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If an FRCQ meeting is cancelled due to inclement weather, a notice will be posted on the website at www.artquilters.org
January program by Marcia Christopher
Artist Profile Page 5 Book Review Page 6 Workshop Registration Page 7 Opportunities & Resources Page 9
Front Range Contemporary Quilters welcome
Stan Meyer presenting "Art is Belief Made Visible"
Monday, January 21, 2008
Socializing at 6:30pm Business meeting followed by Show-and-Tell at 7pm
Stan Meyer at 8pm Westminster Recreation Center
President’s Letter Page 2 Newcomer’s and Exhibits Page 3 Workshop Schedule Page 3 2008 Membership Form Page 4
Meander by Stan Meyer
Stan Meyer is a Colorado artist who creates woven wall pieces from banal materials: tarpaper, dried pig-ments, and buttermilk. The interactions of these common elements produces art works that are ele-gantly meditative and spiritual, reminiscent of cathe-dral windows. His forms range from the strictly geometric to the architectural. The sparkling pigments enliven the matte black surface of the tarpaper, creating the illu-sion of light from within. Examples of Stan Meyer's work can be viewed at www.williamhavugallery.com.
Page 2 January 2008 Bits and Pieces
Bits and Pieces is the monthly news-letter of the Front Range Contempo-rary Quilters. Submission of art quilt related articles from members is wel-comed. These should be no more than 350-400 words or ½ page, written in New Times Roman in size 10 text spacing 1.5. The editor and the Board reserve the right to edit for length, content and space. Deadline for sub-missions to the newsletter is the 17th of the month prior to the publication. Email or send articles and items for submission to the publication to: [email protected] Kathy Keating 13237 Teller Lake Way, Broomfield, CO 80020 (303-465-0262). Bits and Pieces is a benefit of mem-bership in Front Range Contempo-rary Quilters and is not available by subscription. Membership in FRCQ is $30 per year, due and payable January 1 of each year. Dues may be sent to membership chair. Terise Harrington, 2014 E. Stratford Ct., Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 Change of Address: Please notify membership chair, Ter-ise Harrington, for any change of address . (303-791-2124) [email protected] Advertising Policy: Classes offered by members are printed for free in the section called “Member Classes”; business cards of members or businesses with services of interest to our members are printed for $5 per issue; ¼ page, $20.00 per issue; ½ page, $40.00 per issue; full page, $80.00 per issue. All advertis-ing should be submitted along with payment to the newsletter editor by the deadline. 2007-2009 Board Members President: Greg Katz 720-851-6736 ~ [email protected] Secretary: Mary Marchand Treasurer: Deidre Adams Members: Terise Harrington Exhibits: Melody Randol Programs: Marcia Christopher Workshops: Faye Anderson Newsletter: Kathy Keating Other Contacts Web site: Kathy Keating Newcomers: Carol Ann Waugh Martha Dyckes Yahoo List: Jeanne Lounsbury
President’s Letter by Greg Katz
Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.
-Anna Cummins I can’t wait another minute, another second to tell all of you how proud and joyful I am for what each of you bring to Front Range Contemporary Quilters. After we finished “Show and Tell” at our last meeting, I was exhilarated and fueled with excitement over what all of you are accomplishing in your studios and how you have chosen to impact the world. Standing and bearing witness to all that you choose to make happen in the world is a vital component of leadership, for me. As the organization matures and we as artists create sustainable and successful art practices, I am astonished at how important community is in maintaining that success. If we don’t have a safe place, with supportive people who will continue to stand beside us as we take risks, how will we ever succeed? I be-lieve that having the presence to stand and have FRCQ provide a forum for each of you to share your inspiration with others is the biggest catalyst for each of us moving forward in our own journey. The board has just completed its first year of service. Many of your board members have been planning for 2008 for months and I believe you’ll all have enormous opportunities for inspiring experiences. Once again I would like to invite all of you to become active in the organization. Join a committee, offer to teach a workshop or present at a newcomers meeting, create a special inter-est group, the opportunities are endless. At the end of 2007 we had 273 members, that’s an incredible accomplishment. I believe that FRCQ’s reputation as one of the premier textile art organizations in the country is the magnetic force that ignites many artists desires to become a part of our progressive community. I’m thankful that I have the opportunity to experience that joy all through the year, not just at the holidays. I hope at our next meeting, you’ll take a moment to thank someone who has inspired you throughout the year or through the years. Here’s to a productive, artistic and inspiring 2008.
