Amanda Snavely 10/19/26 Amanda Snavely 10/19/26

Quilt National 2027

I am ecstatic that my artwork, Sylvan echo is one of the 80 works selected from 728 entries for Quilt National 2027.

ON VIEW AT Quilt National 2027: May 29 - September 6, 2027

OPENING RECEPTION: May 28, 2027 from 4pm-7pm

TOURING DATES: September 2027 - October 2029

Lines inscribed on peeling layers are a permanent record of moments lived and weathered, whispering quiet memories of time and place. My thoughts match the pace of my hiking, with unraveling thoughts countered by the drive to keep moving. I gather textures and color as sensory fragments as my feet move on. Later, my hands paint and stitch, embracing the rhythm of those collected moments in fabric and thread. Sylvan Echo is part of a series based on my quest to navigate life’s changes while walking through the woods.

Amanda Snavely 8/26/24 Amanda Snavely 8/26/24

Cut It Up

At our recent CFG Stitch Group meeting we discussed what to do with the fabric you have ice dyed. Often one finds fabric too precious to use and will allow it to linger waiting for the perfect idea. I prefer to come up with an idea and then create the fabric.

For my current design, I need yardage in similar color organic patterns. Ice-dyeing yardage provides a large background color pallet to use as is, cut, or overlay with other surface design methods.

Working with yardage can be cumbersome but it is helpful when you need the flexibility of larger sections.

The yardage is a background layer of color, texture and pattern that will be painted, cut, and manipulated many times during the design process. Before I whip out my rotary cutter and paint I take a before photo of a couple of potential sections.

Crank up the music and the fun begins.

Amanda Snavely 9/13/23 Amanda Snavely 9/13/23

SAQA Global Exhibition StitchPunk

I work on website updates almost every day, but somehow, I never get around to updating my own website. Although I am late in announcing, I am thrilled that my piece, EcoSarra, has been juried into the SAQA Global Exhibition StitchPunk.

The Call for Entry asked the artists to “reimagine a world through an alternate, extraordinary timeline. Imagine our bodies merged with our devices or a world shared with sentient robots or other life forms.

What would a refrigerator, a clock, or even a lawn mower look like if it ran on steam power?

What sort of people would live on the streets of a decaying metropolis, starkly divided between haves and have-nots, with police drones patrolling above and neon lights cutting through the thick, dirty air?

Will science and technology free us from mundane daily chores, or enslave us to a global corporate master?

The opportunities are endless. Artists are invited to explore the science fiction worlds of cyberpunk, steampunk, dieselpunk, biopunk, atompunk, clockpunk, nanopunk, and more!” (SAQA Global)

The title EcoSarra is a nod to Sarraceniaceae in my vision of Forest/Bio Punk.

EcoSarra

I gave up friends, family, and the outside world to create a future for my plants – my bioengineered family. The constant negative backlash over bioengineering forced me into my safe place, my world inside Green Lab. Along with my carnivorous babies, I grew, changed, and thrived as the outside world destroyed itself. My latest experiment, becoming a part of the chain, both absorbing carbon and creating my own form of oxygen may be the only way to survive the destruction. I look into the mirror and wonder if I will ever leave or want to leave. I become more and more like my babies every day. For now, we are safe inside Green Lab. Thankfully cockroaches did survive the disaster. Yum! Lunch!

Materials: Wire and mixed media armature, salvage army surplus, ice- dyed silk organza, various threads
Techniques: Armature building, assemblage, ice dying, hand-stitching

The first venues scheduled for the exhibition tour are:

New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts: April 30 - July 13, 2024
Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, United Kingdom: August 1 - December 31, 2024

More info will be available in the coming months on the SAQA website.

Amanda Snavely 3/7/23 Amanda Snavely 3/7/23

2023 SAQA Spotlight Auction

My 2023 SAQA Spotlight Auction piece, Stitch Study #1, is shipped and ready for the Toronto Conference. Now, I eagerly await joining it in Toronto in April.

The final piece is 6” x 8”. The Spotlight Auction will be an online event taking place during the 2023 SAQA Conference Pathways to Possibilities. The auction will be available on Handbid to a worldwide audience. All proceeds will help support SAQA programs.

Due to the small size of the artwork, here are a few more images highlighting the scale and detail of my hand stitching process.