"Fresh Beginnings: Healing Our Earth" May 13 • The Annual PPQG Quilt Challenge at Gualala Arts

     One of the "warmer" events opens at Gualala Arts in May. “Fresh Beginnings: Healing Our Earth” is the latest challenge in the Pacific Piecemakers Quilt Guild’s call to members. PPQG's new exhibit opens Friday, May 13, 2022 and will be displayed in Gualala Arts’ Burnett Gallery and the Elaine Jacob Foyer. Admission is free.

     PPQG has held an annual quilt Challenge Show at Gualala Arts for over 21 years. Each year PPQG challenges its members to create a quilt that fits certain parameters.

     In addition to bringing this outstanding form of artistic expression to the Arts Center, this show promotes the art of quilting in the coastal Mendonoma community by displaying a wide variety of quilts related to a central theme. Following a year of sheltering in place for the COVID-19 pandemic, PPQG chose the theme of “Fresh Beginnings: Healing our Earth” for 2022; a way of acknowledging all the challenges we face as a people and to promote a collective healing through the art of quilting.

     Once the “Fresh Beginnings” theme was established, each quilter’s inspiration might come from anywhere and anything affecting the delicate balance of our culture and environment. In short, “may healing begin one quilt at a time.”

     Artists were encouraged to make a quilt of their own design and/or pattern/color choice, and that natural fibers are recommended but not required. In addition, repurposing/upcycling items that are no longer wanted or needed into a quilt would give those materials a whole new life. No maximum or minimum sizes were required, and piecing techniques were the choice of the designers. any time in the past.

     This show was not juried and was open only to PPQG members in good standing. 

     “Fresh Beginnings: Healing Our Earth” continues thru June 5, 2022.