Saturday, June 11, 2011

REPORT FROM THE SDA CONFERENCE

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Kristin Rohr (from Vancouver Island, BC) has sent some pictures from the SDA conference, which is happening this weekend in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.


This is a sample that she did in Elin Noble's "Additions and Subtractions" workshop (see pic below). “We had four days of dyeing, discharging, poetry and laughter”.




"Yesterday we started with a Meet and Greet and then toured exhibits. Long distances, buses that broke down, road construction everywhere and marvellous exhibits."
Barbara and Lesley shown left, are SDA members from Vancouver Island.





Below are images of work from some of the exhibits - artists names are on the image - "fabulous work and an amazing range." (She did see Jane Kenyon’s exhibit the next day and said it was gorgeous.)
























"Yesterday at lunch Canadians got together and I asked if anyone was interested in a Canadian presence within the organisation. We discussed it and generally agreed first to know each other, second to think about a national gathering or exhibit and third to be (more) visible on the SDA newsletter/blog with articles."

Thanks for sharing all this Kristin. We look forward to hearing other reports.