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In This Issue… See Page 11 Growing an Art Quilt Collection SAQA Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. Journal Volume 23, No.4 Fall 2013 photo courtesy of QuiltNational of courtesy photo Jack’s Falling Water (detail) by Gayle Fraas & Duncan Slade In this issue… see page 11 Growing an art quilt collection . 5 Member gallery . 22 Developing an eye for quilt art . 8 Quilts, Inc . collection . 26 Tips on commissioning quilt art . 11 Getting started as a collector . 30 Collectors, museums and artists Selections from work together . 14 Metaphors on Aging . 36 Marketing to cultivate Selections from collector relationships . 18 Color Wheel of Emotions . 40 Thoughts from the president by Sandra Sider s of and academic credentials, including year. She has served on the Fund- AOctober 1, a doctorate in Germanic languages raising Committee and chairs the 2013, my term from the University of California, Education Committee, where she is of service on the Los Angeles. She now teaches at quilt committed to enhancing the skills of SAQA Board of guilds and online, www.pixeladies. SAQA members and informing the Directors ends, com. public about contemporary quilt art and we have a Kris has collaborated with fellow and SAQA’s key role in this exciting new president. SAQA artist Deb Cashatt as the genre. She hopes to establish liaisons The board unani- Pixeladies for 10 years. Their work between SAQA and educational insti- mously elected Kris Sazaki of Sacra- has appeared in numerous exhibi- tutions offering courses in fiber and mento, California, at its April 2013 tions, including Quilt National ’13. textile art. meeting. Welcome Kris! Quilting Arts Magazine published an As I leave my position as SAQA Kris has been vice president of the interview with Kris and Deb on their president, I want to thank the hun- SAQA board since soon after joining experience working together in its dreds of SAQA members who have the board in 2010. Before that, she December 2012/January 2013 issue. worked so hard on our various com- served two years as a regional repre- They are authors of Furoshiki Fabric mittees and special projects during sentative in the Northern California- Wraps: Simple, Reusable, Beautiful the past three years. I am especially Nevada Region, recently renamed the (C&T Publishing, 2012). grateful to Martha Sielman, our Northern California-Northern Nevada As SAQA vice president, Kris dedicated executive director, for her Region. She brings to this position chaired the Long-Range Planning endless support. You all have made years of making quilt art; experience Committee, which drafted the my task easier. It has been an honor teaching German literature and wom- long-range plan document that was to serve this great organization as en’s studies at the university level; approved by the board earlier this your president. SAQA mourns passing of Carolyn Lee Vehslage It was with great sadness that Studio England artists that has mounted Art Quilt Associates learned Carolyn Lee exhibitions and done much to further Vehslage, editor of the SAQA Journal awareness of the art quilt. Members of for more than eight years, died in early Fiber Revolution will miss Carolyn as a September. A celebration of Carolyn’s friend and tireless worker. “She carried life will be held next spring at the Spray the lion’s share of the work necessary Beach Yacht Club in Beach Haven, New for our group to succeed,” said Fiber Jersey, said Carolyn’s widower, Peter Revolution President Kevan Lunney. Vehslage. “Above all else, we had the opportunity SAQA Executive Director Martha to witness and experience Carolyn as Sielman said Carolyn will be missed by an exceptional friend. Her enthusiasm, people across the art quilt community. smile, courage and leadership will be “Carolyn had a strong vision for the missed.” Journal,” Martha said. “She wanted In lieu of flowers, the family asks to show members how to grow as donations be made in Carolyn’s name professional artists. She took the to charities of the givers’ choice — Journal from what was a simple especially those that serve people newsletter to a full-color magazine.” with mental illness. Cards can be sent Carolyn was a founding member to Peter Vehslage, 8 Sturbridge Drive, of Fiber Revolution, a group of New Sicklerville, NJ 08081. 