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“Crimson & Cream” by Tish Chung
We share a fascination with reimagined traditions, solid fabrics, improvisational piecing, bold graphic design, contemporary prints, inventive negative space, breaking the rules, and social issues. At the same time, each of us occupies a very different spot on the broad spectrum of modern quilting.
“Earl Grey” by Claudia Shearer
Some of us “work modern” by enlivening traditional blocks with contemporary fabric. Others tweak familiar blocks with a modern design twist. Some reinterpret Asian influences. Others mix modern and art quilts. Some quilt with their hand-dyed fabric. Many of us design original blocks. And a few of us don’t use blocks at all!
Detail from Carol Damm’s “Family Flower Garden”
We meet monthly (but exchange emails almost daily!), seek advice, share techniques, tour museums, make studio visits, shop hop, and most important, help each other find our own voices.
Quilts by Lorraine Woodruff-Long and Claudia Shearer
Quilters with work on display throughout September include Tish Chung, Damm, Dianne McCutcheon, Claudia Shearer, Barb Strick and Lorraine Woodruff-Long. In October, quilters Joan Anyon, Holley Arbeit, Anna Chan, Joy-Lily, Karen Stern and I will take over the gallery.
Many thanks to Sally Davey of Bay Quilts for the opportunity to display our work.
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“On the Fringe: Innovative Art Quilts from California and Nevada” opens March 9, 2017 at the Harrington Art Gallery in Pleasanton, California. My piece “Sorta Sonia” is among the 20 art quilts and five fiber sculptures
chosen for display.
Following a three-month run at the Texas Quilt Museum, the exhibition will be at its Bay Area venue through April 15, with an opening reception on Saturday March 11 from 1–3 p.m., and remarks by juror Sandra Sider at 2 p.m.
Featuring work by regional members of the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), the show presents the unique character of the West Coast in a variety of diverse materials, subjects and surface-design techniques. Connotations of “fringe” include areas on and near the Pacific Rim, looking toward Asia; the geography and topography of California and Nevada as western limits of the continental United States, and artists pushing the boundaries of their medium. “This exhibition exemplifies some of the more interesting work being done today by SAQA members,” said Sider.
Sorta Sonia, 35″ wide x 44″ high
Echo quilting, French knots and other hand embroidery stitches
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Patch of Blue, 13-1/2″ x 30″
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My month-long show “Modern/Mimimal” opened at Bay Quilts in Richmond, California, on Sunday with a reception that drew some three dozen people.
I’m not sure I’ve ever chatted nonstop for three hours before(!) … but it was wonderful talking to people about the designs and techniques and fabrics in the 29 quilts on display.
I was honored to get a write-up and 41(!) stellar photographs by Carol Van Zandt on her blog, The Plaid Portico. Here’s what she had to say:
I’ve run across Cathy Miranker’s quilts in other California shows and they always make it on the blog – they are modern, original, thoughtful and with an attention to detail that doesn’t compromise any improvisation. A wonderful body of work is represented in this show, and I hope to see more shows from modern quilters in this space!
I mounted the show with the help of the smiling young woman, above, my daughter Emily, who flew in for the weekend from New York City. THANKS so much for your keen eye, artistic flair, good humor … and handiness with a level and a hammer!
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“Red Rock Island” and “Travers Van Deusen” have been juried into next month’s Pacific International Quilt Festival. PIQF will be held from October 13–16, 2016, in Santa Clara, California.
Exhibition: Pacific International Quilt Festival
Venue: Santa Clara Convention Center
5001 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Dates: Thursday Oct. 13–Saturday Oct. 15, 10 a.m–6 p.m.
Sunday Oct. 16, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Admission: $15, no credit cards
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Can’t Get There From Here, 34-1/2? wide x 37? high
“Can’t Get There From Here” has been juried into the 2016 New Quilts of Northern California exhibit at the Pacific International Quilt Festival, held from October 13–16, 2016, in Santa Clara, California.
Exhibition: New Quilts of Northern California
Venue: Pacific International Quilt Festival
Santa Clara Convention Center
5001 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Dates: Thursday Oct. 13–Saturday Oct. 15, 10 a.m–6 p.m.
Sunday Oct. 16, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Admission: $15, no credit cards
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More than two dozen of my quilts will be on display at Bay Quilts throughout November 2016, in a solo show called “Modern/Minimal: The Quilts of Cathy Miranker.”
Located in a chic, former light-industrial space in Richmond, California, the newly opened Bay Quilts is a combination gallery and store … with an impressive array of solids and other fabrics that modern quilters will love.
