Where to begin on this AMAZING EXHIBIT!!!!!

The exhibit that just finished was just wonderful from start to finish.  The quilts and quilters from Africa reflected the spirit and culture of the countries from which they came with the amazing works of art that all quilts are.

We had the most amount of non quilters attend this exhibit that we have ever had and they came away with a different view of quilting. We had quilters from all over Ontario and Northern USA come to share the art of quilting.

I am looking forward to bringing quilts from different parts of the world to share culture and spirit with the world. We feel this exhibit can only get bigger as we expand the art and the knowledge of Quilting as a art from expression of the countries that we have.

Thank you everyone who came and those that view the blog.

End of next week another start to a great exhibit.

Please visit kenayquiltguild.wordpress.com to see close to 60 pictures of the quilts

Last Day today

Hello,

Everyone please go to the Kenyan quilters site they have posted pictures from the exhibit. 60 plus to be exact.

Thank you everyone for viewing this blog I will write a little story about the exhibit what it means and where we will go from here next week.

Garnet Smalley

Half Way Mark

Well we are going into day three tomorrow of a four day exhibit. This is the best exhibit we have ever done. The venue is great with lots of space for everyone to view the quilts even when it is very busy which it was all day.

We have had TV and 4 different newspaper stories, we got into the Toronto Sun !!!

This is the kind of coverage quilting needs so more people understand just how great these works of art both from away and nearer to home. Today we had more non quilters come then ever before which has them all saying what great works of art these are or as I hear so often Who knew?

I hope that we will be able to continue bringing quilts from other countries for many years to come so the next two days are so important because we need to make sure the resources are there to go forward.

Almost Here!!!

I just want to write one last blog before the exhibit. Hard to believe that this is almost here. I did 34 trunk shows over the course of the past 10 months plus talks at other different venues. We have had newspaper stories, tv coverage, and magazines do stories about this exhibit and the how these are works of art with the bonus of sharing the culture of the countries from which they come.

It has been a different kind of journey getting ready for this exhibit with the new social media facebook and this blog have been given a whole new way to connect with so many people from different parts of the world. I have had close to 7,000 people view the blog which for a 8 track guy is amazing.

We hope to report during the exhibit that the crowds were large as having 8 to 10 quilters travel to share their wonderful works of art as well as the people who sent us their works here for us to admire.

Every year my greatest worry is that not enough people will come to see the exhibit. I pray that everyone who can will make the effort to attend what is going to be one of the most incredible cultural events we have presented.

Getting the Word Out!!!

I thought I would share what kind of  coverage we are getting this week. I was on Rogers Tv yesterday so if you go to www.rogerstv.com  then go to London Ontario they have a clip of the interview. If you go online to beatmagazinelondonontario then go summer issue page 8 is a story. The London Community news issue is coming out June 6th with a story. The Londoner weekly newspaper is coming today to do a interview. The Link magazine is calling today to set-up a interview. London Free Press is coming this week also.

We were at the local Mosque on Saturday for their culture days which was packed with people, so quite a bit of interest in the quilts and the stories. Posters are now going up around the city. Tourism London has us on the web site.

All the plans are coming together and we can't wait for the quilters to arrive here. We just received the list of local press so will be sending a email every other day to remind them of the preview evening June 11th. So much left to do but Wednesday morning at 10 all will be where it should be.

All you coming to shop. This is going to be a very interesting vendors mall African fabric, embellishments, great thread, sewing machines to try, long arm to try and fabric to buy!