March 9, 2011 Quarterly Meeting

Member luncheon with demonstrations TBA

June 8, 2011 Quarterly Meeting

September 14, 2011 Quarterly Meeting

Get in touch with Carla Haake (chaake@spiritone.com) if you're interested in showing your work at one of our quarterly meetings. Here's the schedule so far:

March 2010 - Bonnie Bucknam

June 2010 - Suzy Bates

September 2010 - Rita Kilstrom, Marjorie Post, Diane Taylor and nine other members of "the" quilt group

December 2010 - Mary Arnold, Amy Hahn, Monica Vogel

 

Clark County Quilters are proud to feature the art of  CFG member Virginia O'Donnell at the Featured Artist Show to be held January 22, 23, and 24. Virginia grew up with two parents who quilted! After retiring from teaching she began taking classes and workshops from many nationally known quilters. She started with traditional designs and still makes an heirloom quilt for every grandchild, but her focus is on art quilts of her own design. Virginia has done commissions for many churches and private homes. She loves the challenge of competitions and has won numerous ribbons at local and national contests. Her "The Brown Birds Return" won Judges Best of Show and Viewer's Choice at CCQ in 2008 and Best Hand Workmanship and Viewer's Choice at the Denver National Quilt Festival IV competition in 2009. Her pieces have been displayed at galleries in Costa Rica and the Quilters Hall of Fame in Marion, Indiana. Most recently, Virginia has enjoyed the artistic collaboration and challenges of the Thread Tales Book Club Group and The Art Quilt Group at CCQ. Her originality and enthusiasm inspire everyone around her.

Location: H.H. Hall Building, 10000 NE 7^th Ave., Vancouver, WA,just west of Interstate 5 at 99th St. in Hazel Dell area. 

Artist Reception: Friday, January 22nd, 5pm to 8pm.

Show: Saturday, January 23rd, 10am to 5pm, and Sunday, January 24th, 10am to 4pm.  $1.00 donation appreciated at the door.

Call Marie Murphy Wolfe at 360-574-6675 or slatsrie@comcast.net with any questions

(Pictured above: Virginia's First the Colors)

Nine CFG members are among fourteen Oregon SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) members who will have small works showing at The Pine Needle in Lake Oswego for the shop's annual Open House on January 15th - 16th.  Participating members are Chris Brown, Gerrie Congdon, Georgia French, Terry Grant, Laura Jaszkowski, Kathie Kerler, Shirley MacGregor, Ila McCallum, and Karen Miller. SAQA is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the art quilt through education, exhibitions, professional development and documentation.There will be information about SAQA available at the Open House, or contact Georgia French (gfrench@rosenet.net) or Laura Jaszkowski (joyincloth@gmail.com), co-reps for SAQA in Oregon -- or visit the SAQA website at www.SAQA.com.

Two CFG members have been juried into Color Improvisations, an invitational exhibition curated by Nancy Crow. Melisse Laing and Bonnie Bucknam are included in the show of 26 artists. The exhibition will open at the Haus Der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart, Germany on July 11 and run through August 25, 2010. Additional venues include Galerie Lac in St. Marie aux Mines, France, September 16 - 19, 2010, and the Kunst und Gewerbe (Museum of Art and Commerce), Regierungsprasidium Karlsruhe, Germany, May 8 - June 12, 2011.

Melisse also had a piece juried into Gifts of the Spirit at First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder in Portland, on view until March 14, as well as three quilts juried into the "Green" exhibit at The Dahl Art Center in Rapid City, SD, up through Feb. 17.

Several of our members' work is represented in Lark Books' upcoming volume, 500 Art Quilts: An Inspiring Collection of Contemporary Work. These include Jeannette deNicolis Meyer's "Full Circle", Shirley MacGregor's "Fish II", Christina Brown's "In the Forest of You", and Marjorie Post's "Bandolier." The book will be published in March. 

Kathie Kerler was invited to submit two quilts to a themed exhibition entitled The Landscape of the Whale at the Cannon Beach History Center and Museum. The show runs through April 20, 2010 and is part of the effort to draw attention to the Ecola Creek Awareness Program, which is proposing that the City of Cannon Beach create a Greater Ecola Natural Area Plan. The quilts in the show are inspired in a direct way by the natural area encompassed in the ECAP proposal. The Cannon Beach History Center and Museum is located at 1387 South Spruce Street, Cannon Beach, OR.

