21 January 2026 ZOOM CHRISTINE BARNES Color! Color! Color! Luster! Luminosity! Transparency! 1) Being “good with color” is more about practice than talent! This program begins with a look at the three color characteristics common to all quilts and garments: value, temperature, and intensity. These terms sound academic, yet they, as much as color itself, are the key to making [...]
CHRISTINE BARNES - Special Effects with Color: Transparency! Luminosity! Luster! VIRTUAL via Zoom - This is a multi-day Zoom workshop of three 3 hour color study sessions $75 members Zoom 1: Thursday, 22 January 2026 Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm ET --- TRANSPARENCY—the illusion that one color is lying on top of another and where they cross, there [...]
18 February 2026 ZOOM SUSAN AVISHAI Among the Garbage and the Flowers How 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. BIO Susan Avishai creates sculpture from [...]
Challenge Quilts displayed and voted on! 15 April 2026 ELLEN BLALOCK Art, Artists and Activism: Quilts This 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 [...]