SAQA Events

Be part of SAQA’s most-anticipated fundraising event! Donate a 12 x 12-inch art quilt to support our exhibition and outreach programs. This year's auction will take place online from September 12 through October 5, 2025.

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.

And they called it puppy love. Do you have an art quilt that will wiggle and waggle its way into our collective soft spot for dogs? Send it in and let us fetch some very cool canine vibes for our readers.

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...

If you've always dreamed of creating an exhibition, this is the perfect opportunity. The Virtual Gallery Committee is now accepting applications for Volunteer Curators. The deadline to apply is April 30, 2025. Curating is an exciting form of creative expression...

AI: Artistic Interpretations unites the creativity of fiber artists from across the globe with the algorithms, data, and machine learning of Artificial Intelligence. This exhibition will showcase the boundless creativity that emerges when human artistry combines with the potential of technology.

Held in partnership with Florida CraftArt, Spaces Between explores edges, thresholds, and borders, whether cultural, environmental, psychological, or physical. Highlighting work made with a fibers sensibility—including traditional and cross-disciplinary materials, techniques, and practices, as well as experimental processes and material...

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 palate and the eye.

Bauhaus artist, Paul Klee once said, “A line is a dot that went for a walk.” One of the elements of design, line shows up in artworks in many different ways. How do you use lines in your work to...

Be part of the second annual SAQA Journal Gallery, our own exhibition in print. This juried opportunity features your work in a full-color publication known for its dedication to art quilts. The gallery is a tribute to our art medium...

Order. Simplicity. Harmony. Minimalism is line, shape, form, and color combined to simply highlight the very essence of the medium and materials used to create art. Erasing the distinctions between mediums to call attention to the artwork itself, without expectation...

SAQA Education Committee presents “A Conversation About Judging, Jurying and Curating Art Quilts”, a panel discussion with museum curator Amy Green, juror Linda Colsh, and judge Kathie Kerler.

From amphibians to apex predators, celebrate wild animals in their natural environments. This exhibition showcases birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles doing what comes naturally. Go WILD!

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.

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.

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.

See what’s hidden in plain sight! This exhibition celebrates the wonder of wildlife and the artistry of concealment.

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 a poem distills a novel into a few words, abstract art offers the essence of an idea using the vocabulary of line, shape, rhythm, texture, color, value and composition.

All living creatures need a safe place to heal, regroup, rest, or retreat. Do you nurture your loved ones in a special place? Do you create a haven for others in need? What is your haven? Artists were asked to...

The concept of the art quilt has undergone a dynamic redefinition, liberating it from traditional constraints and inviting exploration into diverse forms of layered and stitched structures, in two or three dimensions. Gone are the days of rigid expectations, where...