Letter From Our President,
Susan Allen
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Sunshine, green grass and trees, flowers in abundance, and the call of the waters! Lemonade, cool salads, barbeque, outdoor concerts…. These are some of my favorite things!!! How about you?
Highlight for me? Helping to run a Summer Camp program along with 12 others at Firm Foundation, Budila, Romania. I showed the Roma children how to make Prayer Flags! It was the most amazing experience to see the love and joy on their faces with their “artistic creations”. The flags were hung on the fence for the dedication ceremony of the new building (made from shipping containers!). With the help of so many volunteers and teachers, the children are learning skills that help them integrate into society outside of their “Roma commune” with no electricity, no running water, dirt roads, and horse drawn wagons!
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Columbia FiberArts Guild is ramping up for the Winter season. Our new year features some exciting programs. At the meeting in September, you will be electing a new slate of officers for the coming year. If you are interested in being added to the slate, please contact me directly.
On September 7 our meeting features Susan Brandeis. She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita following a 35-year teaching and research career at N. Carolina State University’s College of Design. We are so pleased to have her doing 2 workshops for us, by popular demand.
September's meeting will be live at Grant Park Baptist Church. Hope to see you all there!
Susan Allen, President
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Please click on the boxes below to read these documents |
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TFrom Past President Cheri Jolivette
Below is the list of the CFG Board for the 2022-23 year. I have worked hard to fill the positions on the Board.
But, importantly, we are missing a position for the Program Elect Committee.
Please we need someone to make this committee have 3 members! It is a requirement of one of the ladies on the committee to have 3, or she will NOT be on the committee. This committee will plan for the 4 lectures and 3 workshops for year 2023-24. Then the following year they plan for meeting and workshop space, and work with the speakers. Even if you don’t have ideas for speakers, others will help you out with this. But this is a very important part of the guild.
I would welcome any newer member to take this position! Being on the Board is a great way to meet other members of the guild.
And please , if you are a member of High Fiber Diet without a job there, we really need your help here! I am asking for High Fiber Diet members because President Elect and Outreach have come from Creative Wearables members…
Slate for September Election:
President Elect: Jane Wolfe
Secretary: Linda Dyer
Membership: Carolyn Walwyn
Program Elect: Laura Lehrhoff and Marnie Murray, and 1 ???
Outreach: Karin Graves
Publicity: ???
The other positions of committee members/officers remain unchanged as follows:
President: Susan Allen
Treasurer: Beth Wells
Asst. Treasurer: Linda Hansen
Online Exhibits: Jill Hoddick
Newsletter: Sue Redhead
Program: Lottie Smith, Emily Stevens
Webmaster: Doug Garnett & Judith Quinn Garnett
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From Pat Fifer
Thanks to Pat Fifer who is compiling this section while we are without a President Elect.
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Project Boxes
These can be ordered online, inexpensively, in different quantities and they make great project boxes.
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Sharpen Scissors
Cut aluminum foil with your scissors to sharpen them in a pinch!
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Seam Guide
Rubberband 2 pencils together and it’s easy to mark about 1/4” seam guide.
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Any membership related questions, please contact:
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News From
Our Program Chairperson, Karen Miller
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Next Quarterly Meeting
September 7, 10am
Grant Park Baptist Church, 2728 NE 34th Ave, Portland
Guest speaker: Susan Brandeis, Finding My Way: A Creative Journey
Susan writes: "I make textiles because I love the rhythm of repetition and pattern, complex color contrasts, textured relief surfaces, and the feel of the materials moving in my hand. I savor the slow meditation of making and the touch of simple natural materials. I search for an enduring aesthetic, preferring images and concepts that transcend the personal to touch universal human themes. Fabric work has become as natural for me as breathing, and its expressions a “language” often more eloquent than speech.
