Meeting Time & Location
3rd Monday of each month
January - November
7 PM - 9 PMWestminster City Park Recreation Center
10455 Sheridan Blvd., Westminster, CO
Map »Visitors always welcome!
FRCQ meets the third Monday of the month from January through November at the Westminster City Park Recreation Center from 7p-9p, 10455 Sheridan Blvd., Westminster, Colorado. FRCQ does not meet in December. FRCQ Meetings, showcase artists from around the country and locally who give a presentation of their work and talk about their history as an artist. Most of our speakers are nationally known, award winning fiber artists and they generously share their inspiration, knowledge and expertise with our members. Our meetings also have a spectacular show and tell where quilt artists can showcase their work.
Artist Residencies and Their Influences
Moderator :: Patty Hawkins
Panel :: Linda Beach, Barbara Beasley, Carol Watkins, Do Palma
Art residencies are golden opportunities! They give artists time away from daily lives, enjoying tranquility and the chance to create art without interruption. Linda Beach, Barbara Beasley, Patty Hawkins, Do Palma and Carol Watkins have unique experiences to share, with Patty serving as moderator.
The variety of residencies, images of various locales, ways to apply, challenges, as well as many very entertaining stories will be shared.
Katie Pasquini Masopust
Art Quilts – A Compilation of the Top Quilt Makers of the World
Katie spoke at a FRCQ meeting in September 2014. She was a very popular speaker. We are bringing her back to speak – this time on a different subject.
As a former president of the national organization of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Katie Pasquini Masopust became acquainted with art quilters around the world.
She will share their work, their views and inspirations. She will also talk about her own illustrious career as an artist, including the transferring of her painting background into a career of art quilts. She has a wide degree of experience and will enlighten us with current trends.
Linda Faires
Lynda Faires – Clothing as Art
IMPORTANT Date Change: This is the second Monday of the month, not the third Monday which is our usual meeting time.
Louisa Smith
Do You Ask Yourself… What If?
What if….the question that always fuels the creative process for me. I like to take you on journey from idea or doodle to wonderful series and a most successful class. Step by step recollecting the birth of this series and how these questions make it all work. We will explore the marriage between commercial and manipulated fabrics, you will never look at fabrics the same way.
Louisa was born in Indonesia, educated in the Netherlands and came to the U.S. in 1960. She discovered quilting in the late 70’s. Although the quilting started off with a traditional approach, soon new and exciting designs took over and the traditional gave way to more innovative work. The incredible flexibility that fiber offers attracted her to “paint” with fabrics. And how the marriage between colorful commercial fabrics and her own manipulated fabrics help her achieve the most important element in her work: Color !
She is the author of three books, “Strips ‘n Curves” published in 2001 and the follow-up “A New Twist on Strips ‘n Curves” published in 2007. And “One Patch Plus” (2008) was a joint effort with her daughter Lisa Harris, a graphic artist from Johnstown, CO.
She is hard at work designing and writing yet another book.