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Child's Play #1
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Orchids Growing Wild
Brave Fans
It's My Painting and I'll Cut It Up If I Want to
Tulips from the Pottery Barn catalog
When we subscribed to Quiltnet in early 1994, among the first postings
we encountered were those of Marina Salume (pronounced Sa-LOO-may). They
stood out from the rest partly because of the exotic name,
and partly because of an aura they radiated.
Marina seemed to know something about everything that had to do with quilting,
or internetting, and had an idea or suggestion for most quilting problems
raised on the list.
Yet there was never any hubris in her postings, offered as they were in a calm,
matter-of-fact way that bespoke deep knowledge and a strong sense of the history of
the Quiltnet community, with which she has been involved almost
since its inception.
Of her quilts she says, "I started out traditional but always changed something,
or designed by quilting patterns, etc. My style has gotten more and more
'non-traditional' but I am always interested in learning new techniques, etc.
I was very influenced by Nancy Crow; she was the first non-traditional quilter
I noticed. Nancy Halpern is another quilt artist I have become friends with after
attending her workshops. But I have always tried to establish my own 'style,'
not just copy the work of my teachers. I think I am finally becoming better at that."
Marina does, indeed, have a unique style. Its influences include everything
from oriental art to her children's school drawings, but the combination of
elements is completely her own, and quite dramatic and striking. Lately she
has added fabric painting to her techniques, and has started to sell her art quilts that
are made using these hand painted fabrics.
She began quilting in 1974: "I was just out of college and broke so I thought
I could 'use up scraps' from my clothes-sewing and make quilts.
My grandmother-in-law lived on a farm in nothern Minnesota and made quilts
for all her beds---she gave us a quilt which I loved. But it did not have enough
quilting to withstand machine washing (with cotton batting) so when it started to
deteriorate I decided I had to replace it. A co-worker was also interested in
learning to quilt so we encouraged each other. I 'invented' chain piecing on
the sewing machine (there were no books about it in those days) when I realized I could
sew all the little triangles faster that way---I made a variation of
'Birds in Flight' for my first quilt. [It was] machine-pieced and hand-quilted with a
bird pattern I designed which was published in Quilters Newsletter in the
mid-70's. Since then I have sent in many articles
to be published in various magazines, mostly 'Quilt World,' and two books;
'Scrap Quilts' by Nancy Martin, and 'Japanese Quilts' by Yuko Watanabe and
Jill Liddell."
(written by Rob Holland for "The Virtual Quilt Newsletter")
Exhibits
Quilts, teapots, and flowers, Studio Gallery, Alameda, CA, 1998
Women Fabric Challenge and Olympus Fabric Challenge, invitational traveling exhibit, various venues in Japan, 1998
Solo exhibit, Sun Microsystems Employee Cafeteria, Menlo Park, CA, 1998
Solo Exhibit, LA Di DA Coffee Shop Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA. Partially funded by a grant from the Community Arts program, Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, Oakland, CA, 1997
"Fiber Expressions II", biannual show, Contemporary Quilt & Fiber Artits, Mountain View, CA, 1997
Artfibers Gallery, Juried Show, San Francisco, CA, 1997
Collective Fusion, No-Trad online group show, New Pieces Gallery, Berkeley CA, 1997
No-Trad Does Nihon, Quilt Week Yokohama, No-Trad online group invitational show, Yokohama, Japan, 1997
New Quilts of Northern California, Juried Show, Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA, 1997
That's Not a Real Quilt, No-Trad on-line group show, shown at Quilt Expo in Lyons, France, International Quilt Show, Houston, Texas, and Hanging by a thread, contemporary quilt exhibit at Northern Arizona University. 1996
New Quilts From Northern California, juried show at Pacific Int'l Quilt Festival, Palm Springs, CA and American Museum of Quilts, San Jose, CA, 1996
Material Expressions: Sculptures and Fibers, Art Concepts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, 1996
Auction Preview Show, San Jose Museum of Quilts, San Jose, CA, 1996
Select Rejects, on-line show of quilts that weren't accepted into Quilt National ‘97, 1996
Clay and Fiber, Juried Show, Santa Cruz Art League Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA, 1995
On-line Alumni Exhibit, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1995
The Internet Connection, No-Trad on-line group show, traveled throughout the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, 1994
Editor's Choice Exhibit, International Quilt Show, Houston, TX, 1985
Solo Exhibit, San Jose Museum of Quilts, San Jose, CA, 1983
Published Work
Patchwork Quilt Tsushin, Japanese quilting magazine, two quilts from No-Trad exhibitions, 1998
Kimono Memory, quilt published in the book Japanese Quilts, by Jill Liddell and Yuko Watanabe, also in Patchwork Quilt Tsushin, Quilters Newsletter, and Quilt World magazines. Also featured on a poster for the San Jose Museum of Quilts fundraising auction, 1986
Scrap Song, published in the book Scrap Quilts by Nancy Martin, 1984
Education
BFA Minneapolis College of Art and Design, major in graphic design
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