Infinity Art Quilts

2013 Honorable Mention
Infinity Art Quilts
www.InfinityArtGallery.com
Wen Redmond's is bottom right

31st Annual New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts

Two works to be included in
31st Annual New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts
The Lincolin Center Art Gallery, Fort Collins,Colorado
july 9-september 2 , 2013

my work has been honored and included in 

Integrating A Paradox: Art Quilts XVII

"Art, in its most paradoxical, often reflects the innermost, personal part of the artist's soul, which is then allowed, even encouraged, to be placed on display for all the world to see - perhaps to communicate." Wen Redmond

In Boats They Fled

see the rest of the show- HERE

Quilt Visions 2012

Contemporary Quilt Artists from Around the World at Visions Art Museum

 Artists from around the globe will be at Visions Art Museum on October 20^th for the premier of Quilt Visions 2012: Brainstorms the latest edition of an international biennial competition that has drawn crowds since 1987.

Three esteemed jurors were challenged to select an exhibition that represents outstanding design and technique from 390 entries. They have selected 40 outstanding works of art from 17 states and five foreign countries created in the last two years.   The knowledgeable jurors were Kate Lenkowsky, author of the award-winning book, Contemporary Quilt Art: An Introduction and Guide; Jane Przybysz, former executive director of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, currently executive director of the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina, Columbia; and Kent Williams an award winning contemporary quilter whose work has appeared in numerous juried exhibitions including previous Quilt Visions biennials.

This year the 12^th Quilt Visions exhibition will be presented for the first time at the Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts + Textiles at Liberty Station in San Diego, California. From the opening weekend festivities beginning October 20^th to the close on February 17^th, Visions Art Museum will welcome thousands of visitors from around the world and throughout the U.S.

First Light

A 100-page color catalog of the exhibition will be available for sale in the Visions Store.

                                                                                                                                    

Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts + Textiles is located at 2825 Dewey Road in Liberty Station, San Diego, California. Museum hours are 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, closed Mondays and major holidays. Admission is $5, children age 12 and under are free when accompanied by an adult. Visions Art Museum members enjoy year-round complimentary admission.

For more information visit the website, www.visionsartmuseum.org or call 619-546-4872

detail

Update!
Several Folks have sent me pix as I could not attend the opening!
Thanks! and especially Lura and Valerie!

(not sure why there is a ruler above mine though)

ART QUILTS YEAR XVII: Integrating A Paradox

In Boats They Fled

detail

SAQA's Showcase

I am honored to be a part of 6 artists at the special SAQA's Showcase Exhibit. 



Curators: Judith Content and Carolyn Ducey

The “SAQA Showcase” is a special in-depth exhibition of the work of 4-6 artists at the museum of the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr. 

The artists chosen by jurors Judith Content and Carolyn Ducey are Deidre Adams, Michael Cummings, Gay Lasher, Jan Myers-Newbury, Wen Redmond, and Susan Shie. 
  Each artist will create several works for the exhibit, which may be considered for permanent acquisition by the museum. Artists will also be invited to participate in a symposium sponsored by SAQA and IQSC on October 20, 2012.

  The exhibition dates are set at August 3, 2012 - Feb. 24, 2013.

MY Wall!!

"The exhibition turned out wonderfully – the quilts look great and the layout of the space really works well – especially considering the vast differences in scale between the different pieces.  I just finished meeting with our local art reporter, who is featuring the exhibition in our local paper on Sunday, who said he thought the exhibition is the best contemporary art show in town!  I’ll send a link to the  newspaper article when it comes out."

Carolyn

Mind Wanderings

The Uncommon Thread

CHESTER, VT - Eight contemporary artists are set to exhibit in "The Uncommon Thread," the inaugural fiber show at the Vermont Institute of Contemporary Art (VTica) beginning Saturday, Aug. 25, in Chester, VT. The opening reception, open to the public and free of charge is set for Saturday, Aug. 25, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

detail Trees Seen, Forest Remembered 

Featured artists include Vermont artists Judy Dales of Greensboro, Elizabeth Fram of Waterbury Center, Marilyn Gillis of Burlington, Karen Henderson of Montpelier, and Karen Kamenetzky of Brattleboro. They will be joined by Sandy Gregg of Cambridge, Mass., Wen Redmond of Strafford, N.H. and Susan Wei of Ashland, N.H.
The show will be on view through Oct. 21.

