June 6 – 11, 2010 (with additional two day workshops on June 12-13, 2010)

With master art quilters Katie Pasquini-Masopust, Sue Benner, Jane Dunnewold, Carol Shinn, and Patty Hawkins.

We follow-up last year’s Inaugural Alegre Retreat with an expanded offering for 2010! Learn from five instructors, experience the all new Palisade Event Center equipped with large classrooms, an art studio, HD theater, café and library, restaurant and more, all in the same inspiring canyon setting.

DETAILS:

Opening reception: June 6^th, 2010

Instruction: June 7 – 11, June 12 – 13, 2010

COURSES:

Five day  – June 7 – 11
Katie Pasquini-Masopust  - Abstracting Designs
Sue Benner – Sewing the Landscape
Carol Shinn – Painting with Freestyle Machine Embroidery
Jane Dunnewold – The New Complex Cloth

Two day  – June 12 -13
Katie Pasquini-Masopust – Stitched Canvas
Carole Shinn – Sampling Freestyle Machine Embroidery Techniques
Jane Dunnewold – Masterful Mixing: Color and You
Patty Hawkins – Collage the Essence (Haiku) of Landscapes

LECTURES:

Katie Pasquini-Masopust: Quilts and Quilt trips: A collection of Katie’s journeys and the funny things that happened on the way to class
Sue Benner: Diversity and Relation in Series Work
Carol Shinn: 20 years of Freestyle Machine Embroidery
Jane Dunnewold:  Art Cloth 2010
Patty Hawkins: Patterns Everywhere! Open your Eyes!

Call 970-931-2458 for a detailed brochure or to register.