FRCQ | Art Quilters

Book Club, October 22, 2021, 7:00pm
2021-10-22 19:00 - 20:30 UTC
“The Missing Alphabet” by Cynthia Herbert, Susan Bass Marcus, and Susie Monday will be our next book club meeting – and is available from Amazon as well as other booksellers. It will be held via Zoom on Friday, October 22nd from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. Jo Fitsell will host and Roberta Weadley will lead the discussion.
Here is the link to the Zoom meeting:
Topic: October Book Club
Time: Oct 22, 2021 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6847775594?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 684 777 5594
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GENERAL MEETING - October 18, Jo Fitsell via Zoom
2021-10-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | Zoom, Online, CO, United States
October 18, 2021 via Zoom
Please join us for this meeting!

"Closer Proximity" Virtual Exhibit Entry Open
2021-09-24 - 2021-09-30 | Zoom, Online, CO, United States
Closer Proximity
A window into social justice
Bryan Stevenson, Founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and “Just Mercy” Author, promotes the notion of engaging in closer proximity to understanding social injustice and activate solutions for change from a grass roots level. This show is an opportunity to explore visual arts windows into racial inequity, human trafficking, forced displacement, immigration, religious persecution, political power abuse, domestic violence, prison abuse, discrimination and the many injustices that infect our world in the hopes of recognizing and understanding injustice, in order to help bring justice to all. (As with any art show entry, the quality of the photograph matters.) Please include a one paragraph story or description of your art with your submission. You must be a current member of FRCQ to participate in this call. Email images (limit of 3 entries, no details needed) and story/description Sept 24 – Sept. 30, 2021 to joansowada@gmail.com. Image Size: 300 dpi and 1500 pixels on the longest side.
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"Our Humanity" Virtual Exhibit Entry Open
2021-09-24 - 2021-09-30 | Zoom, Online, CO, United States
Our Humanity
As humans, we are endowed with an incredible range of abilities, emotions, and potential. We are unique. Aspects of our humanity can include our connections to others, accomplishing the things we find meaningful, or practicing our spirituality. Ideas for expressing this theme might be hands doing things, all or part of a face, images of ancestors, or the use of symbolism and text. Whatever you choose to do, it will have the stamp of your uniqueness on it. (As with any art show entry, the quality of the photograph matters.) You must be a current member of FRCQ to participate in this call. Email images (limit of 3 entries, no details needed) Sept 24 – Sept. 30, 2021 to joansowada@gmail.com. Image Size: 300 dpi and 1500 pixels on the longest side.
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VIRTUAL RETREAT: 9/24/21 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
2021-09-24 | Zoom, Online, CO, United States
Topic: Fall Virtual Retreat – Hosted by Jo Fitsell and Suan Brooks
Time: Sep 24, 2021 09:30 AM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
https://zoom.us/j/6847775594?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 684 777 5594
Passcode: [REDACTED]

GENERAL MEETING - September 20 Marianne Williamson (In Person at the Westminster Rec Center, 10455 Sheridan Blvd., Westminster, CO)
2021-09-20 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | Zoom, Online, CO, United States
Marianne Williamson – “Light and Movement” (In Person at the Westminster Rec Center, 10455 Sheridan Blvd., Westminster, CO)
Please join us for this meeting!

WORKSHOP: Marianne Williamson – Light and Movement
2021-09-18 - 2021-09-19 | Zoom, Online, CO, United States
Marianne Williamson – Light and Movement
September 18 and 19, 2021 (Saturday and Sunday)
Longmont Museum
400 Quail Rd. Longmont, CO 80501

Registration open now! (You must be a member of FRCQ to participate. Join FRCQ here)
Marianne Williamson Workshop Info and Paypal Link

The Workshop

FRCQ member, Marianne Williamson, will be giving a workshop on how light affects art. This workshop will help you understand light in your work and how the elements and principals of a piece are not determined by a tangible object. Rather, elements and principals are determination as a result of an artist’s personal impression, interpretation, time of day, and mood.HERE
Date: September 18 and 19, 2021 (Saturday – Sunday)
Cost: $250
Location: Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Rd. Longmont, CO 80501
Registration: Now open. Marianne Williamson Workshop Info and Paypal Link

Book Club, 9/10/21, 7:00 pm
2021-09-10 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
Book: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. September 10th, 7:00 pm.
Topic: September Book Club
Time: Sep 10, 2021 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
https://zoom.us/j/6847775594?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 684 777 5594
Passcode: [REDACTED]
A New York Times Bestseller
A Washington Post Bestseller
Named a “Best Essay Collection of the Decade” by Literary Hub
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.

