Laramie Art Quilters: 2022

Saturday, December 3, 2022

November 2022 meeting notes

November 19^th ______________________________________________________LAQ Minutes

Attendance: Barbara, Lydia, Brett, Rhonda, Judy, Jodie, Ashleyhope (minutes)

Business

Barbara in charge! 

Christmas party at Ashleyhope’s house!!

802 Steele Street- two story yellow stucco house with short wood weiner dog fence - corner of 8^th and Steele

Ashleyhope will be making shrimp etouffee so we need sides

Judy is making a surprise dessert
Rhonda is going to make some crusty bread for the etouffee
Veggie dishes would be great- anything is great and welcomed!

**We are asking everyone to bring a small white elephant wrapped gift that can be sweetly stolen 

**Please RSVP to Barbara and Ashleyhope ashleyhope1@gmail so we can plan accordingly

*Ashleyhope does have one dog and two kitties that will be stashed away- but if you have allergies we wanted you to be aware though ashleyhope will clean like crazy so all fur should be gathered and mitigated. 

**Vegetarians?

2.Treasurer Report- Brett

$1208.76

-paid $500 approx. for Nancy Price class

-gift cert. to Mary K. for all of her amazing hard work with her long arm for hospice quilts-

thank you MARY!!!!!!

LAQ Steering Committee

2023 motto/goals- Get er done! & Strutting our stuff

1.Completing projects!

2. Continuing creative development

3. Outreach and networking

How will these initiatives be part of our meetings?

Thoughts:

First half of year-completing projects=show
Critiques for unfinished pieces
demos on hanging/finishing
Book group- Book: CREATIVE QUILTS by Sandra Meech

beyond art and design- gets to creativity
more Angela Walters free motion quilting sessions
free motion mandalas?- could be part of show!!
Show and tell
Dye Days
July 13-15^th
Ashleyhope/Sculpture studio at UW
Dolly and Ashleyhope will connect to get dyes, etc. to uw studio for storage

Meeting ideas:

January: Sewing meditation
- What is it- how it happens
- Everyone bring scraps and everyone close their eyes and grab randomly
- Rules: can’t take stitches out

Exhibition at SOK Gallery- Last weekend in August 2023, 25, 26, 27^th
- Barbara emailed
- Ashleyhope texted bob Moore on Saturday- will follow up but he said he will pencil us in when he got back from elk hunting
- Need to find out $$ and details

To Do:

*Compile list of online sources- BLOG

Send to Ashleyhope to start a post on the blog.
- DUE JANUARY 15^th

*Facebook and Instagram pages

Barbara has reached out to Laramie Public Art Coalition

Emailed Laura- workshop/demos by us?

We should think about being part of art activities around town

Representation at other meetings?

FYI-Lydia will live in New York City in garment district in beginning/middle of January

FIT- Fashion Institute

Anyone wanna come to visit??

Will have access to school and museum collections of buttons and lace, etc.

Dues will be $25 in 2023.

We are still able to set up zoom meetings/recording for anyone wanting that so keep communicating with us.

QUESTIONS:

Kathleen- how many hospice quilts do we have?
Hospice days in 2023? Mary C- days? February?
Who has the LAQ square? Who has the square account under their name? We think it was last used at the Womens History House exhibition. Michaella? Dolly? Mary C? Ashleyhope would like to get it set up so we can use it at our August show.

Saturday, November 5, 2022

September 2022 meeting minutes

Minutes taken by Lydia Sept. 17 2022

Present in person at Fairground: Mary K, Brett, Rond,a Present on Zoom: Michaela, Judy, Maureen, Barbara, Lydia

Started at 9:30 ended at 11:00 am

Treasurer report from Brett: We have $1,197 after having given the check to Mary C for Nancy Prinz workshop. Some discussion about the minimum of ten people committing to this… Maureen agreed to be the tenth person since the workshop will be Oct. 22/23 instead of September(as originally thought). So we appear “good to go” for this.

Dues to remain at $20 for the coming year.

The group voted to continue LAQ buying one Zoom license which will renew in Nov. and cost $150 per year. Michaela is in charge of that.

