“Beloved Blue Ridge” (19” x 9”)
Copyright Susan Brubaker Knapp 2024
Copyright Susan Brubaker Knapp 2024
WANT TO WIN THIS PIECE?
Please help me raise money for Asheville and western North Carolina affected by Hurricane Helene. Rob and I love this area, and our elder daughter lives and works there. The organization I trust most right now to provide for immediate needs and longer-term issues like affordable housing, poverty and food insecurity is BeLoved Asheville. You may have already seen them featured on national news sources. If not, check out their Instagram and Facebook pages to see them in action. It is inspiring.
The other organization I am supporting is the NC Arts Disaster Relief Fund. It is providing funding and assistance to artists and arts organizations affected by Hurricane Helene. Artists are a huge part of what makes this region so special. They help bring tourists (the area’s financial lifeblood), and enrich the culture and weird/wonderfulness of the area. Hundreds of artists lost their studios, as well as their work, materials and equipment, during this storm. Many were not well-off to start with, and need help getting back on their feet.
Here's what to do:
1. Go to BeLoved Asheville’s website: https://www.belovedasheville.com/
and click on the yellow DONATE button.
OR
Go to NC Arts Disaster Relief Fund’s website: https://www.ncartsfoundation.org/donate-nc-disaster-relief
and choose a way to donate. Enter the word “RELIEF” in the description for your gift.
2. Donate any amount that is $10 or more.
3. When you get an e-mail receipt for your donation, forward that e-mail to me at susanbrubakerknapp7@gmail.com
4. For every $10 you donate, I’ll put one ticket in the hat for you. (Donate $100 and get 10 tickets.)
5. At 5 p.m. Eastern time on Nov. 15, I’ll pull one name out of the hat, and send the winner “Beloved Blue Ridge.”
Please help me raise money for Asheville and western North Carolina affected by Hurricane Helene. Rob and I love this area, and our elder daughter lives and works there. The organization I trust most right now to provide for immediate needs and longer-term issues like affordable housing, poverty and food insecurity is BeLoved Asheville. You may have already seen them featured on national news sources. If not, check out their Instagram and Facebook pages to see them in action. It is inspiring.
The other organization I am supporting is the NC Arts Disaster Relief Fund. It is providing funding and assistance to artists and arts organizations affected by Hurricane Helene. Artists are a huge part of what makes this region so special. They help bring tourists (the area’s financial lifeblood), and enrich the culture and weird/wonderfulness of the area. Hundreds of artists lost their studios, as well as their work, materials and equipment, during this storm. Many were not well-off to start with, and need help getting back on their feet.
Here's what to do:
1. Go to BeLoved Asheville’s website: https://www.belovedasheville.com/
and click on the yellow DONATE button.
OR
Go to NC Arts Disaster Relief Fund’s website: https://www.ncartsfoundation.org/donate-nc-disaster-relief
and choose a way to donate. Enter the word “RELIEF” in the description for your gift.
2. Donate any amount that is $10 or more.
3. When you get an e-mail receipt for your donation, forward that e-mail to me at susanbrubakerknapp7@gmail.com
4. For every $10 you donate, I’ll put one ticket in the hat for you. (Donate $100 and get 10 tickets.)
5. At 5 p.m. Eastern time on Nov. 15, I’ll pull one name out of the hat, and send the winner “Beloved Blue Ridge.”
“WHAT REMAINS” JURIED INTO QUILT NATIONAL ‘25
My work, “What Remains,” (2024) was juried into Quilt National ’25. It is a digitally-altered photo printed on fabric, then painted, inked, threadsketched, and free-motion machine quilted.
85 pieces were selected from 659 entries by LUKE Haynes, Ellen Blalock, and Martha Sielman. The opening weekend is May 23-25. The quilts will be exhibited at The Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio, through Sept. 1, 2025, and many will tour through October 2027.
From www.dairybarn.org: "Quilt National aims to demonstrate the transformations taking place in the world of quilting. Its purpose is to carry the definition of quilting far beyond its traditional parameters and to promote quiltmaking as what it always has been — an art form."
My work, “What Remains,” (2024) was juried into Quilt National ’25. It is a digitally-altered photo printed on fabric, then painted, inked, threadsketched, and free-motion machine quilted.
