, Berkeley News A BAMPFA staff member admires the exhibition,
Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective , which includes 75 of the late Bay Area artist’s quilts, which will be on display at the museum through July 17. (BAMPFA photo) After being closed for more than a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will be reopening its doors to the public on Sunday, May 2. Members of BAMPFA and the UC Berkeley community are invited to a free preview on Friday, April 30, and California essential workers with a work ID will receive free admission on Saturday, May 1.
A small group of quilters held its first official meeting at the former Pleasanton Quilt shop âGoing to Piecesâ on Feb. 14, 1981.
Quilting for charity was one of the âQueen Pinâ ideas from the onset of the Amador Valley Quilters. Over the years, Amador Valley Quilters have donated about 600 quilts annually to local charity organizations. In addition, AVQ has provided more than 175 military veterans with patriotic quilts of valor.
All of the AVQ past presidents have led the guild forward through many milestones, but current president Elizabeth Taylor has been uniquely challenged with finding a way to accommodate the members through the restrictions imposed by the presence of the Covid-19 pandemic - and she rose to the occasion!
letting them be run down and fall apart and putting together something new and exciting. some of them, i see, you have the sewing retreat for quilters. yes. you have sew seasonal over there. well, we re focused on quilting. we want to have most quilt shops than any town in the world. what do you think the missouri quilt shop is doing? they ve brought in employment. i m sure they re the largest employer in the city and in all of the county. they ve came in and improved a lot of our buildings that were in disrepair, maybe dilapidated and going to fall down. it s been a really good situation for the city of hamilton. and the city of hamilton has been really good for the doane family. 20 years ago ron and jenny doane were barely making ends meet living in california when they decided to pack up their large family and head to missouri with the hope of finding a slower pace of life and lower cost 6 living. with a fresh start jenny stayed home raised her seven children