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2013 Artistic Artifacts Events

Join Artistic Artifacts (and/or its sister company Batik Tambal) as they appear at the following events in 2013:



Art and Soul 2013 logo
The 2013 Art & Soul theme logo, designed by mixed media artist Michelle Renée Bernard.

Art & Soul Retreats

If you love to take mixed-media art classes, but aren’t convenient to Artistic Artifacts, consider attending the Art & Soul retreats (listed above) — Artistic Artifacts is the on-site “store” for these creative events! Art & Soul, A Creative Journey retreats are designed to stimulate your creative energy and give you an opportunity to explore new and exciting artistic ideas.

2013 Dates & Venues:

For more information on this wonderful art retreat and to register, visit their website and select your desired venue.

The theme for Art & Soul 2013 is Art & Soul On Safari — and Art & Soul founder Glenny Moir says, “Put on your thinking caps (or your safari hats) and let’s get wild! I know you’ll all come up with some amazing ideas for trades, book swaps, decorating your thingamajigs, patterned clothing to adorn yourselves with and more. We’ll have some fun, themed events at our retreats next year and look forward to seeing where you take this On Safari theme!”


Art Quilt Challenge Exhibitions

Arts & Old Lace Challenge

Fiber and Mixed Media events and exhibits are often featured at Artistic Artifacts. Recently the 2012 challenge, Arts & Old Lace graced nearly every inch of wall space! The challenge packet, packed with lace fabric, trim, vintage buttons along with sample fabric swatches of suiting and shirting, asked the following: “What do you think of when you hear ‘Arts & Old Lace’? A classic movie? Your favorite fabric or trim? Recreating classic art with an unexpected textile? Or creating modern art with a vintage feel? Does lace conjure images of weddings, baptisms, lingerie, table linens? Whatever your vision, we invite you to create your own Arts & Old Lace quilt to express your point of view.”


Viewing the Arts & Old Lace art quilt exhibit at Artistic Artifacts

Eighty artists responded with 87 quilts f(from 10 states, from the UK, and from Canada). Wonderful displays of family memories, vintage portraits, plays on words, traditional techniques, modern and abstract works made up the challenge quilts. The 18" x 18" quilts that make up the Arts & Old Lace challenge debuted on July 21, 2012 with a packed Artists’ Reception and were on display through early October. They will next appear at the Lancaster Spring Quilt Show in Lancaster, PA March 13-16, 2013.

Eighty artists responded with 87 quilts f(from 10 states, from the UK, and from Canada). Wonderful displays of family memories, vintage portraits, plays on words, traditional techniques, modern and abstract works made up the challenge quilts. The 18" x 18" quilts that make up the Arts & Old Lace challenge debuted on July 21, 2012 with a packed Artists’ Reception and were on display through early October. They will next appear at the Lancaster Spring Quilt Show in Lancaster, PA March 13-16, 2013. Learn more at www.artsandoldlace.com.

An Arts & Old Lace Quilts CD that includes the beautiful quilt images and accompanying artist statements is available to purchase. The CD includes two formats: a PowerPoint presentation that requires PowerPoint on your machine to view and a PDF that requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download; preloaded on most computers) to view.

Power Suits Challenge

When a local tailor contacted Cyndi Souder (www.MoonlightingQuilts.com) to offer her his outdated fabric swatches, a quilt challenge was born. Living in the Washington, DC area, Power Suits was the obvious theme. Artistic Artifact’s Judy Gula and Cyndi worked together to develop a theme, package swatches, and offer them for free to interested quilters. Distributing challenge packets at quilt shows, lectures, and online through their blogs and websites, Cyndi and Judy invited quilters to express their take on Power Suits through their artwork. The resulting quilts address such diverse topics as politics, family, worklife, playing cards, and super heroes. Power Suit artists come from 21 states and from Canada. Learn more at www.powersuitquilts.com.

A Power Suits Quilts CD that includes the beautiful quilt images and accompanying artist statements is available to purchase. The CD includes two formats: a PowerPoint presentation that requires PowerPoint on your machine to view and a PDF that requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download; preloaded on most computers) to view.

The quilts were exhibited at Artistic Artifacts from October 22 to November 23, 2011 (learn more and view photos of the Opening Night Artist Reception). In 2012 the exhibit was displayed at the Lancaster Spring Quilt Show (Lancaster, PA), March 14-17, was included in the Upper MidWest Show/Machine Quilting Today event August 1-4 in Oconomowoc, Wisconson (near Milwaukee) and was displayed inOctober 2012) at School 33 Art Center in Baltimore, Maryland. The challenge quilts were most recently featured at the Road to California Quilters Conference and Showcase (Ontario, CA) January 24-27, 2013. Selections ofthe full collection will be exhibited as a “show within a show ” in Power Art, a March 1-31 exhibit at Del Ray Artisans Gallery in Alexandria, VA — learn more.


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