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Available on Amazon

Emergence:

Fiber Art from Concept to Stitch

Available in Paperback and Kindle Edition

21 selected members of the Oregon Region of Studio Art Quilt Associates create a work of fiber art, sharing their inspiration and process in its creation from concept to finish, their written words and photographs.

Available for Purchase on Amazon in paperback or Kindle version. Exhibition Dates and Book Signing Events to be released.

Read about the Project in Art Quilt Quarterly Issue No. 28: SAQA Oregon Wrote the Book

Featured Artists:

Mary Arnold, Nancy Bryant, Bonnie Bucknam, Sharon Carvalho, Gerrie Congdon, Sherri Culver, Lynn Czaban, Anne Daughtry, Terry Grant, Laura Jaszkowski, Kathie R. Kerler, Niraja Lorenz, Amanda Miller, Karen Illman Miller, Sherrie Moomey, Lulu Moonwood Murakami, Toni F. Smith, Amanda Snavely, Karen Sunday Spencer, Patti Stewart, Marie Murphy Wolfe

 

For Detail Images of Artwork Click on the Images Below

Featured
Coffee in Paris
Coffee in Paris

Artist: Mary Arnold

38” x 29”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Ode to the Ancient Forest
Ode to the Ancient Forest

Artist: Nancy Bryant

43” x 31”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Jhaadoo
Jhaadoo

Artist: Bonnie Bucknam

41” x 58”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

A Flower Can't Grow Without Sunshine
A Flower Can't Grow Without Sunshine

Artist: Sharon Carvalho

33” x 44”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Celebration
Celebration

Artist: Gerrie Congdon

26” x 36”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

All Eyes on Gracie
All Eyes on Gracie

Artist: Sherri Culver

27” x 33”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Raising a Strong Girl
Raising a Strong Girl

Artist: Lynn Czaban

31” x 40”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Willamette River Winter Sunset
Willamette River Winter Sunset

Artist: Anne Daughtry

35” x 35”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Stories in the Cloth
Stories in the Cloth

Artist: Terry Grant

25” x 37”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

The Marsh
The Marsh

Artist: Laura Jaszkowski

33” x 24”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Sheer Joy on Two Wheels
Sheer Joy on Two Wheels

Artist: Kathie Kerler

32” x 44”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Land of Many Suns
Land of Many Suns

Artist: Niraja Lorenz

39” x 51”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Hope Springs
Hope Springs

Artist: Amanda Miller

40” x 29”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars

Artist: Karen Illman Miller

42” x 37”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Shapes and Lines: A Rose in Hagia Sophia
Shapes and Lines: A Rose in Hagia Sophia

Artist: Sherrie Moomey

28” x 35”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

My Guardian Angel
My Guardian Angel

Artist: Lulu Moonwood Murakami

40” x 60”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Welcome to the Royal Maze
Welcome to the Royal Maze

Artist: Toni F. Smith

40” x 55”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Triune
Triune

Artist: Amanda Snavely

Triptych, each panel 10” x 40”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Desert Reflections
Desert Reflections

Artist: Karen Spencer

37” x 47”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Fireworks and COVID Lights
Fireworks and COVID Lights

Artist: Patti Stewart

39” x 54”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

Breathless Wonder
Breathless Wonder

Artist: Marie Murphy Wolfe

25” x 25”

Photographer: Hoddick Photography

 
 

Logo Design By Lisa Lauch

Artwork left to right: Gerrie Congdon, Anne Daughtry, Amanda Snavely, Carolyn J Walwyn, Terry H Grant, Judith Quinn Garnett, Annette S McFarlane

 
 
“We are drawn to certain locations where the land resonates with us and pulls us towards it. People can spend their entire lives looking for places where they belong, places where they feel at home, where they fit and can comfortably set down roots.”
— Mary Reynolds, The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and Ourselves 

Our Habitat, our place in the world, may or may not be a location on a map, or confined within four walls.  Perhaps our Habitat reflects the coevolutionary and symbiotic relationship between humankind and nature -- our human desire to connect to the natural world.  A breath of fresh air in a riotous field of flowers might ground us to our place in the world.  That special place might be found when you are lost within the pages of a book, a thought, a dream, or a memory.   Maybe our Habitat is that domesticated space or protective barrier where we have surrounded ourselves with those things that delight and inspire us.  As artists, we fill that blank space with the precious, the strange, or the sentimental objects we collect as we curate our lives.  Consciously or unconsciously we weave places, people, and things into the fabric that surrounds us -- our Habitat.  SAQA Oregon artists were invited to interpret in either a representational or abstract way a response to Habitat.

 
 

 Standing at the edge of the precipice, a precarious position, teetering between defeat or victory we feel both anxious and exhilarated.  We must move forward, there is no turning back or staying on the edge. In Oregon, we live on the edge of a volcanic zone, an earthquake fault line, a tsunami zone, on the edge of the continent.  Whether staring down from the top of a mountain or standing on a beach, we watch as the sun dips below the same horizon. We are all on the edge -- be it physically, geographically emotionally, philosophically, in personality, or in style.  SAQA Oregon artists were invited to interpret either in a representational or abstract way a response to On the Edge.


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Oregon is a state filled with bridges ranging from the mythological Bridge of the Gods to the contemporary Tilikum Crossing. The concept of “Bridge”, though, is much broader. A bridge can be the symbolic image of chrysalis to butterfly. Bridges are a connection and a link. They are bonds and pathways—both physical and emotional—between people and things. A bridge joins and unites. It spans time and traverses space. It reconciles differences creating harmony. It represents progress, stability, hope and transition. We invite artists to submit work that reflects the theme of “Bridge” either in a representational or abstract interpretation.

 

 

In “Blending Poetry and Cloth” artist were required to reference a piece of poetry, a song or a quotation in creating their composition. Poetry and art have been inextricably linked for as long as they have both been in existence — one illuminating the other and requiring the use of multiple senses. Powerful combinations are created when the two art forms come together in thought provoking ways — one breathing life into the other.