Fabric from Photos: The Forest Project
Who: Dawn Flores, Richmond resident, art teacher, faculty at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and creative director of The Forest Project
What: Fabric from Photos: The Forest Project (first lecture in the 2017 Christopher C. Grandle Lecture Series at the Virginia Quilt Museum)
When: Saturday, March 25, 2017, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Where: Asbury Methodist Church (next door to VQM)
$15/members, $20/non-members, plus $10 boxed lunch
A companion Event to “P’s and Q’s” by Fiber Art Virginia (photography and printmaking exhibit)
10:00 – Hear Dawn’s story about artists’ photographic documentation of a 60-acre urban forest before it was clear-cut for development, and the fabric created from the photographs now being used in quilts to commemorate what was lost
12 Noon – lunch and a Show and Tell of fabric samples and projects
Afternoon – Curator Jill Jensen will guide a tour of her “P’s and Q’s” exhibit at the Museum, featuring several quilts using similar photography-based fabric
The Virginia Quilt Museum was founded in 1995 and exists to celebrate and nurture quilting in Virginia. The Museum is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization funded solely through private donations, memberships, and revenue from admissions and museum shop sales. The Virginia Quilt Museum receives no federal or state funding.