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Southeast Missouri 2014 Regional Juried Exhibit

| JP Dawes Artist

I was honored to have Frog Water Shallows accepted into this general art exhibit . Notice I didn’t say quilt show. Click the link to see the list of accepted artists and some of their websites.

There has been a lot of talk on the Quiltart list about our work not being accepted as art. Some even said it must be framed to be art. Here’s proof that “It just Ain’t So!” Frog Water Shallows hangs from a slat with picture wire on each end. My friend Suzanne Thompson of Textured Words also had a piece hanging in this general art exhibit. She was able to attend the opening and graciously sent these photos.  The Gallery space looks wonderful!

frog water shallows at Cape Arts suzanne thompson a cape arts

Its a Giveaway! SAQA Urban Textures

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I’m excited that the fabric is hitting stores. To celebrate and toot my own horn a bit, I’m having a giveaway. There will be 2 lucky winners!  I just know that when you see this fabric you will want more, more, more! If you do, it is available at eQuilter . I received a fat quarter packet of all the colors and designs and it is luscious.

There was one little glitch along the way when my name was misspelled on the selvedge. It was corrected on subsequent runs of the print, so if you buy some with “designed by Jane Paine Dawes”, that’s my mom and she had nothing to do with the design of the fabric, she just designed ME! Andover and Daryl, Luana and the whole team were great to work with.

To refresh your memory, here is the quilt I designed with the fabric so you can see the 3 colors. And a picture of some wonderful market bags Andover gifted me from Quilt Market. Each winner will receive one of these great bags and a fat quarter of each of the colors of my design from the collection.  All you have to do is post a comment and tell me what your next quilt project is going to be. Winners will be selected at random on 12/10/2014. By the way, for a free pdf download of my quilt, Out of the Concrete, go here!

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Gallery show at the Library

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 Here are a few shots from the show over the weekend. For a small show featuring 13 Art Odyssey artists there was a great turn out. In the past, I’ve done really large shows with a lot of costs that didn’t result in as many sales. Ron was really happy that his efforts paid off as studio assistant.  So here is an overall shot [we only had a 6 ft. table] and a detail shot of my little framed fragments.

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State of the Art at Crystal Bridges

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All I can say is with the exception of a couple art works, this was an outstanding exhibit. The curators went around the USA to collect the work for this. Ron and I thought it was one of the best we have seen. Crystal Bridges has a world renowned collection of art in their permanent collections. We specifically went to see the State of the Art exhibition.  Click the link for information, videos, artist interviews and more from Crystal Bridges.

Upon entering the hall with the State of the Art exhibition, we were wowed by this gigantic art quilt. I wanted to post a photo of Ron standing in front of it so you could see the scale.  Gina Phillips, Fort Dirt Hole, 2013. She refers to her work as narrative imagery. It is fascinating to see a textile/fiber artist and how she works. It you have time watch the video posted on the Jonathan Ferrera Gallery Blog about her work. Scroll down about half way  until you see the link that says ‘see more artwork by Gina Phillips’. You will get to see inside her studio and hear in her own words what inspires her.

I’ll post more photos from the museum and grounds at a later date.

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