Exhibition: Modern/Minimal: The Quilts of Cathy Miranker
Venue: Bay Quilts
5327 Jacuzzi St. #3C
Richmond, CA 94804
510-558-0218
Dates: November 5–30, 2016
Reception: 1–4 p.m. Sunday, November 6, 2016
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“On the Fringe: Innovative Art Quilts from California and Nevada” opened at the Texas Quilt Museum on June 30, 2016 for three-month run. Featuring 20 art quilts by members of the Studio Art Quilt Associates
(SAQA) in the region, including my piece “Sorta Sonia”, the show presents the unique character of the West Coast in a variety of diverse materials, subjects and surface-design techniques.
Connotations of “fringe” include areas on and near the Pacific Rim, looking toward Asia; the geography and topography of California and Nevada as western limits of the continental United States, and artists pushing the boundaries of their medium. “This exhibition exemplifies some of the more interesting work being done today by SAQA members,” said museum Curator Sandra Sider, who also juried this exhibit.
“Speaking for myself,” said museum Manager Julie Maffei, “it is one of the most intriguing and engaging SAQA exhibits we’ve had. I love the multiple interpretations and points of view of On the Fringe. The depth of thought expressed through the medium of these quilts is a wonderful experience. To me, this expression is one of the most important functions of art, to provoke thought and dialogue.”
The 24-page catalog for the On the Fringe exhibition is now available on Amazon; just click this link. It costs $10, plus shipping. (Shipping is free for Amazon Prime members.)
On the Fringe will be in La Grange, TX, through September 25, 2016.
Venue: Texas Quilt Museum
140 W Colorado Street
La Grange, TX 78945
979-968-3104
Dates: June 30–Sept. 25, 2016
Hours: Thursday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Sundays, Noon–4 p.m.
The exhibition will also be shown at the Harrington Art Gallery in Pleasanton, CA, from March 9–April 15, 2017.
Venue: Firehouse Arts Center
Harrington Art Gallery
4444 Railroad Avenue
Pleasanton, CA, 94566
Dates: March 9–April 15, 2017
Hours: Wednesday–Friday 12–5 p.m.
Saturday 11am-3pm
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I’m one of 18 fiber artists whose work will appear in “On the Fringe,” a traveling exhibition sponsored by the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). My piece, Sorta Sonia, honors the aesthetic of the Russian-born
French artist and textile designer Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979).
Sorta Sonia
Recently the subject of retrospectives in Paris and London, Delaunay is known for her profusion of colors … a “mash-up” of geometric shapes (often juxtaposing freehand or fractured circles with wonky rectangles and squares) … swathes of irregular stripes and rhythmic, wavy lines … and fabric design that mimicked the look of hand embroidery.
Sorta Sonia, Detail
“On the Fringe” celebrates the art quilts and artists from SAQA’s Northern California/Northern Nevada Region. The work—whether representational or abstract—uses diverse materials and a variety of surface design techniques, such as photography, painting, dyeing, stitch resist, screen printing and more. Artists selected by juror Sandra Sider include Karen Balos, Nancy Bardach, Maria Billings, Giny Dixon, Joan Dyer, Margaret Fabrizio, Kathy Grady, Ann Grundler, Jennifer Landau, Karin Lusnak, Denise Oyama Miller, Cathy Miranker, Sharon Rossi, Nancy Ryan, Lin Schiffner Rickie Seifried, Gail Sims and Martha Wolfe.
The show’s first venue is the Texas Quilt Museum, from June 30–September 25, 2016. It will also be shown at the Harrington Art Gallery in Pleasanton, CA, from March 9–April 15, 2017. A catalog is available from Amazon; click here and following the link.
Venue: Texas Quilt Museum
140 W Colorado Street
La Grange, TX 78945
979-968-3104
Dates: June 30–Sept. 25, 2016
Hours: Thursday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Sundays, Noon–4 p.m.
Venue: Firehouse Arts Center
Harrington Art Gallery
4444 Railroad Avenue
Pleasanton, CA, 94566
Dates: March 9–April 15, 2017
Hours: Wednesday–Friday 12–5 p.m.
Saturday 11am-3pm
A reception at the Harrington Art Gallery is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, March 11, 2017, from 1–3 p.m.
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Megalopolitan Graffiti
Two of my quilts—“Megalopolitan Grafitti” and “Gridlock at Sundown”—have been selected by juror Luana Rubin for the Studio Art Quilt Associates’ juried exhibition,
Urban Textures.
These pieces are part of a virtual exhibition on the SAQA website for the next 12 months. Click here to see all the Urban Textures quilts. My quilts will also appear in the Winter issue of the SAQA Journal.
Gridlock at Sundown
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