Schweinfurth Printing May 5-9

 

This color sample tests the same strength across various fabrics from cotton to linen to silk and blends. I keep my pallet the same for each class and studio, rarely veering. I know how to get favorite colors that way. Come print in May at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York. Can't beat the facilities!

If There's Gators, It's Florida

Before catching a later flight out of Florida I was treated to an Air Boat tour of a vast marsh. Seemed that the purpose was to spot alligators, and we managed a good dozen. The birds were choice, absolutely beautiful, and a perfect way to end the conference/workshop/day-off smash up of a week.
 

Design Camp florida style

 Monday and Tuesday was "Design Camp " with the Dirty Dozen fiber art group in Melbourne, Florida. Held in the coolest spot and known as the river house, it was improv sewing without the bunk house. Just fun!

More Design Camp Within the Frame

One image from the Florida workshop; this is day two and Withing the Frame. We had a great space to work with, lots of room to step back and see what we had, and where we wanted to change. And bonus -- good light to see our design walls. Setup was a beauty, wish they were all like this.
 

Museum of Arts and Crafts

On my way out of town before heading east we stopped to see the Museum of American Arts and Crafts Movement. The interior mirrors Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum's tiered interior as its staircase. Definitely a strange adaptation, but but still sculptural. 
 

Night Out

Friday night, the SAQA conference held a spot for the Visionary Reception at the Florida Craft Art Gallery in St. Petersburg. A busman's holiday, we had a chance to see fiber art SDA curated. Yes, bit of wine, and nibbles, but mainly a chance to talk about the fiber art we love.
 

Imagine Museum

One pic would not explain this glass work. There are mirrors and clear glass, and I can't explain how it works, but it's a hell of a lot of fun to look into it. This was yesterday's excursion to the Imagine Museum here in St. Petersburg. 
 

Speakers Speakers

The crowd at the SAQA convention in St. Petersburg, Florida, paid close attention to speakers, taking in vast quantities of information. The after-lecture discussion was almost as heated as the weather outside (88!) but no fear, we were cool inside. And the promise of a pool (outdoors!) waits.

Shirts are Packed

This back of quilt was at the Iowa Quilt Museum. A good fill-in for my packing an unpacking here in Florida. I'm at the SAQA conference getting ready to meet load of friends and have some good solid diversion and quilty topics with meat on them bones. 
 

Print East or Print West

This spring's workshop is in the lovely Finger Lakes, near me, in Auburn New York. The Schweinfurth Art Center (Quilts=Art=Quilts sponsor) has a week of printing May 5-9. If you're west, head north to Coupeville, Washington on Whidbey Island, and print July 21-25. Join me, you won't regret a thing.

 

Random Images

I'm clocking the hours this week putting a lecture together for the upcoming SAQA conference this weekend. So, random images are getting pulled and sorted, which means that I run through years of workshops and travels. This is from Vancouver Island, I believe, maybe in 2017 or so. Time!