Discussion started with what LAQ might look like going forward. Brett gave history of how it started with Mary C’s inspiration and Brett and Dolly joining that early. We all agreed so very thankful for Mary’s vision and energy all these years, but also acknowledging she is tired and ready to move on. We talked about how to go ahead, and realizing that it may be smaller group. There are only about 18 paying members right now, and only about 9-10 folks who attend meetings. We discussed 501 C 3 status. Lydia who has started them before explained what that means and the work that is involved. The group decided we are too small and don’t need grants right now, so we do not want to go after that status. BUT we want to keep the records that Mary C has amassed, so how to keep those records? Ideas included Drop Box, Scan and digitize, , Barbara would keep the physical box of files if that is necessary. So for now, we will not go for this status but remain open in the future.

10am : moved to a discussion of Leadership. The group would like to have a Steering Committee and that would be (at least) Mary K. Barbara, Micaela, Brett, Ronda. Lydia felt there should be a Head Cat Herder, and Barbara volunteered for that role (to keep us on track and organized,) so she is the HCH. Treasurer to remain Brett with additional signatories of Mary K and Michaela. Other heads: Education (local) Michaela, Logistics (snax/venue to meet) Ronda, Hospice Mary C or Kathleen (neither was here), Minutes take (Kathleen to continue), Blog ,maintenance: (Ashley likely to be very busy so Barbara, Mary K., Michaela). Speakers from outside ?( Michaela suggested we take this “one at a time” based on if someone in particular has a connection and wants to be in charge of invitation). We thought that October in general seems like a good month to invite some external speaker if we’re going to do it.

Dye Daze: Whole Group expressed great thanks and appreciation to Dolly for hosting so long!! And acknowledged her work for this, and amazement at Dolly’s ability to do flying trapeze tricks while scaling the high ladder. Lydia explained there is a whole change in leadership at the College of Ed, but she will pursue to ask if we could use the Art Ed space downstairs in McWhinnie as we have in the past. That would be a good studio to set up and work in over several days, in the summer when it is not being used for UW classes. End of July or early August is best for that. As for Storage, Lydia and Ronda will work out between themsleves about storing the rubber totes. We agreed that freezing really doesn’t matter for powered goods. We discussed perhaps doing mini-demos’workshops during the dye daze, so that a few new techniques could be learned/shared, but nothing too formal.

Public Sharing/Exhibition: Barbara started us off on this.. said it would be good to help motivate/ inspire us, and show the public what we do and maybe thereby encourage others to join us. She suggested LAQ doing Instagram. Also discussed is the new gallery on Second St. which would be a good exhibition space for us, also the Women’s History museum. Also Art Walk popup. There are Laramie artist groups where we could find out more information about this sort of thing: like Laramie Artists Salon, Mainstreet Alliance, etc. We agreed that exhibiting would give us a boost, a goal, and maybe a good place to put our “challenges” together as a group.

Challenges: Michaela, Barbara, Mary K especially enthusiastic about this… we thought maybe three times a year best instead of doing it every month. Also, comparing the challenges might be a centerpiece of a monthly meeting. We agreed that working six months ahead at the very most is plenty of time for planning what might happen at meetings. Someone felt that we are feeling pretty good about knowing techniques at this point, so maybe we don’t have to put as much emphasis on demos at the meetings next year. Barbara suggested maybe we could build in some field trips to our schedule in the future. Lydia, Judy and Maureen were the only ones to go down to the Lincoln Center Quilt exhibit in Ft. Collins.. It was Amazing! We ate at Avagadro’s beforehand, and went to see the CSU Fabric Arts gallery on campus afterwards. All free.

Website provided by Lydia: https://www.chhs.colostate.edu/avenir/. The Avenir Collection is in a separate gallery down at CSU (in a building on the East side of 287, near that amazing flower garden), well worth a visit. Small, but has three gallery rooms. Open Tuesday-Friday 12-5pm (limited hours).

Also, we decided that we will put off planning for 2023 until next meeting (October 15) which will be at the Fairgrounds at 9/9:30am. At that time will have a couple of short technique demos as well.

Not enough time left today for Show and Tell so we will put it off til next meeting and show Dye Daze pieces. Lydia said she lost a lot of color from the pulled prints, and we all decided the pieces had been allowed to dry out before being wrapped up to batch in a damp way. Also, the type of plastic used to wrap matters, and a thin mil is better than thicker plastic which can allow trapped air.

