Comments on: Showing Your Work: a traveling trunk show

By: Vicky LaValley

Vicky LaValley — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 21:04:39 +0000

I live in Great Falls, Mt. and I saw this exhibit in person when it came to Paris Gibson Museum. This museum is a wonderful place for artist of all types. They also do not charge an entry free, it is paid for by a Great Falls company.
I everyone to put it on your list if you happen to be coming to the Great Falls area.

By: Heidi Zielinski

Heidi Zielinski — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:37:33 +0000

It was the article in Fabric Trends magazine (Spring 2010) about the “Fabric Forest” shown in Houston that inspired “The ‘Trunk’ Show”—particularly the way they were suspended. Our group set very general parameters to allow artists to make the pieces in their own style and have freedom in their approach. No two forests are the same although trees do seem to give everyone the same desire to stroll among them, look up at them, and admire them. Thank you to Irene Kahmann, German quilter, who walked through the woods and was inspired to create a unique quilt display that reflected that experience, and thus inspired us.

I also wanted to mention the artists not pictured: Mickey Frissell, Brooke Atherton, Joyce Brown, Diane Bierwagen, and Heidi Zielinski.

By: Gabriele Bach

Gabriele Bach — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 19:54:16 +0000

The trunk show is very similar to our quilt forest. Have you seen the forest from the Groebenzeller quiltgroup 2009 at the International Quilt Festival in Houston? The idea for the quilts had Irene Kahmann, she wrote a book about the trees (Der Stoff aus dem die Baeume sind).
Our quilts are long and thin and show the bark of trees. The bark is on both sides and the quilts hang free from the ceiling. You could walk between the quilts like a walk in a forest. This exhibtion was first shown in 2008 in Groebenzell, a little town near Munich.
I don´t know how to add pictures to this message. But, if you tell me, you can clearly see that the trunk show has the same idea.
Gabriele Bach
Groebenzeller Quiltgruppe

By: Sandy Snowden

Sandy Snowden — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:58:36 +0000

Thanks for this story Heidi. Sometimes it is just about being in the right place at the right time. But sometimes it is about having something unique and giving people a chance to think they might ‘need’ it.
Sandy