Please join us for our PVQA General Meetings on the second Monday of each month.
Next General Meeting:
October 9 – Jennifer Rapacki
Creativity Unleashed – Modern Technology for Quilters
Jennifer Rapacki
Monday, October 9 – 7 pm
Creativity Unleashed – Modern Technology for Quilters
Based in Ventura, CA, Jennifer Rapacki is a tech-savvy fabric artisan specializing in combining traditional quilting techniques with technology driven designs and inkjet printing on fabric. In the lecture Jennifer shares her experiences and designs using Adobe Photoshop Elements, Frax HD, (a fractal app for the iPad), and Electric Quilt along with inkjet printing on fabric. Many samples of quilts will be shown along with a few quilts created with more traditional techniques.
Pam Rocco
Monday, November 13 – 7 pm
Anthropology Quilts
How Models from Other Cultures Have Influenced My Quilts
Pam states: Using examples from almost fifty years of quilting, I’ll show how ethnic influences have shaped the quilts I’ve made. Quilts made in Appalachia and the American South, by Native Americans and the Amish and
by peoples from Africa and Asia have all influenced my work, in ways I’m still trying to understand. If you look at your quilts with an anthropologist’s eye, they’ll never look the same.
Pam Rocco is a member of the Pajaro Valley Quilt Association and the South Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild. A regular columnist for many years in Quilters’ Newsletter Magazine and a popular quilt instructor, Pam Rocco learned how to quilt in Jackson, Kentucky, as a Teacher Corps intern in the ’60s. She’s always loved the fabrics and quilting styles of indigenous peoples (broadly, that includes the people of Jackson) and often incorporates them in her quilts. She mixes them up with fabrics from every time and place, and somehow it all seems to work.