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Meeting Information:
EBHQ meetings are held the last Monday of every month, excluding July and December.
Because of Memorial Day, the May meeting is held the next-to-last Monday.
Meetings begin at 7:30 p.m. and are held at the Unitarian Universalist Church of
Berkeley, 1 Lawson Road, Kensington, CA. These meetings feature outstanding speakers
from all over the quilting world. Guest admission is $5. Visit with us at these meetings
to get acquainted. There are always quilts to see, and tables of information
about regional quilting events. The EBHQ library is available for browsing, and
you can strike up a conversation with us!
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June 28, 2010
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Susan Else
Lecture: Off the Wall: Quilting in Three Dimensions
California artist Susan Else uses quilted fabric to create unusual sculpture. Ranging from wry comments on everyday life to wild imaginary scenes, her work adds a new dimension to the usual flat format of art quilts. Her engaging, vibrantly colored
work includes free-standing figures as well as three-dimensional dioramas. Built around armatures of foam, wire, and fiberfill, the work incorporates both hand-treated and commercial cloth as well as paint and embellishment.
In her lecture, Else discusses the relationship of her work to the art-quilt movement and to contemporary folk art, as well as to other three-dimensional textiles. She explores how sewn
cloth differs from traditional sculptural materials such as clay and metal, and she describes her own metamorphosis from quilt-maker to sculptor.
Although she never expected to become an artist herself, Else grew up in a family of artists who shaped her personal vision. After "fooling around" with fabric and fiber for twenty years, she started making quilted sculpture in 1999. In addition to a number of one-woman shows, she has participated in many traveling exhibitions, including Quilt National. Her work is in public and private collections throughout the U.S.
August 30, 2010
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Jan Krentz
Lecture: Design Inspiration from Everyday Life Lecture
View your world with an artist's eye, and learn practical tips for color, fabric selection and design.
Jan shares design inspiration images from ordinary sources – and quilts resulting from the inspiration
Jan Krentz is a nationally recognized quilt instructor, author and designer.
Winner of the 1998 Professional Quilters’ Teacher of the Year award, Jan's motivating workshops are packed with practical tips, techniques and methods to insure success.
She has is a renowned teacher, lecturer, fabric designer , product developer and author.
Her most recent publication Quick Diamond Quilts and Beyond, published by C&T was just released in February.
Author of Lone Star Quilts & Beyond, Hunter Star Quilts & Beyond, Diamond Quilts and Beyond, Quick Star Quilts & Beyond, and Quick Diamond Quilts.
Jan lives with her husband in Poway, California.
September 27, 2010
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Marilyn Belford
Lecture: Techniques of the Art Quilt
Award-winning quilter Marilyn Belford’s background is in music and fine art, and she is a composer and painter. She was taught to sew at a young age, and her love of fabric is an extension of her love of color, texture and shape. She discovered art quilts while browsing through a fabric store. “It was as if I were struck by lightning,” she says. “I loved sewing and I loved painting. The art quilt combined the two. That was all I needed, and off I went on this new avenue.”
Inspired by a Dierdre Scherer portrait quilt, Marilyn’s first portrait quilt, made in 1999, was of her elderly parents. The quilt was an immediate success, winning prizes locally, and in state and national shows. Drawn to the congeniality of the quilting community, Marilyn has gone onto a whole new, artistic career making award winning quilts, teaching around the country, and giving several successful on-line classes through Quilt University. She is the author of Portraits for Fabric Lovers: Mastering the Techniques of Realism.
Marilyn will share stories from her journey and explain the step-by-step process she uses for making realistic likenesses in fabric. Her lecture will include lots of images and end with a trunk show of selected quilts.
Find out why Marilyn says, "You do not need to think of yourself as an artist, or even know how to
to draw, to make a beautiful portrait in fabric."
October 25, 2010
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Thom Atkins
Lecture: Why I Put Beads on Quilts
You might say that Thom Atkins is a Renaissance man. His varied career has included a BA in Art from San Jose State, four years in the Navy during which he taught oil painting while stationed in Japan, manager of a craft gallery, his own landscape design business, stained glass designer working in both two and three dimensions, as well as a metal artist specializing in welding, forging, silver smithing, and bronze casting. In bronze casting, Thom found his voice through the theme of the "Men's Movement."
In 2002, after he was involved in a traffic accident, severely damaging his wrists and thumbs, Thom had to turn away from the rigor of sculpture and metal work, so he began to bead on fabric, where he combined his love of sculpture, landscape and three dimensional representation into a new style.
Thom says, "Finding the balance between beads and fabric, where each is integrated into the design and both are essential to the overall composition, has provided ample challenge for my active imagination."
He has come to a point where neither "Bead Embellished" nor "Quilt" seem accurate or applicable terms, yet he continues to use them for lack of more precise definitions of what he does.
A fifth generation Californian, Thom and his wife have resided in Santa Cruz for the past 30 years.
In his lecture, "Why I Put Beads on Quilts," Thom will delight us with a rollicking and humorous tale of his journey, accompanied by beautiful images of his creative artistry.
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