York Art Association's Fiber Show

info here

Outside/Inside the Box, Philadelphia!

I got into Outside/Inside the Box! I am tingling!

         "We received entries from 517 artists with 1361 artworks from 15 countries:Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany,Hungary, Iceland, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States. The names of all accepted artists will be posted on our website soon."

Artwork(s) accepted: “Cormorant's Perch”

      Outside/Inside is a brand new fiber show which will happen in Philadelphia this spring in a huge gallery in the Crane arts building as part of FiberPhiladelphia.org -- organized by many people including Bruce Hoffman (used to be at Snydermans) Amy Orr, Dianne Hricko and lots others. It will open March 31 and is a central part of the SAQA SDA Conference. There is more on their website www.fiberphiladelphia.org about jurors etc. Cross range of all kinds of fiber!


Happy Thanksgiving all!

Crossing Lines NYC

My work Crumpled will be in Crossing Lines in NYC, World Financial Center on Vesey Street. 

New Legacies: Contemporary Quilts

On the Cape teaching and got this EBlast. My work is on right!!

New Legacies: Contemporary Quilts Fort Collins Lincoln Center
417 Magnolia St. , Fort Collins , CO

Fiber Revolution: Visual Thoughts" at the Morris Museum

Check Out Lisa Chipetine's video on "Fiber Revolution: Visual Thoughts" at the Morris Museum"

Kevan Lunney curated this exhibit. She explains Gloria Hansen's work at the opening.

Kevan's piece from her Archeology series 

Visual Thoughts: The Art Quilts of Fiber Revolution
MorrisMuseum.org, Morris , NJ 07960
June 26 thru October 16, 2011
Kevan Rupp Lunney The purpose of life is to share your gifts.
www.KevanArt.com

ART QUILTS LOWELL 2011: The Sea

ART QUILTS LOWELL 2011: The Sea
The Brush Gallery & Artists' Studios
256 Market Street, Lowell, MA 01852
Exhibition Dates: August 11 - September 10, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 13, 3 - 5 pm (during the Lowell Quilt Festival).

LOWELL, MA (July 17, 2011) Art Quilts Lowell is an annual, juried exhibition of the finest art quilts in Canada and the United States.

Time to Grow, Wen Redmond

Today, quilts are finally overcoming their old-fashioned reputation. Once perceived as blocklike, follow-the-rules fabric sandwiches, contemporary art quilts — with the emphasis on art — break the conventional code.

The quilt artist seeks to innovate by applying art principles and art experience from other areas like drawing, painting, and sculpting as well as working with the tactile richness of fabric and by adding the textures of quilting stitches

As defined by The Art Quilt Association, "The contemporary art quilt is an original exploration of a concept rather than a traditional pattern. It experiments with textile manipulation, color, texture and a diversity of mixed media." 

The concept for this year's Art Quilts Lowell is The Sea and there is a remarkable breadth of interpretation and materials by 31 artists from all over the US and Canada. 


This Year's Artists

Betty Busby - NM

Victoria Carr - MA

Gerrie Congdon - OR

Lisa M. Corson - CT

Nancy Crasco - MA

Grace Errea - CA

Diane Franklin - MA

Sandy Gregg - MA

Carol Anne Grotrian - MA

Beverly Hertler - NJ

Rosemary Hoffenberg - MA

Lauren Horowitz - NY

Janice Jones - MA

Deborah Lacativa - GA

Susan Lenz – SC

Ingrid Lincoln - Manitoba


Valerie Maser-Flanagan - MA
Jeanelle McCall - TX


Lorie McCown - VA


Penny Prudden Myles - MA


Suzanne R. Neusner - NY


Gay Ousley – TX


Gladys A. Perkins - MA


Time to Grow, detail

Wen Redmond - NH


Susan M. Rouleau - SD


Norma Schlager – CT

Carolyn Spiegel - NY


Pamela A Stanton - MA


Carol Ann Waugh – CO

Juror: Gerald Roy, Member, Executive Board, National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY; Chair, Acquisitions Committee; Member, of National Advisory Board, Administrator, Quilt Appraisal Certification Program - American Quilters Society, Paducah, KY; Acquisitions Board: New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA.

