{"id":282,"date":"2013-05-02T18:10:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T22:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2013-05-02T23:03:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T03:03:07","slug":"childrens-museum-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/childrens-museum-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Children’s Museum Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a solo exhibit of six quilts hanging at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum<\/a>, on the yellow wall opposite the “Garage”\u00a0room. These quilts include: \u00a0Lying\u00a0on the Floor of the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum Looking At the Ceiling,\u00a0De-identification\u2028<\/a>, \u00a0Self Portrait<\/a>,\u00a0Interleave\u00a0#1: Venetian Lines<\/a>,\u00a0Interleave\u00a0#3: Waveforms<\/a>,\u00a0Interleave\u00a0#4: Sine of Spring<\/a>.\u00a0(Yes, I finished Interleave #4 last week, just in time to send it over to the museum.) The\u00a0exhibit should be up for about a month, but I don’t have an exact end date yet. I love the Children’s Museum and am really excited to have an exhibit there.<\/p>\n

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The exhibit came about after the director of the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum attended a meeting at the STUDIO<\/a> and saw some of my quilts, including a quilt I made based on a photo I took at the museum. The museum\u00a0has an art\u00a0installation called “More Light” by Dick Esterle<\/a> in their great dome (which used\u00a0to be a post\u00a0office). 840 pink and orange streamers are suspended on threads. They are\u00a0hanging in a grid,\u00a0so in reality they are parallel. But if you lie on the floor\u00a0in the very center of the dome and look up the\u00a0streamers, they appear to\u00a0radiate out from the center. I snapped some photos with my cell phone while\u00a0my\u00a0kids were working on art projects at the museum. As soon as I saw the streamers\u00a0from that\u00a0perspective I knew I wanted to make a quilt of that image. The\u00a0radiating lines in the dome ceiling and the\u00a0large dark circles are pieced. The\u00a0lighter circles in the dome and the streamers are all fused on and\u00a0stitched.<\/div>\n

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I was speaking at an event in downtown Pittsburgh today so I decided to skip lunch and take a walk across the river to the Children’s Museum to see my quilt exhibit. It was a lovely day for a walk — beautiful weather and blue skies. It was fun to see my quilts on the wall of the museum.<\/div>\n
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On my way back I stopped to take some photos of Cloud Arbor<\/a> across the street from the museum. A little girl ran up to me and suggested that I get a little closer to the fountain so that I could get wet. As we were talking, the cloud generator turned on and the girl rushed into the fountain to get wet. If I had not been dressed up and scheduled to speak to a room full of lawyers an hour later, I probably would have followed her.<\/div>\n
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I have a solo exhibit of six quilts hanging at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, on the yellow wall opposite the “Garage”\u00a0room. These quilts include: \u00a0Lying\u00a0on the Floor of the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum Looking At the Ceiling,\u00a0De-identification\u2028, \u00a0Self Portrait,\u00a0Interleave\u00a0#1: Venetian Lines,\u00a0Interleave\u00a0#3: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[8,27,6,5],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quilts","category-sabbatical-2","tag-art","tag-exhibit","tag-quilt","tag-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}