September General Meeting
September General Meeting
September General Meeting
Dana E. Jones, Featured Speaker
After too many years of dreaming about making quilts, I decided it was time to live into that dream. While many folks gradually drift into quilting, I claim a specific date when I declared I was a quilter: September 14, 2003. That was the final day of a three-day Martha Pullen quilt event in Huntsville, Alabama, at which I encountered today’s quilt world for the first time. I spent the next three days driving home — I lived in White Plains, New York, at the time — stopping at more than a dozen quilt shops en route. I was hooked.
To learn more about Dana, please click on the link to her website:
https://www.danajonesquilts.com/about
October General Meeting
September General Meeting
September General Meeting
Joy-Lily, Featured Speaker
My art falls into the category "surface design." I am a silk painter, dyer, quiltmaker and fabric printer. My choices of imagery come from my deep respect for, and fascination with the natural world. I am continually surprised and delighted by the astonishing variety, beauty and fecundity of life around us. Shells, flowers and leaves offer endless choices of colors and forms to celebrate. I want to remind my viewers that our precious and diminishing ecosystems are also beautiful.
My work has been exhibited in New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Hannover Germany and Beijing. For 11 years I was artist-in-residence, through the California Arts Council, at 30th Street Senior Center in San Francisco, working with elders in textile media. I currently teach fiber arts through adult education and through quilt and art guilds.
To learn more about Joy-Lily, please click on the link below:
http://joy-lily.com/artist.htm