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		<title>UNH Professor Explores the Mysticism and Diversity of Spain in Public Talk</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/17/unh-professor-explores-the-mysticism-and-diversity-of-spain-in-public-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. John Chaston, Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire, presented a program titled &#8220;John Chaston on Spain: A Magical Mystery Tour&#8221; on August 16, 2011 at the Hampstead Public Library. The talk is just one offering of the UNH Speaker&#8217;s Bureau program. Chaston is the director of the UNH [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artist Mary Stoudt Chosen for Ohio&#8217;s Quilt National Show: May 28 &#8211; September 5</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/04/27/artist-mary-stoudt-chosen-for-ohios-quilt-national-show-may-28-september-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Award-winning Artist Mary Stoudt Chosen for Ohio’s Prestigious “Quilt National” Show from May 28-Sept. 5 Her colorful and contemporary work also in upcoming shows at some things looming and the GoggleWorks in Reading, PA. &#8220;City View&#8221; Reading, Pa—Award-winning contemporary quilting and fiber artist Mary E. Stoudt (www.marystoudt-artquilts.com/) will be part of three major national and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish Paintings Tell the Story</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/04/24/spanish-paintings-tell-the-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1972-1973, I had the unique opportunity to study Spanish Art at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. As part of my coursework, I studied the great Spanish painters and on winter break, I was able to travel to the central and southern parts of Spain to enjoy seeing some of the works we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art Quilts with Words: A Consolidated List</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/03/02/art-quilts-with-words-a-consolidated-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to create a permanent directory on my website to all of the blog and website entries that I created that are related to my call for &#8220;quilts with words&#8221; last year. Now, they will be easy to find from the list found here: Art Quilts With Words Enjoy! Pat]]></description>
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		<title>The Artist&#8217;s Journey</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/02/15/the-artists-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the essence of art? What leads artists to create? How is art related to quilts? What makes textile art worth collecting personally or preserving in a museum? All of these are evocative questions. Many of them will need to be answered from your own perspective, based on your own experience. Before we consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zentangle Art / Zentangle Quilts</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/01/12/zentangle-art-zentangle-quilts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concept of Zen art or &#8220;zentangles&#8221; was recently developed by Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts. As described in a current article in The Quilter magazine, written by Dawn Goldsmith, Pat Ferguson has adapted the idea into making small quilts that usually are machine stitched with black thread on a white background, although some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Being An Artist</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/04/04/reflections-on-being-an-artist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of his twice-weekly newsletters, in September 2006, Canadian artist Robert Genn, stated, &#8220;Artists need to live in the present tense.&#8221; I cannot think of a statement that has more truth. Once a piece is created, it is past history. It exists as a moment in time, a vision completed, or a mission failed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music, Literature and the Arts and Their Importance</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/01/22/music-literature-and-the-arts-and-their-importance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I can remember, whenever times were lean, as they are now for many people, the first thought is to cut back on spending. Now, it is reasonable to think about that. All of us should have some kind of a budget plan, and trim excess spending wherever we can so that earnings = [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kuna Indians/Mola Makers Seen In Their Own Habitat: Archipelagos Off the Coast of Panama</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/11/03/kuna-indiansmola-makers-seen-in-their-own-habitat-archipelagos-off-the-coast-of-panama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I visited YouTube and just realized that there are quite a few videos of collected molas as well as movies of those who make them, on the archipelago sites off the coast of Panama. I enjoyed watching native Kuna Indian women, with their traditional nose rings and bare feet, making molas and wearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Designs of the Southwest</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/09/23/indian-designs-of-the-southwest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, I hope that you have seen my blog post of last night with the beautiful example of a quilt made by Linda Laird, based on Mayan symbols. The art of primitive man is fascinating and often limited in the color palette used. Of course, man had to adapt to color pigments available to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Angel&#8217;s Heads&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/07/14/angels-heads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, let us turn to the dictionary for an explanation of the word &#8220;angel.&#8221; angel (n): a spiritual being believed to act as an attendant, agent, or messenger of God, conventionally expressed in human form with wings and a long robe. Yesterday, while antique-shopping near Rutland, Vermont, I found a wonderful old print of &#8220;Angel&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artists in New Hampshire</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/05/28/1186/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 01:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art is alive and well in New Hampshire in the home of Bill and Betsy Davis, our longtime friends. Bill has been in love with drawing, ever since he could hold a pencil. Although he has tried other media, he always comes back to charcoal, graphite, and watercolors. He states that he loves the large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put on Your Artist&#8217;s Glasses</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2008/05/04/put-on-your-artists-glasses/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2008/05/04/put-on-your-artists-glasses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 12:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever we are taking a ride in the car, I see countless interesting things that I would love to photograph, but usually it is inconvenient to stop, either because there is no room to pull off the road, or a Mac truck is bearing down on our bumper, or we are on a highway where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Spitzweg, Beloved German Painter</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2008/03/11/carl-spitzweg-beloved-german-painter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my gift subscription copy of German Life, February/March 2008 issue, arrived, I had time to briefly glance at it and then set it aside. Yesterday, I returned to the magazine, only to find an article about Carl Spitzweg, (1808-1885), a famous and much beloved German painter, written by Robert A. Selig who holds a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Lines</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2008/03/01/just-lines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lecturer about art once described drawings as just lines. He said that they can be parallel or they can intersect. Lines can be straight or they can be curved. They can be placed so as to create a &#8220;vanishing point,&#8221; as in looking a long way down a straight road to a place where [...]]]></description>
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