Help Daena present her quilt in Houston October 2024
Help a disabled artist present her work on the international stage.
Rolleston, Canterbury
My quilt "Experiencing Epilepsy" has been selected for the Juried exhibition at the OCTOBER Houston International Quilt Festival, the biggest quilt show in the USA. This annual competition features the best work from quilters all over the world.
This may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me to stand by my work, tell my story, and promote NZ quilting to an American audience.
I am a disabled artist and funding this trip is well beyond my means. All my New Zealand Quilting friends are telling me I need to be in Houston beside my work. so I am setting up this page to ask for help to do this thing that will otherwise be out of my reach.
I have set a target based on quotes for flights and accommodation plus a margin as these will get more expensive the closer we get to October 2024 but every dollar will help me as I am trying to find funding from other sources as well.
If I am unable to make this work, any money will be put towards upgrading my sewing machine.
https://www.quilts.com/quilt-festival/quilt-festival-houston/
Use of funds
Flights and Accommodation and the other sundries associated with this mammoth event. If I don't raise enough for the trip, the money will be used to upgrade my sewing machine which is the main tool I use to make my art.
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Latest update
Achievement unlocked: The final countdown 23 September 2024
Thank you very much everyone. I am truly humbled by the support and belief in me. Due to some unbelievable support from Arts Access Aotearoa and everyone who has donated, I am now fully funded for Houston. I will be closing this off as of midnight tonight. I will be posting Photos and other bits and pieces of my Houston Excursion on both my FB page and my Website please feel free to have a look there for more from 28th October when I land in Houston. The image is me in my new coat that my friend Fiona from VelvetCherry in Wellington and I have been collaborating on over the past 2 months and which I will be wearing in Houston.
yours sincerely
Daena
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Thank you so much Nicky :)
Thank you so much Veronique, I am touched by your message of support :)
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