{"id":7386,"date":"2020-02-19T21:07:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T05:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=7386"},"modified":"2020-02-19T21:07:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T05:07:27","slug":"bob-ross-cherrywood-challenge-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/19\/bob-ross-cherrywood-challenge-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Ross Cherrywood Challenge Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Cherrywood\nFabrics and Bob Ross<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For the 5th<\/sup> year in a row, Cherrywood Hand Dyed<\/a> <\/a>Fabrics<\/a> presented their annual fabric challenge at Road to California. For 2020, the theme was Bob Ross<\/a>, the iconic American painter, art instructor, and television host. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. Ross was\nthe creator and host of The Joy of Painting,<\/em> an instructional television\nprogram that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States. It was also aired\nin Canada, Latin America, and Europe. His belief that everyone has \u201ca creative need\ninside of us,\u201d was the perfect inspiration for such a fabric challenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cherrywood Challenges<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Cherrywood Fabrics began their fabric challenges in 2014 with their Wicked<\/em> Challenge<\/a>– based on the hugely successful Broadway play. Other challenge themes have included The Lion King<\/a><\/em>, van Gogh<\/em>,<\/a> the musician, Prince<\/a><\/em>, and 2019\u2019s Bob Ross<\/em> Cherrywood Challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All Cherrywood Challenges incorporate hues of Cherrywood\u2019s 100% cotton dyed fabrics that look like suede. \u00a0Up until the Bob Ross Cherrywood Challenge, fabric artists utilized four coordinating fabrics. The Bob Ross challenge doubled the fabric choices to eight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two hundred quilts were chosen for the entire Bob Ross Cherrywood Challenge collection. The collection was divided into \u201ctrunks,\u201d organized by when they arrived at Cherrywood\u2019s offices to compete in the challenge. Certain trunks are chosen to travel to various destinations throughout 2019-2020. At Road to California\u2019s 25th<\/sup> Anniversary Show, all 200 quilts were on display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet the Makers of the Bob Ross Cherrywood Challenge <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday afternoon of Road 2020, a few of the makers of the quilts in the Bob Ross Cherrywood Challenge, were on hand to answer questions about their experience and to autograph the official, Bob Ross Cherrywood Challenge Book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When raising\nher family, Cindy Thompson would relax by watching Bob Ross\u2019 television\nprogram. \u201cHis technique was so fun. It blew me away,\u201d she recalled. Like Bob\nRoss, Cindy is an artist and was really interested in doing the challenge. A\nveteran of two other Cherrywood Challenges (van Gogh and Prince), the hard part\nfor Cindy with this challenge was the colors of the fabric; they weren\u2019t exactly\nher favorite. She knew she wanted a couple of features to stand out in her\nquilt: a TV and Bob\u2019s hair. With those decisions made, her quilt came together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bob<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Bob Ross Cherrywood Challenge included the first mother\/daughter winners, Sara and Clarice. The challenge was the first contest Sara had ever entered and Road to California was only the second quilt show she has ever attended. Sara is also an artist and she felt a responsibility to be credible with this project since Bob Ross \u201cis an inspiration to all painters.\u201d Sara chose to do a \u201cself-portrait\u201d and to keep it simple. Sara said it was a \u201cfun\u201d experience that pulled her in to the quilting world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sara\u2019s entry\nwas her first ever art quilt\u2014and it was her mother\u2019s first art quilt as well.\nClarice is a quilter and loved doing this challenge with her daughter. Clarice\ncommented how Bob Ross\u2019 landscapes spoke to her on how anyone can \u201cmove\nmountains\u201d and as Bob said, \u201cYou can do anything in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryland\nresident, Kathy Freeman, chose to use traditional quilt techniques in her entry\nbecause to her, Bob Ross\u2019 paintings reminded her of folk-art quilts. Kathy\u2019s\nquilt was entirely pieced; several hundred pieces in all. At Road, Kathy wore a\nknitted shawl she made in all seven colors of the challenge\u2019s fabric palette.\nShe purchased her yarn from independent knit dyers to match the exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bob<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cherrywood\u2019s\n2020 Challenge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Cherrywood Challenge for 2020 is Diana<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The goal of this challenge is to take inspiration from Diana, Princess of Wales, in creating a unique quilt measuring 20\u201d square, using the limited color palette of pink and white. Entries are due by July 1, 2020. Additional information for this challenge is on Cherrywood\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to all those whose quilts were exhibited at Road to California 2020. To see if the Bob Ross Cherrywood Challenge will be on display near you, check out the exhibit\u2019s schedule<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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