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SUMMARY:Meeting+Lecture (Zoom)- Susan Avishai
DESCRIPTION:This is a Zoom event.\nThe zoom link will be emailed to registered participants a few days before.\n\n\nBusiness meeting generally starts at 6pm\, arrive earlier for sign-in\, refreshments and socializing\, with any lecture generally at 7pm.\nGuests are always welcome\, there is a guest fee\, $10\, which can be credited toward membership – click HERE for more information. \nOur Hospitality team provides coffee and tea along with a few cookies at in-person meetings.\nPlease bring your own mug or water bottle.\nMember contributions of home-baked treats or other simple snacks are requested! \n\n\n \n18 February 2026 \nZOOM \nSusan Avishai \nAmong the Garbage and the Flowers     \nHow Susan came to fibre art\, specifically using cast-off clothing\, reuse and creativity.  Techniques for creating sculpture from deconstructed\, discarded clothing to evoke awareness of the exploitative nature of garment manufacture and the paradoxically enormous problem of textile waste. \n  \nBIO Susan Avishai creates sculpture from deconstructed\, discarded clothing. Her work evokes awareness of the exploitative nature of garment manufacture and the paradoxically enormous problem of textile waste. Susan has mounted 18 solo shows\, won many prizes in national and international juried exhibitions\, and is represented in several large corporate and museum collections. She was elected to the Ontario Society of Artists in 2015.Originally from Montreal\, Susan has a BFA (1971) from Concordia University\, studied as well at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto\,and the Académie Julien in Paris. She received an MA (2002\, Hollins  University\, VA) in writing and literature. Toronto is now home\, after years in Jerusalem\, New York\, Boston\, and Ottawa. Her new work has been included in the book Dimensional Cloth\, Sculpture by Contemporary Textile Artists by Andra Stanton; profiled in Fiber Art Now; and the SAQA Journal\, and she was a featured artist in Australia’s Textile Fibre Forum. She was a presenting artist at the 3rd International Textile Symposium at the Mark Rothko Centre in Daugavpils\, Latvia\, was chosen for the 2016 Gardiner Museum’s Twelve Trees Christmas program\, and has guest curated a show of 11 artists who also work with up-cycled  textiles\, exhibited in 2023 at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum in Almonte\, Ontario. Recent work was shown at the Mary E. Black Gallery in Halifax\, NS and she participated in Fiberart International 2019. She was chosen twice for Excellence in Fibers and once for Excellence in Quilts organized by Fiber Art Now. Most recently she was invited to be a featured speaker at the 2023 SAQA Conference in Toronto. \nClick here to learn more about Susan Avishai
URL:https://www.northernstarquilters.com/event/lecture-5/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guild Meeting,Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="President":MAILTO:President@northernstarquilters.com
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SUMMARY:Meeting - Gyleen X. Fitzgerald
DESCRIPTION:Business meeting generally starts at 6pm\, arrive earlier for sign-in\, refreshments and socializing\, with any lecture generally at 7pm.\nGuests are always welcome\, there is a guest fee\, $10\, which can be credited toward membership – click HERE for more information. \nOur Hospitality team provides coffee and tea along with a few cookies at in-person meetings.\nPlease bring your own mug or water bottle.\nMember contributions of home-baked treats or other simple snacks are requested! \n\n\nChallenge Quilts Due!\nRemember to bring yours to be collected at this meeting.\n\n \n18 March 2026 \nGYLEEN FITZGERALD \nMake Mine with Scraps \nFocus on traditional utility quilts. Use up\, cut up or recycle what you have on hand to make stunning quilts. Learn to harmonize exchange and friendship blocks or clear your clutter with strips and squares. \nBIO Gyleen Fitzgerald makes quilts that blend color\, pattern and texture to provide a contemporary essence to traditional quilting. A true renaissance woman\, she embraced all the needle arts before becoming obsessed with quiltmaking and design in 1981. It is an understatement to say she loves color and is willing to incorporate as much fabric as possible to achieve a rich color blend. Her strength as a quilt artist is demonstrated by the infusion of engineering tools and innovative techniques to simplify visually complex quilts. She shares her enthusiasm for quilting through exhibits\, interactive lectures and workshops. The avid quilter\, Gyleen has earned Best of Show honors.As a writer\, Gyleen centers on quilt design project books\, magazine articles\, haiku poetry and children’s books.  As a publisher\, she is a repeat Gold Medal winner for Quilts: Unfinished Stories with New Endings; Polygon Affair…So Easy You’ll Fall in Love; and Bricks\, Cobblestones and Pebbles. \nBibliography \n\nThe Queen’s Court\, FPI Publishing\, 2023\nIn Search of Dragon Eggs\, The Legend of the Black Knight in the Land of Delphia\, 2023\nPolygon Series: Simplicity\, Book I; Elegance\, Book II; and Evolution\, Book III\, 2019\nBricks\, Cobblestones and Pebbles\, FPI Publishing\, coming fall 2015\nPolygon Affair…So Easy You’ll Fall in Love\, FPI Publishing\, 2013\nTrash to Treasure Pineapple Quilts\, FPI Publishing\, 2010\nQuilts: Unfinished Stories with New Endings\, FPI Publishing\, 2009\nIn the House\, If Walls Could Talk\, FPI Publishing\, 2008\nThe Dream: A Magical Journey in Colourful Stitches\, FPI Publishing\, 2005.\nPoetry and Patchwork\, Co-Author\, James W. Pryde\, Jr\, FPI Publishing\, 2005\n\nClick here to learn more about Gyleen X Fitzgerald
URL:https://www.northernstarquilters.com/event/lecture-6/
