Getting to Know Your AFA Members. . . . Five Minutes With
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 artists/artisans work, whose [...]
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Women Printmakers of Austin
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 [...]
Kathy York’s Shipping Advice
Kathy gave the AFA members at Wednesday night’s meeting great advice on safely shipping quilts–or at least minimizing the risk of damage and loss. Some of the highlights of Kathy’s talk was her demonstration of how to pack a quilt. First, be sure you invest in a good corrugated cardboard box intended for shipping that [...]
Raffel Prizes for attending 3 Etsy Austin Events
I will have flyers to hand out at the meeting tomorrow so if you can’t attend my event you only have to go to 2 other salons to get in on the prizes.
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Austin Fashion Week
I have been invited to participate in Austin Fashion Week going on from July 13-19th . Several members and I from Etsy Austin got together to help make our parties stand out among the 130 that will be going on this week. I was paired with Baldwin Beauty School 3005 S Lamar Blvd # 109D, [...]
Metaphoric Fibers Call for Entry 2010
The Textile Center in Minneapolis has a call for entry for a juried exhibit – “Metaphoric Fibers:Untamed Knitting & Crochet.” “The artwork for this exhibit will be a fiber abstraction of the artist’s alternative perception of an everyday reality.” Exhibit dates: March 5 – April 17, 2010 Entries due: August 17, 2009
Copper Shade Tree 2010 Deadline
Diane Sandlin asked me to post the link for the upcoming Art in Fiber show at the Copper Shade Tree Gallery in Round Top. The show will run for a month beginning in February, however, the deadline for the jury process will be September 1st. http://www.coppershadetree.com/fiber_2010.php
Wesley Gallery June 2009
I was unable to attend the Wesley show, but according to Diane Barney, Friday’s reception was well attended, mostly artists with family. Saturday afternoon had good flow of walk-through interest. Sunday was slow, but considering it was Father’s Day, it was nice that some people showed at all. The demo volunteers all showed and did [...]
Paula Nadelstern
http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/blog.php/blog_id/1943 Here is the link to find the information about Paula Nadelstern’s exhibit at the Museum of American Folkart in NYC. Click on “look what we found” and it will take you to a video interview which shows the quilts. I saw the exhibits while I was in NYC last week but we couldn’t take [...]
New Photo Albums
http://community.webshots.com/user/pinpalanita Check out my Webshots albums to see new photos of the McNay Museum in San Antonio, Texas and the Capitol exhibit of the latest Texas Museum of Fiber Artists.