Slide Presentations

Destinations: Travel-Inspired Quilts

For the past few years, Marcia has been working on a series of large-scale pictorial quilts based on her travel photographs. Journey with her to Santa Fe, Italy, England, and the South of France, where she shows you her favorite scenes and tells how she created the quilts they inspired. Includes trunk show if enough quilts are available and venue is within driving distance of San Francisco.

It Helps to Have a Camera: Finding Photographic Subjects and Using Them in Your Quilts

Would you like to make quilts inspired by your own photos, but don't know where to begin? Marcia will show you how to find subjects that inspire you, what makes one photo better than another, and simple ways to improve your skills with a camera. Learn why your ability to tell a story is more important than the cost of your equipment, and why enthusiasm for your subject is your strongest ally. Includes small trunk show if enough quilts are available and venue is within driving distance of San Francisco.

Lecture Fee

$425 through 2018

Travel Expenses

Sponsor to pay all transportation (including bridge tolls and parking fees), meals, and lodging expenses. Mileage to be reimbursed at the IRS standard mileage rate in effect at the time (54.5 cents per mile through 2018). If overnight accommodations are necessary (for driving trips longer than one hour after an evening lecture), Marcia requires lodging in a nonsmoking hotel room with an inside entrance and food available in or near the hotel.

Lecture Setup

* Darkened room for use with Marcia's digital    projector
* Screen
* Podium or table with light
* Microphone
* Quilt stand(s), if available, for hanging
   quilts

From photo . . .

. . . to fabric

French Laundry 44" x 51"