Thursday, November 3, 2022

October 2022 meeting notes

LAQ Notes

10-15-22

Present: Ashley Hope, Brett, Carmen, Dolly, Kathleen, Mary K, Michaella

Via Zoom: Kirsten, Ronda

Texture Demo by Michaella and Ronda with samples and ahand out for wet & wrinkled and fused textures.

Meeting

1. Planning

Dolly has been working on a new bag (pictures on the LAQ blog). It could be a future class or demo.

Dye Days moved to July 13-14-15 in Ashley Hope’s UW sculpture area

More classes similar to Lyric’s last year, Jane Dunnewold online, Claire Benn

Choose a theme and create our own classes

Watch videos, try techniques, and discuss instead of a book

Incorporate challenges 2 or 3 or 4 times per year

2. November 4 & 5: Hospice Work Days via Zoom – pinning days prior?

3. November 19: Show & Tell, bring ideas for videos and techniques, working in bite-size chunks.

4. Christmas Party: December 10, 1 pm at Ashley Hope’s home, 802 Steele

5. 2023: Challenges in March and June?

Michaella continue Angela Walters videos. February? Fillers?

Book group – colors, collage. Think about options, book covers on blog

August quilt show? SOK Gallery 2^nd& Ord Tentative dates August 25, 26 and maybe 27

6. How do we create accountability for each other?

7. Show & Tell

Please send photographs to Ashley Hope (ashleyhope1@gmail.com) with LAQ in the subject line no later than the day before each meeting. They will be displayed during the meeting and posted along with the meeting notes at laramieartquilters.blogspot.com

Next meeting:

November 19

9:00 Social, 9:30 Business

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Books and ROK gallery in Laramie

This is the gallery on 2nd and Ord that we will show in next Fall.

These are books of interest for book club for LAQ in the future.

Saturday, September 17, 2022

Dolly's tote bags

Ronda's Dye Days beauties

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

July 2022 meeting notes

Laramie Art Quilters - July 16, 2022

In attendance: Mary C, Mary K, Brett, Ronda, Ronda, Debbie, Maureen, Judy, Carmen, Barbara

Before the meeting began, Mary C and Brett presented Mary K with two gift certificates in thanks for all her work on behalf of LAQ, Thanks, Mary!

1. Nancy Prince class. Mary C offered for alternate dates for the class (all Sat-Sun): September 10-11, September 17-18, October 1-2 and October 22-23. From the discussion it looked like the October dates would work better, at least for those in attendance. Mary C will send an email to those who had expressed an interest in the class to set a firm date. There are two classes -- thread painting and thread sketching; LAQ members can attend one or both.

2. Dye Days. The dates are August 18 (set-up), 19 and 20 at Dolly’s house. Dolly and Mary K inventoried the LAQ stock and Mary K will send an email with the inventory, asking for Dharma orders to be submitted to her by July 25. She will also ask for RSVPs for Dye Days so we will know how many people to set up for. LAQ has plenty of 400 and 401 fabric, as well as broadcloth from Deb Donnell for members to purchase.

Potentially, Dye Days may have to be moved to another location due to water issues at Dolly’s house; Debbie offered a space at her house if needed. We set a deadline of August to set the venue.

3. Showing Our Work. We should think about opportunities for displaying our work in public. The Art Fest at Ivinson was a success, so we should plan on that for next year. Barbara will check on the new gallery on south Second Street. Perhaps we can participate in the Pop-Up Art Walk this year at the Women’s History House. Carmen suggested contacting Camellia at Clay, Paper, Scissors in Cheyenne about an LAQ show there.

4. Hospice Work Days. We discussed scheduling hospice work days in late October or early November. The consensus was that doing hospice work at home and meeting by zoom was preferable to setting up in a venue. But we also agreed that scheduling a pinning day in person afterwards would be ideal. Mary K brought two hospice quilts for hand-binding.

5. LAQ Future. Mary C plans to hand over leadership of LAQ at the end of this calendar year. Ideally, the new leadership should take the form of a team. At our planning meeting in September, let’s be prepared to talk about what we value about LAQ and where we want to take it.

6. Show and Tell. Mary K showed a hand-dyed backing for a quilt she is making for a friend. Maureen showed three stunning quilts she had made using “boring” hand dyes. Ronda, Carmen and Mary C also showed hand dyes from previous Dye Days.

The demo this month was from Mary C who showed us how to use tsukeniko inks.