Skip to main content

2018 Kenya Quilt Show – Art meets fabric: 8-26 March 2018





The Nairobi National Museum, part of the network of National Museums of Kenya, is hosting the 2018 Kenya Quilt Show – Arts meets fabric – from 8-26 March 2018.

Presented by the Kenya Quilt Guild, a range of art quilters are presenting their artworks.

Two of the established quilters presented in the 2018 Kenya Quilt Show is Dena Dale Crain and Beverley Rebelo.

Dena Dale Crain of Lake Baringo in Kenya, has a background in fashion design, textiles and consumer economics, and African art anthropology. She helped found the Kenya Quilt Guild and is currently a Juried Artist Member of Studio Art Quilt Associates. She established a global art critique service (SAQArtique) for its international members – the first of its kind for art quilters. Dena Dale Crain is also an international art quilting teacher. She is a South African Quilters Guild certified quilt judge and judges for the Unted Nations Art for Peace.

Beverley Rebelo lives in Harare, Zimbabwe. She has shifted from traditonal quilt techniques to free motion machine quilting and thread painting, incorporating photographs into her quilts. Beverley Rebelo is a National Quilt Judge and a South African recognized international quilt teacher.

Other art quilters on display at the 2018 Kenya Quilt Show are Patty Arensen, Kulwinder K Birdi, Dal Botha, Jaya Kamdar, Jharna Kamdar, Christine Kibuka, Gretchen Sanders Mwaura, Charulata Patel, Kundan Pattni, Jasvinder Phull, Gill Rebelo, Veena Sennik, and Dorothy Stockell.

The art quilters showcase traditional and original designs, machine and hand pieced, machine and hand quilting, machine and hand applique, embroidery stitch, fabric painting, and embellishments.

Amazon by Veena Sennik
Bubbles III by Dena Dale Crain 
Ammonite by Beverley Rebelo
Tortoise Foot by Beverley Rebelo
African Indigo by Gill Rebelo 
Dahlia by Kulwinder K Birdi
Single Irish Chain by Dorothy Stockell
Chai by Gretchen Sanders Mwaura (made with used tea bags) 
Gill's Quilt by Gill Rebelo
Gill's Quilt by Gill Rebelo
Gill's Quilt by Gill Rebelo
Giraffe and Egrets by Beverley Rebelo
Babwe by Beverley Rebelo
Modern Africa by Dorothy Stockell

Out of Africa by Jaya Kamdar
African Drums by Jaya and Jharna Kamdar
Maasai Necklace by Charulata Patel
Bird's Kingdom by Christine Kibuka
African Wedding Ring by Kundan Pattni
Thinking Summer by Veena Sennik 
Fight for the Elephant by Jasvinder Phull
A Mother's Love by Patty Arensen





MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Pir-E-Kamil - The Perfect Mentor by Umera Ahmed: book review

The Perfect Mentor pbuh  (2011) is set in Lahore and Islamabad in Pakistan. The novel commences with Imama Mubeen in medical university. She wants to be an eye specialist. Her parents have arranged for her to marry her first cousin Asjad. Salar Sikander, her neighbour, is 18 years old with an IQ of 150+ and a photographic memory. He has long hair tied in a ponytail. He imbibes alcohol, treats women disrespectfully and is generally a “weird chap” and a rude, belligerent teenager. In the past three years he has tried to commit suicide three times. He tries again. Imama and her brother, Waseem, answer the servant’s call to help Salar. They stop the bleeding from his wrist and save his life. Imama and Asjad have been engaged for three years, because she wants to finish her studies first. Imama is really delaying her marriage to Asjad because she loves Jalal Ansar. She proposes to him and he says yes. But he knows his parents won’t agree, nor will Imama’s parents. That
1 comment
Read more

Flaws in the Glass, a self-portrait by Patrick White: book review

The manuscript, Flaws in the Glass (1981), is Patrick Victor Martindale White’s autobiography. White, born in 1912 in England, migrated to Sydney, Australia, when he was six months old. For three years, at the age of 20, he studied French and German literature at King’s College at the University of Cambridge in England. Throughout his life, he published 12 novels. In 1957 he won the inaugural Miles Franklin Literary Award for Voss, published in 1956. In 1961, Riders in the Chariot became a best-seller, winning the Miles Franklin Literary Award. In 1973, he was the first Australian author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for The Eye of the Storm, despite many critics describing his works as ‘un-Australian’ and himself as ‘Australia’s most unreadable novelist.’ In 1979, The Twyborn Affair was short-listed for the Booker Prize, but he withdrew it from the competition to give younger writers the opportunity to win the award. His autobiography, Flaws in the Glass
Post a Comment
Read more

The Beggars' Strike by Aminata Sow Fall: book review

The Beggar’sStrike (1979 in French and 1981 in English) is set in an unstated country in West Africa in a city known only as The Capital. Undoubtedly, Senegalese author Sow Fall writes of her own experiences. It was also encapsulated in the 2000 film, Battu , directed by Cheick Oumar Sissoko from Mali. Mour Ndiaye is the Director of the Department of Public Health and Hygiene, with the opportunity of a distinguished and coveted promotion to Vice-President of the Republic. Tourism has declined and the government blames the local beggars in The Capital. Ndiaye must rid the streets of beggars, according to a decree from the Minister. Ndiaye instructs his department to carry out weekly raids. One of the raids leads to the death of lame beggar, Madiabel, who ran into an oncoming vehicle as he tried to escape, leaving two wives and eight children. Soon after, another raid resulted in the death of the old well-loved, comic beggar Papa Gorgui Diop. Enough is enou
8 comments
Read more