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I am taking a break from posting about the natural geologic beauty of Colorado like I did in my previous two posts. Instead I have a sort of follow up to my 04/16/2020 post Solo Show Seattle Municipal Tower (re-post).

My first solo show at the Seattle Municipal Tower (sponsored by the City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture) ended in July 2019, and I’d already moved to Colorado. The City of Seattle ended up purchasing 3 of the quilts from the show for their permanent collection; and private collectors purchased 2 more, so that left 7 quilts (or 6 I forget) to be returned to me.

Thanks to my friends Colleen, Donna and Judy, the quilts were held for me until I attended a quilt retreat in Washington state in November 2019.

I noticed when I picked up the quilts that had not sold, the City of Seattle had also included all the placards from the show! Below is an example of one of those placards created by the City of Seattle’s gallery curator and his team:

2019-04-18_11-44-27_227I was not sure as to what to do with these placards, but after moving back into our current house (after due to the COVID related financial crisis we decided not to buy a new house), I decided to create a gallery in my house with the remaining art quilts and their placards.

The gallery is scattered about the house upstairs and downstairs; and is found in hallways as well as bedrooms.

2020-04-01_08-38-32_8102020-04-01_08-46-20_1372020-04-01_10-55-14_9192020-04-01_13-06-26_5092020-04-03_09-51-35_9982020-04-03_09-52-19_664I also mounted on the wall of my studio the placards for the quilts that sold as well as the main poster for the show.

2020-04-01_17-39-38_3722020-04-01_10-55-14_919I am not sure how long I will leave the placards up along side the remaining art quilts, but for now I find it entertaining. I guess when you are stuck at home during the COVID times you have to discover new ways to entertain yourself!

Postscript

Speaking of entertaining oneself, I’ve been thinking about the instruction/suggestion below that I discovered on a morning walk as sidewalk/walking path art (see post Paved Trail Inspirations):

2020-04-07_13-45-54_805Social isolation is the standard now in the “time of COVID” (how I refer to these times), and my partner John and I have been trying to be creative with finding simple ways to entertain ourselves (besides exhaustive online television network watching).

One of the things we do a couple times of week is having “walking cocktail hour” when we take Mike our miniature schnauzer for a walk in the evening. We load our portable tumblers with our cocktails – a microbrew for me, an Old Fashioned for him, and head out on our dog walk!

2020-04-07_19-42-56_956And no one knows what is our tumblers…(smile)

I always wonder what pets are thinking about the COVID times and the humans always being around. I already telecommuted full-time and now my partner is also telecommuting, so we are always home together. Here is Mike trying to make the best of us both working on our laptops and fitting in a snuggle with the humans…

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19 thoughts on “Home Gallery”

  6. Tierney, I love that you’ve displayed the placards along with the art pieces. I’m sure it’s fun to walk by and catch a piece of information šŸ™‚ Awww Mike is so cute getting his snuggles, my mini is always by my side or at my feet these days. Oooo, I love the ‘walking cocktail hour’…I may just have to adopt that too šŸ™‚

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  7. Love the placards with the quilts, like going to a quilt show every day. At times every wall in my home had at least one quilt on it and changed with the seasons. I may just have to make up cards to display the name and date of the quilt along with any interesting facts so they don’t get lost over the years. Love, love, love that idea.

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  8. What a great idea to make your house into an art gallery! Love that you saved the write-ups from your show to post as well. Colors look great, too!!

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  9. Walking Cocktail Hour!! Love it. Unfortunately, my husband doesn’t drink much, so when he does he gets loopy FAST…maybe I could bring a wagon to pull him home in? Love the new home for your quilt show…when lockdown is over will you have a First Thursday event to show off the gallery? :))

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