Have you heard? We're having an Overstock Fabric Sale next Wednesday, July 19th, from 10-4 at the SEFAA Center. There twill be terrific bargains on beautiful fabric for your textile creation, AND the event will kickstart Fabricate Your Future, our weeklong online fundraiser. We're putting the finishing touches on the fundraiser now, so stay tuned!

Last but not least, African Blues - an exhibition of indigo-resist textiles by Nigerian textile artist, Gasali Adeyemo - is now open. Please join us for the opening reception from 6 to 8 pm on Friday, July 22nd.

In Print: New Textile Artists of 2023 | Discover Emerging Talent (Image is Pseudoscorpian by Julie Peter)

Of Interest

In Print

• Top textile art magazines: Our recommendations
• Ancient Art or Fashion Forward? Both, Says a Top Batik Designer
• 2023 Threading Resilience Zine
• The Deep Cultural Significance of the Art of Felt

Video, Images, Websites, Blogs

• Loose Ends Project
• Alabama Barn Quilt Trail
• Afterlives Online Exhibition
• Friday Feature Artist - Sarah Brayer
• All About [Sewing Machine] Needles
• Textile Curator blog
• Textile and Fiber Art Blog by Rianne Aarts

Lectures, Conversations, Podcasts

• Textile Talks - Placemaking: Quilts and the Creation of Special Spaces
• Questioning Fashion
• Voices on Cloth: Maiwa Podcasts
• The SweetGeorgia Show
• July 14-15: SAQA Virtual Conference

June was another banner membership month! We're delighted to announce that Marcy Alexander, Beth Berghoff, Anna Bielowicz, Zakia Blake, Erindira Brumley, Judy Carpenter, Cynthia Dame, Mo Dao, Katherine Davis, Karen DeGood, Sam Engle, Helen Ensign, Marilynn Gipson, Joan Gleckler, Iona Gonsalves, Emily Heilker, Sandie Hendler, Linda Hirsch, Sally Joerger, Mary Stephanie Kilroe, Lorraine Lombardi, Bette Martell, David Mebane, Janet Metzger, Carol Niles, Kathy Peters, Whit Robbins, Karen SanMillan, Athena Smith, Sarah Thomsen, Yan Lin Tso, Jody Watts, and Debra Wright joined/rejoined SEFAA our renewed their SEFAA memberships last month.

Want to join or need to renew? Start here! (Hint: If you're renewing, log in to your account first.)

Please welcome SAQA to the SEFAA family! With over 4,000 members located around the world, SAQA provides a network of support, camaraderie, and inspiration. Their mission is to promote the art quilt, and they offer their members a wide range of exclusive resources and professional opportunities, including access to a museum-quality exhibition program that travels artwork to venues across the globe.

Check out their virtual gallery for HumorUs which includes Wrinkly/Irony by Connie Kincius Griner (below):

rocks + friendship

by Sarah Ward

I Must Like it If I Stay

by Kat Howard

Playland #6

by Susan J Lapham

Effervescence

by Kristine Stattin

Two Knots

by Marques Hanalei Marzan

The Sacred Gift

by Wen Redmond

Need More Inspiration? Check out our Square Foot Fiber Art Pin Up Show 2023 winning entries below:

Congratulations! to our winners, including (center and then clockwise from the top right corner):

• Window of Divine Splendor by Jane Hutchens, also Best of Theme
• Waiting in Ketchikan by Lora Derr
• Easy Care Aquarium by Hellenne Vermillion
• No Snow Celtic Cables by Valerie Young
• The Bluest of Blues: A Close-up View at the Water’s Edge by JoEl Levy Logiudice
• Squirrel Built a Drey by Valerie Hill
• Mini veggies by Linda Johnson
• Celestial Haze by Lois Benedict
• remember The Kiss (M), remember The Kiss (F) by Linda Fetter
• Settling in - Jean Clark
• Shadowfell Moon by Anna Walker
• Gaming by Maria Cano

And, since it's never too early to start planning your 2024 Square Foot entry, the optional theme next year will be In Living Color.