Textile Twists in Twenty Ten

We are excited to present an Austin Fiber Artists Exhibit:
Textile Twists in Twenty Ten
Location:  Tokyo Electron America
2400 Grove Blvd.
Austin, TX  78741
(Grove runs off Montopolis Ave. in southeast Austin)
Dates:      Opening Reception – February 24, 2010
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Exhibit can be also viewed each weekday, M-F, from 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

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Don’t miss these members’ quilts at Houston Quilt Festival
Hoffman Challenge, Janis Hooker, “Yo Yo Fairy #1″
West Coast Wonders II, Barb Forrister, “Emerald Treasures” and “Life’s a Beach”
IQF Group Quilt Division, Barb Forrister, Diane Sandlin, Jean Dahlgren, Sherri McCauley, Leslie Tucker Jenison, Connie Hudson, Kathy York, Pearl Gonzales, and Frances Holliday Alford, “Group Conversations”
Ami Simms’ Alzheimer’s [...]

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Three members of AFA have quilts in the Chisholm Trail Quilt Guild quilt show:
Martha Tsihlas, Linda Miles and Dianne Hegebarth
WHERE: Dell Diamond United Heritage Conference Center
ADDRESS: 3400 East Palm Blvd. (Hwy 79) Round Rock, Tx.
WHEN: Fri. and Sat. from 10 am to 6pm
Very easy to get to from all points in Austin. Just off I-35 [...]

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Six AFA members were juried into the Texas Federation of Fiber Artists exhibit, Celebrating Our Creative Spirit, at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.  Congratulations to Diane Sandlin, Barbara Sandberg, Jean Dahlgren, Mary Ann Vaca-Lambert, Denna Hardin, and Caryl Gabatz.
The opening reception is Friday, October 2, 5:30-8:00 PM.  The Center is located at 4848 Main [...]

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Barbara Jackson of Golden Artist Colors was the speaker at the September 2009 meeting.  Although I missed the last AFA meeting, there was a lot of good information that Gail McGlamery passed on to me for this post.  Here are Gail’s notes.  Thanks Gail.
Barbara talked about the company and its history, that it is run [...]

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AFA’s Jaime Matute will be showing several pieces of her fiber art at Hill Country Bible Church, 12124 RR 620 N in the NW Worship Center Balcony (Building A).  The ART Reception is Friday, September 18, 7PM – 9PM.  There will be refreshments, music from the jazz trio, Just for You, a monoprinting demonstration, and [...]

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Congratulations to the AFA artists who were juried in to the Copper Shade Tree Gallery Exhibit, “The Art in Fiber”.   Be sure you set aside time to visit the gallery during the show from February 5 – March 7, 2010, to see the works of Pam Farley, Malissa Long, Letitia Rogers, Martha Tsihlas, Denna Hardin, [...]

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Our exhibit at the ABIA looks as wonderful as this poster, featuring AFA member Mary Ann Vaca-Lambert’s piece (Diane Sandlin, President, doing the Vanna White honors).  Gorgeous!  The exhibit can be viewed by ticketed travelers through November 3, 2009.

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Each edition of the AFA newsletter, Gathering Threads, will feature a short interview with a member of AFA.  This month’s newsletter features “Five Minutes With…Diane Sandlin”, AFA President.  Just to whet your appetite, here’s Diane’s response to one of the five questions I posed her.
AFA: If you could collect one living artist’s/artisan’s work, whose would [...]

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AFA hosted the Women Printmakers of Austin (WPA) at its August meeting.  Over ten WPA members shared their work and explained the printmaking processes they used.  The processes included woodblock printing, intaglio printing (which includes four different etching subprocesses), and lithography.  The owners of StoneMetal Press also discussed that they have etching, litho, and letter [...]

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