Saturday, September 18th, 2021
Lecture: Maria Shell Lecture - Traditional, Art, Modern—Notes from the Field
Be sure to mark your calendar to attend if you are taking the November Workshop - Maria Shell - On the GRID—Structure as Visual Aesthetic.
Time: 7pm EST (approx. 50 minutes + Q&A, with regular Guild meeting to follow)
***note different time because Maria lives in Alaska. Our General Meeting will immediately follow the lecture***
Cost: The lecture is free to members. Zoom link will be sent via email or can be found in Facebook Members Only Group Events
Guests can join us for $10 - pay HERE.
Lecture Description: Maria Shell started out as a traditional quilter, but soon found herself making abstract pieced art quilts that look surprisingly modern. Maria will share her personal journey along with some fun historical facts about all three quilt genres. What does it mean to be a 21ST Century Quilter? Come to the lecture to find out.
Bio: Maria Shell’s work is grounded in the tradition and craft of American quilt making. She strives to take the classical components of a traditional bedquilt and manipulate them with the hope of creating surprising combinations of pattern, repetition, and color for the viewer.
Maria is the recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation 2011 Winter Award, a Rasmuson Foundation Project Award and two Rasmuson Fellowships (2009, 2013, 2017). She has had several solo and small group shows including fiber at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts in Hamilton, Ohio, Right Lines & Circles at the Ormond Beach Memorial Art Museum and Gardens in Ormond Beach, Florida, Line + Shape at the Hello Stitch Studio in Berkeley, California, and The Pieced Canvas at the Visions Art Museum in San Diego, California. Her most recent solo exhibition is Off the Grid which will be on view at the Shelburne Art Museum in Shelburne, Vermont from May—October 2022. Her first book Improv Patchwork—Dynamic Quilts Made with Line & Shape was published in 2017. You can see more of Maria’s work on her website http://mariashell.com or learn more about her process by visiting her blog http://talesofastitcher.com.