Local Color 6 Flora & Fauna, a new exhibit of art quilts, has been touring Connecticut since February 2024. Its current home is the Brookfield Craft Center where it will be on display from July 28th until September 1st. The Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery at BCC is open Tuesday-Friday from 12-5pm, Saturday from 11am-5pm and Sunday 12pm-4pm.
Local Color 6 Flora & Fauna, a touring exhibition of art quilts, consists of 32 pieces of fiber art created by 26 members of the Connecticut Region of the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). Artist can belong to two regions within SAQA and must have a relationship with each region. The SAQA Connecticut Region presents a differently themed Local Colors exhibition every two
years. The pieces on display range from realistic to abstract and depict real and imagined plants and animals. Some use plants to create the images; others are created by piecing fabrics together as a form of collage or through more traditional piecing methods, and some use dyes, paints, and/or stitching. SAQA is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote art quilts – “creative visual works that are layered and stitched or that reference this form of stitched layered structure”. SAQA has over 4000 members – artists, curators, collectors and art professionals – from all over the world; 127 of them consider Connecticut one of their artistic homes. To learn more about SAQA go to saqa.com.
A full catalog of the Local Color 6 Flora & Fauna exhibit is available from Amazon.
