SAQA’s Martha Sielman to Lecture at IQF/Houston

Going to the Houston International Quilt Festival (IQF/Houston)?

Don’t miss the chance to learn about art quilts with Martha Sielman, Executive Director of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. (SAQA). She will present The Art Quilt Movement—Innovation & Change over 50 Years, listed as Lecture #748 in the event program. She will speak on Saturday, November 2, from 11 AM to noon. You can register for her insightful talk at quilts.com/quilt-festival-houston-schedule-of-events.html.

Martha’s lecture accompanies the premier of SAQA’s exhibition Layered & Stitched: 50 Years of Innovative Art at IQF/Houston. The exhibition brings together seminal pieces from the 1960s through today. Together, the works make it clear that experimentation has always guided the evolution of the art quilt, as has the drive for the work to be recognized as a fine art medium.

Today, artists continue to push boundaries, working with new forms, materials, and digital technologies to create imaginative new work. Increasingly, art quilts are exhibited in fine art museums and major venues around the world. Learn how this art form developed from work created by isolated makers, primarily located in Ohio and California, into today’s international movement supported by thousands of artists worldwide.

In addition to the exhibition and Martha’s lecture, you can explore the topic more through Art Quilts Unfolding, a 352-page book published by Schiffer Books. It provides a historical overview of the medium with full-color images of 400 masterpieces, profiles of 58 influential artists, movement milestones, and significant collections. If you can’t attend Houston to see Layered & Stitched or buy your book in person, the book is available at saqa.com/store for $49 plus shipping.

Here are just a few of the quilts included in Layered & Stitched: 50 Years of Innovative Art.

Yvonne Porcella

Come Again Kabuki

85 x 77 inches

2005

Charlotte Yde

Steen’s Quilt

59 x 59 inches

1979

Michael James

Bouree

46.5 x 46.5 inches

1992

Nancy Erickson

The Purple Lynx

36 x 40 inches

2014

Susan Shie

Tropical New York

90 x 90 inches

1988

Comments

#2 Janet Moyer 2019-10-21 08:26

This was such a nice way to start my day. It is cold and ugly outside but these quilts just brightened up my attitude. They are all very different but so interesting. I love James quiltis it's so precise.Shies is wild and crazy. Thanks for this opportunity to see these works of art!

#1 Quercus1 2019-10-21 07:58

I adore Susan Shie’s art. This piece is like a puzzle for our creative minds. You can’t stop until you’ve looked at and enjoyed every luscious portion and then you will have to go back for more. How Susan Shie takes so many different interesting segments and stitches and blends them together into her art is outstanding. I can imagine in real life it would be even more irresistible. But, perhaps it’s better this way because I know I’d have a real difficult time keeping my fingers from wanting to reach out to touch it. Thank you for sharing it with TQS members

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