Update on Up-coming!

More info is available now about the workshop posted earlier today.

Title: "Stitch Combo Extreme"
Facilitators: Karin Millson and arlee barr
Dates: March 20 - 22
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. each day
Location: Canoe Club of Calgary, 7305 Crowchild Trail S.W., Calgary, AB
Cost: $200.00 (non-refundable)
Details?  See below:

Still More to See (Part II)

Diane Duncan of Calgary is another of our members who currently has work in exhibits beyond the SAQA umbrella (and yes, she has a piece in both "Meet the Best of the West" and "The Burgess Shale Project").  She joins Ilse Anysas-Salkauskas and Wendy Klotz (and others?) in Surface Design Alberta's first show, "What's on the Surface?" -- closing April 29! -- at the Atlantis Framing and Arts Studio, 4515 Manhattn Road S.E., Calgary.  (I first posted about this exhibit as it was preparing to open - click HERE.)

Diane has shared these photos of her piece from that exhibit:

The Lure of the Open Road - Diane Duncan, 2014

The Lure of the Open Road - Detail

In addition, Diane has a piece in the up-coming Alberta Society of Artists Exhibit, "Self-Portraits: Within the Artist", which opens May 5 at the Northern Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton:

We are the Sum of Our Past - Diane Duncan, 2014

Information about this exhibit can be found at the above link, but Diane kindly sent along a copy of the poster:

For those of you in Southern Alberta, it's scheduled to travel to the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium for dates in June and July.  Wherever you are in Alberta this spring and early summer, you have an opportunity to take in this exhibit.

Looking at the work of other artists can be an inspiring and motivating experience.  If you have a piece in an up-coming show anywhere in Western Canada, please share the information with the rest of us -- and even if you don't, when at all possible add an exhibit to your plans for Artist's Dates and shop-hops.  You won't be disappointed!  Please contact Margaret at margblank AT xplornet DOT ca with your exhibit information so it can be posted here on the blog.  Thank you for your support!

Please Welcome...

An organization of colleagues...

Many of us belong to more than one "collective" -- more than one organization that reflects who we are and what we do.  One of these is Focus on Fibre Arts...which companioned with SAQA Western Canada and the Heritage Rug Hookers of Saskatoon -- under the auspices of the Royal Alberta Museum -- to assemble "Western Threads", which opened April 12.

Another is the Surface Design Association, which has a very active chapter in Alberta!  To whit: SDA (Alberta)'s very first exhibit...Do take some time to read about the opening HERE...and perhaps contact a friend/fellow-artist to congratulate him/her on a fine bit of work.  If you can, go to see the exhibit, which runs through April 29 at Atlantis Framing and Arts Studio. 4515 Manhatten Rd. S.E., Calgary.