Happy New Year

Best wishes to all-- hope 2014 is an amazing and creative year!

Holiday Bazaar

Join me and shop local this Christmas while exploring what's new in the Forest Park and Avondale area. I'll be selling my knitwear, jewelry, purses, and cuddle quilts inside Beloved Community Church on 41st Street. Sat 12/14 11am-6pm and Sun 12/15 12noon-5pm. Great opportunity for seeing items hand crafted by local artists-- see you there!

Advent

Today is the first Sunday of Advent. My piece, "Light of the World: The People Who Sat in Darkness Have Seen a Great Light" is included in the Advent edition of Behold Magazine from Logos Productions. I'm grateful to them for having such a beautiful magazine, and for Sara-Scott Wingo, whose sermon inspired me to create this piece.

ADC Fine Crafts Show

Please join with me this weekend as Alabama Designer Craftsmen present our fall show at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.  Preview night is Friday, 6-9 pm; regular show is Saturday and Sunday.  There is a raffle and I've donated my art quilt "Swimming in Pure Color"  -- lots of bright blues and yellows.  Hope to see you there!

Bluff Park Art Show

Bluff Park Art Show is Saturday, October 5. Please come see me at my booth -G10.
http://www.bluffparkartassociation.org/

Sacred Threads On the Road

Exciting news today about my new art work, Prayers at the Wailing Wall, which will be in the Sacred Threads exhibition.  Forty of the art quilts, including mine, were juried into an additional exhibition and will travel to Omaha, Nebraska, for an additional showing.  This will be at the Sunderland Gallery in Omaha from September 15 through November 10, 2013.  What an honor to be selected for this show.   

Sacred Threads 2013

I am pleased to announce that I have an art quilt accepted into the 2013 Sacred Threads Art Quilt Exhibition.  This is a national show, held in Northern Virginia just outside Washington DC.  Please see this link for more information:  http://www.sacredthreadsquilts.com/   As described on their website,  Sacred Threads is an exhibition of quilts exploring themes of spirituality, joy, inspiration, peace/brotherhood, grief and healing. This biennial exhibition was established to provide a safe venue for quilters  who see their work as a connection to the sacred and/or as an expression of their spiritual journey.  The objective is to create a dignified exhibition of artwork that touches on both spiritual and personal levels all those who view it.

The piece I submitted, Prayers at the Wailing Wall, is based on an experience I had on a recent trip to Jerusalem.  Although I had read about the wall, I was very moved to actually be there.  It was memorable to join with others in prayer, and to see the written prayers that were tucked into the niches between the stone blocks. 

If you are in the DC area in July, I hope you will stop by to view these art quilts.

Alabama Designer Craftsmen Art Show

I'm joining with fellow members of Alabama Designer Craftsmen for a group art showing at Soon-Bok Sellers Gallery. The opening reception is Sunday, March 10, from 1-4pm. Everyone is invited. This is the same gallery where I was part of the PEN Women exhibit last month, but I'm showing different work this time. The show runs through March 29th.

PEN Women Art Show

I was pleased to win a first place ribbon at the PEN Women Art Show. Visit the Soon-Bok Sellers Gallery, 571 Park Avenue, Birmingham (Bluff Park area) 35226. The opening reception is Sunday, January 27th, and the show runs through 2/26/13.