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Art Quilt Tahoe 2008 |
Lura Schwarz Smith and
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Kerby C. SmithI started as a working photographer and journalist to pay my way through college where I obtained a degree in Art History at Hobart College in Geneva, New York and after college spent a brief time as curator of photography and film at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York. I was one of the pioneering members of the Soho Photo Gallery in New York City. As a photojournalist I covered everything from riots during the Sixties to the first landing of the Space Shuttle at Edwards Air Force Base in California.As a photojournalist, I worked to tell a story with photographs. In making photographic images as an artist I strive to delight the viewer with an image that will uplift them. My passion for the photographic image has been expanded by digital technology as artists now have even more ways to express the images they visualize and to translate them into a form that can be shared with others. The digital age is an exciting one as the artist can now maintain the creative flow throughout the process as they go from seeing the image, to capturing it, and printing it out with archival inks on paper, canvas and fabric. As a workshop facilitator my goal is to take the mystery out of the digital process, to simplify it so that it is easy and fun for you to get your images on to paper or fabric. Lura Schwarz SmithLura Schwarz Smith, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art from San Francisco State University, has been producing art quilts for 30 years. Before that, she was making very bad traditional bed quilts with her first quilting buddy, her mother, starting in the 1980s.Originally showing in the 70s and 80s, for the past years she has been showing quilts and receiving awards at regional, national and international quilt shows. Several highlights of her career in the quilt world over the past decade are that one of her quilts was voted one of the"100 Best American Quilts of the 20th Century", and she was included in the "30 Distinguished Quilt Artists of the World" exhibit at the first Tokyo Dome quilt show in 2002. Recently she has joined the California Fiber Artists, geared toward gallery and museum shows and sales. Currently, she is working on redoing the juggling act of family, teaching and travel, to manage more time in the studio. Lura's website: www.lura-art.com Kerby's website: www.ipromisedyouarosegarden.com New website for additional information on the class: www.thedigitalquilt.com
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