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Join us at Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel for a cocktail reception followed by an artist panel discussion celebrating WMQFA’s current exhibition Counting Threads (on view through November 13). Mix and mingle with artists Jacquie Gering, Michelle Grabner, and Sarah Nishiura, while enjoying the ambience and galleries at Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel. Continue your experience with a lively conversation among the three artists and Saint Kate’s Curator Samantha Timm guided by WMQFA’s Senior Curator Emily Schlemowitz.
And don’t forget, street parking is free in downtown Milwaukee on Sundays!
Jacquie Gering, F1, 2021; cotton. Courtesy of the artist.
Location: Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel
139 E Kilbourn Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Date and time: Sunday, October 2, 4–6pm
Michelle Grabner, Untitled, 2018; oil on gesso on burlap on panel. Saint Kate Seed Collection.
Tickets: $35 per person (includes one complimentary drink). Please purchase tickets here.
Generous support for Counting Threads is provided by Lenore G. Tawney Foundation, Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel, Cedarburg-Grafton Rotary Club, Hilgendorf Memorials: Rock of Ages.
About the Artists
Sarah Nishiura, Untitled (Red Hill), 2015; 100% cotton recycled and new materials; machine pieced and hand quilted. Courtesy of the artist.
Jacquie Gering is a quilter, teacher, author based in Kansas City, MO. A leader in the modern quilting movement, she served as Chairman of the Board of the International Quilt Guild for six years. Her quilts have been featured nationally and internationally in exhibitions and publications. She has shared her extensive quilting knowledge in three books and currently runs Tallgrass Prairie Studio, a popular quilting blog.
Michelle Grabner is an artist, writer, and curator based in Wisconsin. She is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, where she has taught since 1996. She has been the subject of solo exhibitions throughout the U.S. and internationally and has curated several important exhibitions, including co-curating the 2014 Whitney Biennial and the 2021 Sculpture Milwaukee exhibition, there is the we, among many others.
Sarah Nishiura is a quilter and teacher based in Chicago. Her quilts have been exhibited in exhibitions throughout the U.S. and internationally. She regularly teaches at the Hyde Park Art Center and will be leading adult and adolescent classes at WMQFA in fall 2022. Her works are represented by the West Coast’s Okan Arts and were recently featured in Quiltfolk Magazine: Illinois.