I was lucky enough to visit Quiltfest Oasis Palm Springs - the Mancuso show inits third year at the Palm Springs Convention Center last weekend. It's a show that features international winners from the Mancuso's other shows as well as a lot of traveling exhibits from smaller art quilt groups and quilt guilds. This year there was a competition featuring Modern Quilts in conjunction with a Modern Quilt Symposium.
It's a pleasant venue and it was an interesting show with a lot of variety. Three of my pieces were included... one each in Quilts On The Wall Fiber Artists exhibits "Maps" and "Shadows" and one in the Southern California Council of Quilt Guilds show "California Hues, Tints, Shades and Tones" featuring art quilts from members of southern California quilt guilds. Below I'm pictured with my quilt in the Shadows show "Shadowlands".
I would only wish that the Mancuso management would take more care with the condition of the traveling quilts. So many folds and creases marred the beauty of some amazing work. It seems they unpack everything and put them folded into huge heavy piles. Few quilts emerge unscathed.
Enough of the negative. Below are a few stunning pieces - my favorite from the exhibits....
"Mont St. Michel" by Linda Schmidt
It fairly shimmered!
A wonderful colorful quilt from Australia's Lisa Walton
An amazing pieced and appliquéd quilt made from men's silk ties by "Moonshadows" by
New Zealander Anne Joule. Stunning!
An amazingly graphic owl from the Modern Quilt Competition. I'm so sorry I missed
the name of the artist. Does anyone know?
From a wonderful group of quilts based on the color spectrum from a small art quilt group.
Loved these little quilts and the way they were displayed. Again, I neglected to take a photo
of the label. My apologies to the artists!
Many of these same exhibits will be shown at Pacific International Quilt Festival in Santa Clara the end of this week. Hope you can get there to enjoy them.
The following day my friend Roberta and I alone with our husbands visited the small satellite location of the Palm Springs Museum of Art in Palm Desert where we viewed a wonderful art jewelry exhibit. Below is my glamorous friend lounging in the exhibits.
Yes, we were !
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