PRESS RELEASE FROM ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM:
The Asheville Art Museum is pleased to present ‘A Community Quilt,’ a weekend group quiltmaking workshop. In this intensive group experience, participants will explore the quiltmaking process using simple sewing tools, improvisational techniques and diverse fabrics. Together, the group will create a bed-sized quilt while learning hand-piecing, straight and curved seams, use of non-traditional patterns, weave structure and more. In addition to learning techniques, participants will learn how note taking and photography can improve their process, discuss quiltmaking techniques on view in the Museum’s exhibition Appalachian Innovators: Women Makers in the Southern Highland Craft Guild 1930-2000 and view short films about quilts in American culture. All levels of experience are welcome to join this workshop in the Museum’s studio and required tools and fabrics will be provided.
Leading the group is seasoned quilter Richard Caro who began sewing quilts in 1999. Using improvisational techniques, Caro creates abstract and pictorial quilts by hand and machine. His quilts are held in public and private collections across the country. When not making quilts, he thinks about how quilts are made, their materials and how people use and exchange them. He teaches quiltmaking to help others gain meaning and value from this culturally driven art form.
Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Interested participants may contact the Asheville Art Museum at 828.253.3227, ext. 122 or visit ashevilleart.org.
Cost
Members: $150
Non-members: $175
(Includes all materials and box lunch on Saturday)
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