Edges Slide Show

More views of Edges in Houston

Kathy York posing by her piece

Int'l Quilt Festival in Houston

Quilt Market book

This is the Quilt Market book - cover - that most of us don't get to see, because we attend Festival

And these pages talk about some of the special exhibits, including "Edges." Desiree Habicht's art quilt "Glass Beach" is featured. Desiree attended Market and brought the catalog to show me.

Quilting Arts magazine

Quilting Arts magazine, Oct/Nov 2009 issue, pages 54-59 feature an short article about EDGES and full-page pictures of some of the quilts in the exhibit. Artists whose work is featured are: Jeannie Palmer Moore (Escondido, CA), Frances Holliday Alford (Austin, TX), Leslie Tucker Jenison (San Antonio, TX), Joanell Connolly (Huntington Beach, CA), Jane LaFazio (San Diego, CA) and Karen Rips (Thousand Oaks, CA).

Quilts, Inc. Vid Cast of Edges

Rhianna White, media assistant for Quilts, Inc., did a vidcast of Edges at Festival in Long Beach. Click on this link below, and then click on "vid casts" from the left menu http://www.quilts.com/lbqf09/enVivo/ and then click on "Edges." Rhianna did a fabulous job! If you go back to the left menu and click on "special exhibits" you can view some of the amazing quilts from this exhibit, including the one above by Cindy Cooksey of Irvine, CA "Fifteen Selvages."

Edges, a Juried Invitational Exhibit

Edges, a 21-piece collection of art quilts that measure 36x48 vertical format. Each artist interpreted the theme Edges in their own unique style. The exhibit debuted at the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach, CA in July of 2009. Sponsored by Interweave Press/Quilting Arts

From left to right - Artists are Karen Rips, Frances Holliday Alford, Pamela Price Klebaum, Jane LaFazio, Desiree Habicht, Julie Schlueter and Kathy York

From left to right, the artists are: Gwen Mayer, Stacy Hurt, Betty Amador, Terry Waldron, Loris Bogue, Jeannie Moore, and Carolyn Ryan

From left to right, the artists are: Muna Elias, Cindy Cooksey, Joanell Connolly, Carol Henke and Jamie Fingal

Set-Up Day at Festival

Set-Up Day on the show floor with our committee - Pamela Price Klebaum, Gwen Mayer, Terry Waldron, Leslie and myself. I'm on the ladder and Leslie is probably telling me if it's straight.

Festival Show Catalog - Long Beach 2009

Kathy York's "A Few of My Favorite Things" art quilt featured from "Edges"
The exhibit floor - our exhibit in the front - the first art quilts that people saw when they came into this section.

Edges Accordion Book

Edges accordion book - made for Quilts, Inc - so they could visualize how all of the pieces look together.

Festival Class Catalog - Summer 2009

Edges Artists

Frances Holliday Alford
Betty Amador
Loris Bogue
Paula Chung
Joanell Connolly
Cindy Cooksey
Muna Elias
Jamie Fingal, co-curator
Desiree Habicht
Carol Henke
Stacy Hurt
Leslie Tucker Jenison, co-curator
Pamela Price Klebaum
Jane LaFazio
Gwen Mayer
Jeannie Palmer Moore
Karen Rips
Carolyn Ryan
Julie Schlueter
Terry Waldron
Kathy York

Edges, an Juried Invitational exhibit

Pacific Coast Fiber Artists & Friends present "Edges"

Co-Sponsored by the Artists and Interweave/Quilting Arts

Edges - the sharp cutting part of a blade; sharpness, keenness; the projecting ledge of a cliff, brink; the part furthest from the middle; border; margin - from nature, architecture, household objects, a silhouette, tools and/or the edge of anything that is interesting by using colors, contrasts, and textures. This exhibit will make it's debut at Long Beach Festival.

34 Artists were invited to jury into this exhibit
09 Declined
25 Juried
06 Not Accepted
19 Accepted

Leslie Jenison and Jamie Fingal each have a piece in the collection as co-curators