{"id":462,"date":"2013-01-24T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2013-01-24T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T13:00:13","slug":"power-suits-arent-just-a-fashion-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/24\/power-suits-arent-just-a-fashion-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Suits Aren&#039;t Just A Fashion Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p align=\"center\">Quilt challenges can come from really strange sources.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=463\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-463\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-463\" alt=\"power suits 3\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/power-suits-3.jpg\" width=\"113\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Take the Road to California Exhibit, Power Suits.\u00a0 When art quilter, teacher and lecturer, Cyndi\u00a0 Souder (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonlightingquilts.com\/\">www.moonlightingquilts.com<\/a>)\u00a0 was approached by a local tailor looking for someone to give his outdated fabric swatches to, her creative juices starting flowing and a quilt challenge was born. Teaming with JudyGula\u00a0 of Artistic Artifacts,\u00a0 they developed a theme, packaged the swatches, and offered them for free to interested quilters.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=465\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-465\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-465\" alt=\"suit challenge 1\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/suit-challenge-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Living in Washington D.C., the theme, \u201cPower Suits,\u201d was an obvious choice. Prospective quilters were asked, \u201cWhat does power suits mean to you?\u201d Based on their interpretation, 105 artists created 108 magnificent art quilts expressing their points of view.\u00a0 The resulting quilts explored such diverse topics as politics, family, work life, playing cards, and super heroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibit opened in October, 2011 and was originally housed at Artistic Artifacts Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.\u00a0 Then, beginning in March, 2012, \u201cPower Suits\u201d became a traveling exhibit.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=464\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-464\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-464\" alt=\"power suits 4\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/power-suits-4.jpg\" width=\"469\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Road to California is excited and proud to present \u201cPower Suits\u201d at this year\u2019s conference. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>What does \u201cpower suits\u201d mean to you?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small\">Pictures courtesy of\u00a0http:\/\/www.powersuitquilts.com\/<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-road-to-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}