A Sweet Opening
Nine Quilts, A Raffle, and Being Together
Dear reader,
Today is the opening of my first solo art show, The Quilt As Archive. The good news is before the show even opens I sold my first quilt. I am giving you, my sweet email list, first pick of the nine quilts I created for the show. They are available here for purchase before the public lays eyes on them this evening at Cedar North from 5-8pm. I love the idea of them on the back of your couch or on your bed.
This week Tamara and Lukaza came to visit me from New York to help me get ready for the show, support me, and just be with me. It has meant so much to have chosen family by my side during such a big week. To share meals, laughter, sadness, grief, and get to weave them into my local friend family.
On top of that, my mom and dad, my little brother, and his partner all rolled up to my house last night and I made us a big dinner. We went to the gallery, grabbed ice cream on the way to the beach, and swam while the sun set. We got back and all spread out on the five acres and found our nooks and slept through a big rainstorm. I’m not sure I have ever felt so loved. June is happy to be getting so many pets.
This week during The Quilt as Archive we came together for Community Sewing Hours to work on a group quilt. We brainstormed where we could use the quilt to redistribute funds and found the organization No Detention Centers in Michigan
They pointed us to the Go Fund Me for Lucas’ father who is being held at North Lake ICE detention center and needs bail money to be released so their family can be whole again. These are our neighbors.
🎟️ ABOLISH ICE QUILT RAFFLE
🔗 Contribute $15 or more to the GoFundMe by August 15 to be entered
Go to the link to contribute to the go fund me, upload the screenshot of your donation, and enter your mailing address for a postcard of the finished quilt sent to all raffle entries - quilt winner announced by August 16
Community Quilters Include :
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Bobby Touhey
Cody Cook-Parrott
Sara Reilly
Laural (Ona) Horton
Russell Horton
In other quilt news : My Quilt Camp Retreat with Green Door Folk School is SOLD OUT (!!! wow) but make sure to check out all the other amazing classes they are doing - including Wild Dyers Lab with Kayla Powers
I hope to see some of you this evening at Cedar North - Ellen repainted and added on to the goat scultpure park - so if that isn’t reason enough to come I don’t know what is!
And for those of you who can’t make it but wish you could - buy a show catalogue with an essay, poem, photographs of all the quilts, all ninety one of my quilt books written out, and more!
In gratitude,
Cody