January 18 2010 - Carmon Slater

Rags to Stitches---A Lifetime of Fiber

Carmon Slater, www.windsreachstudio.com

Carmon Slater was one of the first contemporary quilters in Colorado, showing “New Fiber Works” at the Arvada Center in the early 1980’s with Margot Strand Jensen and Debra Millard (Lunn). This was a very exciting time for a new emerging genre and these three artists created many of the sparks that have become the fire and life of innovative quilting in the Rocky Mountain region today.

Since those early days Carmon has been involved with many craft and fiber groups having served as President of Colorado Artist Craftsmen during that organization’s heyday, on the Board of Iowa Designer Craftsmen during the period when he was living in Ames, IA and as a Trustee Emerita for the American Crafts Council in NY.

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February 15 2010 - Mary Louise Learned

Mining for Gold in Lean Times

Mary Louise Learned, www.mllearned.com

The piece is just a flower that has a root deep in the earth, sometimes you are in the root, sometimes you are in the stalk and then you are in the studio with the flower." Dana Gerhardt

Mining for gold in lean times. Contemplative artist Mary Louise Learned shares her circuitous path to personal and public success in mixed medium textiles.

March 15 2010 - Brett Barker

Accidental Artist

Brett Barker, www.artistbrettbarker.com

Brett designs each workshop for the people in them. In the same way, she wants this program to be designed for us as an interactive lecture rather than only a straight lecture on her art history. It will start with her art history, but then she will engage with the people who attend by asking them to ask questions about creativity, art methods, and other subjects related to being an artist.

Brett is known as the coauthor of “Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter” (C & T Publishing, 2005,) the book written with Katie Pasquini Masopust. Brett has taught art since 1992 and started teaching textile artists over ten years ago. Her students range from accomplished artists to those just beginning the creative journey. She makes artistic concepts easy to understand. Her own work over the years has changed and now combines fabric, thread, papers, wood, and paint, emphasizing the blend of Eastern iconography with Western quilting pattern and design. Her own work has dramatically changed as a result of her contact with fiber artists.

April 19 2010 - Liz Kettle

The Dark Side of the Moon

Liz Kettle, www.textileevolution.com

Out in the light of day there are gorgeous quilts, magnificent garments and enough fabrics, thread, books and embellishments to make any fiber artist blissfully contented for a lifetime. What dark magic creates this wonderland of fabric and creativity? Liz will give you a glimpse into the quilt world from the other side of the industry.

Liz has worked for a thread manufacturer, wrote a regular article in Quilter’s Home magazine was a feature in Studio’s magazine, has just finished writing her third book and completed her first taping for Quilting Arts TV. In her free time, Liz teaches out of her home studio and runs a mixed media textile art retreat, Textile Evolution. In addition to the blood, guts and glory of the quilt industry Liz will discuss what it means to be an art entrepreneur today.

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May 17 2010 - Charlotte Ziebarth

General Meeting

Digital Cloth

Charlotte Ziebarth, www.charlotteziebarth.com

Charlotte will talk about her journey from being a person interested in many fiber crafts to an artist who has found a passion in digital art as applied to cloth and quilts. Her art involves several processes and many sources of inspiration. Constantly stalking the evocative photograph, whether sitting with her laptop, walking, hiking, or traveling, she is always looking for those images that will become the basis for her digital transformations. Her slideshow will show not only some of her quilts but also the development of some of her imagery from photo through digital transformation to finished quilt, with some thoughts about becoming an author.

June 21 2010 - Do Palma

Nothing New Under The Sun

Do Palma, www.dopalma.com

Do will bring a number of her art quilts and will talk about where she gets her ideas. From her childhoold in Venezuela to the surprising appearance of crows on her personal horizon, she finds themes where she often least expects them. Technique, activism, emotion and travel have all made their own contributions to where she finds herself today.

July 19 2010 - Desserts & Demos

Our Desserts and Demos night is always one of the highlights of the year! This year our visitor fee is waived for July. Bring your friends to share FRCQ with them on this wonderful night!

Doors open early at 5p! Schedule is as follows

• SHOP And SELL (5p - 6p)
  Members will have items for sale that are varied, creative and interesting. Just to list a few: hand-dyed and shiboried t-shirts, beaded pins, hand-dyed socks, greeting cards, Crazy Chicken Pinchshions, hand-dyed fabrics, and much, much more! If you wish to sell goods, please be sure to email Melody Randol by July 5 to reserve a space.
• DESSERTS (6:30p - 7:15p)
  Bring your favorite dessert to share cut up into serving-sized pieces (please bring an serving utensil you might need as well!). Visitors don't need to bring a thing!
• SHOW AND TELL (7:15-7:30p)
• DEMOS (7:30p - 9pm)
  This year's demos are:
  • Trash in Your Stash
  • Tale of Tails
  • Leaving Your Stamp
  • Bead Bonanza
  • Online Marketing for the Artist
  • Fabulous Finishes

August 16 2010 - Joan Sowada

Artist Approaching

Joan Sowada, www.avacenter.org/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=405

Joan Sowada will discuss some of the ways that an artist proclaims the identity of ARTIST and also approaches life from an artist perspective. We find the gold of our own art by: showing up, utilizing skill, using our voice, allowing for risk and growth, and by having a successful dialogue with our medium.

September 20 2010 - Leslie Gabrielse

Leslie's way of Creating a Piece

Gabriëlse's most characteristic works skillfully combine various fabrics through the appliqué technique embellished by acrylic paint. During the span of his career Gabriëlse has completed numerous commissions both private and commercial.

Fiber is his primary art medium and has exhibited his work extensively in Europe and North America.

October 18 2010 - Regina Benson

On the Curve: Art Quilts Off the Wall

Regina Benson, www.reginabenson.com

Regina Benson will discuss her journey from creating flat quilts that hang firmly against the wall to creating art quilts that invisibly undulate off walls and ceilings. Using images and samples of her own signature rusted and discharged cloth, comparative examples of flat and variously curved art quilts, along with samples of metals and plastics, Regina will illustrate both the mechanics and aesthetic of dimensional art quilt creation. As a Long-time member of FRCQ, SAQA , SDA and TSA, Regina’s dimensional art quilts have won awards in prestigious contemporary art quilt exhibits, such as the Award of Excellence at the 2007 Quilt National.

Regina has had many national and international invitational honors, including selection as one of the exhibiting artists for the 2010 Lodz Textile Triennial in Poland. Collectors of Regina’s work include universities, museums and municipalities. Bring your note books and technical questions – this is the next best thing to taking a master class with Regina Benson.

November 15 2010 - Carol Shinn

General Meeting

Carol Shinn, www.carolshinn.com

Carol Shinn is a studio artist from Fort Collins, CO. She is known internationally for photo-realistic machine-stitched images. She has taught many classes and workshops across the United States and her work is in numerous public and private collections. She recently won the 'Fine Arts' award in the 2009 International Pfaff ArtEmbroidery Challenge. Her work has been featured in such publications as American Craft, Embroidery, Fiberarts, Georgia Review, and Southwest Art, Surface Design Journal and in books including Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter by Katie Pasquini Masopust and Brett Barker, The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, Discovery: 50 Years of Craft Experience at Haystack Mtn. School of Craft, Celebrating the Stitch by Barbara Lee Smith, Fiberarts Design Book Six, and Fiberarts Design Book Seven. Carol has authored the book Freestyle Machine Embroidery: Techniques and Inspiration for Fiber Art available through Interweave Press.