Uncommon Threads WOW

September 27, 2005

Here’s a new quilt that Cathy Jeffery showed at our Uncommon Threads meeting last week. I love this quilt! I always love the scrappy ones.

In October, it will be Uncommon Threads 2nd anniversary. We just finished our WOW exhibition at the Driskill Gallery based on a triptych challenge that the group started last year. Of course I was a slacker all summer and had no triptych to enter. I may have also forgotten to mention that Uncommon Threads has a new web site here.

Speaking of Uncommon Threads (our local art quilt group), Susie emailed me to say that she’s started a local group. “We’ve been getting together for about a year and can’t seem to get things rolling. We seem to be lacking any focus or direction. I was wondering if anyone in your group would have any advice to help us.”

I asked the group and got a couple of good responses. The best advice came from Kathy Kansier. She said to focus on exhibiting work or developing opportunities to exhibit “even if it is a local library exhibit, it is a start and will get them excited and hopefully bring in more members.”

Thinking about it, this is exactly what we’ve done over the last two years. We started with a small exhibit at our local Border’s coffee shop. Then approached a gallery. Then the local arts council. Now our art museum is wanting us to put on a headline show, our first gallery wants another show, and our regional arts council wants to write a grant so we can put on an even bigger show. Along the way, people have been hearing about us and joining up.

Actually thinking about it all has me stressed out! It’s like a humongous snowball rolling down a hill, gaining momentum and collecting victims along the way!

But to be honest and less melodramatic, working and preparing for exhibitions has given us focus and camaraderie, and I’ve been surprised at how much each of has developed artistically over the past couple of years.

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