Arc Poetry

 Judy Martin was invited to participate in the summer edition of Canada’s important poetry magazine, Arc Poetry.  

Her work is on both covers and is also featured in a central 8 page spread.  

The artist considers her work to be like poems, so this was nice.  

The art director placed the first side of the quilts opposite their second sides.  Above is Prayer To the Sky.  Below is Far Away Stars and Cloudy Day. 

To purchased a single copy or to subscribe to the Arc Poetry, click here.  

Exhibition in Print : SAQA journal

Sacred Ground     wool stitched with cotton and silk threads, 163 x 95 cm, a two-sided quilt by Judy Martin, 2024

Selected for the first exhibition in print with SAQA by jurors Nancy Bavor, Linda Colsh and Alice Beasley.

red sky, red water side b of sacred ground by Judy Martin

Informed by solitude and by the earth, and the plants that grow wild, 

Quieted by the slowness of hand stitching, and the dreamy place it sends me.

Comforted by the peaceful horizon line I look at across the water

Inspired by trembling grasses and by birdsong, by every day and by every evening, 

By the view of sky and water that I wake with, 

A reverence for moments briefly glimpsed but always there.   Judith e Martin 2024

One of 40 pieces juried for the first ever SAQA exhibition in print.  This exhibition will be included in the SAQA journal 2024 Issue #4  (available in December)