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Flagstaff: lecture and wandering
As part of my travels and teaching for the Arizona Quilt Guild, I got to present a lecture at their semi-annual meeting. They hold one meeting in the southern part of the state, and one in the north. This one was in Flagstaff, in northern Arizona, and MY how beautiful and friendly a town! I TOTALLY fell in love with the place, mostly because of the people! We were booked at the Radisson, which had totally cool artwork and “stuff” to decorate. Here are two neat pieces:
That second one, especially, gives me some cool ideas for an art quilt…hmm…..
And then there were these carved doors….WOW:
Talk about inspiration for quilting and applique designs!!!!
I gave my lecture at this meeting, and boy was that a challenge! My laptop DIED two days before, and I was scheduled to do a presentation using the laptop. SHRIEK! AND, even though I had the presentation on a thumb drive as insurance, we couldn’t find anyone on such short notice (that hadn’t already left home) that had a MacBook with Keynote installed, and no Mac stores anywhere nearby to rent one! Fortunately, I had almost ALL my journal quilts with me (the topic of the talk), as well as my digital projector and video camera (which I use for live demos in class). My intrepid host Tari Hammons came to the rescue. I figured out that we could just hold the journals under the camera and project them “live” to the wall! So I did the talk, flagged pages from my working sketchbook that I happened to have with me to share for that part, and Tari just swapped things out in order. PHEW! The group was MOST understanding, and it worked in the end. But I hope never to repeat THAT experience. THANK YOU, Tari! for your help…you helped save the day! Here’s me, doing the talk, looking more together than I actually felt: 
(The long delay in blogging all this is due, in part, to having to reconstruct my life on the new laptop, which took two weeks to get built and sent from Apple in China….. thankfully, I had backed up fully the day before I left on the trip and had been saving for and planning on a new laptop later this year….so all is well in the end, but sheesh!)
The meeting was the usual guild thing, and this time outgoing President Lynn Kough was presented with this spectacular quilt made by board members…WOW:
Wish I had a better picture… the quilting (by the woman on the right, and I’m SO SORRY I didn’t write down her name…she’s the new Pres. of the guild I think) was GORGEOUS!
There were vendors, too (yippee!), and one had this lovely way to use up bolt-boards and display batik selections effectively:
Finally, here are two pictures from downtown Flagstaff… The cathedral:
and this cool tree-sculpture on the Northern Arizona University Campus (between my hotel and downtown)…when the wind blew, the leaves clink and tinkle and dance…way cool:
What a wonderful, friendly, art-friendly town! I don’t think I could ever live that far from salt-water, but if I could, Flagstaff would be very high on my list of great towns!
July 27th, 2010 at 3:28 am
Thank you Sarah. I enjoyed reading about your visit to Flagstaff. Dorothy.
July 27th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Thanks for showing the metal sculpture tree. It is VERY nice!
July 28th, 2010 at 8:51 am
Oh, Sarah! I have been dealing with flood issues of late, and totally forgot you would be here, and I had hoped to come to your presentation! I’m glad you enjoyed Flag, and as someone who lived in CA until 7 years ago, you really do get used to not having saltwater near by! I would have more trouble living away from the mountains than the ocean…