Please join us for our PVQA Virtual General Meetings on the second Monday of each month.
In response to the continuing COVID-19 Shelter In Place and Social Distancing requirements, PVQA will be holding the monthy General Meeting over the internet using Zoom technology.
Next Meeting:
A Trip to Japan with Friends
Helen Klee, Ellen McCarthy, Shauna Moulton, and Ruth Smith
Monday, June 8th, 2020 – 7:00 pm
If you are a non-PVQA member and wish to attend one of our Virtual General Meetings, please email Katie Woods or Pam Rocco at secondvp@pava.org.
A Trip to Japan with Friends
Monday, June 8th – 7:00 pm
Shauna Moulton
Helen Klee
Ellen McCarthy
Ruth Smith
Join our four intrepid PVQA quilters — Helen Klee, Ellen McCarthy, Shauna Moulton, and Ruth Smith — who traveled with Okan Arts on their Japanese Quilt Festival and Textile Tour in January and February this year. They will take us on a virtual tour of highlights from their time in Tokyo and Kyoto, from the Tokyo Dome to various textile dyeing workshops to splendid temples & gardens. See you then!
Meri Henriques Vahl
Monday, June 8 – Cancelled*
Trunk Show
*May be changed to a virtual meeting – we will keep you posted!
We’re pleased to announce that our own Meri Vahl, internationally famous quilt teacher and lecturer, will present a trunk show at our regular PVQA General Meeting in June.
A New York native, Meri earned a BA in Fine Art from UC Berkeley in 1967, and then went on to work as a graphic artist in San Francisco before moving to Santa Cruz in 1970. In 1998, She discovered that the quilting world had branched out in exciting new directions, especially art quilts – at which point her “painting genes” kicked into overdrive and she’s never looked back!
Her quilt shown at the left is titled “Flower Market at Chichicastenango, Guatemala” and was awarded ‘Best Quilt in the World’ at the Mancuso Brothers’ 2009 Best Quilts of the World, and in 2010 it also won ‘Best Art Quilt: People, Portraits and Figures’ at the Houston IQA Quilt contest.