Dear Friends,

It’s hard to believe that it is almost August already. The summer has flown by!! I was home all of July and worked on my Desmond Tutu piece. It is very hot and humid (95 degrees right now), but we are regularly getting rain so we can’t complain.

Enclosed you will find the July newsletter. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me.

Have a great month of August.
Hollis

My Latest – July has been a month of quilting. I finished painting my Desmond Tutu piece at the end of May. It is now washed and batted, and I have been quilting on it. The threads really change it. This is such a wonderful piece to work on. It is soothing and it makes me think of how it felt when I made “Blue Men”. Here is a little glimpse of it: click here

Teaching– There was no teaching in July, but I will be teaching August 10-12 at the “Quilts for Change 2006” conference in Cincinnati, OH. This is a great conference because all of the proceeds go to the Zonta Club which is an organization that helps battered women and children. For more information click here 

Exhibiting – There will be a solo exhibit showing my monochromatic statement work at Berea College in Berea, KY in April 2007. Each piece in the show will be a different color and will carry a message about social or environmental issues. My new Desmond Tutu piece will be shown for the first time in this exhibit. Berea has also invited me for a convocation event April 19, 2007. I will be speaking on “The Emotion of Color and How it Affects Activism in Art”. In the last years, I have been working uniquely with monochromatic color schemes in my statement art. Since each color evokes its own emotion, this is a topic that truly fascinates me. This convocation event will be open to the public.

Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC has invited me to do a solo exhibit October 5 – November 17, 2007. I will also be teaching a 5-day workshop at the Mountain Laurel Quilt Guild October 1-5, 2007.

Website – We have received the new giclees of “Fatima’s Son”, “School: It’s Never Too Late to Learn”, and “Nature’s Gift” and they are beautiful. Check out all of the prints here. click here

Also please check back regularly in Art for Sale this month. click here I will be putting up several new pieces in August. 

Sign the guestbook and check monthly newsletter to receive the monthly newsletter by email.