Back in March when I was in New York, I mentioned that we saw a Nick Cave costumed performance at Grand Central Station. A few weeks ago I raved about his art and costume exhibit at the Denver Art Museum, as part of a larger textile exhibit this summer called "Spun".
Thursday I took Sophie to see the textile exhibits, and we had tickets for an evening dress rehearsal of Cave's costumes and performance art, and a local community dance company.
As much as I love his work, and as much as I enjoyed the current exhibit, I couldn't sit through the whole rehearsal. There was a DJ and a live band, which I initially thought was going to be great, but they had the volume cranked up so loud that it still hurt our ears, even with earplugs and our hands over our ears. Ouch! It was very disappointing because we definitely would have enjoyed it otherwise. We barely made it to the intermission, and then left with many other people who couldn't take the volume. However I am sure I'll return a 3rd time to admire the exhibit.
For those of you who sent entries to the SAQA/Andover Design Contest (and there were a lot of you!), there are 19 semi-finalists and we are working to come up with the final list of artists in the next few days or week. There were over 200 entries, so it was a lot of fun to see everyone's interpretation of Urban Textures! I did a blind jury of 209 entries, and now Andover is looking at the 19 semi-finalist entries.
Despite the fires all over Colorado in the last few weeks, we've had some big rain/lightning/hail storms here the last couple days. Hopefully the lightning won't ignite any new fires, and the rain will help to dampen any sparks from fireworks. Last night we had the biggest hailstorm my kids have ever experienced, which was scary and exciting at the same time…after I ran out and pulled my car into the garage!
If you would like to help out the flood victims in Calgary, there is a help page up on Facebook, and when they put up a webpage I will share that as well. They have set up the means to ship quilts from the US (Houston) to Canada, so American quilters can contribute as well.
On July 10, I will be in Oklahoma City with Sam, and Kathy Price from Mission of Love. We'll be distributing your 400 *beautiful* donated quilts, packed in the 400 donated tote bags (thank you Patty Reed Designs and EE Schenck!) to tornado victims there.
Have a fun and safe Fourth of July!
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