EXHIBITION
SAQA “Renewal”
July 5 – September 8, 2024
Reception Sunday July 7th | 1-4pm
Renewal is:
- Rekindling, looking to a new future, finding hope
- Resuming an activity after an interruption
- Repair or recycle of something worn and used
- Recovering strength
- Renewed cycles of life
How do you observe and experience renewal?
Thirty-three artists in this travelling exhibition have given us their interpretations of renewal. Each perspective is unique to the individual artist and offers viewers a wide range of observations and experiences of Renewal.
Jurors:
- David Kaye, former gallery owner, artist, Toronto
- Leona Herzog, retired curator of Buhler Gallery, artist, Winnipeg
- Brandt Eisner, Artist and curator, Nova Scotia
Artists:
- Terry Aske
- Susan Avishai
- Heather Bennett
- Sabrina Capune
- Victoria Carley
- Robynne Cole
- Mary Cope
- Millie Cumming
- Donna-Fay Digance
- Lori A. Everett
- Kristi Farrier
- Mita Giacomini
- Heather A. Hager
- Margaret Inkster
- Joan Flett Kilpatrick
- Steph Kincade
- Tracey Lawko
- Toni Major
- Judy Martin
- Marie McEachern
- Beth McKay
- Lee McLean
- Diane Nunez
- Jenny Perry
- Lorraine Roy
- Helena Scheffer
- Susan Selby
- Linda Strowbridge
- Maggie Vanderweit
- Kit Vincent
- Beth van Wyngaarden
- Anna Wagner Ott
- Lynda Williamson
Lori Everett "Forest Renewal"
SAQA:
Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the art quilt and the artists who create them. Founded in 1989 with 34 members, SAQA has grown into a dynamic and active community of over 4,000 artists, curators, collectors and art professionals located around the world. Their vision is that the art quilt is universally respected as a fine art medium.
SAQA defines an art quilt as ‘a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or that references this form of stitched layered structure’.
