{"id":3608,"date":"2010-04-20T00:24:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T04:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2010-04-20T00:27:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T04:27:41","slug":"wayne-art-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=3608","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Art Center …"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, the 17th, SAQA<\/a> (Studio Art Quilt Association) spoonsored a symposium called “Building An Artist’s Community” at the Wayne Art Center<\/a>, in Wayne, Pennsylvaina (outside of Philadelphia).\u00a0 The symposium was held prior to the opening of ArtQuilt Elements 2010, although attendees had the opportunity to see the quilts prior to the public opening.<\/p>\n

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The Wayne Art Center<\/p><\/div>\n

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Once in the center, we were greeted by Carolyn Lee Vehslage, an artist, the Editor of the SAQA quarterly magazine,\u00a0 and an active member of the Art Center.<\/p>\n

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Prior to the symposium starting, we were able to view the works selected for the show.<\/p>\n

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Entry into the first room of the ArtQuilt Elements 2010 show<\/p><\/div>\n

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My friend, Colleen Bell, who made the trek with me from central NJ.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A hallway in the Art Center which was showing off a fascinating collection of images created with shells.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The symposium sessions started at 9 a.m.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sue Benner was the first speaker.\u00a0 She talked about her journey as a quilt artist, including the intertwining of her family and the various artists who came into her life at various times of her life.\u00a0 I would have also loved to have seen some of her work, which I’ve always admired, up close and in the flesh.<\/p>\n

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Next up was a discussion of the jury process by the jurors of this year’s show — Robin Schwab, Deborah Warner, and Jason Pollen.\u00a0 I wasn’t juried into the show, so I was interested in hearing what they were looking for and why.\u00a0 Coming into the lecture, my thinking was they were looking for an emotional response to a visually expressive piece with that piece also having to work together with the others to form a cohesive whole.<\/p>\n

It was a lively discussion with a lot of audience participation, and it all centered on slides of rejected work.\u00a0 While I liked the interaction, I often didn’t get why there was so much emphasis on the composition of the detail shot.\u00a0 I’ve always thought a detail shot is to zero in on the technique of a piece,\u00a0 to call attention to that which might might get lost when looking at the image of the whole work.\u00a0 It seemed a strange thing to emphasize as one can take a good crop from most pieces of art and make an interesting piece of it in its own right.\u00a0 It almost seemed as though they were rejecting works whose detail looked more interesting than the whole.\u00a0 And, as an audience participant said, “It was like comparing apples to oranges” and “what about scale.”\u00a0 That all being said, they are the jurors and what they are drawn to is what they are drawn to.\u00a0 It’s very subjective stuff.<\/p>\n

For me it would have been more enlightening if there was a rejected piece discussed and then an accepted piece discussed, giving their take on why one detail complemented the piece while the other didn’t, what they believe worked in one that didn’t in the other, and so on.\u00a0 That would have given me more insight in to their process (yes, I can be a thickhead).<\/p>\n

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Benedicte Caneill, who won the SAQA Cream Award for outstanding new artist!!, and moi<\/p><\/div>\n

It was good seeing a lot of people that I haven’t seen in some time and meeting people that I’ve only spoken to on line.\u00a0 I finally met Wen Redmond and Natalya Aikens, both of whom are lovely, talented, and have work in the show.<\/p>\n

Colleen and I both were unable to stay for the remaining afternoon events and the public opening of the show, but we had a great time.\u00a0 There is a lot of fantastic work in the show, and if you’re unable to make it you can purchase a catalog of the quilts directly from the ArtQuilt Elements website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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