International Quilt Festival

Counting down to the International Quilt Festival - July 29-31 at the Long Beach Convention Center.  Some members of the Cut-Loose Quilters have work in the show, as well as, teaching and volunteering their time on the show floor.

"Bridges" by members of Quilts on the Wall

Stacy Hurt

"Text on Textiles"

Stacy Hurt

Haiku's - part of Eye of the Quilter exhibit

Peggy Calvert

"The Space Between" presented by Dinner at Eight Artists

Joanell Connolly

Cindy Cooksey

Jamie Fingal

Cindy Cooksey will be White Gloving in "The Space Between" exhibit

on Friday, July 29th from 1:30-3:30pm

Anne Copeland will be volunteering her time in the SAQA booth in the exhibit area

Festival Faculty
Thurs, July 28th
#204 Musical Chairs:  A Painted Canvas Adventure - all day - Jamie Fingal/Leslie Tucker Jenison
Sat,  July 30th
#432 Playful Painting on Canvas/2-5pm - Jamie Fingal/Leslie Tucker Jenison

Make-It-University  
Workshops - 1 hour - $10 cash/lottery

Fri, July 29th -  3:00-4:00pm - Scrappy Pin Cushions (Fingal/Jenison)

Sun, July 31st - 11:30am-12:30pm - Scrappy Pin Cushions (Fingal/Jenison)

Open Studios - Quilt Artists demonstrating what they do

Fri, July 29th -12:30-2:30pm - Jamie Fingal

Sat July 30th - 10:15am-12:15pm - Jamie Fingal

The Space Between - Juried Invitational

A pause as we reach for the telephone. The moments between the lines. Negative space in a painting. Uncertainty, and finding your voice. From one place to the other. Birds on a wire, and the distance between friends...The Space Between thought and action. Thin cracks separating this from that. Lines on a highway, or reading between the lines...The Space Between.

The exhibit is co-curated by Jamie Fingal and Leslie Tucker Jenison.  It will debut at the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach July 28-31, 2011 and is sponsored by Moore's Sewing Centers.  Visit the Dinner at Eight Artists blog

Dinner at Eight Artists is happy to announce that the following pieces have been accepted into the special exhibit "The Space Between."    Cut-Loose members in bold

Natalya Aikens, Steni Mezhda Sosedyami/Walls between Neighbors
Frances Holliday Alford, Pisces
Betty Amador, Symphonic Dances

Astrid Bennett, Anticipation
Loris Bogue, Sedimentary Silk
Deborah Borschert, Fence and Flourish
Paula Chung, Intervals
Joanell Connolly, Life Happens in the Space Between
Cindy Cooksey, Between the Air Conditioner and the House

Barb Forrister, Lost Cavern
Linda Frost, Black & White
Terry Grant, Between Mother and Child

Desiree Habicht, Forest of Blues
Lyric Kinard, Dream
Susan Fletcher King, Schooling Through the Jellie's
Pam Klebaum, Figure and Ground
Sherry Kleinman, The Family Tree
Susan Brubaker Knapp, Hope is the Thing
Jane LaFazio, Industrial Aged
Jayne Larson, Breathing Space
Gwen Mayer, Saber Dancers

Linda T. Minton, The Antechamber
Susie Monday, Reading Between the Lines
Jeannie Moore, The Red Tomato
Rachel Parris, The Sands of Time
Judy Perez, Black and Bloom All Over
Yvonne Porcella, Storybook
Wen Redmond, Trees Singing
Karen Rips, Spinal Study 1
Carolyn Ryan, Pre-Teen-Between
Cynthia St. Charles, Spring Blossoms, aka Yearning for an End to Winter
Julie Schlueter, Knee High to a Grasshopper
Teresa Shippy, Twins
Gayle Simpson, Mind the Gap
Sarah Ann Smith, Clothed in Color
Terry Waldron, Meadow Gold
Laura Cater-Woods, Fault Lines
Kathy York, Blue Towers

Festival in Long Beach - 2009

Peggy Calvert (on the left) singing a Beach Boys song in MIU's Surviving the Runway

Stacy Hurt standing by her art quilt from the "West Coast Wonders" exhibit

Jamie Fingal and Pokey Bolton in MIU's Open Studios

Cindy Cooksey and Terry Waldron sharing a meal together

The SAQA Booth; most of us are members of this great organization

Julie Schlueter standing by her piece from the "Edges" exhibit