News
Louise signing her book at Joseph-Beth Booksellers on the South Side in Pittsburgh, September 9, 2006.
Current News
- Louise will be having a show called Patch Works with her husband, Steve Root, at The Framery in Lawrenceville. The opening reception for the show will be Friday, June 6, 2008 from 6-8 PM, and the exhibition will continue through July 12, 2008. Read more...
- “Entering the Garden: A Spiritual Tent” has found a home in The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection of Florida Atlantic University Library. Read more...
- Check out Louise's latest work, including her french knot embroideries and a commission in which she took a client's photo and made it into and art quilt.
- Louise will have a display of memory quilts on the 5th floor of Grace Library at Carlow University beginning the week of August 13, 2007.
Past News
- Louise has started a blog about living in Pittsburgh on Hotels by City. Check it out.
- Louise will be participating in the 2007 Jewish Book & Culture Fair and at the Milwaukee JCC the week of November 12, 2007 and will be mounting a display of her quilts in conjunction with the Fair and in celebration of contemporary Jewish arts and culture.
- Experience Louise's Spiritual Tent as part of Seasons | The Fabric Art of Tina Rieger, June 4–June 29th, 2007 at the American Jewish Museum at the JCC of Greater Pittsburgh. Join Tina's friends and family for a reception, Wednesday, June 6th at 7:00pm
- Louise will have a piece in the Sacred Threads 2007 Exhibition, held from June 16–30, 2007 in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. View the Sacred Threads exhibit website for more information.
- This Deez Nites Be All Da Same To Me exhibition is currently on display at the Lambert Castle Museum in Paterson, New Jersey. The dates of the display are February 10–June 17, 2007.
- A T-shirt quilt by Louise Silk was featured in a February 13, 2007 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on stories of Pittsburghers and the t-shirts they find meaningful from their pasts. More info on T-shirt quilts can be found in Chapter 9 of The Quilting Path and on the Memory Quilts page.
- Louise recently completed a series of pieces for the Yeshiva Schools and Lubavitch Center of Pittsburgh, entitled the Yeshiva Life Cycle. You can view them online here.
- Louise invites your group to hear her newest slide lecture: The Kabbalah of Writing The Quilting Path, in which she applies the Kabbalistic Tree of Life to her experience of writing The Quilting Path. To find out more information, visit the SilkQuilt lectures page or contact Louise directly.
- Louise will be discussing and signing her book, The Quilting Path, at the Barnes and Noble in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA, on Monday, October 9th at 7 P.M.
- Louise will be introducing and teaching Quilting Path workshops at the Boyd Community Center beginning September 13, 2006 and at the Society for Contemporary Craft beginning October 25, 2006.
- Louise will be discussing and signing her book, The Quilting Path, at Joseph-Beth Booksellers on the South Side in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 9, 2006 at 2 P.M.