Our membership is small due to the fact that the guild is located in a farming community. Traditional quilting is a very favorite past time. I belonged to the Cabarrus County Quilt Guild while I was starting the NC Piedmont Art Quilt Guild. There was a very small group of women who met outside the guild to do their form of art quilting. Unfortunately, it was not art and convincing them to try out a legitimate art teaching guild was impossible. They knew nothing about art, never took an art course and by example did not make art. But they considered themselves to be the best of the best.
I've ran into this mentality in the Charlotte Quilt Guild which is much bigger. Those that reached a little bit beyond mere patching and repetitive patterns thought they were better than the rest in the guild. They knew some magic! However, their examples of art quilts were no more art than the ones at Cabarrus Guild. Art is something you have to be taught and then practice at it. If you are genetically artistic, you are among a very very small percentage of people. You can rank yourself with DaVinci, Monet, Miro, Dali, to name a few renagade painters and teachers. So it's safe to write 99.9% of us need education to produce art. But the time for it is rarely available. The venues are Art Institutes and universities with Art Departments. And to have an opportunity to get into one these institutions requires a High School diploma, a decent SAT score and an art portfolio full of examples of art you have been working on during your life. Even if you have all of these requirements you have to take classes with kids that are younger than your own. From experience, I know that you can't get a good education because the young students disrupt the class room setting. They don't buy the books, do the homework, present art examples. They sit in their seats and text their friends. If the instructor asks a question, it goes unanswered. With the instructor's reputation on the line, he/she is forced to create a course that challenges no one. Consequentially, if you are there to learn you won't and your money will be wasted. I finally put a stop to contributing to the money pit and found the Art Institute of Pittsburgh On Line Division. I must say it is very challenging. In five and one half weeks you go through a 13 week course. And not just the outline but the whole course with artwork done daily and homework assignments due daily. It's difficult, and I don't like it. However, it is the only way I will get trained and exposed to legitimate art information. After writing this large blog, there was an exterior motive. I would like to provide on line video training on art and design, paper and all the supplies, lesson plans to follow that have been reduced of the fat in art course and give the meat of the course. Three months of video training can provide all that you will be exposed to personally or on line at the institutions. Leaving you with practice time at your own pace. E-mail me at the sign up page on this website and tell me what you think of the opportunity. Since I have posted the website in one and half years, over 5,100 visitors have gone through the web pages. They are interest but geography is keeping us apart. And this can be overcome. Sincerely, Lisa Quinn, founder of the North Carolina Piedmont Art Quilt Guild. Thanks Write your post here. |
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