2023 Guest Speaker
Meg Cox – megcox.com
Meg’s two main specialties are FAMILY TRADITIONS and QUILTING, two wildly misunderstood topics. Both are thought to be old-fashioned and un-hip which could not be farther from the truth. Today’s smart parents are avid inventors of personalized rituals and celebrations that give their kids a sense of identity, security, meaning, and fun. These traditions encompass everything from meals and activities handed down through generations to brand new rituals, including some built around cutting-edge tech devices like iPads and smart phones. The same is true of quilting: the 21 million American quilters who have built this burgeoning craft into a $3.6 billion industry are educated, computer-literate and fiercely creative. Did you know the dominant version of quilt-design software is in version 7?
Meg’s experience with quilting partly extends over the 25 years that she has been a passionate quilter. Additionally, Meg served on the board of the national nonprofit Quilt Alliance for 10 years and was president for 6 years. She writes a popular free monthly e-newsletter called Quilt Journalist Tells All. See her commentary on modern quilting in the hit 2011 documentary, Stitch.
*Our speaker is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by ArtsWestchester.
2023 Invitationals
UPCYCLED: Made From Repurposed Materials
Natalya Khorover – artbynatalya.com
Architecturally inspired, delicately stitched–that is the motto for Natalya’s art. The core of her art is deeply rooted in her Russian heritage and the architectural imagery of St. Petersburg and New York City. She feels strongly about using recycled materials such as paper, plastic, and vintage fabric. She favors the techniques of computer photo manipulation as well as intense hand- and machine-stitching.
Natalya loves to use photography to capture the inspiration around her. Then, on the computer, she transforms photos into a start for her stitched artwork. The sewing machine is one of her most important drawing tools, as are her hands–hand stitching is the most intimate form of expression. Recyclables and vintage fabrics add personal significance to her art.
Karen Griska – Quilts from the Selvage Edge
Quilt-making is my passion. I love the creative process.
‘Cut off the selvages.’ That s often the first thing new quilters learn about fabric in beginning classes. But what do you do with them? Throw them away? Never again! Not after you see the vivid and ingenious creations they can become. The ingenious use of selvages turns them into fun and imaginative quilts.
Book Signings
Daisy Dodge
Susan Ball Faeder
Fiber Art North East
Collectible Show Pins
A limited supply of lapel pins for sale, based on our spectacular charity raffle quilt ‘Blue Lightning’.