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Meeting Information:
EBHQ meetings are held the last Monday of every month, excluding July and December.
Because of Memorial Day, the May meeting is held the next-to-last Monday.
Meetings begin at 7:30 p.m. and are held at the Unitarian Universalist Church of
Berkeley, 1 Lawson Road, Kensington, CA. These meetings feature outstanding speakers
from all over the quilting world. Guest admission is $5. Visit with us at these meetings
to get acquainted. There are always quilts to see, and tables of information
about regional quilting events. The EBHQ library is available for browsing, and
you can strike up a conversation with us!
For directions on getting to the meeting, a
map is available.
August 25, 2008
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Susan Shie
Lecture: Outsider Diary Art Quilts
An overview of Susan’s
lifetime of making art quilts.
September 29, 2008
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Jeanette DiNicolis Meyer
Lecture: Under Southern Skies
I have visited New Zealand five times in the last ten years, most recently
(April 2007) to accept a residency at the Christchurch Arts Centre.
An earlier visit lasting six months allowed me to interview over twenty quilters,
tapestry artists, and machine embroiderers for several magazine articles
about their art practice.
The resulting contacts yielded a treasury of slides of contemporary New Zealand fiber artists’ work.
Informed by Maori cultural influences, an abiding love of their landscape, and their immigrant experiences, New Zealand’s fiber art is rich and varied and ready for a wider audience.
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October 27, 2008
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Alexandra Von Burg
Lecture: My inspiration? A Lifetime of looking at art.
Alexandra Von Burg has been a Bay Area resident since 1991 and an EBHQ
member for the past 14 years. If you ask her how long she has been an
artist, she'll say,"since I was 5 years old," and she means it. Making art
has been a way of life for Sondra.
Throughout her artistic career she has consistently emphasized the storytelling aspect in her narrative imagery. This talent is
most apparent in her soft sculpture dolls where attention
to detail brings alive the characters Sondra creates. Whether inspired by
familiar literary references, or by her own extraordinary invention, they
capture the viewer's attention and take her into a fairy tale land.
Her lecture starts at her roots: looking at the work of blue
chip artists in New York Galleries before it was called Blue Chip Art.
She will
chronicle past and present, inspiration, motivation and execution over the course of 40 years of her artistic life.
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January 26, 2009
February 23, 2009
March 30, 2009
April 27, 2009
May 18, 2009
June 29, 2009
August 31, 2009
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