If you're passing through Colorado or New Mexico area this summer, there are some exciting things happening in 2004. This is a textiles "jackpot year!" Information/registration for the events can be found with the links
Govenor's Art Show Invitational - Loveland Museum/Gallery, featuring 33 Colorado artists. Loveland, Colorado. April 25-May 23.
Denver Art Museum - Changing Seasons: Coverlets from their Collection. Denver, Colorado. Opens May 22.
Mesa Verde Country Indian Arts & Western Culture Festival - Indian Art Market, rug auction, concerts, outdoor drama. Cortez, Colorado, May 28-June 6.
3rd Annual San Luis Valley Quilt Adventure, June 19 - July 6, works created by local quilters featured in downtown Alamosa stores. Presented by Gray Goose Fabrics, 614 Main Alamosa, (719) 589-6982.
Santa Fe International Figurative Art Festival - art dolls - Santa Fe, New Mexico - May 21-23.
Estes Park Wool Market - Sheep, llama, alpaca, Cashmere & Angora goat, and yak fibers, animals for sale, competitions, demonstraions, fiber related: classes, vendor booths. A major Colorado fiber "spendfest" - Estes Park, Colorado - June 10-13.
Enchanted Doll Artists Conference - Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 24-27.
Handweaver's Guild of America, Convergence 2004 - Denver, Colorado, June 27-July 3.
Denver Doll Artisans Club - guest teachers and information can be found at this link. Guest teachers in 2004 are
Patti Culea, Christine Shively, and Anne Hesse.
"Just Stuffed", a cloth doll club, meets at 12:30 on 1st Tuesday of each month at Ruth's Stitchery, 4440 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Guest teacher June 21-22 is
Mimi Winer on needlesculpting.
Contact me for information. There is also an evening meeting.
I'll be adding to this list, so check back from time to time.
