{"id":6168,"date":"2010-08-02T06:47:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T13:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=6168"},"modified":"2016-11-04T02:03:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T09:03:52","slug":"inspiration-monday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/inspiration-monday-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK. I am back in the saddle after being gone for most of the month of July. Did you notice? I did a combination of pre-writing posts and posting on the road.<\/p>\n<p>First I went to Denver for work. I spent 6 days there at a conference. Denver is a great town. I was able to meet one friend that I haven&#8217;t seen in years, but I was so busy at the conference that I really didn&#8217;t get to see as many people as I would have liked. I specifically didn&#8217;t see any quilt people except for the hour I spent at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanquilt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Great American Quilt Factory<\/a>. I was able to spend a lot of time with my librarian colleagues and that was great!<\/p>\n<p>Denver is celebrating the <a href=\"www.biennialoftheamericas.org\" target=\"_blank\">Biennial of the Americas<\/a> at the restored McNichols Building (Gallery). There is a square or green space in front of the building that is lower than the sidewalk. Over that space they have installed these gorgeous fluttering banners.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6169\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6976sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6169\" title=\"Biennial Banner 1\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6976sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Biennial Banner 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6976sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6976sm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6976sm.jpg 1592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biennial Banner 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6170\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6977sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6170\" title=\"Biennial Banner 2\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6977sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Biennial Banner 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6977sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6977sm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6977sm.jpg 1592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biennial Banner 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6171\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6978sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6171\" title=\"Biennial Banner Shadows\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6978sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Biennial Banner Shadows\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6978sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6978sm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PICT6978sm.jpg 1592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biennial Banner Shadows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under the banners is this seating space and these gorgeous shadows. It was wonderful.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6173\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/McNichols.Exterior.J.Hagerman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6173\" title=\"McNichols Exterior by J.Hagerman\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/McNichols.Exterior.J.Hagerman-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"McNichols Exterior by J.Hagerman\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/McNichols.Exterior.J.Hagerman-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/McNichols.Exterior.J.Hagerman.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">McNichols Exterior by J.Hagerman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The above photo is from the Biennials website. If you have a chance, which I didn&#8217;t, go and see the exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK. I am back in the saddle after being gone for most of the month of July. Did you notice? I did a combination of pre-writing posts and posting on the road. First I went to Denver for work. I spent 6 days there at a conference. Denver is a great town. I was able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/inspiration-monday-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inspiration Monday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[390],"tags":[319],"class_list":["post-6168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-inspiration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}