Susie Monday Art Talk - "The Sensory Alphabet"
2021-08-21 10:00 - 11:00 UTC
About the Art Talk: The Sensory Alphabet, August 21, 2021, 10:00am

“This is the “alphabet” I use for idea generation, critique, and to organize my explorations of the world, line, color, shape, movement, texture, rhythm, space, light, and sound.” – Susie Monday
Each of these is a way to analyze and generate ideas for original work, a path for understanding one’s unique perceptions and a tool for reaching into new ways to working. The alphabet is further explored in the book The Missing Alphabet, available on Amazon and other book stores. “The Missing Alphabet” Link Here

This one hour lecture includes a live-stream lecture with slides and video, a few short exercises to get you started on the path, followed by 10 minutes or so of Q&A.
Click on following link for more details and registration:
https://www.artquilters.org/project/art-talk-susie-monday-the-sensory-alphabet/

GENERAL MEETING: Jean Herman “My Journey through the World of Art Quilting”
2021-08-16 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | Zoom, Online, CO, United States
Link for the zoom for this FRCQ General Meeting will be sent via email to current FRCQ members. Please join us for this meeting!

"Movement" Virtual Exhibit Entry Open
2021-07-24 - 2021-07-31 | Zoom, Online, CO, United States
Movement (of any kind)
It can be an animal running, a tree bending in the wind, a waterfall, or weeds swaying in the breeze.
It can be abstract, figurative, even 3D Movement needs to be the main theme. (As with any art show entry, the
quality of the photograph matters.) You must be a member of FRCQ to participate in this call. Email images (limit of 3 entries, no details needed). July 24 – July 31, 2021 to joansowada@gmail.com. Image Size: 300 dpi and 1500 pixels on the longest side.
You must be a member of FRCQ to participate in this exhibit. Join Here

GENERAL MEETING - July 19
2021-07-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | Zoom, Online, CO, United States
Please join us for this meeting!

La Plata Quilters Guild BiAnnual Quilt Show “Quilts are Fun in 2021”
2021-06-26 - 2021-06-27
Use this link to get details from the quilt show poster: 2021QuiltShowPoster

GENERAL MEETING: David Owen Hastings, Exploring Nature with Paper + Stitch
2021-06-21 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | Zoom, Online, CO, United States
June 21, 2021
Link for the zoom for this FRCQ General Meeting will be sent via email to current FRCQ members. Please join us for this meeting!

Please join us for this meeting!

MEMBERS SHOWCASE DEADLINE FOR 6/21/21 GENERAL MEETING
2021-06-20 | Zoom, Online, CO, United States
Member’s Showcase Slide show will continue to feature in our Zoom meetings. We really want to see what everyone has been up to, so please email a photo of your work, including your name, title of the work and a sentence or two about it. Send the emails – no later than Sunday, June 20th please – to President@artquilters.org.

Book Club - The book will be "Overstory" by Richard Powers.
2021-06-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | Zoom, Online, CO, United States
Book Club hosted by Jo Fitsell.

The book will be “Overstory” by Richard Powers.

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize
New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Amazon Best Book of the Year
Please sit and chat with us via zoom on Friday, June 18th 7:00pm to 9:00pm, cocktails are welcome.
Topic: Book Club – June 18
Time: Jun 18, 2021 7:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 684 777 5594
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VIRTUAL RETREAT: Hosted by Susan Brooks 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
2021-06-04 | Zoom, Online, CO, United States
FRCQ Virtual retreat where you have a whole day to spend in your studio and also get to have feedback from the wonderful Susan Brooks. Zoom link to the day’s event will be posted soon.

RSVP for VIRTUAL RETREAT: by 6/3/21 @ Noon
2021-06-03 12:00 (America/Denver) | Zoom, Online, CO, United States
If you are interested in participating in the June 4th Virtual Retreat, please email Roberta at president@artquilters.org, no later than noon June 3rd. You will then be sent a zoom invitation link for the retreat. This will be a day to work in your studio on whatever you have going. We’ll be there to offer feedback if you want or just enjoy playing along with everyone!
