Virginia A. Spiegel

Boundary Waters 19 - Detail

Boundary Waters 19 will be shown in ArtQuilt Elements in April 2008. A total of 708 art quilt images were submitted for jurying with 68 being chosen by jurors Robert Shaw, BJ Adams, and Mi Kyoung Lee. The opening of the exhibit at Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, will coincide with the SAQA and SDA joint conference.

Exciting news! Jane Davila has generously donated a $100 gift certificate to her online quilting store Flourish! for a random drawing. All donors of $50 or more to the American Cancer Society for my online book Art, Nature, Creativity, Life are eligible. All the details are on my website.

ALL donors are eligibe for the “A Book For A Book” random drawing. The authors include Patricia Bolton, Karey Bresenhan, Jane Davila and Elin Waterson, Jamie Fingal, Leslie Riley, Larkin Van Horn and Jeanne Williamson.

There will be other fun giveaways as we go along. I know no one who donates to the ACS for Art, Nature, Creativity, Life expects additional incentive to do so, but generous Friends of FFAC make it possible to share these fun thank-yous.

Thank you for your support of Fiberart For A Cause, fundraising for the American Cancer Society.

The Potter and The Muse by Lotte Streisinger was recommended to me by Martha Sielman (her niece and Executive Director of Studio Art Quilt Associates). Thank you, Martha.

This lovely book is full of wisdom from a lifetime of being an artist and is enlivened by linocut illustrations. It is a meditation on the creative process written in a down-to-earth, humorous, and thoughtful style. Who among us hasn’t dealt with “Getting Started Again,” “Dealing With Rejection” and “Solitude versus Loneliness?” I would even recommend it for non-artists because of the message that a life lived with passion, whether for art or not, is the life well-lived.

The book is available from the SAQA bookstore under Guest Book Titles.