SQC's Community News from the Quilting, Textile, Arts & Healing Community May 8, 2013

Sisters Quilting Collective's (SQC) Inaugural Membership Meeting & Social 

Thursday, May 9, 2013, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm (Light Refreshments will be served). Please join us and celebrate the joy of African-American Quilting & Textiles. Brickhouse Art Gallery, 2837 36th Street,Sacramento, CA 95817. To RSVP call 916-484-5025.

"Sankofa"

Vendors * Door Prizes * Children's Activities * Heritage Quilts

Preserving Our Past-Designing Our Future

Quilts by the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland

June 15, 2013 from 10am-4pm

Allen Temple Family Life Resource Center

8501 International Blvd., Oakland, CA 

Free Park

Costs: $10.00, children under 12 free

Kanika Marshall featured Artist at Blue Moon Gallery in May 2013: Kanika Marshall, mixed media sculptor, and Dorothy Champion, painter, would love to show you their colorful original artwork at the Blue Moon Gallery (2353 Albatross Way, Sac, 95815). Kanika will unveil a variety of kinetic and lighted metal/clay garden artworks, as well as masks and goblets. Dorothy paints vividly-colored works using any kind of pastels, pencils, paper, or canvas. You can meet with the artists on: May 11th, 6-9 PM, for opening night, May 24th, 12-2 PM, for a light lunch & June 1st, 12-4 PM, for the closing party. For more info visit: Kanika Marshall, Sculptor,www.KanikaMarshall.com.

 Life in Collage

Brickhouse Art Gallery presents Life in Collage,by Carrisa Rofle,  May 11, 2013 . 

For more info call (916)475-1240

Make and Take Mother's Day Gifts

Please Join 1001 Del Paso Works for Second Saturday Mother's Day Art Studio Tour also Make and Take Mother's Day Gifts. Seconday, May 11, 2013 from 2-6pm . Come and make a unique gift for your Mother!!

Welcome to the Virtual Gallery of the African American Art Quilters Listserve. A few years ago, a group of African American textile artists from across the United States started a virtual group on www.Yahoogroups.com .

Visit:  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAartquilt/

Gather the Healers

Feeling anxious, tired, and unable to relax? Do you wish to broaden your spirit? Then join us at The Brickhouse Gallery with Deborah Jones, who has studied with Dr. Gay Luce for eleven years and now serves as the spiritual leader of the Mystery Schools and other Nine Gates programs. She will give a brief insight on what she has learned through her practicing the healing arts, shamanism, the integrative application of the Hindu and Buddhist tantric paths, tribal trance dance, the trans-personal psychology of spiritual awakening through the energy and emotional bodies.  Saturday, June 1st, 2013 // 3pm - 5pm // Class Fee: $20. For more info call (916)475-1240.