A DAY OF ART & PIZZA (Cheri)

There are so many posts that we want to get up onto the blog!

The blog was down for at least a couple of weeks, and we were on a trip, so now we have an overflow of experiences to share.

For those of you who aren't into quilts, I'll start with the pizza shop that we ate at towards the end of our day today.

Some time ago we drove by Star Pizza in Madison, NC at night.  It glowed in the dark, and we put it onto our "come-back" list.  I love the look both inside and outside - like my vision of parts of New Jersey.

We often drive a little over an hour to the Piedmont Arts Association in Martinsville, Virginia, and make sure we follow its schedule for future exhibits.  Today we went to see The Art of the Quilt:  ex·per·i·ment, an international invitational exhibit.

Since the theme was broad, the selection of quilts was, too.  My two favorites could hardly have been different.  The first was primarily composed of painted canvas, which was cut apart and re-combined after painting:

I love how paint reflects three different ways off of each thread in canvas.

I am a very enthusiastic collector of vintage textiles of all sorts, and was so excited to see the linens and buttons in this quilt:

This quilt, and another in the exhibit by the same quilter, intrigued me:

Did the quilter make the woodcuts too, or was she lucky in finding them?

This artist's digital, choices of solid fabrics, and paint artistry is something that I would like to do:

This next quilt tore at our hearts.  I've placed the artist statement first so that you'll understand why.

Finally, local quilters will be interested in the third paragraph of the curator's note about this quilt, which I believe was brought in by local quilters that put on a concurrent exhibit in the building.