Archive for October, 2008

You’re not helping!

October 17th, 2008

Potential.  ©2003 Deidre Adams.
I’m sure many of you have noticed how language in the art world can be extraordinarily abstruse at times. (I’m using this word intentionally so I can show off how erudite I am; to impress you lowly commoners with my recondite credentials.)
I’m taking a class right now called Art of the 20th [...]

The unbearable lightness of show rejections

October 10th, 2008

Composition VIII, 39 x 39, ©2008 Deidre Adams
Ahh, Quilt National. The Holy Grail of art quilting excellence. The Nirvana to which all we faithful makers of quilted textile art aspire! Its fickle clarion call, beckoning faithfully once every two years, cannot be ignored nor disdained. Each time it comes around, I faithfully put together my [...]