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Front Range Contemporary Quilters (FRCQ)

Front Range Contemporary Quilters (FRCQ) is dedicated to promoting innovative contemporary quilt making and fiber art for the Colorado art quilt community.

http://www.artquilters.org

05/15/2026

Cindy Grisdela is coming to FRCQ!!! There are still a few spots left in her 2 day workshop with us! You can sign up at
www.artquiters.org and click on meetings and workshops. This is a great opportunity to learn from an improv master!

https://cindygrisdela.com/2024/03/17/so-much-fun-with-abstracting-from-art
Cindy Grisdela Workshop – “Abstracting from Art”
June 6-7, 2026 (Saturday and Sunday), 9:00am to 4:00pm
Registration now open to members and non-members. Register/pay with the PayPal button which give you a drop down box for the different costs. Please choose Member or Non-Member to continue to payment:
Cost: $325 Member, $375 Non-Member
Location: Boy Scouts of America, 10455 W 6th Ave #100, Lakewood, CO 80215

Use a work or art as inspiration for an abstract quilt design. It can be a painting you admire, a photograph, a graphic design, or anything else you find inspiring. We will be using the source as inspiration only for color and shape—not representing the work itself. Through lectures, demos, and individual discussions we will study our inspirations and how to translate them into fabric. Because we start with different inspiration pieces, all the work will be different. My examples include work inspired by the painter Paul Klee, a photograph of flowers, and a graphic clothing design.
Read my blog post about teaching this class at https://cindygrisdela.com/2024/03/17/so-much-fun-with-abstracting-from-art/
https://cindygrisdela.com/

04/16/2026

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT! join us for our first in person meeting of 2026! (this meeting will also be hybrid on Zoom).
We meet this Saturday morning, 4/18, at 10 am at the Boy Scouts Facility in Lakewood by 6th Ave. and Kipling. For more info visit www.artquilters.org Besides our presenter there will be snacks and door prizes!!!

Our presenter will be Jennie Kae Parks " Every Quilt is a Learning Quilt."
With a passion for sharing knowledge and inspiring creativity, Jenny Kae brings dynamic presentations that engage, educate, and encourage members at all levels of experience.
With a warm and approachable demeanor, she creates a welcoming space where members feel encouraged to ask questions, share insights, and connect with one another. By inviting her to present, you can trust that your members will benefit from an enriching and memorable experience that ignites their passion for quilting, builds their skills and strengthens the bonds of their quilting community.
https://jennykaequilts.com/

03/18/2026

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT:
Our March meeting is this coming Saturday, 3/21 at 10am on Zoom only. Please join us for a wonderful presentation by Heidi Zelinski. If you are not a member and would like to attend your first meeting with us for free, please visit our website at art quilters.org for more information.
Please note: the April meeting will be an in person meeting at the Boy Scouts Facility in Lakewood. More on that later!

Heidi Zielinski: Three Layers of Design – My Process
Saturday – March 21, 10:00 am (Zoom)
Heidi Zielinski: Three Layers of Design – My Process
(Zoom only)
https://www.heidizielinski.com/
Heidi grew up and currently lives in western Montana where mountains, rivers, forests and wildlife abound. Her mother, a talented quilter, shared her love of the outdoors with Heidi from the time she was a small child. Her father was an avid birder, professor of Forestry, and watercolor painter of birds in their habitats who also truly appreciated nature. The birds at her feeders, the mountain vistas out her windows and the flowers in her garden—all of these things and more inspire Heidi’s art. Her passion for the medium of fabric and for incorporating stitch and embellishment into her work is obvious.
Heidi has been showing and selling her fiber art under her business name, Fiber Into Art by Heidi, since 2007. She has shown at galleries, national/international level juried art and quilt shows across the country, an annual open house/studio tour, various other regional and local venues. Heidi has had many solo exhibitions and participated in lots of group exhibitions. She has written numerous magazine articles featuring her art and techniques in various print and on-line publications.
She was honored to be invited to be on Quilting Arts TV for two seasons which originally aired in 2022 and 2023. QATV Series 2900 has three episodes featuring Heidi and Series 3000 has one. These can still be seen on PBS as various stations replay the many series of Quilting Arts as well as through downloads of each series available for purchase on the Quilting Daily website. Heidi occasionally teaches and lectures about her work and her techniques for local groups, quilt shops and quilt guilds, but her true passion is to be in the studio making art. The inspiration for the work never wanes and the process and product feeds her soul—as she hopes it does yours.Heidi Zielinski: Three Layers of Design – My Process
Saturday – March 21, 10:00 am (Zoom)

01/14/2026

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT:
Our first meeting of 2026 will be on Zoom only.
Shelley Rhodes will be the featured presenter this Saturday, 1/17 at 10am. If you are not a member and would like to attend please message us at www.artquilters.org for a guest pass for your first meeting with us, OR you could join this lively group of fiber artists and be a member!

