Quilt Visions Goes Green with Environmentally Inspired Exhibition
June 10, 2009
California native Linda Gass has a BS in Mathematical Science and a MS in Computer Science from Stanford. Not exactly the traditional training for a working artist. Her journey from software to fiber arts will be one of the compelling aspects of the upcoming show presented by Quilt Visions, San Diego’s premiere fiber arts organization. Seeing Green: Visions of a Changing Planet is an environmentally inspired exhibition, curated by Quilt Visions, featuring works that comment about the current state of our natural environment. The work includes reflections about water quality, the impact of urban sprawl on landscape and wildlife, biodiversity, and nature.
Gass, who creates art informed by the wilderness, maps, aerial photography and her activist passion, will be joined by nine other female artists who create with a deep appreciation and awareness of our environment. Featured artists inspired by nature include Virginia Abrams, Linda Beach, Laura Cater-Woods, Ginny Eckley, Deborah Gregory, Eva Henneberry, Karen Kamenetzky, Linda MacDonald and Maya Schönenberger.
The opening reception is June 20, from 5-7 pm, and will feature a guest performance by the San Diego Women’s Chorus. The show will run from, June 20 – August 16, 2009. See the attached postcard for more information.
Fittingly, Quilt Visions will collaborate with San Diego Coastkeeper to help raise public awareness about water issues in San Diego. A San Diego Coastkeeper representative will participate and share information about local effort and action to keep San Diego waters clean.
Earlier this season, Quilt Visions launched Off the Wall, a series of lectures, demonstrations and workshops tied to each exhibition that help engage visitors in art-making process and help promote the appreciation of quilts as art. The Off the Wall programming for Seeing Green features San Jose artist Linda Gass who works to raise environmental awareness for water through her textile art. Her entertaining multi-media presentation titled, Watermarks, will take you on a photographic journey to the places that inspire her textile art, from the wilderness areas of California to some of the significant water interventions in the American West. She will also show images of her artistic process – sharing step-by-step photographs from initial concept sketches to the final artwork. The Off the Wall presentation, Watermarks, featuring Linda Gass will be on Saturday, July 18, 7 pm, with a reception following in the gallery. The cost is $10.00 for QV members, and $15.00 for the general public.
Visions Art Quilt Gallery is a non-profit, member supported organization dedicated to the promotion and appreciation of the quilt as art. Contemporary Art Quilts are now being recognized around the world as exciting visual art. This is the first facility like this anywhere in the U.S.
San Diego Quilt Visions Gallery is located at 2825 Dewey Road, Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92106. For more information, call (619) 546-4872, or visit www.quiltvisions.org.
