Award-winning artist brings show to SE Quilt and Textile Museum, June-Aug.
The Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum is proud to present a solo exhibit of the work of award-winning fiber artist, JoAnn Camp. We would like to invite you and your family to the opening of the exhibit on Saturday, June 1st - admission will be free throughout the day.
JoAnn is an art quilter, as well as a traditional quilter. She loves color and fabric, and the challenge of using fabric as paint to create works of art.
The exhibit will open Saturday, June 1st, and run through Saturday, August 31st, 2013. The SQTM is open Thursdays and Fridays, noon-6PM, and Saturdays 10AM-4PM; admission is $3 per person. Group rates are available for 10+, please contact us for more information.
The Carrollton Area Convention and Visitors Bureau proudly presents The Carroll Calendar. This is a community sourced calendar and we encourage all local businesses, merchants, charities and Individuals to post your events here. Check back here often as we continue to grow to be your #1 source for community events; from Trivia to Live Music, to fundraisers, to Yard Sales, to Karaoke… Welcome.
SQTM presents Cherokee Crazy Quilters Guild of Canton show, Mar-May
The Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum is excited to present their third exhibit, the wonderful work of the Cherokee Crazy Quilters Guild of Canton, GA. We would like to invite you and your family to the opening of the exhibit on Saturday,... March 2nd - admission will be free throughout the day. The Cherokee Crazy Quilters began with nine members in 1976, holding their first meeting in the home of Mrs. Lutz. As the guild's numbers grew to as many as fifty-three, they began to meet at the Chalcedonia Church in Canton, GA, eventually coming to hold their weekly meetings at the historical "Rock Barn." They continue to meet weekly, hosting fat quarter swaps, secret sister, classes, demos, field trips, quilt camps, and sew for charities. One of the many works on display is the guild's "Cherokee Tales," which hung at the SQTM's exhibit at the state capitol in Atlanta in January of 2011. The quilt was also featured at the National Trail of Tears meeting held at the Funk Heritage Center, Reinhardt University, Waleska, GA. The fabric for this quilt was anonymously donated to a member of the guild, Mary Stevens, in response to an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that featured the quilts that Stevens makes for pediatric cancer patients. The exhibit will open March 2nd and run through May 25th, 2013. The SQTM is open Thursdays and Fridays, noon-6PM, and Saturdays 10AM-4PM; admission is $3 per person.
Roopville Homecoming featured in state's widest-circulated magazine
More great exposure for our local tourism attractors: The August issue of EMC's Georgia Magazine (the state's highest-circulation magazine) will feature an article about small town homecoming celebrations and Roopville's Homecoming is included. Roopville is not only among only three towns featured, but it is featured first (with the lead artwork from Roopville) and is the only one of the three in North Georgia. If people come to Roopville, they come to Carroll County. If they come to Carroll County, we all stand to benefit. The beauty of tourism!
Sunnyside Cafe Featured in GA Music Mag
Carrollton's own Sunnyside Cafe/Moonshadow Music Hall (477 Rome St., Carrollton) is the first venue/restaurant featured in an article on page 40 of the Summer, 2012, issue of Georgia Music Magazine. The entire issue is about the music-food connection here in the Peach State. The first page of the article has a great pic of Zac Brown and several others performing on the Moonshadow stage. This is great coverage for our community, its food and its musicians, in the only statewide magazine devoted to Georgia music! Pick up a copy on the stands, in your mailbox if you subscribe or, while quantities last, at the Sunnyside Cafe!