About Shelley:
Shelley lives in north west England. She studied graphic design and worked in the television industry before retraining to teach Art and Design in secondary Schools. She has been working as a mixed media artist for over 20 years, making art to sell and exhibit. She is member of the Textile Study Group and continues to teach and give talks. She is the author of ‘Sketchbook Explorations’ and ‘Fragmentation and Repair’.
“Exploring a Theme”
In this talk Shelley shows how she takes an initial idea or concept through various stages to exhibiting finished work. Examples are based on her work investigating coral bleaching and the effects of plastic in the oceans and how one idea often leads to another. She demonstrates how she explores ideas through drawing, mark-making, collage, print and photography. She explains the processes and techniques used while investigating materials,
always taking the ‘what if’ approach, as she her develops ideas.

You will see how she creates samples, records ideas, develops designs and as she works towards presenting and displaying finished pieces.
https://www.shelleyrhodes.co.uk/

12/12/2025

Wishing everyone the most happiest and peaceful of holidays!!!!

10/17/2025

Mini reTREAT Announcement!
Mini reTREAT this Saturday 10/18 at the Boy Scout facility in Lakewood. Treat yourself to an afternoon of stitching with fellow fiber artists! We meet from 12-3. Bring anything you'd like to work on, embroidery, quilting, knitting, crochet, etc. For more info go to our website: https://www.artquilters.org/.../frcq-casual-get-togethers/
These mini reTREATS are how we all get to know each other better and make new friends.

09/20/2025

What a wonderful meeting we had today! First there was a Fabric Feeding Frenzy as someone brought hand dyed fabric give aways to share! Then we had show and tell from 3 members, Sue Lewis, Barbara Olson and Cynthia Jarest. Our presentation was given by Regina Benson, who was so generous with sharing her knowledge and experience as a fiber installation artist. Learn more about Regina at wwww.ReginaBenson.com.

09/16/2025

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT! Our September meeting with be this coming Saturday, 9/20 at 10am at the Boy Scouts Facility (more info on this at our website www.artquilters.org ). We will also be having a Mini Retreat after the meeting, so if you would like to spend some time visiting with other fiber artists while working on one of your projects, Please Stay Afterwards! Mini retreats are from the end of the meeting until about 3pm.
Our presentation for the meeting will be given by Regina Benson, one of the original members of FRCQ and a SAQA Juried Artist Member.
Here's more about Regina:
Colorado textile artist, Regina Benson uses fabric and textile manipulations to create her fiber sculpture art, quilt art designs, and fabric wall hangings. Some of her surface design techniques include snow dyeing, fluid acrylics on fabric, rust dyeing, and different burning techniques.

Regina’s high impact, installation art immerses you in her love of nature, rust, water, the old, and rebirth from the ashes. As a studio artist, she has shown her work nationally and internationally. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums in The Hague in the Netherlands, San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. Her work has been credited with maintaining artistic integrity, technical innovation, and visual excitement.

08/24/2025

A fabulous weekend workshop with Vicki Conley teaching us her methods of applipiecing and paper piecing.

08/13/2025

While there is not a regular meeting this month we are having a MINI RETREAT this coming Saturday 8/16 at the Boy Scout Facility in Lakewood. We are continuing to host Mini-Retreats this year! They will be the 3rd Saturday of the month, January through November, 2025. Please join us
to be with like minded artists,
to bring something you want to sit and work on,
to share a technique,
to watch a demo if someone else wants to share,
to exchange art stuff you no longer want,
to chat and catch up,
to kick around new ideas you want feedback on,
to share information about opportunities, articles, classes, books
and of course to have fun being together
Who knows what other ideas we will come up with?
For more info see our website at www.artquilters.org under the tab Meetings and Workshops, mini retreats.
We hope to see you there!!!!!

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