Greg Katz, FRCQ President www.gregkatz.com
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February 18, 2008 Carol Watkins www.carolwatkins.com Seeing Nature, Creating Art
April 21, 2008 Greg Katz www.lifeisapilgrimage.com Becoming An Artist From The Inside Out
June 16, 2008 Lloyd Rich www.publishingattorney.com What's Mine, What's Yours, and How to Tell the Difference
Newcomer’s Schedule
The Sangre de Cristo Arts Center (www.sdc-arts.org) in Pueblo, Colorado will host the next FRCQ exhibition. The show will run from early November 2008 through mid January 2009 in the spacious Francis King Gallery. This distinguished arts center is an excellent venue for the outstanding work created by FRCQ artists. There is no theme to the exhibit, and the title has yet to be deter-mined. Quilts submitted must have been completed after January 1, 2006, and may not have been previously shown in any FRCQ exhibit. Each artist may submit up to three entries. The SDAC curator and committee will jury the show. Work may or may not be for sale (SDAC retains a 40% commission). All work will be wall hung. Diptychs, triptychs, framed, mounted, and 3-dimensional works may be submitted, but pedestal and wearable art are not allowed. Vertical di-mensions must measure between 18” and 72”. Horizontal dimensions must measure at least 18”, but there is no maximum restriction. Glass is prohibited. For the first time, digital submissions will be required. Information on how to create a digital submission will be forthcoming in future issues of the FRCQ newsletter, Bits & Pieces. This information will also be available on the FRCQ Yahoo Group. Below is a general timeline for your reference. Specific dates and more detailed information will be provided as it becomes available. JUNE 2008 Digital submissions due JULY 2008 Entries juried by SDAC AUG 2008 Artists notified OCT 2008 Work collected and transported to SDAC NOV 2008 Opening Reception & Artist Talk NOVEMBER 1 2008 Exhibition Begins JANUARY 17, 2009 Exhibition Ends Now you have enough information to plan ahead and work toward having ample art to submit. This will be a prestigious FRCQ show in a prominent venue; don’t miss the opportunity to have your work exhibited. Keep an eye out for more information regarding the call for entries and, as always, don’t hesitate to contact Mel-ody at [email protected] if you have questions.
FRCQ 2008 Exhibit News
Anne McKenzie Nickolson www.annemckenzienickolson.com Workshop: Appliqué and Reverse Appliqué March 18, 19, 20, 2008 Location: TACtile Textile Arts Center, Denver Alison Schwabe www.alisonschwabe.com Workshop: Quilting with an Attitude May 24-25, 2008 Location: Longmont Museum, Longmont Nita Leland www.nitaleland.com Workshop: Creative Color and Design for Quilters July 22, 23, 24, 2008 Location: First Plymouth Church, Denver Cas Holmes www.casholmes.textilearts.net Workshop: Beyond the Surface, Paper, Textiles and Mixed Media September 19, 20 and 21, 2008 Location: High Peaks Camp, Estes Park
Workshop Schedule
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Time to renew your FRCQ membership in order to keep receiving our wonderful newsletter, be in the 2008 Directory, and be eligible for workshops and exhibits. Dues are $30.00 per year. Membership Dues will be accepted until February 15, 2008, in order to be included in the 2008 Directory. Please use the form below and include all information you would like to have in the FRCQ directory. If you have questions contact Terise Harrington at: Phone: 303-791-2124 Email: [email protected]
2008 FRCQ MEMBERSHIP FORM SEND TO: Date: ________________________ FRCQ C/O Terise Harrington DUES: $30 2014 Stratford Ct Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 _____ CHECK _____ CASH RENEWING MEMBER:______ NEW MEMBER:______ Name:__________________________________________________________________________________ Address:________________________________________________________________________________ City:_____________________________________________ State:_________ Zip Code:______________ Home Phone: (_______)__________________ Work Phone: (____)_______________________ Email:_________________________________ Web Site:________________________________
____ I Would like to be a Mentor ____ I Need a Mentor
For FRCQ Use Only Newsltr_____ Directory_____ Dbase_____ Treas_____ Welcome Ltr_____ Newcomers_____ Update Email_____
FRCQ MEMBERSHIP - 2008 DUES