LOCATION:Fox Lane High School\, 632 South Bedford Road\, Bedford\, NY\, 10506\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guild Meeting,Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="President":MAILTO:President@northernstarquilters.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T180000
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SUMMARY:Meeting+Challenge - Ellen Blalock
DESCRIPTION:Business meeting generally starts at 6pm\, arrive earlier for sign-in\, refreshments and socializing\, with any lecture generally at 7pm.\nGuests are always welcome\, there is a guest fee\, $10\, which can be credited toward membership – click HERE for more information. \nOur Hospitality team provides coffee and tea along with a few cookies at in-person meetings.\nPlease bring your own mug or water bottle.\nMember contributions of home-baked treats or other simple snacks are requested! \n\n\nChallenge Quilts displayed and voted on!\n\n \n15 April 2026 \nELLEN BLALOCK \nArt\, Artists and Activism: Quilts \nThis lecture gives a brief history of artists that use the quilt medium to produce art quilts that address social\, political and current affairs in their community and the world. I discuss the story development of several quilts I produced from two or more quilt series that address violence\, racism\, identity\, trauma and mental illness. The narrative of these quilts show connections to my life as a journalist and documentarian. For quilt groups I cover my journey to adapt quilting techniques to my work. I pick several quilts and explain construction and problem solving with a theme. \nBIO I am an artist with a mission. I believe my job is to be a conduit to listen and tell the stories of people that need to be heard and represented; the ones whose lives and experiences have been marginalized. I am particularly interested in the African American experience in the United States. Through my art I have dealt with issues around African American teen fathers\, slavery\, female identity and power\, LGBTQ families\, “Deaf” children\, mental illness and trauma\, and the ancestors. My job is to listen\, to record\, to make available the voices and stories of what is missing. The Fathers’ Project\, Beyond Boundaries in Ghana\, The Quilt Project\, Know Me\, the WHOLE Me and CAGE have all grown out of  my need to help give voices to people and communities that need their stories told. I work in many media. The main ones are photography\, video\, drawing\, and fiber. Some of my projects have been collaborations with other artists for performance art and installation pieces. I have taught courses in art\, art history and photography at several colleges and universities. My signature studio course is The Visual Narrative. I have a BFA from Tyler College of Art\, Temple University and a MFA from Syracuse University. I am originally from Philadelphia\, PA and live in Syracuse\, NY. \nClick here to learn more about Ellen Blalock
URL:https://www.northernstarquilters.com/event/lecture-7/
LOCATION:Fox Lane High School\, 632 South Bedford Road\, Bedford\, NY\, 10506\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guild Meeting,Lectures,Member Activities
ORGANIZER;CN="President":MAILTO:President@northernstarquilters.com
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting+Ugly Fabric Auction
DESCRIPTION:Annual Meeting – Voting for next season’s Board along with any By-law changes.\nDrawing for our Charity Raffle Quilt.\n\nUgly Fabric Auction – Bring your $$$ and go home with some great fabric!\nOne quilter’s trash is another one’s treasure!\nNO Show N Tell\, NO Free Table\, and NO Raffle Table at this meeting due to time constraints.\nPlease start gathering your UGLY FABRICS (quilting cottons>1/4 yd) for this fun auction.   Bring your excess fabrics to a Guild meeting or to Comfort Quilts.\nIn mid Westchester\, contact Rona Spar\, ronaquilter@gmail\, who will also arrange to accept your fabric\,\nQuestions? Contact Liz Titus\, bt97mail@gmail.com\, coordinator for the Ugly Fabric Auction.\n–\nNO DONATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED AT THIS MEETING. \n\n\nBusiness meeting generally starts at 6pm\, arrive earlier for sign-in\, refreshments and socializing\, with any lecture generally at 7pm.\nGuests are always welcome\, there is a guest fee\, $10\, which can be credited toward membership – click HERE for more information. \nOur Hospitality team provides coffee and tea along with a few cookies at in-person meetings.\nPlease bring your own mug or water bottle.\nMember contributions of home-baked treats or other simple snacks are requested!
URL:https://www.northernstarquilters.com/event/guild-2/
LOCATION:Fox Lane High School\, 632 South Bedford Road\, Bedford\, NY\, 10506\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guild Meeting,Member Activities
ORGANIZER;CN="President":MAILTO:President@northernstarquilters.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260617T173000
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SUMMARY:Meeting+Salad Supper
DESCRIPTION:– Supper Meeting – Early start\nWe look forward to our end of the year celebration\, our Salad Supper.  Let’s celebrate together all that we have accomplished as a guild this year! \nPlease bring an appetizer or entree/salad big enough to feed 6 people\, serving utensils\, and a card listing all the ingredients.\nBe sure to mark any items you want returned with your name and collect them before you leave. \nCoffee\, hot tea\, ice tea\, and lemonade will be provided\, as well as dessert. \n– Charity Quilt Raffle – Presentation of funds to chosen charity\n– Member Display –\nMembers signed up to bring favorite small projects and ideas for a table display\, instructions will be available. \n\n 
URL:https://www.northernstarquilters.com/event/salad-supper/
LOCATION:Fox Lane High School\, 632 South Bedford Road\, Bedford\, NY\, 10506\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guild Meeting,Hospitality
ORGANIZER;CN="President":MAILTO:President@northernstarquilters.com
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