SAQA Events

The Spotlight Auction will be an online event taking place during the 2025 SAQA Conference. This is an opportunity for all SAQA members to have their work showcased to a world-wide audience.

Florida here we come! Our in-person conference Fabricating Excellence will be happening April 3-6, 2025 in beautiful St. Petersburg, Florida, a haven for art enthusiasts! Immerse yourself in a dynamic art scene boasting world-class galleries, colorful street murals, and captivating...

Abstract art uses the pure elements and principles of design to create emotions and thoughts in the viewer. Because it is so free and unbounded from the real world, the diversity of abstract art is truly stunning. In the way...

We celebrate improv quilting with this theme. This playful approach to making art quilts leaves plenty of room for surprises--for both the maker and the viewer. Submit a work with unexpected curves, stripes, or colors. Lead a journey through abstract exploration.

Imagine an existence where you pull one string and reality unravels. Twenty-seven artists from the U.S. (including three from Florida), United Kingdom, France, and Canada have interpreted the riotous creativity and far-out fusions of punk (Steampunk, Biopunk, Atompunk and more)...

We invite artists to submit their best work for display in the Now: Contemporary Art Quilts of Today gallery at Houston in 2025. This dynamic exhibition will provide an exceptional platform for your art quilt to be appreciated by a...

Join us as we celebrate the publication of our winter Surface Design Journal, Friends with Fiber! We’ll hear from artists Andrea Loyer, Maedeh Tafvizi, and Matt Johnson - all of whom experiment beyond the confines of medium to create innovative...

Birds are found all around the world. They remind us of ourselves yet are also able to fly up in the heavens. Artists around the globe respond to the birds they admire in myriad ways using a wide variety of materials and techniques.

Earth, from space, looks like a shimmering gem suspended in an inky, infinite expanse. A diverse group of artists from 11 countries around the world present their views of the universe in this fascinating collection of contemporary artwork.

Join the International Quilt Museum for a discussion of "Studio Showcase: Judy Kirpich and Karen Schulz," an exhibition opening at the International Quilt Museum at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln on Jan. 17. Led by IQM Curator of Collections Carolyn Ducey...

Our shared human history includes a violent and shameful component -- that of deliberate attempts to eradicate specific populations due to differences of culture, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender expression and race. Often motivated by those in power, collective trauma...

How do we balance humanity's needs and desires against preserving our planet for future generations? This question is at the heart of Sustainability, which addresses some of today's most pressing environmental issues, such as the effect of plastic pollution on...

Join us as we step into the captivating world of World of WearableArt (WOW). Presented by Sarah Nathan, Head of Competition at WOW, she will take us behind the scenes of this globally renowned creative phenomenon. Learn about the intricacies...

Take an exploration below the surface. What do you see when you look beyond the obvious? In the physical world, what do we find when we go beneath the surface of the ocean, the earth, our skin, a plant or...

Ever since our earliest ancestors began applying iron oxide to cave walls and their bodies, the color red has played a major role in art, rituals, and spirituality. The use of red can evoke excitement, danger, anger or love in...

Join us in paying homage to the age-old tradition of artistic expression through wood and fibers. From the dawn of prehistoric creativity to the present day, humans have harnessed the beauty of wood and the versatility of fibers to craft extraordinary works of art. This is a joint exhibition with the American Association of Woodturners.

There is a continuum where beauty and function blend and diverge in the hands of the contemporary artist. Even when traditional materials such as thread, fabric, wood, reed, and paper are used, these artists combine skill, imagination, and vision to...

Gastronomy is the study of the relationship between food and culture, featuring not only the bountiful gifts from nature, but a gift from the human hand. Combining innovative ingredients, colors, textures, and flavors creates dishes pleasing to both the palette and the eye.

Ever since our earliest ancestors began applying iron oxide to cave walls and their bodies, the color red has played a major role in art, rituals, and spirituality. The use of red can evoke excitement, danger, anger or love in the West. The color red is associated with purity in India, and in China it traditionally symbolizes luck. Red is also a primary color, crucial to the creation of other hues.

Gastronomy is the study of the relationship between food and culture, featuring not only the bountiful gifts from nature, but a gift from the human hand. Combining innovative ingredients, colors, textures, and flavors creates dishes pleasing to both the palette and the eye.