Regular Repeating Programs
Friends of Fiber Art International programs are designed to inform and inspire potential collectors by including privileged visits to art collectors’ homes. These are usually concurrent with important contemporary fiber art shows and events, such as:
EXPOSITIONS that serve collectors like SOFA Chicago held annually in November. Artist Friends speak at two SOFA programs on Friday morning. A special event is often scheduled at a Chicago gallery or museum on Saturday morning. Our annual Sunday bus tour takes members to a private collection, any fiber shows in town, a possible architecture visit, lunch and airport drop off.
EXHIBITIONS such as Quilt National (next 2009) and the International Triennial of Tapestry (next 2010) in Poland which surveys the state of fiber art around the world.
CONFERENCES presented by artist organizations like ATA, HGA, NBO, SAQA, SDA, SPIN and one which serves curators and scholars, the Textile Society of America.
Scheduled for 2009
MAY 24, 2009, Quilt National, Athens Ohio. Network with quilt artists and collectors at Sunday brunch with Friends. This has always been a delightful way to close this important and special weekend rich in visual experience.
JUNE 2009, SOFA announced a new annual exposition in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Friends initial plans are to begin at an Airport hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Tuesday morning the 9th and end on Thursday, June 11th in Santa Fe when the new SOFA West exposition
begins and runs through Sunday the 14th. Artist-Friends attending will have the opportunity to present a slide or PowerPoint show of their work.
NOVEMBER 5 to 8, 2009 Sign on for our traditional programs concurrent with SOFA
Chicago. Begin on Thursday afternoon in the fiber department of the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, hear lectures by our artist members on Friday morning followed by a netweorking lunch on the Pier, and end on Sunday with a bus tour that includes a visit to a private collection and offers optional drop off at Chicago airports. Other visits will be scheduled in between these regular highlights.
End of NOVEMBER, 2009 Are you interested in travelling to Europe next winter? Depending upon the strength of the dollar abroad, Friends is exploring the possibility of visiting fiber shows such as: the Triennial of Mini-Textiles in Angers, France; the Biennial in Lyon, France; the European Quilt show in Heidelberg, Germany; and/or a solo show for a Japanese fashion designer at the recently expanded Textile Museum in Tilburg, Holland. Send an e-mail expressing your interest to camille@friendsoffiberart.org.
Planned for 2010
MAY 2010 Our triennial tour to Poland for the well-established and significant survey of the global state of fiber art.
OCTOBER 2010 Take advantage of the events organized for the Textile Society of America in Lincoln, Nebraska where a new Quilt Study center with a Gallery has been opened.
NOVEMBER 2010 Repeat, with variations, our traditional programs at SOFA Chicago.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
More details will be posted as the programs are built and opportunities present themselves.