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“Denise Labadie” Denise started sewing at age nine after a year of pleading with her mother, who apparently didn't quite understand her fascination. Permission granted, she dove right in, making an extensive wardrobe for her Barbie. She credits her first 4-H leader, a policewoman, with teaching her the value of precision in her work and how to sew and un-sew until it was truly correct. For many years Denise had a sewing business out of her home, so she could spend the time she wanted to with her son as he grew up. Where sewing is in-volved, Denise has probably done it - home dec, needlepoint finishing, and a wide variety of garments. If you get a chance to visit Denise's new studio in the lower level of her home, don't even think about delaying. It's a fabulous space designed by her husband with custom cabinetry, a huge design wall and even a snuggle space for her large labradoodle. Denise got hooked on quilting in 1993 when she took a class with Michael James focusing on color and paint-ing. She feels that, "It was the best thing to get me going". She went on to take classes in traditional quilting forms and met someone at an Allegre Retreat who told her about FRCQ. With a class in 1997 from Jean Ne-blett on strip piecing techniques, she started the first of her "stone quilts", featuring the ancient and mystical stone monuments of Ireland. Her husband had presented her with a birthday trip to Ireland in 1997. She "felt shivers all over", the first time she saw the Piper Stones and knew she just had to make a pictorial quilt about them. In her early quilts she used commercial fabric, but after a class with Mickey Lawler on painting fabric, she now uses her own hand-painted fabric to get the visual textures she wants.
She's received several awards for her work, but her favorites are the People's Choice and MacCarthy Memorial Awards at Quilt National 2007 and the Best of Show awards from the Palmer Lake "Art and Nature of Fiber" show and the Allegre Retreat. Denise feels that some of the best advice she has received is to try and avoid being slavishly committed to a specific picture that you may have of a desired outcome and to try instead to evaluate and pay attention to the work as it is developing. Instead of staring at that one piece of fabric on the design wall for 20 minutes, she ad-vises to have confidence in your own point of view and draw on your own instinctive sense of color and design. Denise was delighted that her work was selected for the first show at the Ricky Tim's Gallery who now represents her. You can also see Denise's work at her website, www.labadiefiberart.com and at a two-women show, entitled "Sticks and Stones", coming up January 11-February 16, 2008 at Old Firehouse Gallery, 667 4th Avenue & Coffman in Longmont.
Artist Profile by Susan Hazaleus
by Denise Labadie
Page 6 January 2008 Bits and Pieces
DVDs and CDs: Part 1 Many creative artists are publishing CDs or DVDs illustrating their techniques and design inspiration. Here are several websites where you can find workshops from prominent designers and fiber artists. www.ccpvideos.com contains videos with online samples from a wide variety of artists, including collage artists regularly featured in Cloth Paper Scissors. www.dharmatraders.com is now featuring a number of videos that cover topics from fabric painting, Shiva paint sticks, dyeing, machine embroidery, and other topics, and Jane Dunnewold’s DVDs. Dharma is a great source of surface design supplies and is adding new media all the time. Ricky Tims’s Grand Finale is a polished DVD describing methods for making his trademark quilts. While you probably already know quite a bit of this information, Tims uses several unusual products, like wash-away thread, to facilitate his intricate designs. Additional tips on quilting a bed-sized quilt in a domestic sew-ing machine and adding a totally machine-stitched and piped binding round out this very impressive video workshop and resource. www.rickytims.com. Katie Pasquini-Masopust has a video that complements her Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter book, which was written with artist Brett Barker. The DVD, Simple Steps to Dynamic Art Quilts, is also sold with newer releases of the color book, and takes you through KPM’s methods of fabric selection, ab-stracting a design, enlarging designs, and the final quilt-as-you-go assembly of large quilt sections. This is a good resource for a beginning art quilter. Available in quilt shops or from www.katiepm.com. Gabriella Swain, a well-known art quilter from Texas, has released several DVDs. Creativity on Demand contains exercises to work yourself out of a rut, tips on evaluating and modifying designs, and encourage-ment to try new techniques. Cut up and reassemble a questionable piece, use a paper viewfinder to isolate interesting portions of an image as a quilt subject, have fun and never stop trying to experiment with your work are her mantras. Order directly from Swain, www.handapplique.com/catalog.