Two Eugene members, Catherine Beard and Lynda Christiansen, have had quilts juried into Pacific International Quilt Festival. PIQF has accepted Catherine's "Ode to the Ladies" and "Progress in Red China", as well as Lynda's "Marshland", which received a Judges Award ribbon. PIQF runs from October 14 - 17 in Santa Clara, CA. "Progress in Red China" was also juried into Form and Function in Indiana.

As Gerrie indicated in her President's Letter, an association of visual artists should have a visually appealing newsletter. I hope you're pleased with the new look of ours, and that the format and delivery mode works for you. I'm excited by the prospect of using color and images in communicating with our members. Notice that there's a link at the very top of the page to connect to a web-based version you can read in your browser if you have trouble displaying it as email. Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Bear in mind that various email programs and monitors display color, layout and formatting details differently; we'll iron out the minor glitches over time. I appreciate the support and encouragement of the board, especially Gerrie and Ila, in making this upgrade happen.

 

Beginning balance	$9352.79
Income	+ $1043.50
Expenses	- $2,013.13
Ending balance	$8,334.29

 

Sara Dehaan, Treasurer

 

Meeting was called to order at 10am by president Gerrie Congdon.

Attendees:  Gerrie Congdon, Karin Graves, Reva Basch, Carla Haake, Ila McCallum, Bev Woodard, Marjorie Post, Sara Dehaan, Zee Wilks and Gale Dupell

Read and approved the minutes from the previous Board meeting.

Treasurer's Report: To come

Membership: Karin announced that we have about 120 members.

 

Exhibits: Sites are still being solicited and checked out.

 

Newsletter: Deadline is January 10.  Board approved contracting with Constant Contact for web-based newsletter production.

 

Web site: Hilde is in the process of updating the site with our new name. Gerrie had identified additional items for review.

 

Silent Auction: Beverly reported a final amount of $843.50 thanks to many members contributing items.  A check will be sent to Coffee Creek Quilters.

            

Portfolio Class: Zee Wilks has tentatively reserved March 6 at St. John Episcopal Church in Milwaukie. Other details are still to be worked out.

 

March Program: Will included a catered lunch and member demonstrations.

 

Meeting adjourned.

 

Our charity, Coffee Creek Quilters at the Wilsonville women's correctional facility, has suffered a great loss.Many of you knew Colleen (Koko) Sutton.She was the "whirling dervish" who dreamed of and created the CCQ program at Coffee Creek.Seven years ago, she and one other lady managed to get permission to begin the classes.Koko had just become a new quilter, having taken a class at The Pine Needle from Billie Mahorney.Little but mighty, Koko persevered and struggled to handle the beginning growing pains of the program.The dining room of the prison was commandeered and tables were moved to accommodate sewing machines and irons.Machines were acquired from Ray Landis at Sewing Center NW.Koko spread the word that teachers were needed.I, myself, newly retired and looking for something meaningful to do, responded to her plea at the first Northwest Quilters' Guild meeting I ever attended.It took several months to get qualified to teach, but every stumbling block was overcome and I became one of Koko's first teachers.Eventually four classes were settled upon and some 15 teachers put to work.Since then, seven wonderful years have quickly and profitably flown by. 

 

Sadly, our energetic and charismatic founder and leader has left us.Koko passed away October 15, 2009.She was an outstanding and unique individual and she will be sorely missed by teachers and students alike.She has left a magnificent legacy at the women's prison. Due to her initiative and foresight in creating the quilting program, she has touched an enormous number of lives including both teachers and students.  She will not be forgotten.

 Marjorie Post, Outreach Chair

 

Please add these members -- new, old, and renewing -- to your copy of the Yearbook. Our apologies to Laura for the inadvertent omission. Contact Karin Graves, Membership Chair, if you have any additions or corrections.

Laura Fendel
Interests: art quilts

Mary Goodson
Interests: painting and dyeing

Helene Knott
Interests: quilting, embroidery, embellishment

Caroline Burton

Jeri Flom

Welcome New Member:

Catherine Beard
Interests: art quilts

Email changes:

Stacey Frerichs Arnold: stafrearn@gmail.com

Patsy Moreland: fiberworksnw@juno.com

 

March 2010: Studio Art Quilt Associates and the Surface Design Association will hold a joint conference, "Reinvention," at San Francisco State University. March 19-20 will be a symposium at SFSU, with studio tours and museum exhibits scheduled for March 21.  A variety of three-day workshops will be offered March 22-24. For more information check www.saqa.com or www.surfacedesign.org/conference.asp

