Thumbs Up for Michigan
Reminder:
The Holiday Meeting is this Sunday, Dec. 4th, at 2 p.m. For those who have reservations about parking on the street in Detroit, we have hired a guard. You are welcome to make a donation to defray the cost if you wish. Please bring a sweet or savory nibble, wine if you prefer it to non-alcoholic punch, and a wrapped small handmade gift if you want to participate in the gift exchange. Our special guest will be Jane Dunnewold, Vice-president of SDA. If you participated in the felting workshop, bring your completed project for show and tell. Be prepared for a lively time! I look forward to seeing familiar faces and hopefully some new ones! Susie Krage
Fourteen East
Holiday Open House & Exhibition
Featuring
Art of Adornment
By
Carole Harris
December 4 to December 31, 2011
Opening Reception
Sunday December 4, 2011
3PM-6PM
15 East Kirby
Entrance on Woodward
Park Shelton Building
Detroit, MI 48202
313-871-0500
The Textile Alliance of the Cleveland Museum of Art is sponsoring an exhibition at the Canton Museum of Art in Canton, Ohio. Of the 278 artworks submitted by 111 artists, juror Dorothy Caldwell chose 52 for the exhibition.
The opening reception will be held at the Canton Museum of Art from 6-8 p.m. and runs through February 26, 2012. Dorothy Caldwell will be offering a lecture at the Cleveland Museum of Art on December 2, at 1:30 p.m Susie Krage's work, "Hugs and Kisses" will be part of the exhibition.
The new SDA website continues to draw a lot of attention. There are thousands of hits daily. Each member is given a gallery page as a perk of membership. With nearly 4000 members world wide, imagine the size of this website! I would like to encourage you to take a look at the gallery section. A new feature there allows you to sort members by region, or by state as well as individually. Last check, there were only nine Michigan members who have uploaded anything to their free page, and some have no images of work. This is free advertising folks! Think about adding contact information, your e-mail address perhaps, to your statement. This allows potential customers to find you. How cool is that?
We are also part of a challenge offered by board member Astrid Bennett. The challenge is to be the first state with all members represented in the gallery. Come on people, lets rise to the occasion. Your recent e-news from SDA as well as an earlier blog entry (September 1, 2011) give information on how to upload images. It isn't hard and just takes a few minutes. Size your photos first, put them on your desk top and you are good to go. Reminder: Our SDA Holiday Meeting is December 4th, 2 p.m. Please bring an hors d'ouvre or dessert, your favorite beverage and a small wrapped hand made gift if you want to participate in the gift exchange. Participants in Anne Flora's felting workshop, bring your felted piece, hopefully completed, for show and tell. We can have a general show and tell, but please limit what you bring to a single piece other than the felted one. I look forward to seeing many of you then.Holiday Meeting will be at my home:
1731 Seminole St., Detroit, MI 48214
Susie
A blog for Michigan members of the Surface Design Association, an international organization devoted to all textile media.