Book Review by Carolyn Anderson
Organizations of Interest American Craft Council www.craftcouncil.org Colorado Quilting Council www.coloradoquiltcouncil.com Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. www.weavespindye.org Handweavers Guild of Boulder www.handweaversofboulder.org National Quilting Association www.nqaquilts.org Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum www.rmqm.org Silk Painters International www.silkpainters.org Studio Art Quilt Associates www.saqa.com Surface Design Association www.surfacedesign.org The Appliqué Society P.O. Box 89, Sequim, WA 98382
Periodicals of Interest American Craft www.craftcouncil.com Art Calendar www.ArtCalendar.com Artforum (no website) Artnews www.artnews.com Belle Armoire www.bellearmoire.com FiberArts www.fiberartsmagazine.com Ornament (no website) Quilters Newsletter www.quiltersnewsletter.com Quilting Arts www.quiltingartsllc.com Selvedge www.selvedge.org Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot www.weavespindye.org Surface Design www.surfacedesign.org
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Anne McKenzie Nickolson Workshop — March 18-20, 2008
Who W
ill Lea
d Us?
Anne McKenzie Nickolson earned her BFA in Textile Design from Northern Illinois University and MFA in Textile Design from Indiana University. She has been a practicing, exhibiting fiber artist since 1977. Her early work involved pieced, appliquéd, embroidered works often involving dyeing and airbrushing. A natural evolution of ideas led to layered, pieced and appliquéd pieces that became quilts in 1997. Art quilts have been the main focus of her work since that time. Anne has exhibited in 32 states, 12 countries and 5 continents and in the past 5 Quilt Nationals. She has received numerous grants, fellowships and commissions and has taught at Indiana University, Southwest Craft Center, Arrowmont, Penland and many other institutions. You can read more about Anne and see her work on her web site: annemckenzienickolson.com. A New Look at Appliqué and Reverse Appliqué You will dispel your previous notions about traditional appli‐qué in this workshop that will expand the potential for design and composition in appliqué. As with most artwork, the edges of colors‐‐‐the places where colors meet‐‐‐are very important. A sharp edge, a fuzzy edge, an indefinite edge‐‐‐these are small differences have a huge impact on how we interpret the subject and how the complete piece communicates to us. We will explore the possibilities for different kinds of edges using hand, machine and fused appli‐qué. Design work will focus on positive/negative space, interaction and flow of the figure and ground. Each participant will create a single design that they will execute in fabric in a number of different ways.
Anne McKenzie Nickolson A New Look at Appliqué and Reverse Appliqué
Tuesday March 18 ‐Thursday March 20 9:00 am ‐ 4:00 pm
TACtile Textile Arts Center Tamarac Square
7777 E. Hampden Ave. Denver
Please review current Workshop Registration Policies in your FRCQ Membership Directory. All registrations received by Saturday, February 9, 2008 will be put into a blind drawing
for the workshop.
Please PRINT and include all information requested:
Name_____________________________________________ Address___________________________________________ City_____________________ State_______ Zip__________ Phone ___________________ E‐mail____________________________________________
Workshop 3‐Day Tuition $175.00 Tuition checks must accompany your registration.
__I have enclosed my tuition check for $175.00 payable to FRCQ __I am a current FRCQ Member __I am not a current FRCQ Member and I enclosed my check for $30.00 payable to FRCQ for membership dues.
