SAQA Dream Collections
Hi everyone! I’m digging out from under from the wonderful trip to England with Eli. Laundry is done, school has begun (meaning there is more of an order to our days), and the To Do list and list of things to blog about has gotten ridiculously LONG. So I’m going to take things more or less by external rerquirements. First up is the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) Annual Auction which supports the ongoing efforts for this wonderful organization to promote the Art of the Quilt. The Auction begins September 15, so mark your calendars! You can read more about it here. SAQA put out a call for folks to submit their Dream Collections–sets of six quilts they would buy if funds were endless. I decided to play and created two collections, Transported and Portraits.
Transported is about quilts that take me to another place: just looking at them my mind starts to weave a story about the imagery.
The Auction has four parts: the first three are online Reverse auctions a week apart. The price is highest on the first day, $750. You look at your budget and decide what donation to SAQA you can afford to get that quilt. Each day, the price goes down a bit. Most quilts sell during the week-long auction. The next week, the quilts in group two go up for auction following the same process, and ditto for the third week. The quilts in the fourth part are on display at International Quilt Festival which begins in late October in Houston. As with the online auctions, the price is highest day one and goes down. Do you risk waiting another day? I’ve been lucky to purchase a quilt at a price I can afford (while wondering why no one else snapped up these favorites early in the auction) the past two years. Will I be that lucky this year? You’ll have to browse the four auction pages to see which quilts are being auctioned in which section. Here’s the SAQA link for How the Auction Works.
My second collection is one dear to my heart. I think accurately portraying a person or animal is about the hardest thing there is in art, not just capturing the physical image, but the personality, too (both of the individual portrayed and of the artist). Here’s Portraits, at the bottom of the page in this link:
Which quilts would be in your dream collection? Has one of the SAQA members put together a dream collection you’d love to have in your home? Enjoy the visual feast!