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SEVENTH BIENNIAL JURIED SHOW & FIBER ARTS EXHIBIT

  Thursday, May 21    10-7 PM

       Friday, May 22    10-7 PM

BIGGER AND BETTER!

Plans for the 2009 Fiesta have been completed, although if history is any indication, detail work will continue right up to opening day!  There are two major changes from the last Fiesta.  First, the Fiesta is moving to bigger and better quarters in the Manuel Lujan Building, still on the Expo New Mexico Fairgrounds!  Second, an assortment of classes has been scheduled to take place on-site in a classroom-dedicated space.  We are very excited to add classes to our venue as Fiesta attendees have been asking for them for years and we believe that the classes will be a valuable addition to the Fiesta experience!  Class titles & teachers, costs, kit fees and registration information will be posted on this website when the details are available.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

The Call for Entry brochure is completed and available on this website.  Click on 2009 Fiesta Exhibit Entry for complete details on entering one or more of your creations and to download entry forms.  It is not too early to start planning your entry strategy now!  (Entry deadline is March 1, 2009.)  Artists are allowed to enter 3 items in any one Division and up to 6 items total in any combination of Divisions, (i.e.) 3 entries in the sewing division, plus 1 entry each in the quilting, beadwork and mixed-media divisions for a total of 6.  We know that fiber artists are jacks-of-all-trades, crossing over into multiple fiber art disciplines; we want to give everyone the opportunity to show a variety of their creative efforts.  The Fiesta is a juried show, so enter your very best!

2009 FIESTA FEATURED ARTIST

The Fiesta is pleased to be hosting Dorothy Bunny Bowen, internationally recognized rozome artist as the 2009 Fiesta Featured Artist.  Ms. Bowen will be on site throughout the Fiesta with her fiber art show, “Out of Time: Ten Thousand Days with a Brush”.  This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to view an extraordinary body of work while visiting with an exceptional artist!

SPECIAL EXHIBITS

The 2009 Fiesta will be presenting “Flora”, a collection of both vintage and new hand-made lace from The Lace Museum in Sunnyvale, California (552 S. Murphy, Sunnyvale, CA 94086).  The Educational Fiber Arts Exhibit of 2007, “Feel the Fiber” will be back by popular demand, updated and expanded; as we are constantly reminded, all of us could use more fiber in our diets, so consider this doctor’s orders and check out the new and improved educational fiber art exhibit in 2009!

FIESTA FASHION SHOWS

The Fiesta Fashion Shows will be back, again hosted by the Albuquerque Chapter of the American Sewing Guild.  Artists from all fiber art disciplines will be back on the stage, a newer and larger stage than ever before, “strutting” their stuff.  The Fiesta Fashion Shows have always been popular and we expect the 2009 Fiesta will be producing even larger shows than in the past!  The fashion show times and forms for participating in a show will be on this website when they are made available, sometime early in the 2009 calendar year.

VENDOR MALL

The Fiesta Vendor Mall will again include many of our favorite purveyors of fiber materials and fiber art.  We have even more space in our new digs, so will be adding a few more vendors to our already outstanding list.  A complete listing of 2009 Fiesta Vendors will be posted on this website when the list is finalized, so keep your eyes peeled (and save your pennies for a shopping blow-out)!  (For a listing of past Fiesta vendors or for more information about becoming a 2009 Fiesta vendor, click Vendors.) 

Hope to see you and your fiber art creations at the 2009 Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta, so mark us in on your 2009 calendar of events!

The Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta will be held in Albuquerque, NM at the Expo New Mexico, home of the New Mexico State Fair (one block North of Central Avenue on San Pedro NE).  Our new location at the Expo is the Manuel Lujan Building.  Admission is $5/ day (children 12 and under are free).  Multi-day passes will be available.

For more Fiesta information please contact:

Show Coordinator: Pat Drennan 505-881-3796 (tpdrenn @ flash.net)

Albuquerque Fiber Arts Council President: Leslie Berky Ashcraft 505-281-5993 (lesash @ q.com)

Anyone interested in Vending at the Fiesta Vendor Mall contact:

Vendor Coordinator: Frances Starnes 505-255-8094 (starnes @ unm.edu)

The Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta 2009 is the seventh biennial show dedicated to fiber arts education and to the display of fiber-related artwork.  Hosted by the Albuquerque Fiber Arts Council, Inc. (AFAC), a tax-exempt, non-profit organization, the Fiesta includes both juried and judged works organized by 16 co-sponsoring New Mexico fiber arts guilds.  Over 500 juried and judged exhibits will be displayed in this show.

The biennial Fiesta is the major fundraiser for the Albuquerque Fiber Arts Council, Inc.