"I am inspired by my personal experiences of natural phenomena, travel, reading, and looking. I develop my ideas through drawing and sampling, then realize them through dyeing, printing, piecing, weaving, constructing, and stitching on complex fabric surfaces. Over time, my voice has evolved from exuberant and celebratory to more quiet, reflective, and poetic."
Susan has 2 full classes at present. The classes start at 9am at St Rita Catholic Church, 10029 NE Prescott St, Portland. Contact Karen Miller if you are in the class but have questions: nautilusfiberarts@gmail.com.
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Future Quarterly Meetings
December 14, 2022 Zoom meeting, lecture by Neroli Henderson, Activist and Fine Art Quilter from Australia.
Neroli suffered a back injury at age 25 which greatly impacted her physical and emotional lives, and as a woman, Neroli recognizes women often encounter phrases aimed at their gender. When planning a quilt she asks “What do I want it to say?” “How do I want it to look?” Techniques are last to be determined, and have recently included embellishing with stitch & metal foil, and machine trapunto. Her work regularly features nude images.
March 8, 2023 Carol Anne Grotrian - Lecture: Shibori and Me. Workshop: Boro and Kantha hand stitching (2 days).
June 14, 2023 Susan Brubaker Knapp - Lecture and Workshop: Wholecloth Painting (2 days).
September 13, 2023 Paula Kovarik - Lecture and Workshop: At Play in the Garden of Stitch.
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Artful Eye Candy
Those of you needing some eye candy need look no further than our very own CFG website, columbiafiberartsguild.org. Under Exhibits, you will find several years of online exhibits waiting to be viewed. The latest, uploaded in July, is Free Motion Stitching. You will find some amazing work displayed, some of which is shared here for your pleasure. We hope you will get in the habit of checking out our website. Also, the next time you see Judith Quinn Garnett, thank her for all the great work she does on our behalf. |
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Cellular Communication
by Pat Fifer
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Chalice of Hope
by Jill P Hoddick
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Maori Surprise
by Karen McCarty
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Calling All Hand Needles! |
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This is a first call for the next CFG Online Gallery.
Submissions are due November 1-30, 2022. The theme is Hand Stitching. So, you have a few months to think about a project and choose your fabrics (and perhaps some mixed media) and luscious threads and get started. We are expecting those of you working in surface design and creative wearables to find this theme right up your alley.
Guild members are welcomed to mix hand and free motion stitching in their artwork.
Below is a description of what the committee has in mind:
Hand stitching is certainly having a resurgence and has moved solidly into an art form....
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...Some of us have embraced it as a meditative practice, others as a rewarding small activity with lots of scraps and found things. We would love to have you share these in our digital gallery. However, hand stitching marries very well with free motion stitching too! If you use hand stitching as surface design on your artworks, share with us visually what you have done.
This collective will combine all ways of using hand stitching to support our creative minds.
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Emergence
by Jo Noble
4" x 6"
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News from Peggy Ellis
These images show Escape to a Sacred Place, which is hanging at the Aljoya Thornton Place Show, juried by the WA state Surface Design Association. It was hung in May and will stay up until September. The show, which is in Seattle, can be seen by appointment. If interested, please reach out to Peggy at peggy@redbarn37.com. Peggy made this piece during the first year of the pandemic and it was previously part of the HFD Journeys exhibit.
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Escape to a Sacred Place
by Peggy Ellis
22" x 33"
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Escape to a Sacred Place
(Close up)
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Confusing Coastal Signs has been accepted into the exhibit, Textile Trends, at Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, Florida, August 1-27.
Sue writes:
"Living in Florida has brought to my attention the many graphic public signs here, and while perhaps obvious in their individual messages, they can be confusing side by side.
I was intrigued by the signs urging fishermen to either take home their fish carcasses or poke the eyes before tossing them back in the water.....both designed to prevent birds from finding them.*
Florida is so extremely bright (compared with Oregon) and I have kept that feel with my colors.
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Confusing Coastal Signs
by Sue Redhead
25" x 25"
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Deconstructed screen printed borders (from Kerr Grabowski's recent class for CFG) seemed perfect for the message of what to do with unwanted parts of deconstructed fish!"
