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My Mother's Birthday

On September 23rd, 2019, my mother would have been 110 years old. She was acomplex, creative woman who had her disappointments. And in the final years of her lifeshe had many of the exotic journeys she had always craved.

She would have loved going to New Zealand with me for WOW (World of WearableArt:check it out,) Which was again achieved in late September. Perhaps even more than that,she would have enjoyed knowing that it was on the date of her birthday that HouseSpeaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she was officially launching an impeachmentinquiry into the behaviour of POTUS....

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Work by Danielle Otis who participated in the TINY PRICKS project. Read below.

The Tiny Pricks Project was created and curated by Diane Weymar to become thematerial record of Trump's Presidency. The goal is to create 2020 works by 2020. TheTiny Pricks Project counterbalances the impermanence of Twitter and other social media,and Trump’s statements by using textiles that embody warmth, craft, permanence,civility, and a shared history. The daintiness and strength of each piece stands in starkcontrast to his presidency.

From the web - click here: The Tiny Pricks Project began as a one-off artwork, with

Weymar hastily stitching “I am a very stable genius,” on an old piece of embroidery madeby her grandmother, after Trump issued the bizarre declaration in January 2018. She thendecided it would be a worthwhile exercise to continue documenting the president’smore outlandish statements using antique textiles.

Diana Weymar says (check it out here) 'Assuming he would become more presidentialover time, with only the occasional ridiculous tweet, I decided to stitch one Trumpquote a week. However, it quickly became a daily practice, as I tried to keep up with theoutpouring of “unpresidential” text. Friends asked if I would host workshops so that theycould join the project. The Tiny Pricks Project has since become the largest textileTrump protest EVER with over 1100 Tiny Pricks and hundreds of participantsglobally. The series will go strong until Trump is out of office.'

This work by Diane Weymar's daughter Macy Weymar says:

You’ve got to be strong.

You’ve got to be aggressive.

You’ve got to push back hard.

You’ve got to deny anything that’s

Said about you. NEVER ADMIT

I will be using works from The Tiny Pricks Project to illustrate the next section onDeadlines for Events Coming Up. Participation in the project is welcomed: Click hereto find out how. Note that you can choose whatever quote or quotes you like, even ifalready expressed in stitch by someone else. And yes, I'm going to give it a go.

Not surprisingly, there is also a Tiny Pricks Project UK which arose when British friendsof The Tiny Pricks Project suggested that Boris and Brexit are worthy of their ownchapter of the Project, Find our more here.

The work at right is by the project initiator, Diane Weymar, an American textile artist wholives in Canada; several of her works are being shown in this bulletin along with a selectionfrom other participants. Regarding the selecting of Trump quotes Weymar says:

You want a balance between the really funny, stupid ones for example 'My fingers arelong & beautiful' and the more serious, like ‘They’re animals.’

NEWS and EVENTS - please note:

This is a reminder that my NEWS ABOUT AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS isat www.tafta.org.au/news-and-events/ which is updated near the first of each month. So send me your news please! Email to janetdeboer@iinet.net.au THIS IS A FREESERVICE. The sooner I know about events, the longer I can keep them posted.

PLEASE ALSO NOTE: when you alert me to exhibitions, etc. they go on the websitewithout pictures. It's a news service, picked up by Textile Fibre Forum magazine and theNews & Events site found here is updated each month, state by state (and territory).

Your notice is unlikely to go into one of these E-bulletins. There just isn't room herewhich is why I direct you to News & Events on the website. That said, forward ho.

DEADLINES FOR EVENTS COMNG UP

I Want Great Climate by Diana Weymar

360 XOCHI QUETZAL is a year-round Artist & Writers Residency located on magicalLake Chapala, Mexico. International artists, writers and musicians who would benefit fromhaving uninterrupted time to devote to their creativity are encouraged to write and reservea 1 - 4 month residency at our affordable live/work spaces.

Visit our website for more detailed information: Website here. Learn more on our Facebookgroup page 360 Xochi Quetzal, Twitter and Instagram @360xochiquetzal or write to us at360xochiquetzal@gmail.com

Above, 'I KNOW WORDS I HAVE THE BEST WORDS'by Diane Weymar

Deadline of 31 October to apply for the 2020 Hill End Artist-in-Residence program whichbegan as a partnership between Bathurst Regional Council and curator Gavin Wilson in1995. Since then the program has grown into one of Australia's most sought after

residencies. The Residency Program allows contemporary Australian and internationalartists the chance to experience and respond to the historically charged landscape of HillEnd.

