Warwick Valley Quilters' Guild

September 4-7, 2008,  Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XV, Expo Hall Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex, Harrisburg, Pa., NPQE, Dept PC, PO Box 667, New Hope, Pa, 18938 www.quiltfest.com

September 27, 28, 2008, Country Quilters Guild Harvest of Quilts IX, Pine Bush High School, Route 302, Pine Bush, NY. Qwitls4ever@yahoo.com  www.countryquilters.org

October 18, 19, 2008,  Wiltwyck Quilters Guild, “A Quilter’s Cornucopia”, 2008 Quilt Show. Ulster County Community ollege.  Cottekill Rd., Stone Ridge, NY www.sunyulster.edu

November 8, 9, 2008. Village Squares Quilters presents Quilt Celebration X, The Solomon Schecter Upper School, 555 W Hartsdale Ave., Hartsdale, NY 10530 www.villagesquaresquilters.com      e-mail vsqshow08@verizon.net

November 8-9, 2008, Evening Star Quilters presents Harvest of Quilts.  Mineola Community Center, 155 Washington Ave., Mineola, NY 

November  21-23, 2008, The 12th annual "Quilting Weekend" will be held at Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville, NY. Check-in starts at 5 p.m. Offering a variety of interesting quilting classes by renowned instructors. Information/registration: (845) 985-2291, ext. 205,  www.FrostValley.org.

e-mail: reservations@frostvalley.org    Frost Valley YMCA camp and conference center is located in the Catskill Mountain high peaks.

Held in Warwick, NY

A Call for Artists.  

Art on the Green

Sundays - July 20, August, Sept. 21,

Warwick, NY

This summer Community 2000 and the Warwick Art League are sponsoring a series of four juried Artist / Artisan exhibitions and sales. The events will be held between 9:00 am and 3:00 Pm with set up and breakdown taking approximately an hour and an half at each end.  These high quality shows which will take place on Railroad Green will attempt to present a wide range of Arts including but not limited to Fabric (weaving, quilting. batik etc), Glass (blown, painted, stained), Photography, Wood (working , turning and carving), Jewelry, Leather, Pottery, Sculpture, Fine Art (Paintings, Prints, Drawings, etc), Stone Wall Construction, Stone Carving, and more.  Each show will be limited to approximately twenty vendors with one being a local high school student.  Spaces will be 10X10 will cost  $35.  This fee will pay for promotion and other expenses.  Most spaces will accommodate a tent - some will not.  Depending on the number of applications it is possible you may have an opportunity to participate in more than one show.  Participants for each show will be selected  to exhibit a diverse range of arts therefore applying to more than one is encouraged.

These shows are designed to allow Warwick to become better acquainted with its artists and to provide a venue in which to sell their works.  The shows will be composed predominately of Warwick artists however, since art knows no boundaries, a couple of spaces will be available to artists from surrounding communities.

In the event of rain - a more limited selling space will be available at La Montiel Dance studio at 17 Main Street, 2nd floor which has graciously provided their space to continue the venue. This location is quite nearby and signs will be erected directing people to this alternate location.

Warwick Valley Quilters' Guild volunteers participated in the Warwick
Historical Society's "Spindles & Threads" exhibit opening evening on June 27. 2008. Located
at historic Baird's Tavern, the beautiful old stone building near the
intersection of King's Highway and Main St. in Warwick, the exhibit is open during
regular museum hours, Tuesdays and Saturdays from 2 - 4:30 pm, through September 2008.

The Historical Society has a collection of antique quilts dating back
to the 1800s, some of which were recently discovered in one of their
buildings.The exhibit displays the quilts, together with their collection of
antique Windsor chairs from the 1700-1800s, some locally made.

Thanks to Guild volunteers Alberta Kelsey, Genevieve Lusignan, Janet Saeli, and Elaine
Weiss, who donned historic costumes and demonstrated how hand
quilting is done on a frame and a hoop. And special thanks to Helen
Zegers, who assisted in bringing the guild quilt frame from the storage
unit to Baird's Tavern and setting it up. 

Guild members and the general public are encouraged to see the exhibit
-- members may wish to stop by after a guild meeting, since it's just down King's Highway from our Town Hall
meeting location.
 

It seems that such collaborative efforts between the Quilt Guild and the Historical Society are a natural, and a nice way to
support each other's goals of community outreach. 


For more information about the Warwick Historical Society and their
collections & programs, go to:  www.warwickhistoricalsociety.org

 submitted by Louise Huchinson