Mail registration by standard U.S. mail to : Faye Anderson, FRCQ
2550 Winding River Dr. Unit F‐2 Broomfield, CO 80023
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Every artist has a day when they feel uninspired. Try doing something unexpected or out of the ordinary to get those creative juices flowing. If you feel you need some help through those crea-tive lulls, try some of these inspirational ideas. • Randomly select a word from the dictionary and
explore what it means to you. • Take a meandering walk down your favorite path
or one that you have never traveled. • Find a cozy chair at the local mall and watch
people. • Look through old photographs. • Browse the internet (try www.stumbleupon.com) • Re-read a favorite book • Keep a quote jar with your favorite quotes and
randomly select one. • Select a day (or a few hours) to volunteer for
those less fortunate than you. • Select a quote from your favorite book and ex-
plore it • Play a silly game with your children. • Fingerpaint • Keep an art journal where you capture images
and quotes that come to your mind. • Doodle • Visit a local gallery • Take a technique class • Visit a local senior center and talk to the people
about their life stories • Listen to music • Browse through magazines at the local news
stand. • Watch your favorite movie • Take a trip someplace you’ve never been before • Meditate or take a yoga class • Sing out loud to your favorite song and dance
around the living room • Meet a friend for coffee that you haven’t talked
to in awhile • Ask another FRCQ member what inspires them. • Laugh, smile and enjoy something you don’t
think you have time to do!
Kathy Keating [email protected]
Countdown To Peace
Inspired by collaborative projects like the Aids Me-morial Quilt and Sonya Clark’s Beaded Prayers Pro-
ject, all artists are invited to help create the “Countdown to PEACE.”
Presented in calendar format, the project begins with March 19, 2003 (the day the war in Iraq began) and
will end when the war ends. At this point we are into the fifth year of the war; the calendar format
allows us a way to measure the full extent of the war and gives us a visual sense of its continuing scope.
Our very own Carol Ann Waugh can be found at
May 16, 2003 on the calendar.
For more information and submission guidelines: http://pages.suddenlink.net/w2la_design/peace/index.htm
FRCQ Yahoo Group One of the many benefits of being an FRCQ member is online access to the FRCQ Yahoo Group. This was set up as a way to communicate information to a large group without having to send out individual emails to the group. The Yahoo Group also provides space to upload files or photos. The monthly FRCQ newsletter is uploaded as soon as it goes to the printer so many members read the newsletter a week or so prior to receiving it the mail. The past 3 years of newsletters are archived on the Yahoo Group. If you are interested in gaining access to this valuable information tool, please email Jeanne Lounsbury at [email protected]. You will receive directions to get started with this additional means of communica-tion.
Signup for your 2008 FRCQ Membership at the January meeting.
Benefits include:
Program Meetings with well-known artists Newcomer’s Meeting Monthly Newsletters
Workshops Exhibits
And More…..
Finding Inspiration
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January 12, 2008 “QUILT VISIONS 2008” Oceanside Museum of Art San Diego, California www.quiltvisions.org January 15, 2008 CONVERGENCE 2008 (8 Juried Fiberarts exhibits) Handweavers Guild of America Inc. Tampa Bay, FL www.weavespindye.org January 15, 2008 “2007 Liquitex Excellence in Art” Published in December 2008 Art in Amer-ica Magazine www.liquitex.com January 18, 2008 ARE WE THERE YET? 30 Years of Femi-nism ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation Chicago, IL www.arcgallery.org January 23, 2008 “CLAY AND FIBER” Woman Made Gallery Chicago, Illinois www.womanmade.org January 25, 2008 “LITURGICAL AND SACRED ART 2008” Springfield Art Association Springfield, Illinois www.springfieldart.org January 25, 2008 (SAQA Members only) UP IN STITCHES Yeiser Art Center Paducah, KY www.theyeiser.org January 28, 2008 “NEW AMERICAN TALENT” Arthouse at the Jones Center Austin, TX www.arthousetexas.org