The Residency Program is based in Haefligers Cottage and Murrays Cottage at HillEnd.

Hill End is a small former gold mining town in New South Wales, Australia, situated in anupland valley 84km north west of Bathurst and 35km west of Sofala.The village is notaccessible via public transport and it is just over 4 hours drive from the Sydney CBD. Visual artists, writers/curators, musicians, new media/film/video artists are allencouraged to apply for residencies at Hill End. Successful applicants spend 4 weeksliving and working in either Haefligers Cottage or Murrays Cottage.

Download the Hill End APPLICATION GUIDELINES and complete the APPLICATIONFORM and submit your application either online or via hard copy. Check it out here.

Stitched work by Diane Weymar

Deadline of 31 October to apply for Sturt's Artist-in-Residence program for 2020.

Sturt Craft Centre located in Mittagong, NSW is now inviting applications fromexperienced craft practitioners or recent graduates to the Sturt Artist-in-Residence program.Residencies occur in the craft disciplines of ceramics, jewellery/metalwork, textiles

and woodwork.

Please follow the link to see full details and application form on this website:

Deadline of 31 October to apply for The Tactile Arts Artist in Residence (AIR) Programbased in Darwin. This is the longest running AIR Program in the Northern Territory. Itsupports artists and artisans to develop their practice by providing a dedicatedstudio, use of our gallery to mount an exhibition plus a financial contributiontowards exhibition costs. Throughout the residency there will also be opportunities fordelivering workshops based on current practice. The studio space is made available for aperiod of three to six months and is open to the public. The residency will culminate inan exhibition of works created during the AIR period. The AIR Program has supportedartists working in ceramics, contemporary glass, painting, textiles and fibre. Allartists must be willing to demonstrate their craft and welcome visitors to their studio andworkshop space.

Applicants will receive notification in November. Residencies are available for 3 or 6months, with the AIR exhibition held in the second half of the year. Please note that no residential accommodation is provided with this residency. Get the details here.

Above, 'NANCY AS I CALL HER' referring to NancyPelosi

Above, 'SHE'S not myTYPE'. Both works shown hereby Diane Weymar

Deadline of 10th January 2020 to enter the inaugural biennial Australian Textile ArtAward worth $2000. This is a juried non-acquisitive award. "We invite contemporary,creative textile artists from across Australia, working in any style of textile media, to enter."The artworks chosen as finalists will be shown in an exhibition hosted by The EmbroiderersGuild, Victoria and will be part of a limited-edition accompanying book. Entry form here.Exhibition dates: 21 March – 5 April 2020. This is an initiative of Artwear Publications.

Deadlines of 10 January and 20 February - News from Brenda Gael-Smith: I amcurating TWO textile art exhibitions for 2020 that focus on sight and will be on display atthe Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne in April 2020: • Vision 2020 is a traveling exhibition, size 20x20in (50x50cm) closing date 10 January2020 Find out more here. • Wonder of Eyes: Eyes of Wonder is a textile exhibition, art exchange and fundraiser forThe Fred Hollows Foundation. Size 20x20cm. Closing date 20 February Find out morehere.

'Tiny Pricks Project' participant Rosemary Mack turned the letter "B" into a cartoon of Donald Trump

Deadline of 28 February 2020 to create a small tapestry for the AuNZ 2020 TapestryChallenge. Weave a tapestry in any shape, up to 20x20cm on the subject of ‘Wind inMotion’. It can be as abstract or as realistic as you like or something in between. Send thecompleted tapestry to the coordinator by 28 February. Your work will be part of a travelingexhibition displayed at several venues in Australia and New Zealand. More details aboutthe requirements are on the entry and agreement form available from Yvonne Eade atylouisee@gmail.com.

Deadline of 28 February 2020 for expressions of interest in Design Eye Creative paperon skin - the 5th biennial celebration of wearable art created (at least 80%) from paper,held in June in Burnie Tasmania. Increased Prize Pool of $10 000 which includes threenew awards. The GALA EVENT AND AWARD EVENING for paper on skin 2020 is JUNE19th. The paper on skin Exhibition of accepted works will be held from 26 June - 2August at the Burnie Regional Art Gallery. Website Any questions please call LyndalThorne (Co-ordinator) 0438 313 045. email: paperonskin@gmail.com

Diane Weymar appears above with one of several walls of stitched works, hung at Lingua Franca in NewYork City. She hopes the full collection will form an important archive while giving people a voice in theseunbelievable times.

