{"id":9818,"date":"2025-09-01T13:19:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=9818"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:52:50","slug":"studio-art-quilt-associates-members-benefits-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=9818","title":{"rendered":"Studio Art Quilt Associates Members’ Benefits, 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The annual benefit auction begins later this week, so I’m posting on several membership advantages that I particularly value from among the wide range of resources offered by this organisation. First up is the SAQA 3D Special Interest Group<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though I’m best known as a creative in 2D fibreart, making tapices, wall hangings or art quilts, depending on where you come from, I’ve occasionally produced three dimensional works, and I was recently invited to speak about these in a Zoom meeting of the SAQA 3D Special Interest Group.<\/p>\n\n\n

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SAQA has several interest groups<\/a>,<\/strong> which are open to all members at no extra charge. The attendance online that day was around 50, which I thought was wonderful, as many members work during the day, and a good portion of the SAQA membership is spread around the world in other time zones, so a few more will access the recording of the talk some time. It’s always a pleasure to talk about my art in such an opportunity, as I love sharing and hopefully inspiring someone to take a new turn or press on with new energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inspiration to work this way can vary. In 1984 I attended a workshop on fabric covered boxes which gave me the skills I needed in 2016 to make some tetrahedrons<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n

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My first tetrahedron, 15 x 15 x 15 x18cm h 2016<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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In 1987, I found myself making a soft sculpture of a gold nugget<\/a> for an important community project. <\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Back in 2020 I took an online Clarissa Calleson workshop<\/strong><\/a> with StitchClub that reminded me about about stuffed forms<\/em>, and they’ve been on my mind since I began preparing my powerpoint lecture for SAQA 3D SIG. <\/p>\n\n\n

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~12 x 5cm, a possible body ornament <\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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… or presented mounted in an artist canvas<\/em><\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Different versions of stuffed forms which can add wonderful 3D textures to 2D hangings, too…<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I’m currently stuffing various cream fabrics including more of the fibreglass that I used the the first glass+textile exhibition, as the call has gone out for the third exhibition, in February ’26, in Maldonado. The organisers have asked us not to show the works being entered, so just be assured, there will be fibreglass, glass beads and plenty of hand embroidery \ud83d\ude42 @saqaart<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Links are included to give interested readers access to further information<\/strong><\/em><\/mark><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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