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June 25th 5:30 TO 8 PM

SOLD! Art Gallery in a Box IV auction raised $10,000

Art Gallery in a Box IV was auctioned during the Art & Excellence Conference at the Quilt National Banquet in Athens, Ohio, raising $10,000. Proceeds from this auction will go to support SAQA’s exhibitions, catalogs, and outreach programs.

This beautiful handcrafted table was made by Todd Ouwehand from walnut, tamo, zebrawood, and lacewood. It measures 23 inches high and 31 inches on each side. The triangular table has 12 drawers, three on each side, and each drawer holds a gorgeous art quilt. Photos of the table and the artworks are displayed under News & Events here:

http://www.saqa.com/newsebulletins/artbox.aspx

Artists whose work is included:

Bob Adams
Margaret Cusack
Chiaki Dosho
Caryl Bryer Fallert
Patsy Hawkins
Inge Mardal & Steen Hougs
Ann Johnston
Pat Kroth
Velda Newman
Kim Ritter
Pam RuBert
Carol Taylor

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There is a free app for Iphone and touch ipod that turns your ipod or phone into a kindle. It is wonderful. Buy your reading stuff on line from amazon and sync it to the phone. Turning pages is a snap ( unlike on an actual kindle). Control the size of the fonts etc. All for FREE. I am someone who loses their phone all the time,  but I always know where my BOOK is, so this is helping to solve one of life’s little problems too. Also it is back lit and I read in bed for the first time in years when I first got it. So save your  money for the kindle, and get an ipod or phone that can do other cool stuff too. I have already read Pillars of the Earth and three other 1000 page books, and it reads as  easy as pie!. And it remembers where I left off!

My friend Marilyn Brooks always sends me crazy things in the emails like this extreme grooming thing

http://www.amyoops.com/2009/04/extreme-grooming-poodle-alert.html 

Gwynne Rukenbrod at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft passed on a very interesting article to me written by Bruce Metcalf in 1980 called “Crafts:Second Class Citizens?” In it he explores five reasons crafts are looked down on my the art world

1. A Lack of critical writing in the crafts

2. Crafts are pre-occupied with function 

3. Use of ornamentation

4. 5 year lag of ideas behind the fine art world

5. Lack of an intellectual approach to crafts

Before you start hating read on and you will f ind that Metcalf actually sees the craft movement as a giant “anti-high-art-taste movement” He likens craftsmen to Romanticism and critics and fine art to Classicism, two opposing philosophies. Very interesting and some of what  he says is spot on.

An interesting read and  now I am going to read some of his other later articles

You can find this article at www.brucemetcalf.com 

A story about the property we bought in the heights

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/main/6155824.htmlhttp://swamplot.com/who-is-buying-the-museum-of-the-weird/2008-12-01

My Ride did a blurb on my car and I am at the very beginning of the video. What fun!