Month: August 2015

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Quilters from across North Carolina and surrounding states will participate in day-long classes on technique and production, enjoy interaction with other quilters, and shop in a unique traveling quilters’ supply boutique. The workshop will begin at 9:00 am with introduction to the teachers and display of their work followed by the morning class sessions. Students will break for a light lunch including dessert and have the opportunity to tour the Lucas Mansion Gallery Exhibit featuring the works of the Quilters Guild. The afternoon class sessions will conclude at 5:00 pm. This annually held workshop is co-sponsored by the BMQG and the Hiddenite Center in conjunction with the Guild’s November Exhibition in the Hiddenite Center’s Lucas Mansion Gallery. The gallery exhibit will feature quilts, garments, table covers and wall hangings made by guild members. Additionally, pieces made in response to the guidelines of the Guild’s annual Challenge Project will be included in the exhibit. This quilt exhibit will be on display in the Hiddenite Center’s Lucas Mansion Gallery from November 1st – 25th. Interested quilters may access class information and registration form at the Guild’s website: http://brushymountainquilters.tripod.com/workshopid12.html  

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Chellie LaPointe, outreach and education coordinator, will speak about creative reuse, and programs at the Scrap Exchange. The Scrap Exchange is a nonprofit creative reuse arts center located in Durham, North Carolina. Their mission is to promote creativity, environmental awareness, and community through reuse. Since 1991, they have been collecting materials from local businesses and residents and distributing these reclaimed materials through a variety of programming. Their creative reuse arts center contains a retail store, an Artist Marketplace, an art gallery, a Design Center to host classes, a Make and Take room for open studio art-making, interactive art installations like our Rio de Reuse, and much more.