Salli McQuaid

selectedgroup exhibitions ...

• Sacred Gate (Torii) is accepted to the Long Beach International Quilt Festival special exhibition “West Coast Wonders.” It will travel on to IQF Houston this fall and to Chicago IQF in the spring of 2011.

• Fat Tuesday is accepted to the Focus on Fibre Biennial “Green” in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It will be on display at several venues (to be announced) in the province this summer.

• Starry Flight will travel with the “A Sense of Humor” Studio Art Quilt Association exhibition to The Northern Star Quilt Guild, Somers, NY at their 31^st annual show May 1st and 2nd, 2010.

• Plum Dragon Archived in the permanent collection of the International Quilt Study Center, Univerersity of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB, as a record of the art quilt in 2009.
• Jumping Outside the Borders,  www.SAQA.com December virtual gallery, Mary McBride, curator, 2009. ("Zuni Sun": 2009)
• SAQA A Sense of Humor, International Quilt Festival, Houston, Oct. 2009, Chicago, 2010, Long Beach, 2010.  ("Starry Flight": 2009)
• West Coast Wonders, Long Beach International Quilt Festival, Long Beach, CA, July, 2009; Houston, TX, October, 2009, Chicago, 2010 ("Running Horses": 2007).

  
  Kamikaze Dive Flag: Salli McQuaid, 1975.
  Sunnyvale Community Art Center Six Senses group exhibition, 1976.
   

• Woodlands Area Quilt Guild exhibition, "Blooming Crazy for Quilts," July 12-13, 2009, six quilts, "Rainbow Renaissance" wearable art (third place award), one block, one Christmas stocking.
• Studio Art Quilt Associates traveling Trunk Show , 2009-10. ("Plum Dragon": 2009).
• Studio Art Quilt Associates exhibition auction, www.SAQA.com, ("Haiku Dragon": 2008) Nov. 2008.
• SAQA A Sense of Time, International Quilt Festival, Houston,  Oct. 2008, Chicago, 2009, Long Beach, July, 2009.  ("Heartbreak Hotel": 2008)

• Dig-it-al Quilts, Studio Art Quilt Association -- Texas Members, A Photoseptembre U.S.A. Exhibit, Fiber Artspace, San Antonio, TX, September, 2008 ("Light is a Feather").
• Focus on Fiber Art Show, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ("Pink Strength": 2008), juried third annual, August and September, 2008. Cash award.
• Third Annual Chama Outdoor Quilt Festival, Chama, NM (22 quilts), June 14, 2008.
• Colors of an American Harvest, fall invitational for The Revels theatre troupe, Alliance Francaise, Houston, TX, October, 2007. ("Winter Wave": 2006).
• The Long Road, curated by k. velis turan ("The Kiss": 2007), www.SAQA.com virtual gallery, October, 2007.
• Studio Art Quilt Associates exhibition auction, www.SAQA.com, ("Haiku Beach": 2007) July, 2007.
• Homepage, www.artistsites.org, ("Winter Wave: 2006) May, 2007.
• San Jose State University Alumni invitational auction Exhibition, 1992, 1993.
• Santa Clara County Fair Community Exhibition, San Jose, CA, 1989, four paintings accepted.
• San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, 1982. (First horse in an art gallery.)
• City of Springfield City Hall Community Art Show, 1981. (Acrylic painting.)
• Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR, 1981.
• Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OR, 1981. (Acrylic painting.)
• Erb Memorial, University of Oregon, juried Christmas crafts show, fabric items, 1981.
• San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, 1981. (Wearable art.)
• River Road Art in the Park, Eugene, OR, 1981.
•  Hayward Area Festival of the Arts, Hayward, CA, 1977. Juried, catalog. Honorable mention, photography (computer "photos" with poem).
• Six Senses: Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA, 1977.

• Six Senses: Sunnyvale Community Art Center, Sunnyvale, CA, 1976.

• Union Gallery, San Jose State University, 1975. Hand-embroidered bench.