General Meeting: Judith Garnett (Zoom)
2023-06-19 18:30 - 21:00 UTC

Book Club
2023-06-23 19:00 - 20:00
June 23rd – 7 pm

Topic: Book Club
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6847775594?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 684 777 5594
Passcode: [REDACTED]

General Meeting: Kathy Suprenant,”From Steamroller to Stitch” (Zoom)
2023-07-17 18:30 - 21:00

Book Club
2023-08-03 19:00 - 20:00
August 3rd – 7 pm

Topic: Book Club
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6847775594?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 684 777 5594
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Our Book is: “Still LIfe with Oysters and Lemons” by Mark Doty
Mark Doty’s prose has been hailed as “tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene” (The New York Times Book Review) and “achingly beautiful” (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why.

FRCQ General Meeting - Susan Brubaker Knapp (Zoom)
2024-01-15 19:00 - 21:00

Book Club
2024-01-19 19:00 - 20:00
Friday, January 19 – 7 pm

Topic: Book Club
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6847775594?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 684 777 5594
Passcode: [REDACTED]

FRCQ General Meeting - Bobbi Baugh (Zoom)
2024-02-19 19:00 - 21:00
For more information about this speaker: https://www.artquilters.org/bobbi-baugh-focusing-on-composition-the-how-of-your-artwork/

Book Club
2024-03-08 19:00 - 20:00
Our next book club is March 8th, 2024 at 7 pm
Topic: Book Club
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6847775594?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 684 777 5594
Passcode: [REDACTED]

The Book Title is:

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.

The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian—who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Timesbestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray.

FRCQ Mini Retreat!
2024-03-09 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-04 13:00 - 16:00
Exciting news!!

We are going to host some in person mini retreats this year!

to be with like minded artists,
to bring something you want to sit and work on,
to share a technique,
to watch a demo if someone else wants to share,
to exchange art stuff you no longer want,
to chat and catch up,
to kick around new ideas you want feedback on,
to share information about opportunities, articles, classes, books
and of course to have fun being together

Who knows what other ideas we will come up with?

The first one is Saturday, March 9, from 1-4pm.
The second one will be on Saturday May 4, 1-4pm.
More dates to follow.

The location is at the Boy Scouts Headquarters.
10455 W 6th Ave, Lakewood, CO. Park and enter on the west side, (directions to the classroom will be posted when we get there.)

This is for current members and there is no cost.

please RSVP if you are coming to Barb Olson, barbolson1949@gmail.com

FRCQ General Meeting - Lee Ransom (Zoom)
2024-03-18 19:00 - 21:00
For more information about this speaker: https://www.artquilters.org/leo-ransom-journey-of-an-art-quilter/

FRCQ General Meeting - Susan Brooks (Hydrid, In Person and Zoom)
2024-04-15 19:00 - 21:00
For more information about this speaker: https://www.artquilters.org/susan-brooks-marginalized-women/

Book Club
2024-04-19 19:00 - 20:00
Our next book club
April 19th, 2024 at 7 pm
Topic: Book Club
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6847775594?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 684 777 5594
Passcode: [REDACTED]

The Book Title is:

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

FRCQ General Meeting - Vicki Conley (Zoom)
2024-05-20 19:00 - 21:00
For more information about this speaker: https://www.artquilters.org/vicky-conley-inspired-by-the-parks/

Book Club
2024-06-07 19:00 - 20:00
Book Club, June 7, 2024, 7:00 pm.
Topic: Book Club
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6847775594?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 684 777 5594
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Book Club Selection
BLOOM: On Becoming an Artist in Later Life is a call to action for those individuals-not only in a later phase of life, but at any age-who feel the call to pursue a creative path in their lives.
The pressures of the modern world force many into utilitarian careers early on. Artistic impulses lie unfulfilled, dormant. For some, at a certain point, there comes an ache in the bones, a deep longing for creative expression-a simultaneous sense of emptiness and overflowing feeling.
This was the case for the author, Janice Mason Steeves, who left a career in psychology to pursue art in her forties. She went back to school, graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design, and went on to develop an international art career, an art consulting practice, and a highly sought after travel workshop business. Weaving together insights from her own art experience with the stories of 128 artists over the age of sixty, whom Janice surveyed for the book, Bloom offers guidance, inspiration, and support for the often difficult and misunderstood desire to change trajectory and take up a path of creativity and meaning.
Mason Steeves then takes these observations a step further, suggesting that not only is it possible to come to art later in life and be successful as an artist, but that the distillation of life experience and self-knowledge gleaned from the artist’s path may enable older artists to step into an even larger role: that of a community elder. The elder role-acquired, in this case, through art but existing beyond art-is essential in our society, providing stability and depth, wisdom-keeping, space-holding, and care-taking, in Bill Plotkin’s words, “for the very soul of the world.”
Where to find/purchase

FRCQ General Meeting
2024-08-19 19:00 - 21:00
Cynthia Jarest: Basics of Entering Call For Entry
(Hybrid – In person and Zoom)
10455 W 6th Ave #100, Lakewood, CO

