TWICE WARMED: TRADITIONAL TO ART QUILTS - A WORKSHOP BY MONA COVINGTON and COLOR & ANIMAL COMMUNICATION BY DR. JACQUALINE GRANT @ Southern Utah University (October 13)

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FORCALENDAR EDITORS: TWICE WARMED:TRADITIONAL TO ART QUILTS - A WORKSHOP BY MONA COVINGTON                                          COLOR& ANIMAL COMMUNICATION BY DR. JACQUALINE GRANTWHAT:              MonaCovington is giving a workshop on the history of quilting and how it hasinfluenced our society. Dr. JacqualineGrant, Director of SUU´s Frehner Museum of Natural History, has created aremarkable correlation between the quilts and color in the animal kingdom.

WHO:               Southern Utah University, BraithwaiteFine Arts Gallery, Cedar City, UT
WHEN:             October 13, 2012
TIME:               Color& Animal Communication: 10-11am                        TwiceWarmed: Traditional to Art Quilts: 1-3pm
WHERE:           BraithwaiteFine Arts Gallery, Braithwaite Building, Lower Level, SouthernUtah University, Cedar City, UT
TICKETS:         Free Admission
INFO:               For more information call (435)586-5432 or visit the gallery website at www.suu.edu/pva/artgallery
SUU´SBRAITHWAITE FINE ARTS GALLERYMONACOVINGTON PRESENTS WORKSHOP AS PART OF "EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN" SERIESOCTOBER13, 2012
Southern UtahUniversity, Cedar City, Utah: Quilting has offered opportunities for people to stitch together fascinatinghistories around the world. MonaCovington will present a workshop about quilting´s influences on society,titled Twice Warmed: Traditional to ArtQuilts on Saturday October 13, 2012 from 1:00-3:00pm in SUU´s Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. The workshop, which is free, is part of the Saturday programseries for the Everything In Between: Art Quilts, Fabric Collage, and Embroideryexhibition at the Gallery. In addition, starting at 10am, there will afamily friendly presentation on Colorand Animal Communication at the Gallery by Dr. Jacqualine Grant.
As a quilter, collector, and teacher, Mona Covington served as the CedarChest Quilters´ Guild President for two years and on the Utah State Quilt Guildboard as a region representative for two years. She completed her appraisaltraining in May of 2005 through the Appraisal Program of the American QuiltSociety.   Covington currently maintainsa library of relevant books pertaining to quilt history, pattern and textileresearch and appraisal information, and her personal collection includes quiltsand tops dating from 1880 to the present.
Dr.Jacqualine Grant, Director of SUU´s Garthand Jerri Frehner Museum of Natural History, has created a remarkablecorrelation between the quilts on exhibit in the Braithwaite Gallery and colorin the animal kingdom. Her presentation, Colorand Animal Communication, will use the color combinations in the quilts toexplore how animals use color in their world to communicate and camouflage.  
These workshops are part of the Saturday program series of SUU´s Everythingin Between exhibition at the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, which is madepossible through the generous support of the Friends of the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery and a sponsorshipprovided by the Cedar Chest Quilters. For more informationabout these events, please visit the gallery website at www.edu/pva/artgallerybeginning in mid-September.
The Friendsof the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery is a non-profit groupestablished in 1977, just one year after the Gallery was opened on the SouthernUtah University campus. For nearly 35 years the Friends have helpedenrich lives through their sponsorship of world-class exhibitions andoutstanding arts education programs. Each year Friends'-supported exhibitions attract legions of art lovers fromthroughout the intermountain west. In Focus: National Geographic GreatestPortraits exhibition saw a record number of attendees from throughout theregion.  Other Friends' supported exhibitions seen in recent years at theBraithwaite supported by the Friendsinclude Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos, Chihuly Baskets, Soviet Era Art: 1917-1991 and JimJones: Recent Paintings. All of these exhibitions were free to the generalpublic.
Spenda Saturday at SUU´s Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery and learn more about quiltingand the color in the animal kingdom. For moreinformation about these events, please visit thegallery website at www.edu/pva/artgallery beginning in mid-September.