Saturday, January 07, 2017

The Flood Clothesline will hang again!

 (Above:  The Flood Clothesline hanging at the Tapps Art Center last October in an invitational exhibition called Marked By the Water, commemorating the first anniversary of the historic flooding here in Columbia, SC. Click on either image to enlarge.)

I'm totally THRILLED! The Flood Clothesline has been accepted into the international H2Oh! juried traveling exhibition.  This is a SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) show that will be seen at National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY from June 23 - Sept. 19, 2017; the New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA from July 11, 2018 - Sept. 23, 2018; the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ from Dec. 1, 2018 - Feb. 10, 2019; and the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA from April 19, 2019 - July 14, 2019.  Only 34 works were accepted from a field of 522 entries from 285 artists.  I'm truly honors but I'm also deeply in debt to the many people who shared their images of the flood, including Nancy Gibbes, Lyn Phillips, Dolly Patton, Stephen Chesley, Steve Heweitt, Susan Felleman, Nichool Ranson, Debbie McDaniel Cydney Berry, Cynthia Pierce, Eveleigh Hughey, Elliott Edward Powell, Jim Tothill, Virginia Postic, and others!

(Above:  The Flood Clothesline hanging at the South Carolina State Library during November 2015.)

2 comments:

Sandy said...

Oh cool! I am very glad for you Susan.
Sandy

Margaret said...

Thank you for your inspiration! I've been procrastinating about entering "MOB" into a new Call for Entry...clearly, if I don't try, it won't see the light of day. Your courage inspires me to arouse my own! Congratulations on the acceptance...and thanks!