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CHALLENGE: HOW AMAZING!

How Amazing!

Textile Experiments

2^nd Small Size Challenge

74 textile artists coming from ten different European countries created pieces of art and entered the challenge. They used at least one kind of textile and also one kind of non-textile materials - the choice of technique(s) was up to them - to create a piece of work based on their own original ideas and design. So there are now art works which make us say: Oh! How Amazing!

The exhibition is planned to be shown at various venues. Further info

Some of the participating artists will give some workshops, demonstrations and classes. Further info (sorry, available on German speaking page only - please use your browser's back button to return to this page)

From now on there is a CD-ROM featuring all creations submitted available. On the CD-ROM you will find a photograph of each submission as well as some interesting comments stated by the artists (in German). The price of each CD-ROM is 12,- EUR plus shipping and handling: 2,50 EUR within Germany (not insured) or 3,50 EUR within Europe (not insured).

To order your CD-ROM or for further information send an e-mail, please.

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Clicking on the links listed below you will find the websites / blogs etc. of some of the participating artists:

Marianne Bender-Chevalley (CH)

Irmhild Biehusen (NOR)

Ursula Brenner (D)

Juliette Eckel (D)

Regula Emmenegger (CH)

Denise Halter-Eichenberger (CH)

Ina Hantschmann (D) blog website

Friederike Hoerst-Röhl (D)

Alicia Merrett (UK)

Wil Opio Oguta (NL)

Frieda Oxenham (UK) blog website

Cécile Trentini (CH)

Angelika Westermann (D)

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Some impressions of the exhibition at Pforzheim at my husband's office from 6 to 20 April 2008:

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Photographers: Dr. Wolfgang und Gudrun Heinz

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1 - 4 May 2008: Patchworktage at Einbeck - Loens Realschule hosted "Verblueffend! Textile Experimente / How Amazing! Textile Experiments" - so many visitors and interesting contacts and a lot of conversation - a great deal of congratulations for the participating artists which I would like to pass on to all of you - thank you very much!

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Photographer: Dr. Wolfgang Heinz

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Have a look at an article I wrote for the magazine "verFilzt Und zugeNaeht", Issue 19 (summer 2008) about those artists who integrated felt or felting in their works in some way (but alas - in German):

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(by courtesy of Maro Verlag - website)

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How Amazing! Textile Experiments - all the pieces are on display at Stoff-Keller. This lovely quilt shop is located in the picturesque historic city center of Berne (Switzerland) - Vernissage: 20 May 2008:

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Photographer: Dr. Wolfgang Heinz

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From 7 to 18 October 2008 Quilt Corner in Karlsruhe hosted How Amazing! Textile Experiments:

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Photographers: Dr. Wolfgang und Gudrun Heinz

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Take a look at an article about the "Patchworktage at Einbeck" publicised in the magazine "Les Nouvelles" by the Association France Patchwork, N° 98, September 2008. "How Amazing! Textile Experiments" is mentioned as well as the image of the art work "Lebensfreude", entered by Marlis Bruppacher (CH), was chosen for an example.

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"Les Nouvelles" N° 99 (December 2008), the magazine published by the Association France Patchwork, reports about the exhibition "How Amazing! Textile Experiments":

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From January 31 to March 15, 2009 the Textil- und Rennsport Museum, Antonstraße 6, D-09337 Hohenstein-Ernstthal, hosted How Amazing! Textile Experiments

Here are some impressions of the vernissage on Friday, January 30, 2009:

Museum manageress Marina Palm while giving an address of welcome

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Photographer: Gudrun Heinz

About 60 visitors as well as representatives of both of the local newspapers and TV attended the vernissage to take a look at the 115 exhibits. The museum showed the art works gallerylike in two large extra rooms.

On the occasion of the exhibition the museum offered two workshops on the opening weekend. Teacher was Gudrun Heinz, some results you will find here (Note: Linked to a German speaking page, please use your browser's back button to return to this page.)

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Stadtmuseum Hornmoldhaus, Hauptstraße 57, D-74321 Bietigheim-Bissingen, hosted How Amazing! Textile Experiments from March 29 to April 13, 2009.

Have some interesting impressions:

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Photographer: Gudrun Heinz, by courtesy of Stadtmuseum Hornmoldhaus

Some workshops, sponsored by the Stadtmuseum, were offered in order to enable some interested visitors to be creative as well as to discover new activities. Some participating artists demonstrated several techniques or held workshops with different topics:

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Marlis Bruppacher was instructing felting

A wide range of wool in order to felt provides a great deal of fun

Tina Mast (on the right), author of "Farbenfrohes Patchwork im Blockhaus-Stil", a book about log-cabin patterns for beginners

Hilde Welz, teacher of the workshop "Stueck für Stueck zur neuen Flaeche" - result

"Kreativ auf kleinstem Raum" - Doerthe Lustnauer was designing AMCs

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From 26 April to 25 May 2009 Inge van Kann, a so called trash-art-artist who participates in "How Amazing! Textile Experiments" by herself, presented the Exhibition in her Kunstpraxis in Mechernich (Germany):

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Many thanks to Frau van Kann for the photographs!

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At the Museum an der Stadtmuehle in Pappenheim (near Nuremberg) you will have the last chance to attend the How Amazing! Textile Experiments exhibition from 3 - 25 October 2009: