Ann Johnston quilt in TCQC 07-18-21

I am trying to get back to posting a quilt from the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection each Sunday evening.  I could show a different quilt for about six years since there are now 370+ pieces in the Collection.  The post below is from 09-13-15 and I still enjoy this quilt as much as I did the first time I saw it almost two decades ago.  The art quilt group I belong to is working on an exhibit titled "Balance", my piece won't look anything like this, but I can't help but think of this one as I develop  ideas.  I do so admire Ann's work and her fabulous hand dyed fabrics.  

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Sometimes I see a quilt that just won't leave me alone.  This is one of them.  I had looked at this quilt on Ann Johnston's website for a number of years, until I finally had to buy it in 2013.  There are several things that thrill me.  The color, of course, Ann is a master dyer.  The black and white applique, and the tension created by the balancing "chairs" create a quilt that I can look at again and again.  

"Balance #19"  Ann Johnston 2002  40" x 36" 

Hand dyed cotton fabric by the artist, machine appliqued and quilted. . 

 

I appreciate the various layers of quilting using different colors of thread. 

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Ann Johnston quilt from TCQC 09-13-15

Sometimes I see a quilt that just won't leave me alone.  This is one of them.  I had looked at this quilt on Ann Johnston's website for a number of years, until I finally had to buy it in 2013.  There are several things that thrill me.  The color, of course, Ann is a master dyer.  The black and white applique, and the tension created by the balancing "chairs" create a quilt that I can look at again and again. . 

 

"Balance #19"  Ann Johnston 2002  40" x 36" 

Hand dyed cotton fabric by the artist, machine appliqued and quilted. . 

 

I appreciate the various layers of quilting using different colors of thread. 

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Big day for TCQC 10-22-13

Sorry, I am too tired to finish this post tonight. Check tomorrow afternoon for all the text.

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10-23-13 Noon - I'm BAAAACK! And Corky is also - he'll be at Camp Del until Saturday. Text for pictures has been added. Del

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I was in San Diego again today, this time with my friend Liz Williams along. We delivered the quilts to VAM for the exhibit "New Acquisitions from the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection". These are quilts I have purchased since the previous exhibit at VAM in the summer of 2007. They were not necessarily made after 2007, but purchased after that date.

It is very exciting to see so many of the TCQC quilts on the wall at once - I can only hang about six at one time in my house, and not all in the same room. The exhibit is curated by Beth Smith, Director of Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts and Textiles. It has been interesting to see which quilts she selected out of the 100 or so that I submitted and to hear her reasons why. Some of the quilts are included because I especially wanted them to be seen.

 

 This will be the view from the gallery entrance - minus the tables holding the quilts that are yet to be hung. The hanging process will take about two days, so the installation committee will be back tomorrow to complete the job. On the far left is "Desert Sands" by Dena Dale Crain of Lake Baringo, Kenya, Africa. The small quilt in the center is "Quenching Rain" by Melody Johnson of Palmer, Tennessee. The large quilt to the right is "Not Even Solomon" by Ruth de Vos of Perth, Western Australia.

 

 

Up on the scaffold are Installation bosses Kay Laboda and Kris Herman, and helping line things up is volunteer Ann Pitzer. They are hanging "Structured Chaos #14" by Beth Carney of Yonkers, NY. To the left is "Strip Tease #1" by Mary Leakey of San Juan Bautista, CA.

Ann Pitzer, volunteer, and Debbie Tatz, intern from the museum studies program at Mesa College, hang the triptych "Cowville" by Lisa A. Yoder of San Diego, CA.

 

Museum director Beth Smith stands in the main section of the gallery.  The scaffold is needed to hang these large pieces and adjust them so they are level.  Quilts for the other two walls are on the table.  On the left is “Not Even Solomon”  by Ruth de Vos of Perth, Western Australia.  Behind Beth is “Balance #19” by Ann Johnston of Portland, OR, and to the right is “Cataclysm” by Judith Content of Palo Alto, CA. 

 

 

Here are all eight of the Ruth McDowell quilts that will be hung together in one "room" of the gallery. Laying face down to protect the front of the quilt and the labels are more easily found and read. The latest acquisition is a 2001 Ruth quilt that recently came up in an estate sale and I was the lucky buyer. I have never seen it hanging and I hoped they would hang it before I left today, but no luck there. It is a very wide quilt, as you can see from the hanging slat on the table - 100". I can hardly wait to see it on the wall.

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