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I’m In the National Quilt Museum and SAQA’s 25th Anniversary Trunk Show!
Ice Storm by Sarah Ann Smith (c) 2014, part of the SAQA 25th Anniversary Trunk Show and selected to be among 50 works in the collection of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky
It pays to check your ISP’s spam folder. I found the news that my small art quilt, Ice Storm, is one of 50 selected, out of 407, from the SAQA 25th Anniversary Trunk Show, to be in the collection of the National Quilt Museum!!! SAQA is the Studio Art Quilt Associates. Here’s the announcement in the May 2014 SAQA e.Bulletin:
The trunk shows have started traveling! It was so incredible to see all the pieces together at the conference. These pieces are from Trunk A: (note: images not copied since I haven’t asked the artists for their OK).
If your area would like to borrow a trunk show, please contact your regional representative to make arrangements.
Congratulations to the following artists whose trunk show pieces have been chosen to become part of the permanent collection of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky. Jurors for the selections were Trudi Van Dyke and B.J. Adams. (List not copied.)
For the full list of selected artists and to see the 8 trunk shows created from the 407 quilts, please go here on the SAQA website. All these quilts are 7 x 10 inches, mounted on black mat-board to 9 x 12 inches. I am beyond thrilled and honored to be selected: there were SO MANY wonderful quilts. I wish there could have been more going to the Museum.
I completed this piece in the nick of time–just before the entry deadline, stitching it and sending quick mail to get it there in time! And let me tell you, it was a bumpy ride to finished! I had just finished viewing and reviewing Diane Rusin Doran’s wonderful Digital Surface Design video workshop (blogpost here, if you are interested in purchasing the DVD or downloading this video, use the link to the Interweave Store to the left in the sidebar) and wanted to try some of Diane’s techniques with a photo from the brutal ice storm earlier in the winter.
In this next photo, you can see how I began to quilt the outside edges. From the fact that the edges are sliced off you can gather that I DID NOT like the way it looked!
First effort at quilting the outer edges. Yuck. Chop ’em off and figure out Plan B.
I figured rather than pick it out (which would make me miss the deadline), I’d create a quilt on top of a quilt. So I did. The back of the quilt tells the story:
The back side of Ice Storm.
I printed the photo a second time. I quilted just as much as needed to be done to fit underneath the new, smaller, nicely bound “top” quilt. Then I stitched in the ditch of the binding of the top quilt to secure it to the lower layer. Add binding, call it done, and send it off by Priority Mail without even stopping to take really good photos! EEK!
And now, it is going to be in the National Quilt Museum, once the trunk shows finish touring that is. Use the link above to get to the page on the SAQA website where you can see all 407 quilts. SAQA did LOTS of work to take photos, name them all with the artists name and upload them by the trunk show into which they were put. Quilts selected for the museum are marked with an asterisk. I’m in Group A, but those selected are in all of the different trunk shows.
So it’s a good day! And I’ll close with a detail of the quilting and corner. Sure glad I worked my tuckus off to get it done!
Detail, Ice Storm, (c) Sarah Ann Smith.
All I need now is more time to play with the techniques in Diane’s workshop–I have this idea…….
May 29th, 2014 at 8:50 pm
Super lovely!
May 29th, 2014 at 8:52 pm
Congratulations – it’s lovely!
May 29th, 2014 at 9:54 pm
I’m glad you were able to give it new life. It worked!
May 30th, 2014 at 5:06 am
Congratulations. I saw your name on the list. It is a lovely piece. Thanks for the link to the video workshop too.
May 30th, 2014 at 6:49 am
lovely piece. it sparkles!
May 30th, 2014 at 7:01 am
It’s amazing how the problems or things not going quite as we expect actually turn out to be the thing that folks love. It is a lovely piece and now to get back to the museum someday and see it!
May 30th, 2014 at 7:04 am
Wow Sarah … you are on FIRE! This is spectacular and love all the steps and mis-steps you recorded for posterity. This is a most original subject too … ice storm indeed. Only in NE and possibly NE OH sometimes would anyone know about an ice storm or possibly Atlanta on those rare occurrences by Mother Nature. Great job!!! Congratulations!!!
May 30th, 2014 at 10:39 am
Lovely — and congrats! No wonder I haven’t heard from you very often lately …