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Trade Show Sales – full time position – immediate opening
Trade Show Sales Job Description:
As a Trade Show Salesperson you will be responsible for the financial success of our public events. You will be responsible for selling the events by contacting former vendors and cold calling potential new vendors, acquire sponsorship and help build attendance. Your responsibility will be to foster and maintain relationships with key industry accounts to increase vendor sales and attendance by communicating the value of the event.
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Rocky Mountain Quilt Festival
Loveland, Colorado
August 20-22, 2010
Irena Bluhm/Irena Bluhm Designs |
Irena is an award winning quilter, instructor, pattern designer and author of eight books. Irena is also a national sales representative for Gammill Quilting Systems. With 19 years of garment making/design and 13 years of doing art for hobby, she has transitioned the experience in creating fine art and other skills into making quilts for shows and exhibits exclusively. Irena is very passionate about creating many different quilting design patterns, innovative ways of making show quality quilts, writing books and teaching. Her enthusiasm is very contagious as she loves to share, encourage and inspire other quilters to try something new that they never thought they would be able to do. After longarm quilting for just a little over one year, Irena started teaching longarm quilting nationwide in March 2006. Since then she has been teaching at many major venues. Irena is hoping that her encouraging nature, contagious enthusiasm for creating art and what she loves to do is going to inspire many others to try her techniques. Since she started entering her work into major national and international quilt contests in 2005, she developed a strong and lasting passion for this art form. Her work has won 56 awards in national and international quilt contests. Irena's classes at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Festival:
Quilts of a Different Color
Hands-on Coloring Workshop
505-Friday, August 20, 2010 – 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Class fee: $30 Kit fee: $35
Suitable for All Levels
Learn how easy it is to apply color using colored pencils to a small, already quilted piece, ready for painting. You don’t have to be an artist, just try to paint what you see. Don’t shy away from using bold colors and stark contrast to create a drama. You can learn how to do the shading in order to make your designs look dimensional. It is a lot of fun and very relaxing. Irena feels very passionate about what she is doing and loves sharing her experiences, the good along with the bad, so you don’t have to go through the pain of learning the lessons the hard way like she did.
Kit fee $35, which includes one quilted sample (12”x12”), ready for color application, two sets of 12 colored pencils, one set of six brushes, plastic dispenser cup, 2 oz. textile medium, paper pattern package, CD with all information about the coloring technique, plus another CD with 367 images in color.
The kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor during the workshop.
Bluhming Background Designs
(Class full, no more students please)
Hands-on Design Drawing Workshop
605-Saturday, August 21, 2010 – 10:15 am – 1:15 pm
Class fee: $30 Kit fee: $15
Suitable for All Levels
Say goodbye to any conventional way of using stippling to fill in negative spaces on any quilt. This very unique, easy to understand and easy to execute technique will have your creative juices flowing, as you can add your own twist to Irena’s ideas. From very dense to allover, this technique is very forgiving and the visual effects are very impressive. No planning ahead and no marking of the background designs are required.
Bring to class: drawing pad with no lines or grid and pen or soft pencil.
Kit fee $15 (Kit includes 14 pages double wire bound laminated design practice diagrams package plus dry erase pen.) The kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor during the workshop.
Formal Feathers – Basics and Beyond
Hands-on Design Drawing Workshop
705-Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 10:15 am – 1:15 pm
Class fee: $30 Kit fee: $15
Suitable for All Levels
If you have never tried them, it is about time! You will never regret it, once you understand the concept. The rest is just putting a little effort into trying to get them looking exactly the way you like them. The flexibility in creating quilting designs using these feathers cannot be underestimated. Starting with the basics followed by little more advanced designs, you will realize that you can do anything you wish using these feathers on customers or your own quilts once you know how. You will learn how to create those charming, unique plumes of feathers and feather swags, how to fill any shape and form with these charming feathers. Irena will show you how to make them look like they are about to leap off your quilt. They might become your forte with some practice and confidence as time goes by.
Supply List: bring drawing pad with no lines or grid and pen or soft pencil.
Kit fee $15, which includes 14 pages double wire bound laminated design practice diagrams package plus dry erase pen. The kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor during the workshop.