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Joe and Julie’s Quilt Adventure 3
Art Quilts: What's New?
Over the course of our 30-year friendship we have often wished we had a forum where we could
share our quilts, and our love of quilts, with a group of quilt enthusiasts.
"Quilt Adventure" is the realization of that dream.
This time we are going to take a look at the ground-breaking quilts
from the Mel & Hilary Fletcher collection.
Forty one modern quilts are featured in the exhibition
"Cream of the Cloth: Quilt from the Marbaum Collection,"
showing at at the
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles,
The exhibition runs from Nov. 16, 2010 - Jan. 30, 2011.
These quilts represent an outstanding collection of work from our era's
greatest quilt artists.
We’ll spend a wonderful day exploring:
- the antique quilts that preceded the new quilts
- the state of the Quilt World when the art quilts were made
- and some ideas about the future – “where quilts are going…”
As a special treat, we will have a chance to see an exhibition of 20 quilts by
Yvonne Porcella, drawn from across her prolific career.
We are delighted to be joined this time by Jean Ray Laury, one of the founders
of the modern quilt movement.
Jean Ray is a quilt maker and artist who has inspired so many of us with her
original, creative work and unique point of view.
In this Quilt Adventure we will walk through the exhibition with Jean Ray and Joe,
see and hear about some antecedents for this kind of quilt from Julie,
hear some of Jean Ray’s views on the value of the process,
and get a glimpse into some of the future directions of quilting from
Joe’s long view and current perspective.
We'd love to have you join us!
520 South First Street, San Jose, 408-971-0323) at 10:00 am
We will have your paid entry ticket. Directions: GOOGLE MAP
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
10:00 – 11:40 a.m. PRIVATE WALK THROUGH of the EXHIBITION
Jean Ray Laury and Joe Cunningham
11:40 --12:00 p.m. Yvonne Porcella's Quilts: Shaping the Movement
Joe Cunningham
12:00 --12:45 p.m. Delicious lunch (included)
12:45 -- 1:45 p.m. "Player Pianos, Numbered Paintings and Love Potions"
Jean Ray Laury
1:45 – 2:45 p.m. "How’d We Get Here?"
Julie Silber
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Seventh Inning Stretch
3:00 -- 4:30 p.m. "Joe's Crystal Ball: Glimpsing Our Future"
Joe Cunningham
4:00 -- 4:30 p.m. WRAP UP & FEEDBACK ... TEARFUL GOODBYES
PRESENTERS:
JEAN RAY LAURY saw the artistic possibilities of quilt making decades before most of us,
pioneering the way for the rest of us with books on quilts, shows of quilts in museums and galleries,
and innumerable great works of quilt art. Jean Ray Laury has inspired, instructed and
entertained all who followed her into the realm of quilts of the modern world.
JOE CUNNINGHAM began making quilts professionally in 1979, and has
written widely on quilts for both popular and scholarly publications.
His quilts have been seen in museums and quilt shows throughout the country.
Joe performs his one-man musical quilt show “Joe the Quilter” in theaters
and for quilt groups around the country.
www.JoeTheQuilter.com
JULIE SILBER was suddenly smitten with quilts in 1966. Since then she has bought
and sold antique quilts, appraised them, written books and articles, lectured and taught,
and curated exhibitions and quilt collections. She is the co-author of the books
"Hearts and Hands" and "AMISH: The Art of the Quilt." Julie is Curator of the
Esprit Quilt Collection, and has curated major quilt exhibits
including "American Quilts: A Handmade Legacy" at the Oakland Museum
and AMISH: The Art of the Quilt at the S. F.deYoung Museum.
www.TheQuiltComplex.com
We are very much looking forward to seeing you all!
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Julie Silber & Jean Demeter The Quilt Complex . PO Box 729 . Albion CA 95410 707.937.0739 quiltcomplex@hughes.net
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