“SPROING” SOLD AT QUILT NATIONAL ’23
“Sproing” was purchased by Marvin Fletcher/ Marbaum Quilt Collection at Quilt National ’23, on opening day! It is based on a line drawing I made of old-fashioned bed springs discarded on a curb in my neighborhood. This piece is 42.5” wide by 64.25 high, and is wholecloth painted and free-motion machine quilted. The exhibition is open to the public at The Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio, through Sept. 4, 2023, and then it will tour abroad and in the U.S. for two years. DETAILS: https://dairybarn.org/quiltnational
30x30: ART, NATURE, AND SCIENCE
“Marbled Salamanders” has been juried into the exhibition “30x30: Art, Nature, and Science” and will be shown at the Museum of Life + Science in Durham, NC, March 25 through July 16, 2023. Details: https://www.lifeandscience.org/
“FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH“ SOLO SHOW
From May 2 to June 25, my work will be exhibited at the Community Church of Chapel Hill – Unitarian Universalist. Gratitude is something I strive to actively practice each day. When walking in my neighborhood or on my travels, I take photos that often end up inspiring my art quilts. I look closely at the details; that’s where I find the most miracles. The name of this exhibition references one of my favorite hymns; it reminds us to be thankful for the astounding beauty and wonder that lies all around us. My artwork is my “hymn of grateful praise.” Artist's Reception May 21 from 2-4 p.m. Please call 919-229-9452 to arrange to view the exhibition during non-worship service hours.
Details: www.c3huu.org/art-in-the-sanctuary.html
Details: www.c3huu.org/art-in-the-sanctuary.html
FREE MOTION WEEKLY
Here’s a little gift from me and Quilting Arts. QuiltingDaily.com is offering one of my quilting motifs every week this year! You can watch me free-motion stitch them throughout 2023, and get a free PDF all of them. Details here: https://www.quiltingdaily.com/free-motion-weekly-52-quilting-fillers-and-motifs-with-susan-brubaker-knapp/
YOU HELPED ME RAISE ALMOST $7K FOR WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! My friends and followers contributed nearly seven thousand dollars to World Central Kitchen in 2022. 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:
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BANNED BOOKS TRADING CARDS
My work was chosen as one of seven 2022 Chapel Hill Public Library "Banned Books Trading Cards." The cards highlight the ongoing struggle for intellectual freedom and warn about the dangers of censorship.
If you've never read Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," please put it on your list. It is my favorite book.
QUILTING ARTS TV – NEW EPISODES ARE HERE!
After a few years of disruption because of COVID, in July 2022, we shot Series 2900 of "Quilting Arts TV” at Golden Peak Media Studios in Golden, Colorado. We have a fresh new set, equipment and production crew. This new series is available now, and features guests Lea McComas, Denise Labadie, Helen Parsons, Valerie Goodwin, Carolina Asmussen, Luana Rubin, Margaret Abramshe, Heidi Zielinski, Valerie White, and Barbara Yates Beasley. 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 previous guests on my QATV webpage!
CAROLINA ALUMNI REVIEW
A feature about me is included in the May/June 2022 issue of Carolina Alumni Review, the magazine of the General Alumni Association at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (I earned my master's degree in journalism there in 1994.) It includes information about me, and many photos of my work.
QUILTFOLK MAGAZINE
Quiltfolk magazine's issue #23 is about North Carolina quilters, and I'm so excited that I'm in it! Quiltfolk is a beautifully produced ad-free 180-page magazine that's really more like a series of books. Four are created each year.
You can read more about this issue, and subscribe, here: https://www.quiltfolk.com/issue-23-north-carolina/
BLUE WATER FILM FESTIVAL
I'm pleased to have been chosen as the 2022 Featured Artist for the 2022 Blue Water Film Festival. They used my piece, "Net of Wonder," on their poster. The festival “encourages attendees to think broadly about how climate change affects planet Earth and think deeply about the universal concerns and actions needed to bring us into balance.”
For more information about Blue Water Film Festival, visit www.bluewaterfilmfestival.org
SACRED THREADS
“Pink Coleus” was exhibited at Sacred Threads in July 2022, and will travel with the exhibition through mid 2024. Since 2001, Sacred Threads exhibitions have focused on quilts dealing with powerful expressions of Joy, Spirituality, Inspiration, Grief, Healing and Peace/Brotherhood.
You can see the schedule here: https://www.sacredthreadsquilts.com/travel.html
The catalog is available on Amazon.com
CHECK OUT the Quilting Arts Podcast
Vivika Hansen DeNegre and I are co-hosts of the Quilting Arts Podcast, where we take a deep dive into the world of contemporary art quilting. Episodes feature an Artist in Residence who shares her/his thoughts on the theme.
Learn more at QuiltingDaily.com
I'm featured on Lisa Walton’s “Quilt Stories”
I was interviewed by Lisa Walton for her YouTube series “Quilt Stories,” and shared how I made my art quilt “I'll Fly Away” for “We Are The Story,” a multi-site exhibition curated by Carolyn Mazloomi, and presented by the Textile Center and Women of Color Quilters Network.
You can see the interview here.