Bar-b-que

 

Friday, April 11, UNITE will help sponsor an outdoor bar-b-que on the campus of Union College.  Tickets will be sold. Portions of proceeds will benefit the UNITE Collation. Below are the cooks from 2007.

 Redbud Trail Festival & Quilt Workshop

Quilt Raffle

 

The Redbud Trail Quilt Guild is raffling off a queen size quilt made with Civil War reproduction fabrics in the Jacob’s Ladder pattern. It was pieced by members of the quilt guild and is free motion machine quilted.  See any quilt guild member for more information. The raffle will take place in the gym at Union College at 5:30 pm on Saturday, April 12, 2008.
Text Box: Union National Bank, The Town & Country Homemakers & The Redbud Trail Quilt Guild Sponsors of the 3rd Annual Redbud Trail Quilt Show Quilts will be displayed upstairs in the gym on the Union College campus. Quilts will be judged by a national certified quilt judge. Cash prizes and ribbons will be awarded. Categories Are: Hand Quilted: All quilting will be done by hand. Should be bed-size quilt. Machine Quilted: Must be free-motion quilted by amateur or professional quilter. No repeat pattern quilting will be judged. Should be bed-size quilt. Small Quilts: Can be baby, crib or lap size quilts but must measure NO MORE than 250 inches around the perimeter. This can be in any proportion that equals 250” Non-Traditional Quilts: This include wall hangings, art quilts and heavily embellished quilts. Hand Appliqué or Embroidered: Work must be done by hand and will include cross- stitch. Viewer’s Choice and Best of Show Awards will also be given. Text Box: Silent Auction

Special Projects/ Events

Kentucky Blue Grass Spring Nationals Lawnmower Race

 

 

April 26 & 27, 2008 at Thompson MowerPlex

To learn more about lawn mower racing

 

www.letsmow.com

The Town & Country Homemakers will sponsor a silent auction during the festival and will feature many hand-made items. 

 

Artist Showcase

Pat Banks

 

About the Artist:

 

Pat was born in Mansfield Ohio, February 1955, raised in Evansville Indiana and went “home” every chance she got with her family to eastern Kentucky where the rest of the extended family were. She now lives and works in her studio/home that she and her husband, Alan, built in northern Madison County.  Alan is the Director for the Center for Appalachian Studies at EKU and a Sociologist. They have two wonderful grown sons, raise a vegetable/flower garden, keep about ten cats (outside) and have a gorgeous lab named Cinnamon. Pat has been painting all of her life. Her travels, gardens and adventures, influence and inspire her work. She is also the Kentucky Riverkeeper.

Pat works primarily in watercolor and acrylics. Painting is the lens she uses to explore and interpret the world, especially eastern Kentucky, her home. The beauty of the hills, valleys and rivers inspires the expression of an artist and the concern of an environmentalist. Taking the time to walk paths in the woods and fields, float down the eternal streams, rivers and study the “wild things” brings the appreciation of the preciousness and fragility of this wondrous place. Her watercolor techniques have developed over time.  She starts most paintings with lots of water, then slowly builds the color and value with transparent layers of controlled washes, finishing with fine brush work.

 

Pat’s work is featured in various publications and shown through various venues through out the region; juried fairs, shows, events and galleries.   She has been a visiting artist to: Japan, Ecuador and France. She is a veteran Roster Artist with the Kentucky Arts Council, KPAN advisor, Visual Artist at the Market and member of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen.

Pat Banks, Richmond KY

 patbanks@dishmail.net