Pajaro Valley Quilt Association

A quilt association that encourages the art of quilt making.

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  • About PVQA
    • PVQA Board
    • Charter Members
    • Very Special Person Award Winners
    • PVQA Bylaws
    • PVQA Policy Manual
  • BOM
  • Meetings
    • Upcoming Meetings
    • Block of the Month
    • Virtual Show and Tell Presentations
    • Small Quilt Groups
    • Meetings Archive
  • Workshops
    • Upcoming Workshops
    • PVQA Workshop Policy
    • Workshop Archives
  • Quilt Show
    • Call for Proposals 23-24 Opportunity Quilt
    • 2022 Opportunity Quilt
    • 2022 Featured Speaker
    • Merchant Mall
  • Outreach
    • Allstar Quilters for Kids
    • Apple Piecers
    • Quilters for Hospice
    • Quilts of Valor
    • Veterans Quilt Project
    • Completed-CZU Lightning Fire Quilts Project
    • Completed-PVQA Isolation Gown Project
    • Completed-PVQA Mask Project
  • Membership
  • Affiliates

Featured Speaker

Alice BeasleyAlice Beasley

Alice Beasley has been a fabric portrait artist in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1988. Her work has been exhibited in many venues throughout the United States including the American Folk Art Museum in New York and the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum as well as abroad in Madrid, France, Japan and Namibia.   Her work has been purchased or commissioned by a number of individuals and public entities including the County of Alameda, Kaiser Hospital, Highland Hospital and the Sunnyvale Medical Facility.

She was one of 44 artists that participated an exhibition at The Textile Museum at George Washington University in Washington, D. C.  called “Stories of Migration: Contemporary Artists Interpret Diaspora,” April 16 through September 4, 2016. Her piece for that exhibition, “Blood Line”, was featured prominently in National Public Radio’s coverage of Stories of Migration.

Blood Line
Blood Line

 

Feeding Time at the Swamp
Feeding Time at the Swamp

Her piece, “Feeding Time at the Swamp”, is currently being shown at the New England Quilt Museum in their “Threads of Resistance” exhibit. This exhibit is a juried exhibition of fiber art created by the Artist Circle Alliance to protest the Trump administration’s actions and policies.

Artist Statement

Why Am I Not Where You Are
Why Am I Not Where You Are

“Fabric is my chosen medium of expression through which I create realistic portraits of people and objects. I find color, light, shadow, line and value in the pattern of ordinary household fabrics. From these I snip small pieces which I arrange and fuse into a figurative composition. As such the work grows from within rather than being applied to the surface of a canvas by paint, pencil or similar drawing tools. When the image is complete, I sew it together with the stitch line constituting the final “drawn” line.”

Learn more about Alice.

PVQA Mission

The purpose of the Pajaro Valley Quilt Association (PVQA) is to encourage the art of quilt making which includes acquiring and sharing knowledge of quilt designs and quilt techniques; preserving and continuing the tradition, culture and history of quilting; encouraging quilt making and collecting, sponsoring and supporting quilting activities, including outreach programs, and providing education meetings.

Contact Information

Address:
Pajaro Valley Quilt Association
P.O. Box 1412
Aptos, CA 95001-1412

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