 

The world Shibori Network is offering a series of Slow Fiber Studio (SFS) Tours -- collaborative workshop programs created with traditional artisan communities and small studios to explore local practices, knowledge, techniques, production, and commerce in specific regions of the world. Get up close and personal with local traditional artisans. Learn new skills and build a greater understanding of the world of fiber arts. SFS tours offer an inside view of textile traditions on a local level. Programs are led by experienced artisans and art professionals, such as Michel Garcia for Provençal natural dye printing, Tsuyoshi Kuno and Hiroshi Murase for Arimatsu shibori, and Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada. Capacity is very limited to provide an intimate cultural experience and learning atmosphere. Current WSN members enjoy priority registration and $50.00 discount. Upcoming tours: Nagoya, Japan (May 2010), Puglia, Italy (June 2010) and China (2011). For more information: http://shiboriorg.wordpress.com/projects/slow-fiber/slow-tours

Portland's Art In The Pearl Fine Arts & Crafts Festival is pleased to announce a new Emerging Artists Program, designed specifically for Oregon and Washington artists who have minimal experience exhibiting and selling their artwork. They will be looking for three to four emerging artists who will each be paired with a mentor to help guide them through the process of preparing, displaying and selling their work. Artists who are just beginning their careers in the art world are encouraged to apply. The festival will be held Labor Day weekend, September 4, 5 and 6, in the North Park blocks. Applications will be accepted through midnight March 15, 2010 using ZAPP Online application system. $30 application fee. For more information and to apply, visit www.artinthepearl.com

 

Marie Barton would like members to know about Arts Haven at Silver Falls, a new venue for classes, etc. It is a part of Silver Falls Alpacas in Silverton, Oregon. They are planning an opening event in March, and the coordinator is looking for people who would like to teach fiber or other arts, and for potential students. Contact Marie at harakne@yahoo.com if you're interested.

 

nwCraftfair.com is an online community and store devoted to NW artists and craftspeople. The website may be a way for members to start an online presence or link to their existing site. For questions contact Tami Anderson, 541.207.3231 or tami@nwcraftfair.com

 

 

High Fiber Diet

Evening meetings are held at St. John's Episcopal Church, 2036 SE Jefferson St, Milwaukie, OR. HFD will not meet in January. Contact: Bonnie Bucknam (bonniebucknam@gmail.com)

 

Design Solutions (formerly the Critique Group)

The group's aim is to help members solve design issues in their work, using the principles and elements of design. We meet the last Friday of the month at 1:30 pm in the "workshop" of The Pine Needle quilt shop, 429 1st Street, Lake Oswego. The dates of the next several meetings are: January 22, February 26, March 26, April 23, May 28, June 25. Contact  Shirley MacGregor (ctpress@comcast.net or 503-245-5403) if you have questions.

 

Surface Design Group

The group meets monthly from 10 AM to noon at the Mill End Store on Western Ave. in Beaverton. Next meeting is Wednesday, January 20, and features a demo by Cheri Jolivette on making twisted cording and applying it to your quilt edge. The following meeting is February 17 and features a Challenge. For details contact Cheri Jolivette (jolivettec@hope.edu), Jean Burbach (jeansquilts@gmail.com), or Su Scott (GR8ORScotts@comcast.net).

 

If you have additions or corrections, please email Gerrie Congdon, President, or Gale Dupell, Secretary.

The meeting started at 9:30am with the Silent Auction, Member Boutiques and social time.

 

Gerrie Congdon, President, brought the formal portion of the meeting to order, welcoming three guests and the approximately ninety attendees.She thanked Sherrie Wade for volunteering to handle refreshments and The Pine Needle for providing the muffins.

 

Sharry Olmstead and Beverly Woodard ran the Silent Auction, with ninety-two items donated by members to benefit our charity, Coffee Creek Quilters.

 

The minutes of the last quarterly meeting were approved without change.The Treasurer's Report showed a beginning balance on September 30 of $9,796.11, with period income of $625 offset by expenses of $425, leaving a balance of $9,996.11.

 

Karin Graves thanked Sue Karstad and Bev Woodard for their assistance on the membership committee. The Yearbook was handed out as members arrived. If any errors or omissions are found, members are requested to email corrections to Karin.

The guild received approval from the State of Oregon for the change of name to Columbia FiberArts Guild.

The newsletter will be changing to a more attractive format which includes color, photographs and additional layout options. Reva hopes to distribute the January issue in this new format, and welcomes feedback from members. The deadline for contributions to the next newsletter is January 10.

