Kena Tangi Dorsey, is a quilt artist, teacher, designer, mentor and owner of Kena Quilt Studio which was launched in May 2021. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, Kena moved to New York City and lived there for 18 years before moving west to Los Angeles, CA in 2006 to go to film school and pursue a filmmaking career. Kena began quilting 22 years ago while living in Harlem. Although she still enjoys taking master classes and learning new techniques, She was originally self taught and started out by learning the basic techniques for piecing traditional blocks and patterns. Early on, Kena was influenced by many of the Harlem Renaissance artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Zora Neale Hurston, James Van Der Zee, and Langston Hughes, to name a few. So, it’s no surprise that when she quickly became intrigued with portrait quilts, that she began making raw edge appliqué story and art quilts using images that reflect African American people. While living in Harlem, New York, Kena had an abundance of access to African shops and boutiques along 125th Street, so she began infusing African wax prints, kente cloth and mud cloth textiles into her quilting projects. She also loves working with Indonesian Batiks. Kena teaches both in- person and live virtual classes and workshops at Guilds and Conferences all over. Kena was the Showcase Presenter at The Quilt Africa Summit in Summer 2022, and her Self -Portrait Quilt “September 23rd” was published in this Summer 2022 edition of “The Art Quilting Studio Magazine” and some of her original quilt patterns using African print fabrics were published in Spring 2022, Issue 88 of “Today’s Quilter Magazine.” Her Art Portrait Quilt “ Two- Spirit” was featured and Juried in the Pacific International Quilt Festival in November 2022. Another series of her portrait quilts were featured in the Winter 2023 edition of “The Art Quilting Studio Magazine.” When not designing and making quilts, Kena teaches filmmaking and television production to high school students and is also an adjunct professor at a local college where she teaches cinema and multi camera television studio production courses every semester.
Event details: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 Socializing starts at 6:30 pm, program begins at 7 pm Free to Lakeside Quilting Guild members, $5 for non-members, payable via Zelle to [email protected] (this email is the contact for Zoom link and more info). Chicago Lakeside Quilt Show
Sat. and Sun. April 20-21, 2024 Ray Elementary School Kimbark and 57th Street Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago Quilts, handmade gifts and refreshments $10 admission, children free For information on entering quilts into the show and more visit our website http://lakesidequiltingguild.weebly.com/ Sponsored by Lakeside Quilt Guild The Lakeside Quilting Guild supported by the Michele Makinen Education Fund is pleased to present Quilting and Community: Building a World One Stitch at a Time, a lecture by Dr. Tracy Vaughn-Manley on September 12th @ 7 pm. Dr. Vaughn-Manley is a renowned quilter and Assistant Professor of Black Studies at Northwestern University. She will examine how Black women writers use quilts/quilting in their work to assert individual and collective agency and engage in community building.
Admission: Free to Lakeside Quilting Guild members/ $10 for guests Date/Time: September 12, 2023 @ 7 pm Place: Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL More about Dr. Vaughn-Manley How Should I Quilt That? - Whether quilting on a longarm or a domestic machine, we all struggle with the same thing….How do we decide how to quilt our quilts. Let’s get those quilt tops quilted!!!! Come and let me share my tips and tricks with you to help you in this process. This is a fun lecture that is just packed with great quilts!!! June 13, 2023 @ 7 pm on Zoom The program is free to paid members of Lakeside Quilting Guild. Cost is $5.00 for guests. Payment is accepted by Zelle to [email protected]. Please make sure your e-mail address is on the Zelle payment so you receive the link to the program on Zoom. About Jane Hauprich : I am an award winning quilter and quilt instructor. I live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I first started piecing quilts in 1998. I have learned a lot since that time and most likely have a lot more to learn. I have had a Handi Quilter Sweet Sixteen and then upgraded to a Handi Quilter Avante. I now own a Handi Quilter Capri and a Handi Quilter Amara with ProStitcher. I specialize in free motion custom quilting. All of my custom quilting is free motion. While I do tend to use my ProStitcher for quilting edge to edge customer quilts. My love of free motion stems from loving the creative side of quilting and you will more than likely find me at my long arm more often than I am piecing quilts at my regular sewing machine anymore. My quilting philosophy is this……I believe that each quilt is special and deserves quilting that accentuates it’s beauty and uniqueness. I teach free-motion quilting classes using your home machines, mid-arms, or longarms. These classes enable quilters to finish their own quilts. In each level of classes (beginners, intermediate or advanced) I teach designs that include all over patterns, and designs that will fit into squares, triangles and sashings, so that when you are done with a class you will be able to quilt one of your own quilt tops using what you have learned in class. My virtual classes have been a huge success!! LQG will be at the Community Art Fair!
Come by our tent (near the entrance to the Bixler Playlot) to see our quilted handcrafts and displays. The Community Art Fair is located on the north side of 57th Street between Ray School and Kenwood, adjacent to the 57th Street Art Fair Art Fair Hours: Saturday, June 3, 2023 11:00 am - 6:00 pm Sunday, June 4, 2023 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Ever wonder - what would this quilt look like if I made it in another color way? If I used plaids and stripes instead of florals? Well, I can't tell you what EVERY quilt would look like, but we can explore some practical examples together! In a fun format, we will compare quilts made in florals versus batiks, reproduction fabrics versus crisp modern prints, brights versus pastels. Gather inspiration and insight into the choices for your next project!
https://www.tamarinis.com/gallery.htm Join the Lakeside Quilting Guild on Tuesday, February 14, 2023 for “Seeing Double" with Tammy Silvers of Tamarinis. This program will be virtual and free to members; guests ($5 cost) can also view the presentation. Guests should contact [email protected] to arrange payment and obtain the link for the presentation. Join the Lakeside Quilting Guild on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 for "Color Magic" with Julia Graves. This program will be virtual and free to members; guests ($5 cost) can also view the presentation. Guests should contact [email protected] to arrange payment and obtain the link for the presentation. Julia Graves started her quilting business, Special Occasion Quilts LLC, in 2007 and teaches, lectures, designs patterns, makes commission quilts, longarms for others and sells & services APQS longarm machines. She won Best Longarm Machine Workmanship Wall Quilt Category at the 2016 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, has had quilts published in books by Gloria Loughman, Katie Pasquini-Masupust and MJ Kinman, was an Artist in Residence at Empty Spools in 2019, and taught at Empty Spools Seminars and Hudson River Valley Art Workshops. Julia has been sewing since she was ten and always loved fabric, needle arts and the entire creative process. She did her apprenticeship as a quilter by making a quilt for each of her nieces and nephews (and thinks she should have counted them before making this promise – there were 32!). She has since made more quilts than she can count, many for charity, and is partial to scrap quilts and working with color to achieve amazing results. Visit her gallery on her website at http://www.soquilts.com. You can also find her on Instagram at #juliagraves82, or Facebook at soquilts. Julia lives in Leesburg Virginia. Need to restock your crafting cupboard? Build up your quilting stash? The Lakeside Quilting Guild is holding a sale with lots of fabric (sold by the pound), yarn, buttons, rulers, art supplies, quilting & art books, paints and more. Great bargains and really nice materials!
Saturday, August 27th 10 AM - 4 PM First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, Porter Room 6400 S. Kimbark Ave Email with any questions: [email protected] |
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