* By law it is illegal to leave anything edible around that might attract pelicans. I moved to Florida largely to see the amazing birds so anything that protects them is dear to me.
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News from Mary Arnold
Mary Arnold will have a solo exhibit at the Latimer Quilt and Textile Center in September and October, 2022. The opening reception will be held September 11 from 12-4. The title of the exhibit is A Journey With Mom and includes pieces made in the twenty year period following her mom's death in 2000. Also included will be one of her great-grandmother's quilts, one of her grandmother's rugs and her mom's paintings. Mary hopes that you will be able to come see this exhibit during the time it is showing in Tillamook.
The museum is located at 2105 Wilson River Loop Road, Tillamook, Oregon and is open 10-5 Monday - Sunday.
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Mom and I
by Mary Arnold
33" x 47"
Photo credit: Hoddick Photography
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Through Ancient Portals
by Mary Arnold
40" x 60"
Photo credit: Mark Frey
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News from Kathie Kerler
Kathie Kerler has had three artworks juried into the International Quilt and Fiber Fest 2022 in La Conner, WA
- Terra I—Abstract
- Baltimore Wreaths and Roses—Traditional
- P is For Poppy and Periwinkle—Pictorial
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left:
Terra I
by Kathie Kerler
38.5" x 27.5"
Photo credit: Kayley Hoddick
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right:
Baltimore Wreaths and Roses
by Kathie Kerler
53.5" x 53.5"
Photo credit: Kayley Hoddick
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left:
P is for Poppy and Periwinkle
by Kathie Kerler
67" x 39.5"
Photo credit: Kayley Hoddick
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Glenda's shibori piece has been accepted into the Korean Fiber Art Forum exhibit, From Birth to Death, at the Suwon Museum of Art, Art Space Gwanggyo, Suwon, Korea,
Sep 21-27, 2022
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Encircled
by Glenda Mah
22" x 18.5"
Photo credit: BENMAH Photo
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News from Linda Reichenbach
Linda Reichenbach has been accepted as an artist in Made in the Gorge Gallery in Hood River, Oregon. Currently her hanging art quilts, deconstructed printed silk scarves, journals, and printed occasion cards are available for purchase. Made in the Gorge participates in the First Friday events every month where local artisans display throughout beautiful downtown Hood River. She will be demonstrating free motion quilting during First Friday, September 2, 6-8 pm.
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Linda's quilt group, Beyond the Block, currently has a Big and Bold showcase at The Dalles library.
Her quilt, The Only Constant is Change, is on display from now until the end of September.
right:
The Only Constant is Change
by Linda Reichenbach
40" x 40"
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The artwork for Tightwire has been turned in. Congratulations to all the artists selected by the jury. We look forward to seeing this new show soon. And our next exhibit, A Better View, will be discussed at our August meeting.
Come learn more about it on August 16 at Commonwealth Lake Park, SW Butner Rd and SW Huntington Ave, Portland, OR 97225.
We meet at the east end of the park near the entrance under a lovely tree. Gather at 12:30 for lunch. The meeting will start at 1:30. Bring a chair and your lunch.
The agenda may include:
- committee reports
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information about A Better View
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return of artwork not selected for Tightwire
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final reminder about the What’s Your Ate? pieces, which are to be turned in at the September CFG meeting.
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Next meeting*, August 15, 10am
Speaker: Lori Franz,
from the Oregon State Button Society
Lori Franz, seasoned antique and vintage button collector from the Oregon State Button Society, will lead us through the social and fashion history of the beautiful button.
Hundreds of examples sure to make you exclaim, "Who knew?!" Come to be inspired by fabulous vintage and antique buttons that you may want to use in your future creations! Bring a few of your old buttons and learn something about them.