A workshop with Scott Huette on Developing a Portfolio and Artist's Statement is tentatively scheduled for March 6. Depending upon the number of attendees, the cost will be from $25 - $40.Mr. Huette is a professional photographer who teaches at the University of Oregon. 

 

Karen Miller spoke about Katazome, a Japanese stencil technique, and showed samples of her stencils and the printed results. Her highly-detailed designs use motifs drawn from the natural world. Karen will be teaching stencil creation in February at the Newport Visual Arts Center.  Other classes are still to be scheduled in Portland.

 

After a break to allow additional bids on Silent Auction items, Rita Kilstrom introduced Marianne Burr. Marianne presented Out of the Workroom and Into the World, the story of how she turned her love of embroidery into award-winning quilt art. 

Following the speaker, announcements were made as follows:

            Virginia O'Donnell is the Featured Artist at the Clark County Quilters show Jan. 22 through 24 at the HH Hall building in Vancouver.

            Lark Books will be publishing a book about the Twelve x Twelve online challenge. Terry Grant and Gerrie Congdon will each be writing a chapter and have their work featured in the book.

            Elaine Ann Spense has a showing at the West Linn Library.

            High Fiber Diet's show Line Dancing will be at the Oregon Garden Jan. 27--30.  The show will move to the Unitarian Church in downtown Portland in March.

 

Corrine Bush asked for volunteers to sew red, white, and blue shrouds for veterans who died at the VA hospital in Portland. 

 

The Silent Auction brought in $737.50, plus additional cash donations, to support the Coffee Creek Quilters program.

 

The meeting was adjourned.

 

Submitted by Gale Dupell, Secretary

 

 

I have received good news from Japan. My "At the Party" (editor's note: thumbnail shown here) has been accepted in the 10th Quilt Nihon Exhibition and won the Corporate Award from Daiwabo Co. Ltd. I don't know yet what the award consists of, but we are going again, and I'll just have to wait and find out when I get there. Of course, I am very excited.  You can see this piece at  http://marianneburr.com/Pages/Portfolio1.html. The Exhibition opens in Tokyo at the Metropolitan Art Museum on February 6 and then travels for two years in Japan and internationally.

"At the Party" is the partner of the unfinished piece I showed at the CFG meeting. It must have brought me good luck - I'd like to pretend that as I was showing that in Lake Oswego, the panel of judges was awarding me the prize in Tokyo.

I just inadvertently came across the fact that I was in the top group for the "People's Choice award" at Quilt National in Ohio last summer. Nobody let me know but here it is: http://www.dairybarn.org/quilt/index.php?section=226&page=291. What a nice surprise!

The New York show is now up online as well.  That is at this site: http://www.schweinfurthartcenter.org/exhibits/current.html. Just click on the red PDF download.

Boy, am I ever glad that I bought a computer!

Have a Happy New Year,

Marianne

 

I believe it was possible that my gloves were left at the Dec. 9^th meeting. They are expensive black smooth leather with real black fur around the wrist. I am so hoping that someone picked them up and might be holding them. I would truly appreciate it, thank you. I am the one who gave the report on the Shrouds for the Veterans.

Corrine Bush 503-624-8665

 

Please send items for publication in the newsletter to: reva@well.com. Deadline for the next issue is February 10, 2010.

The Columbia FiberArts Guild meets quarterly in March, June, September and December. No newsletter is published in those months. The newsletter is published seven times a year: October, November, January, February, April, May and a combined issue in July/August. Deadline for articles and advertising is the 10th day of the month of publication.

2009-2010 Board members and committee chairs: President: Gerrie Congdon (gericon@comcast.net), Past Presidents: Carla Haake (chaake@spiritone.com) and Karen Day (rday3@clearwire.net), President-Elect: Ila McCallum (ilasqs@web-ster.com), Secretary: Gale Dupell (gdupell@verizon.net), Treasurer: Sara Dehaan (sdehaan2@verizon.net), Membership: Karin Graves (karinagraves2@verizon.net), Programs: Rita Kilstrom (ritaquilts@comcast.net), Outreach: Marjorie Post (dragonflyspring@gmail.com), Newsletter: Reva Basch (reva@well.com), Exhibits: Hilde Morin (hildemorin@gmail.com) and Kathie Kerler (krkerler@comcast.net), Contemporary Craft Museum Rep: Bonnie Bucknam (bonniebucknam@gmail.com)