Community Quilting Workshop with Natalie Baxter
Cost
Free
Where
The Wassaic Fire Company
27 Firehouse Rd
Wassaic, NY 12592
When
Saturday, November 23, 2024
1–4 PM
Who
All ages
Friends! Neighbors! Quilters and the quilting curious! Join us for our 2nd annual free afternoon of sewing with Wassaic Project residency and exhibition alum Natalie Baxter.
Participants of this free workshop will learn how to design, cut, and piece a quilt square using a sewing machine. All materials and tools will be provided and experienced quilters will be available to help. The end result will be a community quilt created by many hands to be displayed at the Wassaic Project and raffled off with proceeds benefiting the Wassaic Fire Company.
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
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About the Artist
Natalie Baxter (b. 1985, Lexington, KY) received her MFA from the University of Kentucky in 2012 and a BA in Fine Art from the University of the South in Sewanee, TN in 2007. Rooted in skills passed down from generations of quilting women in Kentucky, Baxter’s approachable work playfully pushes divisive social and political issues. She has been exhibited in galleries, museums, universities, and fairs internationally. She has been an artist in residency at the Wassaic Project, Stove Works, a fellowship recipient at the Vermont Studio Center, IASPIS grant recipient in Gothenburg, Sweden, NYSCA grant recipient, twice awarded the Queens Art Fund, and recently a recipient of an Arts MidHudson grant. Press for Baxter’s work includes, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, and Bomb Magazine.
Community Quilting Workshop with Natalie Baxter
Cost
Free
Where
The Wassaic Fire Company
27 Firehouse Rd
Wassaic, NY 12592
When
Saturday, November 23, 2024
1–4 PM
Who
All ages
Friends! Neighbors! Quilters and the quilting curious! Join us for our 2nd annual free afternoon of sewing with Wassaic Project residency and exhibition alum Natalie Baxter.
Participants of this free workshop will learn how to design, cut, and piece a quilt square using a sewing machine. All materials and tools will be provided and experienced quilters will be available to help. The end result will be a community quilt created by many hands to be displayed at the Wassaic Project and raffled off with proceeds benefiting the Wassaic Fire Company.
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
About the Artist
Natalie Baxter (b. 1985, Lexington, KY) received her MFA from the University of Kentucky in 2012 and a BA in Fine Art from the University of the South in Sewanee, TN in 2007. Rooted in skills passed down from generations of quilting women in Kentucky, Baxter’s approachable work playfully pushes divisive social and political issues. She has been exhibited in galleries, museums, universities, and fairs internationally. She has been an artist in residency at the Wassaic Project, Stove Works, a fellowship recipient at the Vermont Studio Center, IASPIS grant recipient in Gothenburg, Sweden, NYSCA grant recipient, twice awarded the Queens Art Fund, and recently a recipient of an Arts MidHudson grant. Press for Baxter’s work includes, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, and Bomb Magazine.
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