The year started with a fabulous trip to Japan. We visited temples and shrines, ate traditional Japanese food, and visited the Tokyo Quilt Show:
Banded Iron Formation #1 was part of "Art Quilt Elements" at the Wayne Art Center in Pennsylvania:
I went to the SAQA TEXtiles conference in San Antonio. I bought two wonderful art quilts:
And I led a panel discussion on 3D exhibits and gave a lightning talk on "inspiration vs. Emulation:"
I had a quilt in the SAQA Texas regional exhibit which debuted during the SAQA Conference:
Brian and I went barrel tasting in Sonoma County, California:
I became the Chairman of the SAQA Exhibition Committee:
The Salt Marsh Near First Encounter Beach won a blue ribbon in the AQS Spring Paducah show:
I made my 50th Tuning Fork quilt:
I dyed many yards of fabric. Some with indigo, using various types of shibori techniques:
And I dyed a lot of solids as well:
Natalie Friedman and I gave a talk about the Tokyo Quilt Show at a Dallas Area Fiber Artists meeting:
Volcano! was featured in an article on the SAQA "Posters" exhibit in Quilting Arts Magazine:
Brian and I went to lovely, cool, Colorado in August, visiting our good friends in Evergreen:
I wrote an article for Quilting Arts Magazine:
I went to British Columbia with Maria Shell and Colleen Kole. We spent a wonderful week on Denman Island:
To get to Nanaimo, BC, we rode a seaplane from Vancouver. My first time!
Maria was teaching a class on Denman Island. I made two pieces:
In Nanaimo, BC, we spent a couple of days with Barb Mortell and Kathy Coulter:
And, would you believe it, there is a great big tuning fork in Nanaimo! I felt right at home:
I went to International Quilt Festival in November. I attended the final Dinner@8 dinner:
I had two quilts in the show. My Dinner@8 piece, "Water Music:"
And "Rutile" in the SAQA Metamorphosis exhibit. I led several gallery talks for SAQA on the Metamorphosis exhibit:
I attended several really great local art exhibits. Fort Worth has three wonderful art museums:
I won two ribbons at the AQS Fall Paducah show. Wild Thing won second place:
I had (have actually -- it is open until mid-January) four quilts in "Stitched Construct" at the Sabine Street Studios in Houston, TX:
Heat Wave is still on view at the "Quilts=Art=Quilts" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York, until January 6:
Brian and I met friends in Paso Robles County, California, for Thanksgiving. We stayed in a house surrounded by vineyards, and of course did a little bit of wine tasting:
All in all, a wonderful year! I can't wait to see what 2019 will bring!
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