Programs 2006

January
January 12, 2006: CAROL SINGER
"A World of Color" - We will be taking a journey through some of Carol's quilts beginning with the earlier ones up to the present. Influenced by many national teachers, Carol will share with you who has inspired her along the way with a trunk show of some very colorful quilts.

Carol Ketterer Singer is an award-winning quilt artist who began quilting in 1990. She has been involved in the quilt-making process from designing, sewing and quilting, to teaching and lecturing at shops and guilds. In addition, she runs a longarm quilting business and recently started a line of patterns. Her work has appeared in a number of magazines and books on quilting and sewing, including the 2006 AQS Calendar.

February
February 9, 2006: JACKS QUILTS
Susan Brooks will teach us how to make a quilt called "Jacks" which appears in the quilting book PS I Love You Two, a collection of baby quilts. This is the quilt which was made by several guild members and presented to Gwen to welcome her new daughter. It is a delightfully cheerful quilt that looks complicated but is quite simple to make.

March
March 9, 2006: DIANE PIERI
Our March speaker will be Diane Pieri, a gradute of Tyler School of Art, who has had 24 solo, and 100 national & international exhibitions, and is included in collections in China, Japan, Romania, and the United States, and is represented by Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia. Diane is the recipient of numerous grants, including Independence Foundation Grant, 2001, Pollock-Krasner Grants, 1992 & 1999, and a 1992 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant.

The March program: "Cloth, Symbol and Meaning" I am deeply involved with trying to capture and record the intertwining of meaning and my decorative impulse. Authenticity is of utmost importance to me not only in my beliefs, as represented in my paintings, but in the actual materials I have used in my 30 years of creative investigations - Thai silk, papyrus from Egypt, 23 carat Italian gold leaf, Mexican bark paper, French watercolor paper, various handmade papers,including linen paper I made from 60 year old linen I found in my grandmother?s dresser after her death and candy foil, after I have eaten the candy. For the past 4 years I have been working on clayboard which collaborates with gouache to form unpredicted pools of color.

April
April 20, 2006: AQATS
On April 20, 2006 Heartstrings will meet at the Philadelphia Art Alliance at 7:15PM for a private guided tour of the ArtQuilts at the Sedgwick On The Square exhibition. There are 44 artists in the show this spring from a total of 5 countries, about half of the artists have been juried into the show at least once before. There are a large number of styles and techniques represented and we will hear about them in detail.

We will NOT be allowed to bring food into the PAA so we will skip refreshments that evening. The Philadelphia Art Alliance is located at: 251 South 18th Street in Center City Philadelphia.Directions can be found on their website.

May
May 10, 2006: CAROL TAYLOR
The slide program, Working in a Series, is a description of how to create work in a series. Carol will show slides of how she goes from sketches to work in progress, to the final pieces.

The presentation will include details of how she made the 39 quilts in her Gong Series, and then went on to the Confetti, Linear, Arc-i-Texture, and now Abstraction Series.
Vibrant colors, striking contrasts and
machine quilting distinguish the 450 quilts that internationally know, award–winning quilt artist, Carol Taylor has created since 1993. Carol has won FIVE “Best of Show” awards (with five different quilts!), and a myriad of awards over the years, with an amazing 17 major prizes in 2005 alone. She has been included in Visions 2004, Quilt National 2001 and 1999 and the Museum of Art and Design in NYC has one of Carol’s quilts in their permanent collection.

June
June 8, 2006: Potluck Dinner

January
February
March
April
May
June (Potluck)
July
August
September
October
November
December (Potluck)

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