Exhibit Opportunities by Christi Beckmann
January 31, 2008 “FIBER CELEBRATION 2008” (Northern Colorado Weaver’s Guild) Lincoln Center Galleries Fort Collins, Colorado www.fortnet.org/NCWG/ February 1, 2008 “FACES OF WOMEN” Las Vegas Art Council Las Vegas, New Mexico www.lasvegasartscouncil.org February 1, 2008 “A Tear in the Fabric: The Conceptu-ally Driven Quilt” California Polytechnic State Univer-sity Art Gallery San Luis Obispo, California Email: [email protected] February 1, 2008 MASS CONSUMPTION Mesa Contemporary Arts Mesa, AZ www.MesaArtsCenter.com February 14, 2008 “COMBINED TALENTS: THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL” Florida State Museum of Fine Arts Tallahassee, Florida www.mofa.fsu.edu/pics/combinedtalententry.pdf February 15, 2008 TACTILE ARCHITECTURE 2008 International Quilt Festival (and trav-eling) Houston, TX www.quilts.com February 29, 2008 ‘THE ARTFUL HOME PORTFO-LIO COMPETITION” The Guild (www.guild.com) http://portfoliocompetition.guild.com
February 29, 2008 “In Full BloomV: Floral Quilts in Memory of Helen Pearce O’Bryant” Houston, Chicago, and Long Beach international Quilt Festivals 2008 www.quilts.com March 1, 2008 “ART AND ADDICTION” Innovators Combating Substance Abuse Program Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine www.innovatorsawards.org March 7, 2008 2009 Quilting Arts Calendar Contest “Celebrating Home” www.quiltingarts.com March 14, 2008 “The Festival Gallery of Quilt Art: Town and Country” Houston, Chicago, and Long Beach International Quilt Festivals 2008 www.quilts.com March 15, 2008 “PASTE-UP 2008” Ayer Lofts Gallery Lowell, Massachusetts www.paste-up.com March 15, 2008 “International Fiber Collaborative” Syracuse, NY www.internationalfibercollaborative.com April 30, 2008 “ART QUILTS LOWELL 2008” Brush Art Gallery Lowell, Massachusetts www.thebrush.org May 9, 2008 “The Sky’s the Limit” Houston, Chicago, and Long Beach International Quilt Festivals www.quilts.com
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June 7, 2008 “THREADLINES 2008” Missouri State University Art and Design Gallery Kansas City, Missouri http://uncommthreads.org/blog/threadlines-exhibition/ January 15, 2008 HUMANITIES FINE ARTS GALLERY (exhibition pro-posals) University of Minnesota, Morris, MN www.morris.umn.edu/academic/art/prospectushfa.doc February 1, 2008 1708 GALLERY (exhibition proposals) Richmond, VA www.1708gallery.org
Exhibit Opportunities (continued)
March 2008 (solo exhibition opportunity) NCAR COMMUNITY ART PROGRAM National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, CO www.ucar.edu/outreach/art_gallery/calendar.html Multiple Deadlines (publication) ALTERED COUTRE Belle Armoire and Somerset Studio www.stampington.com Multiple Deadlines (publication) SEW SOMERSET Somerset Studio www.stampington.com ART IN EMBASSIES PROGRAM (ongoing) www.aiep.state.gov
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Mark your calendars January 21— Program Meeting Stan Meyer speaking “Art is Belief Made Visible”
February 18 — Newcomer’s Meeting Carol Watkins speaking “Seeing Nature, Creating Art“ March 17 — Program Meeting Anne McKenzie Nickolson Speaking “Combining New Technology with Traditional Processes” April 21 — Newcomer’s Meeting Greg Katz “Becoming An Artist From The Inside Out” May 19 — Program Meeting Alison Schwabe speaking "Everything Old is New Again” June 16 — Newcomer’s Meeting Lloyd Rich speaking “What's Mine, What's Yours, and How to Tell the Difference” July 21 — Program Meeting Nita Leland speaking September 15 — Program Meeting Cas Holmes speaking “Beyond the Surface”
General Meetings @ Westminster City Recreation Center—7:00 PM Newcomers Meetings @ College Hill Library—7:00 PM
Note: If an FRCQ meeting is cancelled for any reason, a notice will be posted on the website at www.artquilters.org.
