More Long Beach festival

"InVitro: Microscopy" is working in the MistyFuse booth!

(purple quilt on the left wall)

This is the typical scene in front of Peggy Calvert's quilt:

"How DID she do that??"

Jamie looks through the Beneath the Surface exhibition catalog

The view of the vendor-area "main street" which is on one end of our exhibit

We are one of the first exhibits that attendees encounter when they walk into the

quilt area.

Our books, catalog, and cards in the exhibit

Scenes from the Long Beach Quilt Festival

The signage for Beneath the Surface

When you look at the brilliant layout of most of the quilt exhibitions

you are looking at the artistry of Trix.

Trix is a member of the funky red glasses club.

Obviously we had to have a photo!

Our nice beach-view from the mirror of our hotel room

I'm finding it difficult to squeeze in any blog-time while at festival! Here are a few random photos from the past several days. By no means is this selection all-encompassing, but it is a start. I won't be posting concise photos of the Beneath the Surface exhibition until after the Houston festival out of respect for Quilts, Inc., since our exhibition is not allowing photography in the exhibition. We decided to do this for several reasons, but the main one is the fact that we are selling exhibition catalogs. To their credit, the "white glove" people have been very diligent about kindly requesting that people refrain from photography.

Fooling around with the "creeper"

Here are BTS cards, a book, and our notebook with all the artist statements enclosed

Do you think anyone would notice if I took a nap under the table?

What can I tell you? I'm a little kid with scooter toys like this. I just couldn't resist taking the creeper out for a spin:

A few behind-the-scenes images

Something unusual seems to be happening with the blog posts, so I apologize in advance for the awkward layout of the photos. Here are a few more behind-the-scene images of prepping for the show.

Great news: Our exhibition was video-casted this morning by Bonnie McCaffrey and will be posted to the Quilts, Inc. website in the future. Jamie and I were interviewed about the exhibition and we are really happy to be able to represent all of the BTS artists. We hope we did you proud!

Jamie & Leslie post in front of our quilts

Leslie prepares the sign boards (removing old pieces of velcro and replacing them with shiny new pieces). I love the spotted effect.

Jamie glances through our beautiful exhibition catalog while sitting at our table on the show floor. People are really excited about the exhibition, as well as the book!

Q2 Program Book for Festival in Long Beach 2010

Q2 Program book for the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach

BTS Artist, Muna Elias "Core of Venus" on the left

BTS Artist, Sarah Ann Smith "Joshua" in the lower photograph

Festival - Hanging the exhibit

BTS is Number 9

Laptop, Program Book, Name Tag and BTS book

2 quilt burritos making their way on our "creeper" through the convention center

Using Loris' iPhone with the Level ap - the quilts get hung

The installation crew has lunch!

Left to right: Pamela Klebaum, Jamie, Jayne Larson, Leslie, Sherry Kleiman, and Loris Bogue

We may look a bit grungy, and some of are more than others, but the convention center is not air-conditioned during the show set-up. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it! The volunteers were amazing. Missing from the photo is Joanell Connolly, who had to leave before lunch. Thank you all so much. The hanging went smoothly. Everyone worked together like a well-oiled machine.