Amazing quilts, refreshments, KidsART activities in Earlville
EARLVILLE – The next EOH Art Happening is in collaboration with Earlville Community Day on Saturday. This Free Family Event from noon to 3 p.m. engages all ages in the arts in a youth-friendly environment. KidsART activities, refreshments and music accompany three exhibits of Contemporary Quilts with two group shows and a solo exhibit of quilts by Nancy Bales. Music from noon-3 p.m. will be performed by Dove Creek with an eclectic Americana mix of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and more on mandolin and guitar. Stop in and take a listen! Have a cookie!
Contemporary quilts are things of beauty. In the East Gallery, a striking assemblage of twelve quilts was chosen by each of six artists to best represent their work. The artists are Shelley Baird of Columbus, OH; Cynthia Corbin of Woodinville, WA; Jennifer Day of Sante Fe, NM; Sally Dutko of Ithaca; Nancy Hicks of East Rochester, and Kathleen Loomis of Louisville, KY.
The works show various techniques by modern quilt artists. Many of the artists in this collection use surface manipulation of the fabric. All of the fabrics in Cynthia Corbin’s works are of her own creation using dyes and paints before she cuts and pieces the quilts together. Shelly Baird uses a whole cloth approach with images that are superimposed on cloth by screen-printing, painting and drawing with dyes, paint and bleaching agents in processes both directed and serendipitous. She expands on her work “The word ‘fabricate’ means to concoct, dream up, assemble and create… Once I discovered surface design on fabric, all of the separate pieces of my puzzle fell into place.”
For Sally Dutko, former graphic designer and art director at Cornell University, “My passion for surface design led to creating fabric collages and mixed media wall hangings…and addresses my chosen topics or subjects through relationships among colors, textures, line, type, and pattern.”
Other quilts show techniques that dramatically highlight thread play. Shelly Baird’s whole cloth quilts are heavily quilted to highlight color changes. However, heavy as Baird’s quilting is, the detailed portrait works by Jennifer Day are so heavy with machine quilting that one easily weighs ten pounds. “My art incorporates between one and three million stitches in the finished art quilt. I have used as many as 4200 yards of thread in a single art quilt. My style of thread painting is very intense and the projects may take as long as 150 hours to complete.”
Found objects add quirkiness to the quilts by Nancy Hicks. After spending her career teaching reading, she says that words find their way into her work as well as the many embellishments she has collected on her travels and in flea markets and antique shops to “help create interest, design, or help tell a story.”
The geometric works by Kathleen Loomis tell a more abstract tale. “My work is about disintegration, and the increasingly difficult task of preventing it. It’s about the things we cannot control, and the things that we have allowed to get out of control. I see so many aspects of our society and our environment under extreme tension, starting to come apart, and the fragility of the bonds that hold things in place. The thin pieced lines of my quilts are trying to keep everything together – but how much longer can they hold?”
A collection of REGIONAL QUILT ARTISTS in the West Gallery gathers thirteen quilts from upstate New York: PAT ANDREWS of Sherburne, ANNE KINNEL of Clinton, HANYA LOCKWOOD of Schuylerville, CAROLYN RAIMY of Smyrna, PAULA SHULTZ of Cottons Etc in Oneida, GAIL STROUT of Clinton, KATHIE WEBSTER of Smyrna and LOIS WESTON of Cazenovia. In the Arts Café Gallery, Nancy Bales’ quilts in The Great Outdoors capture the beauty of nature in landscapes of fabric. The exhibits will run through July 28.
Earlville Community Days activities run from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. Mad Art Artists will also be a part of the fun with 3X- One Family, 3 Generations of Artists from July 20-22, 12-6 with a reception July 21 Reception 2-5 at the Abbott Studio gallery in Earlville.
The EOH galleries are free admission and open Tuesday-Friday, 10-5 and Saturday, 12-3. Visit www.earlvilleoperahouse.com or call 315-691-3550 for more information.
EOH events are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and through the generosity of EOH members.
Contemporary quilts are things of beauty. In the East Gallery, a striking assemblage of twelve quilts was chosen by each of six artists to best represent their work. The artists are Shelley Baird of Columbus, OH; Cynthia Corbin of Woodinville, WA; Jennifer Day of Sante Fe, NM; Sally Dutko of Ithaca; Nancy Hicks of East Rochester, and Kathleen Loomis of Louisville, KY.
The works show various techniques by modern quilt artists. Many of the artists in this collection use surface manipulation of the fabric. All of the fabrics in Cynthia Corbin’s works are of her own creation using dyes and paints before she cuts and pieces the quilts together. Shelly Baird uses a whole cloth approach with images that are superimposed on cloth by screen-printing, painting and drawing with dyes, paint and bleaching agents in processes both directed and serendipitous. She expands on her work “The word ‘fabricate’ means to concoct, dream up, assemble and create… Once I discovered surface design on fabric, all of the separate pieces of my puzzle fell into place.”
For Sally Dutko, former graphic designer and art director at Cornell University, “My passion for surface design led to creating fabric collages and mixed media wall hangings…and addresses my chosen topics or subjects through relationships among colors, textures, line, type, and pattern.”
Other quilts show techniques that dramatically highlight thread play. Shelly Baird’s whole cloth quilts are heavily quilted to highlight color changes. However, heavy as Baird’s quilting is, the detailed portrait works by Jennifer Day are so heavy with machine quilting that one easily weighs ten pounds. “My art incorporates between one and three million stitches in the finished art quilt. I have used as many as 4200 yards of thread in a single art quilt. My style of thread painting is very intense and the projects may take as long as 150 hours to complete.”
Found objects add quirkiness to the quilts by Nancy Hicks. After spending her career teaching reading, she says that words find their way into her work as well as the many embellishments she has collected on her travels and in flea markets and antique shops to “help create interest, design, or help tell a story.”
The geometric works by Kathleen Loomis tell a more abstract tale. “My work is about disintegration, and the increasingly difficult task of preventing it. It’s about the things we cannot control, and the things that we have allowed to get out of control. I see so many aspects of our society and our environment under extreme tension, starting to come apart, and the fragility of the bonds that hold things in place. The thin pieced lines of my quilts are trying to keep everything together – but how much longer can they hold?”
A collection of REGIONAL QUILT ARTISTS in the West Gallery gathers thirteen quilts from upstate New York: PAT ANDREWS of Sherburne, ANNE KINNEL of Clinton, HANYA LOCKWOOD of Schuylerville, CAROLYN RAIMY of Smyrna, PAULA SHULTZ of Cottons Etc in Oneida, GAIL STROUT of Clinton, KATHIE WEBSTER of Smyrna and LOIS WESTON of Cazenovia. In the Arts Café Gallery, Nancy Bales’ quilts in The Great Outdoors capture the beauty of nature in landscapes of fabric. The exhibits will run through July 28.
Earlville Community Days activities run from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. Mad Art Artists will also be a part of the fun with 3X- One Family, 3 Generations of Artists from July 20-22, 12-6 with a reception July 21 Reception 2-5 at the Abbott Studio gallery in Earlville.
The EOH galleries are free admission and open Tuesday-Friday, 10-5 and Saturday, 12-3. Visit www.earlvilleoperahouse.com or call 315-691-3550 for more information.
EOH events are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and through the generosity of EOH members.
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