The Bob Ruud Community Center was transformed into a world of color and design during the 19th Annual Pins and Needles Quilt Show, a yearly event that offers a stage to fabric artists of all kinds while giving the community to chance to admire their array of masterpieces.
The Shadow Mountain Quilters hosted the 2023 Pins and Needles Quilt Show this past weekend, shining the spotlight on the beauty of fiber arts and celebrating the creativity that can be expressed with nothing more than some fabric, a needle and thread.
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net
The Examiner
If the downtime from pandemic led to a great period of inspiring new creative works from those who make a living in the fine arts – writing, composing, drawing – for Independence’s Dana Mengel it wasn’t terribly different.
“I have not needed to change at all; I always compose as I had,” says Mengel, a prolific composer and longtime violin virtuoso. “I write what I hear when I compose. When I finish a piece, I go to the next piece.”
Mengel has more than 1,000 sacred choral pieces to his name since 1990, and then over the past decade shifted his focus to string orchestrations. Thursday evening marks a virtual premier of a piece of that takes the latter and somewhat revisits the prior concentration.