April Cornucopia

 

Here's a month's worth of the links that I enjoyed, found helpful or just wanted to share.

These automatically posting monthly cornucopia posts are working out pretty well. I think I'll continue to do them.

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The SAQA conference was organized around the area of the world known as Oceania. The exhibit produced for the conference,"Impressions of Oceania From Around the World", was really terrific. You can see the artworks here in a virtual gallery.

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Lisa Walton, an Australian quilt artist has a wonderful video interview series with other quilt artists, you'll recognize a lot of names, and I think she's a great interviewer.

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The Izumo Museum of Quilt Art is described in a post on Okan Arts, it looks like it would be a really lovely place to visit. Putting it on the....someday list. 

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This is a great interview about Linda F. Martin, a super-interesting quilt artist, I had never encountered. Really lovely portrait work that uses the fabric to tell part of the story. 

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Have you started reading any of the great SubStacks out there? I really love reading Virginia Heffernan, Roxanne Gay, Judd Legum,  I'm cheap and only read the freebie version of the newsletters these writers put out, 

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The artwork of sardine cans of all things, collected here on a website (mostly in Portuguese) is very inspiring. The array of fonts and illustrations is endlessly fascinating. Reminds me of this collection of California orange crate labels.

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Fibershed is an interesting organization in Northern California that's trying to work on the idea of an integrated regional fiber system that pays attention to the soil, the people and the environment.

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