Hello, lonely blog. I'm sorry I've been gone so long. A lot has been going on, from pushing seniors to graduate at LEP High, to fulfilling wholesale pirate orders, to art fairs, and many many MANY hours renovating my old condo to get it ready to sell (and now it's sold!), life has been super busy. So now it's time to come back, to ponder, observe, reflect - on ART. To consider the different aspects of this journey. I am almost ready for this, kicking around ideas to make it meaningful and manageable. We shall see.
In the meantime, a reminiscence of a hot July in Sisters, Oregon,
A Quilter's Affair 2015.
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| Rosalie Dace |
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| Details of some of Rosalie's gorgeous art quilts |
This is
Rosalie Dace, artist and educator from South Africa. Quilter and teacher extraordinaire. I saw her students at work last year, and knew that I wanted to, needed to, take a class from her. Lucky me - I got into her 3 day class on color!
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| Rosalie teaching |
She teaches like a college prof, probably because she was a professional educator before becoming a world-renowned quilt artist. We worked like scientists on color theory, experimenting, observing, discussing our finds.
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| Student work |
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| and more student work |
I don't know if I've ever worked in an art workshop where all the students were so focused. Except for the whir of the sewing machines, it was quiet in the classroom, and yet electrifying because of the intensity with which we all worked.
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| Critique sessions |
Sharing, critiquing -
learning from our experimentation. It was so inspiring!
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| Experiments:color and emotion; color and temperature; color and seasons |
Some of my color experiments.
The beginning of the big project: pick a phrase. I chose "Out of Africa."
This music from the album Pieces of Africa, "Mai Nozipo" composed by Dumisani Maraire and recorded with the Kronos Quartet, runs through my head each time I think about it and each time I work on it. Still so much to be done - perhaps I'll be able to show updates from time to time.
