SAQA MA/RI local members exhibit at the Lowell Quilt Festival, a NEQM's fund raiser, article by Ms V Poitier

detail, Beyond the Obvious, in the late stages of the surface design work. on exhibit in the Three Cohesive Pieces show at the Lowell Quilt Festival August 8, 9, and 10, 2013 Announcement!! Local members of SAQA's Massachusetts and Rhode Island group is Exhibiting at the Lowell Quilt Festival in Lowell, Ma. August 8, 9, & 10, 2013. We are all so excited to see the New England Quilt Museum's umbrella open even wider to include an exhibit of art quilts from local members of SAQA, at this years Lowell Quilt Festival (LQF). The call for entry went out to the local Massachusetts and Rhode Island members to participate in a special exhibit called "Three Cohesive Pieces". Speaking of opening umbrellas, SAQA members who have us listed as a second state, and were on our roster at the time of the call were eligible to participate. Normally a Call for Entry will ask one to submit up to three images that need not be related, not so this round. This special exhibit was a first for the LQF Committee and for local members, a call for three pieces that clearly were made by the same person, possibly sharing a theme, or the piecing, or quilting, or the colors or surface design was clearly cohesive in all three pieces. It is a rare opportunity when as a group New England SAQA members can hang three works side by side in the same exhibit, sponsored by a fiber related museum, in their own backyard. And finally the art works would only be accepted as a unit. Note: Members were able to submit two sets for consideration. There were lots of challenges for the curators and co-reps Valarie Poitier and Michele David. Working with the Lowell Quilt Festival Committee and other museum volunteers, crossing all the tees and dotting the i's. Nurturing along many new & shy exhibitors, and follow up, follow up, follow up. Trust us it is a beast. But the hard part of the work is done. Now to the hanging, giving the two tours a day of the exhibit by local members, and the finale, the dropping of the quilts. Lots to do but we are all smiling and excited! Congrats goes out to the following MA/RI members who stepped up to the "Three Cohesive Pieces" challenge! Aiken, Barbara Altshuler, Julie Bills, Teresa David, Michelle Faulkner, Patricia G. Gallaher, Maryann Halpern, Atara Janey, Celeste B. Jones, Brenda Jones, Janice M. Latino, Mary-Ellen Leavitt, Michele Monahan, Sharon Nelson, Alanna Poitier, Valarie Raiche, Sharyn Schwam, Steffanie Doucette, Janis Sproull, Lee Turbitt, Nancy Wormak-Keels, Renee Wright, Diane If you are in town, or plan to visit the festival we will be on the 2nd floor of the auditorium in Lowell, MA stop by and see the show! The festival will run August 8, 9, & 10 just a few blocks from the New England Quilt Museum for more details click on the link below. http://www.lowellquiltfestival.org/ Lowell Memorial Auditorium 50 East Merrimack Street Lowell MA 01852 978-453-2673 If you would like to help hang the SAQA members exhibit, or the IMAGES Exhibit that Valarie has created the layout and display for, and will be hanging and dropping both the exhibits send her an email at saqamari@gmail. Warmest Regards, Valarie Poitier & Michele David Co-Reps SAQA MA/RI