Day Fifteen - She Made Her Mark

I thought you might like to see just a bit of my working conditions. I'm working with the database spreadsheet that Peg Keeney and I built weeks ago. I've cut and pasted the two legal size sheets together so that I can read straight across. I got out the big aluminum ruler so that I could keep track and just get the information on one artist.

Um,. . even that did not work completely well. There are at least a dozen artists out there who have received scrambled emails from me. I have gotten the name right and the art work wrong. I have gotten the name wrong and the art work right. I think I have responded to every email pointing out my flaws. I think I have gotten it all sorted out.

If you recognize yourself in the above paragraph and have not contacted me for a correction, please email me at thelmasmith@thelmasmith.com.

I think - after what I learned about image sizes - the next thing I have learned is that posting incomplete information prior to midnight of the deadline is confusing. I should have gotten completely, accurately, double checked, finished before I released any information. Tonight, midnight, February 5, 2007, is the deadline. I was trying to be nice to people. If you let someone know as soon as possible you release that quilt for other entries. Sadly, early release combined with my dyslexic fingers, eyes, and mind has created unhappiness for a lot of artists. I am truly sorry for this.

This is the floor plan of the Grand Parlor in The Marie Webster House, The Quilters' Hall of Fame. The capital letters are the identifying letter of the quilts and where, exactly, they hang. Tomorrow I have to make four copies of all the floor plans. Each room has a xerox of the wall elevation; those letters are identical to the letter on the top of the inch to a foot scale, color, copy of the artwork. The original copy, with images that are hinged like an old stamp album will be sent to Marion, Indiana.

The curator, Ann Calland, has a staff of docents who will use these diagrams to ensure that the quilts are hung as I have envisioned the exhibition. It has been a very difficult but delightful task for me. I have been used to hanging things in one big room. A residential space presents all sorts of new and unusual challenges. I met those challenges head on and succeeded.

Here is the list of the two extra exhibitions. They have been combined into She Made Her Mark, Too. If you have an email that says accepted into portrait or accepted into mixed bag, those entries are now in She Made Her Mark, Too.

Anne Copeland is very ill. She and I spoke by phone Saturday afternoon. She is too ill to handle the extras. The Art Commission situation in Los Angeles County and the State of California is a real Catch 22. If you cannot prove that the public has provided a certain amount of funding, neither will offer you a grant. You cannot get a grant if you are not serving your local community. Since Anne serves an international committee she gets not even $500 - which is the usual amount - from either level. That is why I keep publishing this link for paypal donations. Pay pal charges the recipient of funds a certain flat fee plus a percentage for the use of their services. You lose about 8%. I'm hoping that everyone on the quiltart list will understand the need for supporting those who support them. A $2. donation from thousands of people will allow the main exhibition - the list published on Day Fourteen - to go to Houston.

Exhibition venues for She Made Her Mark, Too are pending. They will be exhibited publicly. Have faith and patience. As usual, Blogger doesn't respect my tabs.

She Made Her Mark, Too
Artist’s Selections


Ann Frank Terry Grant

Autumn Gypsy Rose Susan Schrott

Continuing Legacy Dianne Leatherdale Johnson

Daisy Jamie Fingal

Don’t Say Goodbye Stacy Hurt

Dorothea Heidi Miracle-McMahill

Equality - Eleanor Roosevelt Cynthia A. Morgan

Foremothers Shari Adkisson

Georgia On My Mind Marilyn Gillis

Harlow Theresa L. Shippy

I Remember You Well Susan Sanborn North

Isabel Dianna Callahan

It’s Really Just Black and White Wendy Wetzel

Linda Z. Smith Barbara Douglas

Marianne Peggy Schroeder

Modifications Carol Taylor

Ode To Dorothy Gwyned Trefethen

Oprah Gayle McKay

Peace’s Walk Julie Zaccone Stiller

Pinwheel Garden Jane Gnoit

Psyche Linda Campbell Reilly

Revelation Vivien Zept

Sacajewea J. Marie Norris

Stars and Stripes Marcia Ann Kuehl

She Makes Good Beer, Too Ginger Henkel

The Birth of Feminism Sue Lemmo

To the Ladies of Gee’s Bend Loris Bogue

Uncommon Valor Lynn Drennen

1850 Karen Maru






Day fifteen was three hours in the afternoon and three hours in the middle of the night. Another six woman hours for anyone who is keeping track.