FRCQ Mini Retreat!
2024-08-24 13:00 - 16:00
Mini-Retreat on Saturday, August 24th, 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Boy Scouts of America – 10455 E 6th Ave, Lakewood
Jeanne Gray will be offering a short (15-20 min) Gelli plate demo at our next mini-retreat! Come join us – AND – if you think you’d like to try out any of the techniques feel free to plan on that. We will have some paper and paints, and a few Gelli plates and brayers to share. However, if you have a Gelli plate, paints and/or brayer at home please bring them to the meeting.
Here’s a supply list in case you like what you see.
SUPPLY LIST
– Gelli plate
– Acrylic Paint
– Brayer
– Paper (any kind – light color)
– Fabric squares 12” x 12”
If you’d rather just bring your own project to work on, that’s terrific. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Come enjoy some camaraderie with friends!

FRCQ General Meeting
2024-09-16 19:00 - 21:00
Paula Kovarik: At Play in the Garden of Stitch
(Hybrid – In person and Zoom)
10455 W 6th Ave #100, Lakewood, CO

Book Club
2024-09-20 19:00 - 20:00
September 20th at 7 pm.
Topic: Book Club

Meeting ID: 853 6607 5322
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Invite Link

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85366075322?pwd=[REDACTED]

The Book we will review is:

“Bloom: On Becoming An Artist Later in Life” by Janice Mason Steeves.

This book is an encyclopedia of the soul’s journey into creativity, authenticity, healing and wholeness. Every chapter is a consciousness-transforming meditation and inspirational guide welcoming the unfinished self into its hidden potential and ultimate blossoming.”

There will be time during this meeting to choose new books and review everyone’s summer reading!

Mini Retreat
2024-10-19 13:00 - 16:00
Mini-Retreat on Saturday, October 19th, 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Boy Scouts of America – 10455 E 6th Ave, Lakewood
Let’s gather again for a chance to meet in person and enjoy visiting and sharing our work!! Bring whatever you want to work on.
Barb Olson will be offering a short (15-20 min) demo of some of the machine stitching techniques from the Paula Kovarik Workshop at our next mini-retreat!
Come enjoy some camaraderie with friends!

FRCQ General Meeting
2024-10-21 19:00 - 21:00
Ann Brauer: Imaginary Landscapes, An Annotated Trunk Show of Recent Quilts
(Zoom)

Book Club
2024-11-08 19:00 - 20:00
November 8, 2024, 7 pmTopic: Book Club

Meeting ID: 853 6607 5322
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Invite Link

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85366075322?pwd=[REDACTED]

The Book is: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionarywent largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men.

FRCQ General Meeting
2024-11-18 19:00 - 21:00
Mel Beach: Free Motion CREA-TV and Reality

Monday – November 18, 2024, 7:00pm

Mel Beach: Free Motion CREAT-TV and Reality
(Zoom only)
https://www.artquilters.org/mel-beach-free-motion-crea-tv-and-reality/

Book Club
2024-12-13 19:00 - 20:00
The next Meeting will be Friday, December 13th at 7 pm.
Our next book will be “The Secret Life of Sunflowers” by Marta Molnar. She was Vincent Van Gogh’s sister in law.
To join our book club, please contact jofitsell@gmail.com and she will send you the Zoom Link.

No General Meeting in December
2024-12-16
We do not have general meetings in December. See you next year!

CANCELLED Mini-Retreat
2025-01-18 12:00 - 15:00
This Mini-Retreat has been cancelled. This is due to the extreme cold we will all be experiencing this weekend. Stay home, safe and warm.

Mini-Retreat on Saturday, January 18, 2025, 12:00 to 3:00 pm
Boy Scouts of America – 10455 E 6th Ave, Lakewood
Let’s gather again for a chance to meet in person and enjoy visiting and sharing our work!! Bring whatever you want to work on.
Come enjoy some camaraderie with friends!

FRCQ General Meeting
2025-01-20 19:00 - 21:00
Boisali Biswas: My Journey as a Fiber Artist (Zoom Only)

https://www.artquilters.org/boisali-biswas-my-journey-as-a-fiber-artist/

Book Club
2025-01-24 19:00 - 20:00
Our Book is ” Instructions for a Heat Wave” by Maggie O’Farrell
The meeting time for that will be January 24th 2025! at 7 pm
To join our book club, please contact jofitsell@gmail.com and she will send out the Zoom Link.

Mini-Retreat
2025-02-15 12:00 - 15:00
Mini-Retreat on Saturday, February 15, 2025, 12:00 to 3:00 pm
Boy Scouts of America – 10455 E 6th Ave, Lakewood
Let’s gather again for a chance to meet in person and enjoy visiting and sharing our work!! Bring whatever you want to work on.
Come enjoy some camaraderie with friends!

FRCQ General Meeting
2025-02-17 19:00 - 21:00
Cindy Grisdela: Anatomy of an Improve Quilt
Monday, February 17, 2025 7:00pm
(Zoom Only Meeting)

https://www.artquilters.org/cindy-grisdela-anatomy-of-an-improve-quilt/
