, CA has two other pieces in the show that you can see peeking out in the photo above. Her panels are made of polychromatic screen-printed silk, stiffened and then cut. To see more of her work, </span><span style="color: cyan;">www.joystocksdale.com </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Always amazing in it's detail is the work of Salley Mavor from Falmouth, MA. This is a detail of a fantastic piece called, "Self Portrait: Personal History of Fashion". Spiraling outward from the center infant are images of Salley as she grew. She creates her vignettes from wool felt, trims and beads. Set inside a glass case it was difficult for me to photograph without glare and really this photo does nothing to accentuate the detail within this piece. If you are interested in Salley's work you can find her artwork and information at,</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.weefolkstudio.com/"><span style="color: cyan;">www.weefolkstudio.com</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another favorite of mine was this piece by Laurie Carlson Steger, a weaver from South Dartmouth, MA. Laurie's weavings are studies in work with reflective properties and incorporate fiber optic strands. Called, "Black Forest Gold" this piece was inspired by patches of sunlight filtering through the dense trees of the Black Forest in Germany. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;">In this detail of Laurie's piece you can see the beadwork she used to help reflect light. This piece is handwoven, stitched, beaded and quilted. Laurie also has other work in this show. For information about her work go to, </span><a href="http://www.liteweave.com/"><span style="color: cyan;">www.liteweave.com</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I fell in love with the intense work of artist, Kerstin Zettmar. Not only is it colorful work but it is dramatic, and peaceful at the same time. At a distance and in photographs, you see an image not unlike an impressionist painting, but up close and personal you realize she has created her image by embroidering large ply yarns of a multitude of colors that literally burst from the surface of the work creating a cacophony of wildly intersecting fibers and colors. Honestly, my jaw dropped and my husband, Tony wanted to take this one home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;">This is a shot of me with SAQA friends Sandy Gregg, Janis Doucette, and Diane Wright. Sandy's artwork is hanging behind us. This really is an exciting show that I recommend highly to anyone who loves textiles. You will find the show at the Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St. in Fall River, MA. It is open now through December 27, 2014. For questions on directions or gallery hours call 508.324.1926 or go to their website, </span></span><a href="http://www.narrowscenter.org/manager/gallery-details-new.php?id=1289" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;">www.narrowscenter.org/manager/gallery-details-new.php?id=1289</span></a><br />
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<br />Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108851827696156988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110228630045493782.post-38247343877724448192014-11-03T18:44:00.000-05:002016-06-28T12:20:10.932-04:00Studio Days<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Monument was started in 2013 to go with the three other Santa Fe pieces I did at that time. This piece did not fit well into the "Three Cohesive Pieces" theme of the exhibition I was preparing for so I set it aside. However, I really love this piece. I have done a bit more drawing on it with my fabric markers to delineate the stones in the intersecting walls. My new Sweet 16 will help me make short work of the stitching.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">More updated pictures coming.</span>Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108851827696156988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110228630045493782.post-24614163687554919302014-10-24T23:30:00.002-04:002016-06-30T02:16:47.258-04:00Multiplicities:New Directions in Fiber<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hanging behind Allison and myself, detail to the right is a woven piece called "1364 Threads Pulled One at a Time" by Debbie Barrett-Jones. My terrible old digital camera does it no justice. Beautifully dyed warp threads were pulled to create tension and texture and through the middle of the piece you saw only the warp threads hanging. It really was captivating and won a Juror Award. The Juror for this amazing show was Elin Noble, a textile artist and SAQA member who lives in the MA/RI region.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This piece was created by New York artist, Natalya Aikens. I have loved watching the progression of Natalya's work over the past few years. She has a finely tuned understanding of architecture and a playful hand with unusual materials and color. Made primarily of plastics, "Sunset" screamed with innovation and pure excitement. You can view her work on her website: <a href="http://www.artbynatalya.com/">www.artbynatalya.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, nothing is easy. The cord running from the computer to the machine became an instant issue. The kittens loved the tent I made for them with fabric to cover the machine and chewed through that cord. IN TWO DAYS! It took me over a week to get a replacement cord to the tune of $39.00 and three kittens got a very stern finger wagging.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I had mentioned in a prior post, this spring I became involved in the SAQA MA/RI Regional exhibition committee. I worked pretty hard along with Sue Bleiweiss and decided that I would become a Co-Rep along with Sue and Maryann Gallaher. So I am now a Co-Rep for SAQA and we have so many things going on in our region. Two exhibitions are planned, a regional trunk show is being assembled, the 25th Anniversary Trunk Show is coming to our November meeting, we have a new regional portfolio printed, we have begun a mentorship program and we are doing outreach and workshop planning for 2015 and 2016. To read about all that is going on in MA/RI you can access info from our blog at: <a href="http://ma-ri-saqa.blogspot.com./">http://ma-ri-saqa.blogspot.com</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It really was an enjoyable afternoon and we were able to take home our experiments to use in our own projects. The next meeting will take place at the UU Society of Amherst, 121 North Pleasant St. in Amherst, MA from 10am to 2pm There will be demos on simple silk screen methods by Cheryl Rezendes and a demo on the cradle board technique for mounting quilts by Jeanne Marklin. If you live west of Worcester, this will be a fantastic meeting as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have been working and reworking this one for so many years. It is finally time to finish this thing. "Peter and the Wolf" is getting stitched. </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the picture to the right you can see two wolves.