Houston, here I come!!!

What a day!

One of my two submissions got accepted into Studio Art Quilt Associates Text Messages exhibit. I promise I will post that photo after the exhibit opens October 31, 2013 - with me standing next to it!!!

I am doing the happy dance tonight!  I had a goal written in my studio to have a quilt hanging at the Houston quilt show.  My quilt will be hanging in International Quilt Festival Houston 2013 and then it will continue to travel with the exhibit til 2015. 

• International Quilt Festival - Houston, Texas, October 31 - November 4, 2013
• International Quilt Festival - Cincinnati, Ohio, April 4  -6, 2014
• International Quilt Festival - Long Beach, California, July 2014

And the joy of the timing!  I submitted two entries to the Text Message exhibit and much like the Highlander, there can be only one... so the other by default had to get rejected, or as I prefer to say be "not accepted".  The rules allowed us to submit up to three entries for the same fee, but only one quilt could be accepted.  Since I was notified of the "not acceptance" today and the Sacred Threads entry closes tomorrow, I was able to resurrect it as my second entry into Sacred Threads. 

Of course, I'm not posting those photos or jinxing that entry!  Below is Cognition that got my gears spinning and started me on these adventures in 2011.

This is has been an exciting day for me! Tomorrow, I will get to visit Cognition, which travels as part of the Power Suit Challenge as I go to the gallery talk by Cyndi Souder at the Del Ray Artisans in Alexandria, Virginia.

2013

And did I mention that recently I accepted the offer to serve as one of the co-representative for the Studio Art Quilt Associates for the region of Maryland, DC and West Virginia?  Here is my very official photo...

2011

Quite a transformational journey for me.  I think I got powerful from the Power Suit challenge, it the first step of a thousand mile journey... (well 1400 miles to Houston to be more accurate)

 

 

 

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Laozi

Bucket List - Radical Elements!

Submitted my portfolio registration for the SAQA Radical Elements exhibit!

A first - my very first ever entry to a SAQA exhibit - and my first ever portfolio entry - they select based on views of artist's work, then artists make something specifically for that exhibit...

AND (happy geek artist dance)...
the theme is the Elements of the Periodic Table - how could I not enter this exhibit! 

Leaping into the 47th year of my life, and I'm artist number 47 to enter!  

Okay, Hurricane Sandy - you can take the electric from my home, because my entry has been submitted! Below are my 3 quilts and closeups!

Cognition, currently traveling with the Power Suit Challenge

Chantilly Lace - currently traveling with the Arts and Old Lace Challenge

 

 

Try-angle Trees and Cutting Tool Clouds, currently on exhibit in my powder room

 

 

Bet you are wondering which elements that I picked as my favorites!