Through A Glass Darkly

This beautiful art quilt, entitled “ Through A Glass Darkly“,  is part of our most recent exhibit, Stitch Therapy” This exhibit debuted at the July 2024 Pacific international Quilt Festival. This art piece was made by Laura Bisagna.

Laura Bisagna's "Oops?!"

"Oops?!" is one of Laura Bisagna's most recent fiber art pieces. It was included in Beyond the Edge Artist's exhibit, "Between Heaven and Earth". The background piecing is amazing on this whimsical piece!

Laura Bisagna - Mug Rug

This Holiday Season we decided to do a Mug Rug or Small Art Piece Exchange. This post shows one of the mug rugs created by Laura Bisagna for this exchange. Laura has been creating with hexagons over the last few months. 

The mug rug measures about 8" x 10" and is made with batik fabrics.

Staying Safe

Beyond the Edge Artists hope all of you are safe and healthy. 

Artwork by Laura Bisagna

"Put A Bird On It!" exhibit at Pacific International Quilt Festival

"Put A Bird On It!" exhibit is traveling to Pacific International Quilt Festival. Click here for more information about the quilt show.

Santa Clara Convention Center
5001 Great America Parkway

Santa Clara, CA 95054 
October 11 - 14, 2018

This is how we describe this exhibit:

“While the theme conjures up images in the mind of the viewer, the amazingly original art work provides insights into each artist’s individual vision and their interpretations of the subject. The diversity of their dreams is truly a gift.”

"Bye-Bye Birdie" by Laura Bisagna

 

Artwork by Laura Bisagna.
Created for the exhibit: "Put A Bird On It"

Artist Statement:
"Inspired by the character Betty "Birdie" Draper from the television series Mad Men."

SAQA SoCal/SoNev "Untethered Thread"

Congratulations to Eileen Wintemute and Teresa Shippy!  Their artwork was accepted into SAQA SoCal/SoNev "Untethered Thread" curated by BTE's own, Laura Bisagna.The exhibit will be held at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts in June 2017. The artist reception will be held on Sunday, June 11th 1pm-3pm.

Poway Center for the Performing Arts

15498 Espola Road

Poway, California 92064 

"Vintage Tandem Bicycle" by Teresa Shippy

"Moodshadows" by Eileen Wintemute

"Bye Bye Birdie"

"Bye-Bye Birdie" by Laura Bisagna

Artwork by Laura Bisagna.
Created for the exhibit: "Put A Bird On It"





Artist Statement:

"Inspired by the character Betty "Birdie" Draper from the television series Mad Men."

Laura Bisagna "Los Gatos" in SAQA Journal

Laura Bisagna's "Los Gatos" is featured in SAQA's Journal 2016 Volume 26, No. 4.

Artist Statement:

"This diptych was inspired by historical gates found in Los Gatos, California."

"Los Gatos" by Laura Bisagna, 42" x 43", 2011

 

Infinite Connections at Road to California

If you are going to Road to California this weekend, we hope you have a chance to see the new "Infinite Connections" exhibit from Beyond the Edge Fiber Artists.

"Six Degrees of Separation" by Laura Bisagna

Laura Bisagna's Artwork at Fallbrook Library

"Boundless" exhibit at Cerritos Library

“Boundless” exhibit will premiere at the Cerritos Library in August and September 2015. Each member was given an 18” x 36” stretched canvas to use as the base of their artwork. They were allowed to have their artwork go outside the boundary of the canvas. In the following weeks, detailed images from each member’s artwork will be featured on this blog.

Cerritos Library

18025 Bloomfield Ave.

Cerritos, CA

(562) 916-1350 

Today's feature artist is Laura Bisagna. "Waterlily" is stitched, beaded, and painted fabric.

detail of "Waterlily" by Laura Bisagna

"Invisible"

Laura Bisagna created this fiber art piece for Beyond the Edge's "My Inner Self Portrait" exhibit. This exhibit will be shown next in New Jersey at Mancuso's Quiltfest of New Jersey from March 5 through 8. This show is held at the Garden State Exhibit Center, 50 Atrium Drive, Somerset, New Jersey. We hope you have a chance to see the exhibit.

Laura calls this piece "Invisible".

Here is her Artist Statement:

“No matter what happens, always keep your childish innocence.  It’s the most important thing.”  ~ Federico Fellini

Invisible

MY INNER SELF PORTRAIT

Detail from Laura Bisagna's "Invisible"

A fine arts fiber exhibit exploring aspects of self-portraiture. In this exhibit the artist was asked to look beyond the mere physical and instead present an inner view. The art work may reflect how the artist sees themselves at this time, or at a formative moment in their life. Each piece reveals something unique to the individual and at the same time, that which is universal to all.

Today we feature Laura Bisagna's "Invisible" fiber art piece that is part of our brand new exhibit entitled "My Inner Self Portrait".

Laura's Artist Statement – “No matter what happens, always keep your childish innocence.  It’s the most important thing.”  ~ Federico Fellini

This exhibit will debut at the 2015 Road to California quilt show, which will run from January 22 through 25 at the Ontario Convention Center.

This is the 25th anniversary for Road to California and we are proud to have this venue to showcase our new exhibit. 

We are featuring details of each of the pieces leading up to the show. We hope you enjoy them and have a chance to see the full "My Inner Self Portrait" exhibit at Road.  For more information about the show, click on this link: Road to California

1000 Quilt Inspirations

Sandra Sider's book, "1000 Quilt Inspirations: Colorful and Creative Designs for Traditional, Modern and Art Quilts" will be available soon, and we are proud to announce that four Beyond the Edge member's fiber art works will be included in the book: Cynthia Catlin, Linda Anderson, Teresa Shippy, and Laura Bisagna. Teresa's mini-bus art quilt is featured on the cover of the book, in the lower, right hand corner. Congratulations to all those whose work is published and especially our three artists!

Congratulations!

Bali Boys by Linda Anderson

Work by three of our artists has been given special recognition at the Escondido Arts Partnership Municipal Gallery's newest show, Fiber & Art Quilts. 

Linda Anderson's "Bali Boys",  shown above, won first place.

Mia Bloom's "Underneath" and Laura Bisagna's "Pointless" were also called out for a special mention by the art gallery.

Information about the show can be found below:

The Escondido Arts Partnership Municipal Gallery's newest show, Fiber & Art Quilts with juror Deborah Jarchow, features a mix of ephemeral fiber and traditional art quilts by California artists.  Pieces in the exhibition such as Stephanie Bedwell's Unforeseen Buoyancy convey the duality of the ephemeral nature of fiber and the strength of the human spirit through fiber vessels. Other pieces like Laura Bisagna's Pointless and Mia Bloom's Underneath explore traditional forms of quilting within modern subject matter and with ironic wit. 

The exhibition runs from August 8 through September 27, 2014 at the Escondido Municipal Gallery.  The gallery is open Tues. 11:00AM - 6:00PM and Thurs. through Sat. 11:00AM - 4:00PM.  Meet the artists during our opening reception on Saturday, September 13 from 5:30 - 8:00PM.  We are located at 262 E. Grand Ave. in Escondido.