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| Upcoming Events/ Opportunities Thru December 2008 Rags to Rugs Pennsylvania Hooked & Handsewn Lancaster Quilt and Textile Museum,. 37 N Market Street, Lancaster, PA January - May 2008 Memories of My Mother, Wellington County Museum, Fergus, Ontario, Canada519-846-0916 Feb 10-May 25 Mary Sheppard Burton's work at SAMA, Altoona, PA visit www.sama-art.org Tea on March 14th with artist by reservation contact museum Feb 24-May 11 NJ 2008 Arts Annual: Tribal Roots in the Garden State, Montclair Art Museum, 3 S Mountain Ave, Montclair, NJ April-May Shoalhaven Art Gallery, Australia Hooked Rugs May 16-June 25 Fiber Arts Hampshire County Arts Council, Romney, WV www.hampshirearts.org June 6-15 Green Mountain Hooked Rug School, East Randolph, VT classes, exhibit, shop www.greenmountainhookedrugs.com June 27,28 Woolfest, Cockermouth, Cumbria, England July 5- August 16 A-Z of Animals (rag rugs) the work of Louisa and lewis Creed Beverley Arts Gallery, Beverley nr Hull East Yorkshire, England August 13-16 Celebrations Hooked Rugs Exhibit, vendors and workshops Sauder Village, Archbold, OH www.saudervillage.com Aug 16, 17 Art in the Pen, Skipton Auction Mart, Skipton, Nth Yorkshire, UK Sept 19- November 1 ART RUGS: The "Art" of Playing Cards Carnegie Center of Art and History, 201 East Spring Street, New Albany, Indiana www.theartrugs.com October 2008-December 2008 Memories of My Mother, Minden Hills Museum, Minden, Ontario, Canada November 8-16 Hooked in the Mountains XIII Shelburne Museum, Vermont Exhibit, Vendors, Workshops www.greenmountainrughookingguild.org January 5 - March , 2009 Stripes: US/Japan RugHooking Exhibit III, curated by Linda Rae Coughlin and Kei Kobayashi at the Ginza Mikimoto Gallery, Tokyo April 2009- June 2009 Memories of My Mother, Orillia Museum, Orillia, Ontario, Canada June 5-14, 2009 Green Mountain Hooked Rugs School, East Randolph, VT classes, exhibit, shop www.greenmountainhookedrugs.com Septemper 4- October 24 Stripes: US/Japan RugHooking Exhibit III, curated by Linda Rae Coughlin and Kei Kobayashi at Carnegie Center of Art and History, 201 East Spring Street, New Albany, Indiana USA Other Opportunites to View/Read more about RugHooking HG-TV Uncommon Threads on DIY network 5 episodes on rug hooking featuring members Marilyn Bottjer, Diane Phillips, Rae Harrell search HGTV or for Uncommon Threads for viewing schedule. Publications: Contemporary Hooked Rugs and Modern Hooked Rugs, Linda Rae Coughlin, Schiffer Books, 2006,2007 both volumes available from Linda Rae at playingcardrugs@cs.com Creative Journey into Rug Hooking, Sybil Osicka, contact Sybil in Ohio, US at sybil@sybilosicka.com Hooked Rugs Today 2006 (two volumes), Amy Oxford, Schiffer Books and the Hooked Rugs Today 2004 contact aoxford@together.net Rug Hooking Magazine www.rughookingmagazine.com |
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