Deadline of 1st March 2020 to enter WAM (Wearable Art Mandurah), a major event inthe world of wearable art with selected garments becoming part of a well stagedperformance held over two nights which will be 7/8 November in 2020. (This is a changefrom previous years when the Showcase was held in June). The deadline for entries is 1stMarch 2020 (entries open in November 2019). An award winning brand, Wearable ArtMandurah is rapidly becoming a global wearable art leader and receives entries from acrossthe world. The categories for 2020 are Avant Garde, Tertiary, Youth, Migration andBlack & White. Consult this website. There are associated workshops – when they aredetermined you can find out full details from the website.

Tiny Prick by l. kocher 2019

Finally, to help you plan well into the future: QuiltNSW is excited to relaunch The NewQuilt at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW from 5 February – 4 April 2021.Consult this website. The closing date is October 2nd, 2020. The New Quilt is a juriedsurvey exhibition showcasing the art of quilting and is open to any textile artist residentin Australia whether or not they are QuiltNSW members. • there is no prescribed theme – submit your best work reflecting your creative practice.Quilts must not have been previously exhibited anywhere in Australia. • a quilt means stitched and layered materials using any technique • 2-D, 3-D, installationwork, ceiling hung work, work on stretcher bars, and framed work will be eligible subject tocertain size restrictions. Download conditions of entry here. or emailthenewquilt@quiltnsw.com

I would like to end this section with the words of Toni Morrison, someone who DIDwin a Nobel Prize, for Literature, in 1993. More information here.

There is no time for despair no place for self pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

NOTES FROM JANET, to end with.........

I have found this a very difficult E-bulletin to create. So many people doing so many

good creative things in the textile world...

In the end I just had to stay with what has sadly preoccupied me lately, even more thanusual - and with what is in my heart - helped by a strong lady like my new hero, DianeWeymar. She has given us an inspired and potent creative tool. I hope a lot of Aussieswill submit work! Make me proud.

I WILL IF YOU WILL. Actually, I will anyway - join The Tiny Pricks Project that is, bycontributing a stitched work. I need what it has to offer - a voice, a community, a way ofraising my spirits as the endless bombardment of unpresidential tweets (and that's puttingnicely) rolls on. One's spirit can grow very heavy at times, to the point that you feelyou have no voice at all. Diane Weymar (shown at right) would disagree. As wouldToni Morrison, I suspect.

Start working on your piece now. It's not like you're going to run out of material, literallyor figuratively. Click here to find out how.

Moving on: Fibres West, held mid-year (in odd numbered years) at Muresk Institute, 90kmeast of Perth, is managed by Martien van Zuilen and her committee and they will alreadybe hard at work on plans for a week of workshops (and more) in mid-2021. Get on themailing list here. - See also the image below.

In the meantime, check out the amazing workshop offerings for the 21st GeelongFibre Forum which will be held at Geelong Grammar School Corio from 29September - 5 October, 2020.Click here for full details. Naturally a special party night willfeature with Mystery Guests even. The colourful Bronni Packwood and LarissaMurdock, shown below, will again run a great event, and of course be in charge of fun andfrivolity too.

Left to right: Bronni Packwood, Martien van Zuilen, Larissa Murdock and Alysn Midgelow-Marsden at FibresWest 2019. Installation work (Taj Mahal) by Tania Spencer.

And I'd like to also give a heads-up to ARTS MUSTER for the Blue Mountains: Clickhere for details. | Follow on Facebook here. | artsmuster@gmail.com | 0416 104 033. Signup for the newsletter now to receive the program for April 2020 - workshops will beheld Sat/Sun 18-19 April and Mon/Tues/Wed, 20-22 April. FIVE potential days ofworkshops; take a two-day option, or a 3-day option. Or both. We are also invitingexpressions of interest for workshop tutors, market stalls, traders, and other serviceproviders such as a coffee van or massage therapist. Samantha Tannous says: “Our firstMuster in October 2019 was an intimate event and a great success. Thank you to allinvolved. We can’t wait to share the program for next April’s Muster, which will againbe held at Korowal School in the Blue Mountains.”

Busy Writing Articles........