The National Button Society has been active since 1938, when button collecting was at its height all over the United States. Oregon has had one of the country's most active societies since 1949. Lori Franz is the current president of the Oregon State Button Society, and has served as her local club president, and the state publicity and membership chair. Click here OregonStateButtonSociety for more information.
Meetings are held on the 3rd Monday at 10am at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 3228 SW Sunset Blvd, Portland 97239. Join us!
*Please mask up and be vaccinated to attend in person.
Everyone is invited to stay in touch and share projects on our Facebook page at:
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At June's in person meeting, our featured member, Margaret Blake, presented many techniques to make your own stamp. The group members had a wonderful time playing with the numerous art supplies she generously shared.
See photos from the meeting right and below.
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The monthly meetings include sharing of new products and tools, an update of classes and exhibitions of interest to the group and a member show and tell of their latest pieces.
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Studio Art Quilt Associates Oregon |
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Studio Art Quilt Associates
Oregon Region presents
Emergence:
Fiber Art from Concept to Stitch
Quilts from the new SAQA Oregon book Emergence: Fiber Art from Concept to Stitch are currently on display at the Benton County Museum, 1101 Main St, Philomath.
The show runs through September 3 and the museum is open Wed-Sat 10-4.30.
Emergence: Fiber Art from Concept to Stitch features 21 individual artists who
documented their artwork over a period of 6 months. Each artist was selected for this
project through a jurying process that included a written proposal and examples of
previous work.
CFG members included in the book and the show are Mary Arnold, Bonnie Bucknam, Lynn Czaban, Gerrie Congdon, Sherri Culver, Terry Grant, Laura Jaszkowski, Kathie Kerler, Karen Miller, Sherrie Moomey, Lulu Moonwood Murakami, Toni Smith, Amanda Snavely, Karen Spencer and Marie Murphy Wolfe.
The vision for this project began with discussions about exploring new and emerging
media, marketing opportunities, book events, and gallery exhibitions for a body of work.
The end results are a professional quality, full color, softcover publication, as well as
in-person exhibitions at museums and art galleries.
Juror for this project was Holly Brackmann. Holly is a Professor Emerita of Textiles and
Art History at Mendocino College in Ukiah, California.
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Coffee Creek Quilters' Fabric Sale |
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Coffee Creek Quilters' Fabric Sale: Saturday, September 10, 2022
Coffee Creek Quilters will hold its fabric sale on Saturday, September 10, 2022, 8-2. There will be a huge assortment of fabric, panels, patterns, quilt kits, books, tools, and notions. All at bargain prices.
It will be held at the St Francis Church Parish Hall, 8818 SW Miley Rd, Wilsonville, OR (from I-5, take the Charbonneau Exit).
All proceeds from the sale will go to support the CCQ prison quilting program.
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Fort Vancouver Regional Library District Call for Artists
FVRLibrary District is in the process of seeking artists for a new large-scale public art piece for Cascade Park Community Library.
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The Fine Print
Please send items for publication in the newsletter to:
The Columbia FiberArts Guild meets quarterly in March, June, September and December. No newsletter is published in those months. The newsletter is published seven times a year: October, November, January, February, April, May, July/August. Deadline for articles is around the 10th of the month of publication and will be detailed in the email reminder for articles.
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2021-2022 Executive Board & Committee Chairs
President: Susan Allen
President Elect:
Secretary: Lottie Smith
Treasurer: Beth Wells
Online Exhibits: Jill Hoddick
Membership: Carolyn Walwyn
Newsletter: Sue Redhead
Outreach: Katie Walwyn
Program: Karen Miller
Program Elect: Lottie Smith, Emily Stevens
Publicity:
Webmaster: Doug Garnett &
Judith Quinn Garnett
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CFG Board Meetings
Meetings are held monthly on the first Monday when there is no quarterly meeting and are open to the membership to attend. Contact the President for more information.
Committees are: Exhibits, Membership, Newsletter, Outreach, Programs, Publicity and Webmaster
Minutes of meetings are posted in the CFG Newsletter.
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