2 • SAQA Journal • Fall 2013 From the editor by Dana Jones his issue of sure the labels are easy to read in the and/or its title, and stories behind Tthe SAQA photos. the piece. Journal is focused It’s worth the time and expense to Establishing a consistent standard on collecting art find and work with a photographer for naming photo files will make it quilts. As it came who has experience photograph- easy to find photos of art quilts when together, I real- ing textiles and who knows how they are requested by museum cura- ized I had some to properly light fiber art to high- tors, exhibition planners and editors. advice to offer collectors and the light stitching, embellishments and It is a plus if the naming system com- artists who work with them — advice surface-design elements. municates clearly the artist’s name on photography. I can sum up my Collectors who began collecting and the title to others who will work thoughts in two sentences: Collec- before the advent of digital photogra- with the photos. tors of art quilts need to have profes- phy should have slides and prints of It is helpful if the photo files are sional photos on file of every piece that earlier work converted to digital accompanied by release forms from in their collections so they can share formats. Ditto for artists, who can artists to collectors outlining how the the artwork with museums, publish- then share digital copies with their collectors can use the images and if ers and editors via email or electronic collectors. and when artists must be notified. file-sharing programs. Artists can help When you have photos in hand, Such forms can outline copyright their collectors with this by providing the next step is to set up electronic guidelines and can give collectors photos when their work is purchased. and/or paper files using a standard permission to share images of col- The time to have quilts pho- naming system and creating data files lected pieces with exhibition venues tographed is as soon as you start that include the following informa- and publications. Photo files can also collecting, perhaps even before you tion for each art quilt: include appraisal information that realize the several pieces you’ve • the title of the piece; may be needed when collectors share purchased — at a local SAQA meet- • the name of the artist as it should and ship pieces to museums and ing, in an art gallery or through the appear whenever the work is shown exhibitions. SAQA Benefit Auction — are a formal or published; I want to thank everyone who collection. Having low-resolution allowed their work to be used in snapshots may suffice for insurance • the size of the piece, best written this issue, who sent photos and fol- purposes, but such images will not be as height x width in inches or lowed up with caption information. adequate for most other purposes. centimeters; I learned a lot about collecting art Have photos taken of the full • the year the piece was completed; quilts. I hope you will too. When pieces, being sure all edges, bound • where and when the piece was you’ve read the articles and enjoyed or otherwise finished, are included. purchased, from whom, and the the photos, I hope you will think The edges are part of the art. Photos price paid; about the art quilts you own by artists of details are an added plus, though other than yourself. Do you have the not necessary when you have high- • materials and techniques used in beginnings of an art quilt collection? resolution, large-format photos taken. making the piece; If the answer is yes, it’s time to meet When you get top-notch photos of • any interesting information about your new best friend — a professional the full pieces, you often are able the piece and the artist, such as photographer who will help you to pull details from those images. It places where the piece has been document and share your collection. is also a good idea to have the back shown, what inspired the piece of the pieces photographed, being SAQA Journal • Fall 2013 • 3 Report from the SAQA executive director by Martha Sielman am excited to committee, and they spent an entire what they do, links to their web- I announce the day before the start of the SAQA sites and contact information. They Studio Art Quilt conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will be able to upload headshots of Associates (SAQA) last April discussing and creating the themselves and one photo of what Board of Direc- new membership structure. The new they primarily offer. For example, Arts tors has reorga- categories will be: Professionals may choose to show nized our membership categories and students taking their workshops, the Student, unchanged category: $30; benefits. Effective October 1, 2013, covers of their new books or their we will have a new membership Supporting Member, new name for the logos. All Arts Professionals will be structure, including new benefits, Active Member category: $60; listed in the new Art Services Direc- revised names for some of the exist- Arts Professional, new category: $85; tory using searchable keywords to ing membership categories and a new and make it easier for people to find them membership category. and their businesses. Studio Artist, new name for Profes- Why make the changes? In June If you are an Active Member and sional Artist Member (PAM) category, 2012, as part of the long-range wish to upgrade to Arts Professional, with additional benefits: $125.
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