Catalog Cover for RITUALS

A slice of my entry is #5 from the left on the cover.
Artists are listed in alphabetical order in the catalog. To
see my quilt, visit my blog archives for 4/13/12

Rituals Exhibit Quilt Festival Long Beach

There is a catalog available for purchase on the Blurb website that shows all the entries in the Dinner at Eight Artists curated exhibit. The exhibit features 42 quilts and comments by the artists. You can view the work on the Blurb website and order from their bookstore. Or just come to QFLB July 27-29 to enjoy the artistry of a each piece. www.blurb.com

Call For Entries High Fiber Under Five

http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org

Please go to the web link to read and download information on the annual High Fiber Under Five exhibit and sale at the museum. This is a major fundraising event for the museum and an opportunity for artists to sell fiber art to collectors. Each artist can accept a percentage of the sales price to keep and to go to the museum. This year a new category FiberShots a 15 inch square wall piece will be an out right donation to the museum, each sale set at $100.00. Deadline to enter High Fiber Under Five is August 13, 2012, FiberShots entry date October 5, 2012. Exhibit opens October 20, closes November 4, 2012

Wonderland at FIT

This is a new tryptic that will be in display at FIT Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts exhibit Florida in Fabric Wish You Were Here. Work from my retrospective exhibit will join the works of Florida artists for this exhibit May 19 to August 8 in Melbourne, FL.

This is a overview of my recent retrospective exhibit at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock, CA. For those of you in east central Florida, 21 pieces from this exhibit will be on display May 19 to August 8 at the Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts at FIT in Melbourne, FL. I'll be there that weekend. Come and see the Florida in Fabric Wish You Were Here exhibit also.

Rituals exhibit : You're Invited

Entry by Yvonne Porcella will be on display at Quilt Festival Long Beach July 26 to 29, 2012 in the  exhibit Rituals curated by Jamie Fingal and Leslie Tucker Jenison
Sponsored by Moore Sewing Center. Please visit the dinnerateightartists.blogspot.com for interviews of each artist and more information about our sponsors, the curators and the artists work.

Wonderland

Wonderland, 42" x 62" 2012, by Yvonne Porcella (photo by Cathie I. Hoover) will be on exhibit at Florida Institute of Technology Ruth Funk Center For Textile Arts, May 19  through August 18, 2012 along with 20 other works by Yvonne. Also on exhibit is the juried exhibition Florida in Fabric Wish You Were Here, works by Florida artists.
150 West University Blvd. Melbourne, FL. I will be there
for the opening reception on May 18 until May 21. Come and visit!

Donation for Cancer organized by Foto/Fiber 2012

You can win this little 6 x 9 quilt by donating through Foto/Fiber 2012

Foto/Fiber 2012
February 15 and 16
A Fiberart For A Cause fundraiser for the American Cancer Society
Our Goal:  Raise $7000 to add to the over $215,000 we have already donated.

90 Fotos/90 Fiber BONUSES from an all star-team of fiber artists including:  

Frances Holliday Alford, Pamela Allen, Liz Berg, Sue Bleiweiss, Nancy G. Cook, Jane Davila, Vivika DeNegre, Diane Rusin Doran, Jane Dunnewold, Jamie Fingal, Leonie Hartley Hoover, Leslie Tucker Jenison, Lyric Kinard, Susan Brubaker Knapp, Lynn Krawzcyk, Jane LaFazio, Susan Lenz, Jeanelle McCall,
Linda Teddlie Minton, Karen Musgrave, Gail Myrhorodsky Karen Stiehl Osborn, BJ Parady, Cate Coulacos Prato, Yvonne Porcella, Wen Redmond, Sue Reno, Lesley Riley, Cynthia St. Charles, Susan Schrott, Suzanne Silk, Lura Schwarz Smith (with Kerby C. Smith), Sarah Ann Smith, and Terri Stegmiller.

Plus drawings for fiber artwork from Leonie Hartley Hoover, Lyric Kinard, Lynn Krawczyk, Yvonne Porcella, Susan Schrott and Mary Ann Van Soest.

More information on how Foto/Fiber 2012 works:
http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/FotoFiberHowItWorks.html

Please join us on February 15.