For further information, please contact Eileen Byrne at director@thebrush.org or visit our website www.thebrush.org.

SDA Member Show- Merge and Flow

 Merge and Flow . 

Exhibition Dates June 9–30, 2011 

Opening .reception: .June 9, 5–7 pm 

The nearly 4,000 SDA members worldwide were invited to submit  a work measuring .12” .x .28” .in either vertical or horizontal orientation . 

Katherine E. Nash Gallery, .Regis .Center .for .Art, .University .of .Minnesota . . 

405–21st .Ave . .So ., .Minneapolis, .MN .55455 .• .612 .624 .6518 

Tiny Video of Regina's piece with twinkling lights.

SDA Confluence Exhibit Highlights- India Flint

India Flints' the windfallmaps
Do you remember what it was like to play in the woods when you were a child and everything was possible? The air surrounded us like a protective blanket, the trees could comfort us and there were fairies everywhere.

Nature is still a source of inspiration and meditation for me. Walking into the gallery of India's work evoked that wonder of childhood. 

detail of pocket on upper right of dress above       

That sacred space of now. 

This really hit me on a soul level.

 The nature printed dresses hanging from branches were ready for the waking fairies to jump into. Their many levels of draping organic cloth of every texture bespoke of non-traditional intensive sewing methods. 


Like a dress made slowly for another, for a special occasion. To be kept forever, but allowing it space to breathe. To change. 
As we do our children.

 On all sides of the spacious room, hung patched and hand sewn fabrics of such tactile lushness that I wanted to take one down and feel it's soft energy wrapped about me. 

Titles like map of longing, every time we say good-by and dawn in the forest of dreams continue the illusion of time change.

This work is more than it seems on their exquisite surfaces, coming from a respect for the plants, an honoring of the slow, and an awareness of the preciousness of our mother, earth. 

India's working techniques support her presence with this protective philosophy and yet come from extensive education and exploration of material. 

This exhibit can change awareness for those who understand. 

For those who do,  

It is a shrine.

www.indiaflint.com 

the WindFallMaps . 

Exhibition .dates: .June 9–30, 2011 

info here

Surface Design Association's Confluence Conference Highlights

Jason Pollen, the SDA guru and inspirational leader for so many years, stepped down from his leadership role this past year. His exhibit at the Confluence conference was another play on combining diverse materials with textiles.

This year, due to health issues, he had time to ponder a nearby fence. He thought his usual mantra- "What IF- I used wood with my textiles"? So he did! The result was the exhibit, Sentinels, opening this past weekend.

A row of wooden and textile objects line up, side by side, on one side of the wall. To stand guard?

 I got the feeling they were watchers. Looking at us while we gazed first at the cleverness, unity of color and design and the absolute creativity of Jason. Watching as we looked closer and closer to see how the designs were executed. The innovative use of materials. Even discussion on what they were actually made of.

Jason was on hand to describe his inspirations and materials.
The well deserved responses of 'ohh' and 'ahh' were heard among the explanations and musings of the
watched.

more info here

SDA exhibits are us!

Touch the Earth will be included.

Textile Center llnk.

One of the TONS of exhibits at the upcoming Surface Design Conference. 

Solo at the 'Bean'

Come see my solo show at the Black Bean, a local cafe in Rollinsford NH, just North of Portsmouth NH. It's a delightful cafe with homemade foods that will sure titillate the palette.

It will be up until June 28th.



info-www.blackbeancafe.com

Googling Your Name

Ah, Whatz in a name! 

Last night I was trying to find something about a exhibit and couldn't remember, 

(CMS- Crumbling Mind Syndrome), 

AND so I googled my name. WOW I am on and out 22 pages longs. I found things I didn't know about much less remember. I found my piece done for President Obama's special inauguration exhibit at Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Silver Spring, Maryland,on Quilt Visions Newsletter! 

Try it sometime. It was verrry Interesting!