NEW: Lauren Kingsland's Work Featured at:
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"Warm Thoughts: Inspired Quilts to Beautify your Life."
Show Dates: January 5-30, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday January 7, 1-5 pm
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NEW: Lauren Kingsland's Work Featured in:
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Lauren Kingsland has been making quilts professionally since 1988. Her work is exhibited in galleries and in public and private collections throughout the country. She is dedicated to quiltmaking as a medium for storytelling, for building community and for healing and wellness. She is a visiting artist with the Arts and Humanities program of Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington , D.C.

Lauren on Quilts and Being Well - We say, "putting the pieces together" as a way of understanding how things are and how they can be, whether making a quilt or in other aspects of life. Quilts can be a therapy to make or to give or to receive.

Visitors to her studio in the historic Gaithersburg Arts Barn can observe first-hand how quilts are made today by watching Lauren and her staff create commission pieces for clients. Group visits and private consultations by appointment. For directions...

Her popular book,
"The Extraordinary T-shirt Quilt -
A Scrapbook You Can Sleep Under"
is a clear, practical guide to creating this contemporary style of memory quilt. The book grew out of the experience of making T-shirt quilt commissions for clients as graduation gifts, or in honor of someone or something special. Order a quilt...

On designing from recycled garments - "The T-shirt quilt tells the story of the person who collected the shirts. Each one I make is an original, just like that person."

Lauren offers lectures and workshops on her work and techniques for guilds, shops, conferences and other groups. Workshops & Lectures are also offered through the City of Gaithersburg...

On classes - Learning to make a quilt can be a tool for a deeper knowing of our creative selves.

"Love Notes - kolam quilt" - This quilt is a melding of my series of improvizational pieced scrap quilts with the Kolam Quilts Series...

While traveling in southern India in 2008 I was enchanted by the continuous line drawings I saw on the ground everywhere, the kolam. This women?s meditative tradition has become the focus of a continuing series of art quilts. I use Mother of Pearl buttons as the reference dots integral to the designs and an appliqued bias strip for the line itself. My friend Shanthi Chandrasekar and I have exhibited our kolam based work together. According to her Indian grandmother, the kolam represents that we have challenges in our life (the dots) and can skillfully create a beautiful design around them (the line).

If you are in the vicinity of Laurel Maryland, this summer, please stop in at Tai Sophia Institute to see 19 pieces of my work. Enjoy!!

"Pieces as Prayers: Kolam and Kaleidoscope Quilts"
June 3 - August 27, 2011
Himmelfarb Gallery, Tai Sophia Institute
7750 Montpelier Road, Laurel, MD 20723
www.tai.edu

Artist Reception: Wednesday, June 15, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday: 8:00 a.m.- 7:00 p.m.; Friday: 8:00
a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; Saturday: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

"Symmetry and reflection speak to our fundamental yearning for balance and order in ourselves and in the world. Kingsland's quilts explore the beauty of this balance through the Indian Kolam tradition and the magic of peeking into a kaleidoscope."