STE. GENEVIEVE – Planning for the Sainte Genevieve Art Guild’s giant August quilt show and sale is moving forward with the first event slated for 6 p.m., August 9.
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Blake and Hannah March Sanders
“We’re very happy with the way the show is coming together,” Chairperson Juanita Wyman said. “We’ll have over 120 quilts at the DuBourg Center and an exciting display of fiber art at the Art Center. The work is amazingly beautiful and the stories we’re hearing are wonderful examples of how the quilt-making and fiber art tradition are alive and well in our county. It’s definitely something to celebrate.”
The celebration kicks off with the August 9 special preview event at the Art Center–a lecture and display of work by regionally-known fiber artists and educators Hannah and Blake Sanders.
The couple lives and works in Cape Girardeau, Missouri where they teach at Southeast Missouri State University, run Catapult Press and work collaboratively as Orange Barrel Industries.
The quilt and fiber art shows and sales will be held August 13-14 during Ste. Genevieve’s annual Jour de Fete celebration.
“For decades Jour de Fete featured fine arts and crafts,” Wyman said. “The quilt show and sale is our way of honoring that tradition.”
The Art Center and DuBourg Center are located in the 300 block of Merchant Street on Ste. Genevieve’s courthouse square.
Hannah And Blake Sanders
The Sanders latest exhibitions include solo shows at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock, Texas and at Stevens Gallery at University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Arkansas. They were featured in the International Academic Printmaking Alliance Printmaking Biennale, hosted virtually from Beijing, China in 2020 and the Paducah School of Art and Design’s International Juried Print Biennial. They are currently represented in the 5 Global Print 2022 as part of the Douro Biennial and Global Print in Portugal.