OzARTS magazine: I love this publication from Carolynne Skinner and when I provide herwith an article she grants me lots of words, pages and big glorious pictures. For a pastexample (when I wrote on The Wonders of Wearable Art) click here. If I say so myself, Ilove this article thanks to the fantastic makers who are featured.

My next article for OzArts will appear in the November issue and is in praise of paper

on skin in Burnie Tasmania, now branded as Creative Eye Design paper on skin.

TAHUNA: OCEAN NAVIGATOR, the 2016 winner of the Betta Milk Major Award, Burnie. Makers: LizPowell, Denise N Rall and Kath Wilkinson. Shown on mannequin in Burnie Regional Art Gallery. Photo byGrant Wells.

There is major prize money for paper on skin in 2020 and a big commitment from thecommunity of Burnie to make this biennial celebration a real show stopper. The next GalaEvent and Award Evening, by the way, is June 19, 2020 followed soon after by anexhibition of all accepted works at Burnie Regional Art Gallery from 26 June - 2August. Website Any questions please call Lyndal Thorne (Co-ordinator) 0438 313 045.email: paperonskin@gmail.com For paper makers a real bonus will be the presence ofMary Hark, USA Paper Artist, on the weekend of June 20/21 offering The Art ofPapermaking workshop.Learn about Mary Hark here.

Kay Faulkner (left) and Catharine Ellis in front of Ellis'"Garden Series, Indigo" at the opening of the 'Parallel'exhibition, see information at right.

Once upon a time I was instrumental in starting a magazine called Textile FibreForum - my time with TFF ran from 1981-2015 and included 118 issues. It is now ownedby Artwear Publications and edited by Moira Simpson, someone I really respect. TheSeptember issue (#135) included a very fine article on Julie Ryder whose career I waspleased to track over many years. This new article is titled Coming up for AIR and I highlyrecommend it.

I am also pleased to say that Julie Ryder wrote a splendid article for issue #135 ofTFF titled PARALLEL which covered the last exhibition that Kay Faulkner was able totake part in, at Redlands Gallery Cleveland (Brisbane), with Catharine Ellis from the USA.The bulletin just prior to this one included my tribute to Kay Faulkner, a treasured friendwhose very sudden and unexpected demise on May 31st of this year was truly sad. TheNovember 2019 issue of Textile Fibre Forum, #136, will include my tribute article onKay Faulkner. I hope many of you are able to access this issue.

For the March 2019 issue of Textile Fibre Forum I provided an article, 'Wowing theWorld of WearableArt' about the 2018 WOW Awards Show and Competition in Wellington.Two works from 2018 appear below. At left is Coccinelle by Svenja, Third Place winner inthe Under the Microscope section. At right is Absinthium by R R Pascoe who won theInternational Award: Australia & South Pacific.

I am pleased to say I have been invited to submit an article on WOW 2019 (justfinished) for a mid-year edition of Textile Fibre Forum in 2020.

I also wrote about the UK entrants in WOW 2018 for embroidery: The Textile ArtMagazine (published by The Embroiderers Guild UK). And for the March/April 2020

edition of embroidery I will be providing an article on Australian, Ema Shin.

Ema Shin and Tamworth Textile Artists, Devoted Body (detail) 2017, Linen, silk, muslin, water-based ink,acrylic ink, cotton thread, woodblock print, block print, urauchi (Chinecollé),

The work shown above was selected for Open House: 3rd Tamworth Textile Triennialwhich opened in 2018 and continues to tour Australia.This iteration of the Triennial celebrates the open-ended, porous nature of textiles practice today. It introduces a group ofartists who have not previously exhibited in the triennial. All are linked in some way to asense of broader engagement with things outside of themselves and their studios. Manycelebrate the process of belonging that comes from working with other artists, while otherstake on wide-ranging issues such as the landscape and the environment and the artist’splace in a world beset by environmental, social and cultural upheaval.

Bringing it all together is a kind of openness that comes through exhibiting, talking andcreating which can involve both artist and viewer as equal participants. The makingprocess is equally as important as the works themselves, and the conversations whilecreating and showing create an open house where all ideas and responses are welcome.

Personally I thought it was a great show and hope many of you have been able to seeit.

Learn more here.

Not a lot of people know this....

The above is what I've chosen for my first Tiny Pricks stitchery. It's used a lot byTrump. For example, very recently, _Not a lot of people know this but I didn't evenwant to make the call...._

In case you don't know what The Call was: this makes it clear.

Okay, time to get stitching. You too, I hope. - JANET

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