Monthly Meetings

Marjolaine Arsenault, Follow Your Heart

July  2025; 10:30 a.m, Zoom only

Marjolaine Arsenault is an award-winning fiber artist fascinated by the creative process of making seamless nuno felt garments.

Her work is known for its originality, striking color palette and beauty.

She participated at national juried fine craft shows for 12 years to sell her one-of-a-kind garments.

Marjolaine enjoys sharing her passion for nuno felt through in-person classes and online courses. Her teaching experience includes: Pacific Northwest Art School, Coupeville, WA; Aya Fiber Studio, Stuart, FL; Hudson River Arts Workshops, Greenville, NY; Felt::Feutre Canada Symposium, NS, Canada; Felter’s Rendezvous, Estes Park, CO; New England Felting Supply, Easthampton, MA and Opulent Fibers, Portland, OR. Featured in PBS AHA! A House for the Arts, Fiber Art Now Magazine and Worldwide Colors of Felt. Awards include: Fiber Art Now Magazine, Excellence in Fibers Award;  Palm Beach Fine Craft Show, Collector's Award and Chicago Botanical Garden Fine Craft Show, Outstanding Achievement Award. Her garments were exhibited at Kent State University Fashion Museum Show Fiber to Felt to Fashion in 2014-15 and presented in the Electric City Fashion Shows in 2016-17, Saratoga Springs, NY. Her studio Marjolaine's Touch is located in Diamond Point, NY.

 

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At this point in time, most meetings are virtual via Zoom. March, June and September meetings are in person at Seattle Pacific University. 

Visitors are always welcome at our meetings, and there is no admission fee. Meetings run from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the second Saturday of each month. Meetings are via Zoom or on the Seattle Pacific University campus. (See directions, maps, and room information, below.) For in person meetings, bring yourself a sack lunch if you wish.

Membership

To become a member click here and go to "Join the CQA".

Month	Speaker
June 14, 2025	Tasha Owens (In Person at SPU)
July 12, 2025	Marjolaine Arsenault, Wearable Art and Nuno Felt (Zoom)
August 9, 2025	Play Day! and Potluck
September 13, 2025	Lorraine Torrence, Finding Your Voice
October 11, 2025	Teresita Leal, Argentina Art Quilter, Title TBA
November 8, 2025	Marijke van Welzen, Netherlands, Wearable and Quilt Art
December 13, 2025	Agusta Agustsson, Art Quilter, Printer, Multimedia Artist

Would you like to attend our next meeting via Zoom? Contact programs for the link.

Directions to Bertona Hall on the Seattle Pacific University campus:

GPS entry: 107 West Bertona, Seattle 98119

From I-5, take the NE 50th Street exit and drive west. Turn left (south) on Fremont Avenue N—about two miles. Get into the right lane as you cross the Fremont bridge and take the first turn-off to the right and then immediately right again onto Nickerson Street. Follow Nickerson for about half a mile, and turn left (south) at the stoplight for 3rd Avenue West. You are now on the SPU campus.Turn left onto 3rd.

Enter the parking lot on your left by turning into the driveway beside the Subway. Our building is on the east side of the parking lot, a one-story red brick building. Parking in the lot is free for us on weekends; ignore the restricted parking and "No Parking" signs.

Click here to see a map of the entire SPU campus.