</span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The wolf on the far right puckered terribly because I stitched it to muslin without adding batting or stabilizer. Dumb move on my part. So I redid him and he is already adhered to the background and almost completely stitched. Pictures to follow in another post.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So that brings you up to date in my world. I will be posting more shots of these three quilts as I begin to cut fabrics and stitch. And there are a couple more that will be coming into light very soon.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, there was another life changer that happened during the month of December. Right after Thanksgiving I was having some health issues and did some testing to find out that I had a tumor on my right kidney. It was malignant but small and was removed in January. It took a while before I got back on my feet from surgery but I am glad to say that they did remove it all and I did not need chemo or radiation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Makes you think! Even though it was a very slow growing cancer, found early, I had a lot of time to think about my ticking clock. I came away from it feeling a strong desire to get busy in my studio. The first piece I did after my surgery was <i>Seeing Spots, </i>seen right. This piece is expressive of how I had been feeling at the time, like a Cheshire cat blending in to life but whose spots, one in particular, were giving him away. Every fabric I chose had dots in it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Summer Breeze</i> was created quickly as a response to a request that came to me just as I was getting better in my recovery. The request was from a woman soliciting donations to an auction for a cancer center in Rhode Island. God moves in mysterious ways. I felt it was a sign that I needed to give a little back for the luck of having my cancer diagnosed so early. I thought about all the others who might not be so lucky, who might not have insurance and be facing large bills. While having some of these myself, what I could do was donate a piece. So I did. And it sold to the collection of Dr. James Mezhir.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now I have been one who believes that artists should not give away their work. And I'm sure we could all have a huge discussion about it. But I'm alive! And I am appreciative. End of story. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I cleaned up my studio a bit and took a look at upcoming calls for entry. There are a lot out there. I was hoping to enter one in this year's IQF and chose the one about pets. A friend, left, had just undergone a devastating loss. Her mother died of cancer rather quickly and she took it extremely hard. Young and alone she felt more than just grief, it was panic and despair. Her cat, Medonja, was all that was keeping her sane. This little cat is responsible for easing her deep depression. Sometimes our pets do more for us than people do. With Gabriele's permission I started my new quilt, based on this photograph of her and her beloved Medonja.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of course, IQF requires you to keep images of quilts off of social media. So no one but Gabriele has seen my progress. I was chugging along and doing very well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then life happened again. This has been a challenging year. My husband's mother, Marggi suddenly became ill. We dropped everything and flew to Florida on Mother's Day. Marggi passed on the following Tuesday. We stayed a while with family, working on how to deal with her funeral, which was to be up here in New England. We flew home, prepared a bit and welcomed the Florida/California family into our home until her funeral, which was 10 days later.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Marggi was a creative and vibrant woman, who loved life and always had a sunny disposition, even when she was ill. Above Marggi is flanked by Brad, her grandson and my husband Tony, or Anthony as she always called him. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This brings me up to current time. I missed the IQF deadline, needless to say. On the 31st of May, the MA/RI region of SAQA had their quarterly meeting. One of our reps who is new to the position, Sue Bleiweiss, has been a very busy bee. Her enthusiasm is catchy and I am now greatly involved with our newly formed regional Exhibition Committee. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am the Co-Chair of this committee which I am sharing with Sue. With 10 members searching for possible venues, thinking of theme ideas and pitching in to make phone calls and send emails, we are having some success at finding willing venues. I will be posting about our successes and upcoming calls going out to the region. Sue is penning a new blog for us in MA/RI. You can check out what we are doing at: <a href="http://ma-ri-saqa.blogspot.com/">http://ma-ri-saqa.blogspot.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of her goals is for us to have our own regional trunk show which will travel throughout the region. The piece above, detail below is my submission to this trunk show.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While I was in Florida, a call for entry came due. Before I left I put together everything I needed to send it off. My daughter, Andie helped me get it done by sending off the email and mailing my entry. It was accepted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Nancy's Garden</i> will be at the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, MA from August 20 - September 20 for a show called <i>"How Does Your Garden Grow?"</i>. The Artist Reception and Awards is on Saturday, August 23 from 1-3pm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So I am back in my studio staring two new deadlines squarely in the eyes. I am finishing the one above and entering into another show. Still hush, hush. So I'm afraid you will not be seeing it for a while unless it is rejected. And I am looking to finish Queen Bee as well. Both need to be done in September. Hoo boy! I need to stop chatting and get back to my machine. </span></div>
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