Flora & Fauna Artist Panel Discussion

DATE/TIME: Saturday, September 28th | 10-12 noon
LOCATION: Windsor Art Center 40 Mechanic St. Windsor, CT 06095
PRICE: FREE

Listen to five members from SAQA-CT share their insight in how they developed and made their piece for Flora & Fauna: Local Color 6. There will be an opportunity to ask questions. Featuring artists: Christina Blais, Jill Blanchette, Liz Davis, Karen Kebinger, and Carol Vincik.

More about the show:

Flora & Fauna, a new exhibit of art quilts, comes to Windsor Art Center.  The show can be viewed at The Windsor Art Center September 21 – November 2, 2024; there will be a reception to meet the artists on Saturday, September 21 from 2 until 5pm.

The exhibit consists of thirty-two pieces of fiber art created by twenty-six members of the Connecticut Region of the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). The pieces on display range from realistic to abstract and depict real and imagined plants and animals. Some use plants to create the images; others are created by piecing fabrics together as a form of collage or through more traditional methods, and some use dyes, paints, and/or stitching to create or enhance the image.

Each work was selected, or juried into the exhibit, by Owen Sea Luckey, a Branford artist and entrepreneur with a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. The artists range from internationally known fiber artists to first-time exhibitors and include works from Aurelle Locke of West Granby, CT; Carol J. Vinick of West Hartford, CT; and Karen Kebinger of New Britain, CT.

SAQA is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote art quilts – “creative visual works that are layered and stitched or that reference this form of stitched layered structure”.   SAQA has over 4000 members – artists, curators, collectors and art professionals – from all over the world; 127 of them consider Connecticut one of their artistic homes.  To learn more about SAQA go to saqa.com.

A catalog of the Flora & Fauna exhibit can be purchased on Amazon. (Information coming soon!)