85 pieces were selected from 659 entries by LUKE Haynes, Ellen Blalock, and Martha Sielman. The opening weekend is May 23-25. The quilts will be exhibited at The Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio, through Sept. 1, 2025, and many will tour through October 2027.
From www.dairybarn.org: "Quilt National aims to demonstrate the transformations taking place in the world of quilting. Its purpose is to carry the definition of quilting far beyond its traditional parameters and to promote quiltmaking as what it always has been — an art form."
DETAILS: dairybarn.org/quiltnational/
SEE MY HOME STUDIO THIS NOVEMBER
The Orange County Artists Guild's Studio Tour is coming up this fall. My home studio will be open to the public during this tour of artists’ studios in Orange County, NC, including Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough.
Take a drive – I'm stop 55!
Saturday, Nov. 2 – 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 3 – noon to 5 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 9 – 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 10 – noon to 5 p.m.
You can download and print the brochure and map here: OCAGNC.org
The Orange County Artists Guild's Studio Tour is coming up this fall. My home studio will be open to the public during this tour of artists’ studios in Orange County, NC, including Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough.
Take a drive – I'm stop 55!
Saturday, Nov. 2 – 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 3 – noon to 5 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 9 – 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 10 – noon to 5 p.m.
You can download and print the brochure and map here: OCAGNC.org
“NOTHING GOLD” JURIED INTO SAQA JOURNAL GALLERY
“Nothing Gold,” a recent commissioned work, was one of 40 pieces juried into the first-ever SAQA Journal Gallery by jurors Nancy Bavor, Alice Beasley, and Linda Colsh. This exhibition in print will be included in the SAQA Journal 2024 Issue #4. DETAILS: https://www.saqa.com/about/news/congratulations-artists-selected-saqa-journal-gallery-exhibition-print
“Nothing Gold,” a recent commissioned work, was one of 40 pieces juried into the first-ever SAQA Journal Gallery by jurors Nancy Bavor, Alice Beasley, and Linda Colsh. This exhibition in print will be included in the SAQA Journal 2024 Issue #4. DETAILS: https://www.saqa.com/about/news/congratulations-artists-selected-saqa-journal-gallery-exhibition-print
“MARBLED SALAMANDERS” JURIED INTO SAQA "CAMOUFLAGE"
“Marbled Salamanders” will be exhibited in Studio Art Quilt Associates' Global Exhibition "Camouflage.” The juror was Lorraine Roy. The exhibition will premiere at the 2024 International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX, this fall, and will travel to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ, July 19th - Sept. 28, 2025. Additional venues may be added to the schedule (the exhibition will travel through December 2027). DETAILS: https://www.saqa.com/art/exhibitions/camouflage-saqa-global-exhibition
YOU HELPED ME RAISE $7K FOR WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! My friends and followers have contributed nearly $7,800 so far to World Central Kitchen. I offered a free pattern for this sunflower pin, and asked folks to contribute what they could to this organization, which is feeding refugees from Ukraine and those who remain in Ukraine. WCK has an excellent charity rating, and helps hungry people in crisis due to war and environmental disasters around the globe. You can still download the pattern here: https://susanbrubakerknapp.com/tutorials
… and donate here:
… and donate here:
QUILTING ARTS TV – SERIES 3000 is here!
We shot Series 3000 of – “Quilting Arts TV” in July. It features guests David M. Taylor, Kestrel Michaud, Diana S. Fox, Jenny K. Lyon, Eleanor Levie, Satomi Hoar, Lisa Thorpe, Heidi Zielinski, Barbara Yates Beasley, Valerie C. White, Margaret Abramshe, and Teresa Duryea Wong. QATV is shown on more than 400 PBS stations across the U.S., and showcases the work of expert art quilters who explain and teach innovative surface design, construction, embellishment, and hand and machine stitching techniques. Novice and professional art quilters alike can learn something new from the wide variety of topics explored on the show. To see the show on your television: Visit your local Public Television station’s website to see if the show is available in your area. To purchase downloads to individual series, or to get access to all seasons: Video Downloads or Stream All Episodes on QuiltingDaily.com. You can see lots of photos of guests on my QATV webpage.