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The Visionary Quilt
CELEBRATING FIBRE ARTS
» Thursday 11 June 2009 | 5 pm
» The Bohemian Café, 524 Bernard Avenue
An informal afternoon hour showcasing ideas
and people in the Okanagan creative economy. Join us as award-winning art quilters and fibre artists Joanne Fissette, MaryAnn Acutt-Carlton, Maureen Carefoot and Carol Swinden showcase their work and discuss their process.
» $2 at the door. Refreshments are available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE
Art Quilts - Off the Bed, On the Wall
If you think quilts are just something your grandmother made to keep you warm at night, you are mistaken. Many of today's quilters have transformed the humble warmers into works of art you wouldn't dream of throwing in the washing machine. No longer are they following traditional patterns, but are creating their own designs, using many different types of fabric and artistic techniques to enhance their art quilts. These works are being exhibited and judged in competitions on scales from local to international.
On Thursday, June 11th at 5 pm the ongoing weekly Okanagan Institute Express series at the Bohemian Café presents The Visionary Quilt: Celebrating Fibre Arts. Join us for presentations by three accomplished Central Okanagan art quilters - and just for fun a fibre artist who likes to create wearable art. They will share their passion, talk about their work and show samples of their creations. The host is writer and editor Dona Sturmanis, a lifelong collector of fabric art, who worked with renowned fibre artist Gail P. Hunt on her book Quiltworks across Canada: Eleven Contemporary Workshops.
 Joanne Fisette has been sewing since she was six and quilting since she was 14. A renowned art quilter, she is known for her depiction of light and shadow in nature. She has won local, national, and international awards, including Judges Choice at Quilt Canada in 2001 and First Place in Innovative Pieced at the Pacific Northwest Quiltfest in Seattle in 2002. Her quilts are in private and corporate collections. Teaching quilting since 2003, she is now a full-time instructor of the art form.
 Maureen Carefoot discovered quilt making 16 years ago in Nelson BC. Previously a painter, she likes to integrate fabric and mixed media as well as long arm quilting into her pieces. Over her ten years in Kelowna, she has won ribbons with the Okanagan Valley Quilters Guild quilt shows and a Viewiers Choice Award with the Lake Country Art Walk.
 Carol Swinden comes from a family of artists. With studies in art history and design and experience as an art/music specialist and educator, she's created in a variety of media from pastels to acrylics. She began art quilting in 2005 and loves to portray the beauty of nature in a realistic way. She's produced an amazing number of pieces and enters every show she can find. Her quilts began selling right away as people discovered her gift for artistic expression through fabric.
 Mary Ann Acutt-Carlton is a fibre artist with diplomas in fashion and design/fine arts. She enjoys creating wearable art and has had pieces in shows across Canada. Awards include 1st prize in the applique division of Husqvarna conventions in 1994 and 1995. Carlton's taught fibre arts classes in Canada and the US. Her pieces have been purchased for both private and public collections.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER ONLINE CLICK HERE
The Visionary Quilt: Celebrating Fibre Arts takes place at the Bohemian Café. This marks the 94th event the Okanagan Institute has held since the Express series got underway in July 2007.
Express has played host to many Okanagan luminaries, including former deputy secretary general of Amnesty International Derek Evans, artists Lee Claremont and Gary Pearson, BC Book Award nominee Don Gayton, CBC Literary prize winner poet Harold Rhenisch, distinguished editor and author Jim Taylor, poet and professor John Lent, animator and filmmaker Jim Cliffe, community activist Don Elzer, dancer David LaHay, architect Jim Meiklejohn, culinary artist and writer Heidi Noble, broadcaster Marion Barschel and others from a wide range of creative fields.
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