I am starting to upload photos from the Tokyo Quilt Festival. It takes me a little longer because I edit in Photoshop to make up for the less-than-perfect lighting in the baseball stadium, and also because I want to make sure the artists’ names are attached to all of the quilt photos.
Every year visitors come to the show, and post photos without the names of the artists. That is because many of us international visitors can’t read Japanese…but that is no excuse not to include the artist’s name. So you will notice that when the artist’s name is not spelled out in romaji on the namecard or in the show book, I paste in the image of the Japanese Kanji in the image.
I urge everyone who goes to this show to find a way to include the quilters’ names with their quilts, so credit will go where it is due! And of course we hope when our Asian counterparts visit our US quilt shows, they will do the same for us when posting images of our quilts.
You are welcome to share links to my photos and video pages, and to share individual photos, but I do ask that if you copy or save the photo, make sure you repost with my name as the photographer. Thanks! đŸ™‚
While in Tokyo I finally met one of my Facebook friends in person – the Taiwanese quilt artist Danny Amazonas. He was gracious enough to grant an interview, and I had a private showing of his fantastic mosaic art quilts. He has already been on the cover of AQS and Quilt Italia, and I bet you’ll be seeing more of him in the near future. Here is the video interview featuring his work…Enjoy!
Also – an update on our quilt drive for the earthquake victims of Nepal:
We have already sent over many of your donated quilts to Kathmandu, but we have received many more quilts. That is a *good* problem to have! (Many thanks to all of you who have donated your beautiful quilts.)
I just started to reach out to my network to see if we could get some more suitcases of quilts on their way to Nepal, when I got a phone call this morning. I had an invitation to have lunch with Lama Jigme Dorje, a Rinpoche from a monastery in Nepal. He is working to build a school in his mountain village, so all the children, including the poor, the disabled, and the *girls* can attend school! (Right now there is only a school for boys who want to become monks at the village monastery.) He has invited me to come to Nepal to distribute the quilts in person…not sure if I will do that….but in the meantime I’ve tapped into a new network of volunteers who travel to Nepal often. Sophie and I had lunch with him, discussed our quilt project, and received a blessing.
If you’d like to read more about his project and possibly make a contribution to his work, you can visit their website.
If you live in Colorado, I’d love to see you this Friday at the opening of the “No Girls Allowed” exhibit at the Rocky Mtn Quilt Museum in Golden. We are a sponsor for this show – all quilts made by MEN!
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