I've come to realize something about myself. I'm not a photography buff. In other words, I don't enjoy having my camera handy and ready for taking photos all the time. I do it when I share art stuff here on the blog, but that's about the only time I find that I can tolerate it. So needless to say I don't have a ton of photos to share here from my Houston trip. I do have these from our exhibit and our Thursday night dinner at a fabulous Mexican restaurant called Ninfa's.
The Twelve by Twelve exhibit in Houston was spectacular. Of course I may be a little biased. As you can see in the top two photos, the quilt mosaics were spaced very generously and the space we were in was rectangular in shape and the theme series of quilts all lined the draperies on the inside of the space and the color play quilt series were all hanging around the outside on the draperies. The lighting could have been better.
There was signage next to each quilt mosaic, giving information such as the name of the quilt, it's maker and an artist statement. The signs also acknowledged the sponsor of our exhibit. Del Thomas of the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection very generously sponsored us and made it possible for the quilts to be shown in Houston and other future shows. See the Twelve by Twelve blog for future exhibit information.
There are lots of other photos that many of the other Twelves took and if you visit their blogs (see side bar links on Twelve by Twelve blog) and the Twelve by Twelve blog, you should be able to see some more, and probably better photos of the Twelve's Houston experience.
I'll share some of the purchases I made in Houston in my next post.