Community Quilting Workshop with Natalie Baxter
Cost
Free
Where
The Wassaic Fire Company
27 Firehouse Rd
Wassaic, NY 12592
When
Saturday, November 18, 2023
12–5 PM
Who
All ages
Friends! Neighbors! Quilters and the quilting curious! Join us for a free afternoon of sewing with Wassaic Project residency and exhibition alum Natalie Baxter.
In this workshop, we will be creating quilt squares from the North Star pattern as well as using applique, piecing, and embroidery techniques to create squares that display participants' interpretations of a guiding force in their lives and communities. Stars have been a common symbol in quilt making for thousands of years, used to mark milestones of life, to honor the dead, and to display respect. They show up in civil war quilts as symbols of patriotism and as coded messages guiding enslaved people on the Underground Railroad north to freedom.
All materials and quilting tools will be provided and experienced quilters will be available to help. The end result will be a community quilt to be displayed in the Gridley Chapel in Wassaic and raffled off with proceeds benefiting the Wassaic Fire Department.
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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. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, universities, and fairs internationally with recent shows at Denny Dimin Gallery in both New York and Hong Kong, The New York Historical Society, The Torrance Art Museum, and Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm. She has been an artist in residency at the Wassaic Project, Stove Works, a fellowship recipient at the Vermont Studio Center, IASPIS grant recipient at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, Sweden, New York State Council for the Arts grant recipient, and twice awarded the Queens Art Fund 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 18, 2023
12–5 PM
Who
All ages
Friends! Neighbors! Quilters and the quilting curious! Join us for a free afternoon of sewing with Wassaic Project residency and exhibition alum Natalie Baxter.
In this workshop, we will be creating quilt squares from the North Star pattern as well as using applique, piecing, and embroidery techniques to create squares that display participants' interpretations of a guiding force in their lives and communities. Stars have been a common symbol in quilt making for thousands of years, used to mark milestones of life, to honor the dead, and to display respect. They show up in civil war quilts as symbols of patriotism and as coded messages guiding enslaved people on the Underground Railroad north to freedom.
All materials and quilting tools will be provided and experienced quilters will be available to help. The end result will be a community quilt to be displayed in the Gridley Chapel in Wassaic and raffled off with proceeds benefiting the Wassaic Fire Department.
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. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, universities, and fairs internationally with recent shows at Denny Dimin Gallery in both New York and Hong Kong, The New York Historical Society, The Torrance Art Museum, and Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm. She has been an artist in residency at the Wassaic Project, Stove Works, a fellowship recipient at the Vermont Studio Center, IASPIS grant recipient at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, Sweden, New York State Council for the Arts grant recipient, and twice awarded the Queens Art Fund Grant. Press for Baxter’s work includes, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, and Bomb Magazine.
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This free workshop is made possible by generous grants from ArtsWestchester and the New York State Council on the Arts.