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Thursday, March 28, 2019 from 6 - 9 pm with art preview hours from 1 - 6 pm the same day. The Upstairs Gallery at the Koger Center for the Arts, 1051 Greene Street, Columbia, SC

SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) traveling, juried exhibition to be seen at the National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY from June 25 - Sept. 19, 2017; the New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA from July 11, 2018 - Sept. 23, 2018; the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ from Dec. 1, 2018 - Feb. 10, 2019; the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA from April 19, 2019 - July 14, 2019 and Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minnesota from September 2019 – January 2020. Loaded Conversations, a SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) international juried exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA, April 20 - July 15, 2018 and at the The New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts, January 9, 2019 - April 6, 2019. The Book Reconsidered, an invitational traveling book arts exhibition, March - October 2019 to the Mark Twain Library in Redding, CT; the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, CT; Ridgefield Library, CT; Putnam Arts Council in Mahopac, NY; Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT; Mahopac Pubic Library, NY; Five Points Gallery in Torrington, CT; and the University of Hartford Art School, CT. Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Suffrage, an invitational traveling exhibition curated by Dr. Sandra Sider opening at National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY, April 3 - 9, 2020 and traveling to the New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, July 1 - Sept. 27, 2020; The Houston International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, October 24 - Nov. 1, 2020; The Texas Quilt Museum, La Grange, TX, Jan. 7 - Mar. 28, 2021; Vision Art Museum, San Diego, CA 2021; The Virginia Quilt Museum, Harrisonburg, VA July 10 - Sept. 21, 2021; The Quilters Hall of Fame, Marion, IN, 2021; The Iowa Quilt Museum, Winterset, IA, 2022; The Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, WA, 2022.

Every morning after I get up, make coffee, check email messages, and write my "Morning Pages" (a eleven+ year habit developed by following Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way ), I have one thing on my "To Do" list: MAKE ART.This two month residency with Osage Arts Community has provided time to explore. I also thought that once I had given away an idea, I couldn't act on it myself. I am still in contact with the lovely lady from Arrowmont, the one who owned a collection of these vintage cross stitches, the one to whom I gave away my idea! This is going to be so much fun.(Above: The gift from a friend ... given at the perfect time ... during a gift of time.)Moral of the story: What you give away might come back in ways even better than what was released!

I've always seen "potential" in them, the potential of being transformed into art, the potential for collage, the potential for renewal. This art residency has provided the time to sort through and make decisions about these things.(Above: Four boxes filled with empty cigar boxes.)Not only did I bring the paper goods, I brought four boxes of empty cigar boxes. I bought them for less than $40 at Bill Mishoe's auction ... because they had POTENTIAL for collage ... because along with vintage paper, I adore boxes. It's been more difficult than I imagined ... trying to figure out how to best approach to the number of sides on these assorted cigar boxes.