本會簡介 About

    社團法人台灣螞蟻拼布研究會成立於2007年4月15日，是一個全國性的非營利團體。以志工精神推廣拼布藝術、服務社區、拼布人與拼布愛好者、推廣臺灣特有染織技藝、進行國際交流是本會成立的宗旨。設立拼布博物館、進行相關研究及出版拼布書籍、促進社區婦女參與文化產業則是本會自我期許的長程目標。
本會由一群專業拼布人及拼布愛好者共同組成。會員們積極參與本會各項工作的推動，齊心努力；秉持螞蟻的精神，堅持只做對的事，不浪費任何資源；齊心傳承拼布藝術種子，相互分享，自我成長並成就整體。

 Taiwan Ant Quilt Society was established on April 15th, 2007. It is a nationwide non-profit group that aims to promote quilt art, to serve communities, quilters and quilt-lovers with profession and voluntary spirits. In addition, all TAQS members strive to promote Taiwan textile art as well as international cultural exchanges. Establishing a Quilt Art Museum, collecting masterpieces, doing researches, publishing quilt art books, and facilitating women’s participation in community cultural industries are our long-term missions.
Our society is made up of quilt artists or enthusiasts who love quilt. With the spirit of ants, all “ant” members act in team works. Ants persist on doing “right” things only and insist on not wasting any resources. Sharing with each other, disseminating art seeds and developing TAQS as a whole are also what we devoted to.

以「螞蟻」命名的緣由 The origin of the “Ant” naming:

    學習拼布的人，從學會拿針縫接開始，進行一連串有次序的拼布創作。據說螞蟻最早出現於白堊紀中期，距今約8000萬年。以螞蟻作為團體的代表意象，象徵著拼布藝術悠久的歷史。螞蟻們是守秩序、團隊合作的動物；他們出外覓食都是結伴同行，絕不單獨行動；守本分盡責、不製造紛亂。此外，螞蟻跨一步的距離剛好跟標準的手縫針距一樣。而他們微小的身軀提醒著每個拼布人要縮小自我，不膨脹自己所能。

Quilt beginners start a series of art creation with learning how to use thread and needle. Ants are believed to have been in existence in Mid-Cretaceous Period, about 800 millions years ago. We took “Ant” as our token to represent the long-standing history of quilt art. Ants are organized and cooperative. They go out to seek food in groups, never in solitary. Ants always know their place and do not cause chaos. In addition, the distance of an ant’s single step is the same as the standard stitch interval.

大事紀 Events

2010年
　 4月 2010藝術拼布地平線，台南縣佳里鎮立圖書館　　
　 3月 2010藝術拼布地平線，南台科技大學藝術中心

2010
　Apr.　2010 Horizons of Art Quilts, Chiali Public Library
　Mar.　2010 Horizons of Art Quilts, Southern Taiwan University

2009年
　 3月 2009台灣國際拼布大展，國立台南生活美學館
　 4月 執行「國立臺灣工藝研究所多角化社區工藝扶植計畫-台江幸福錦囊」
　 5月 2009「靚」藝術拼布展，崑山科技大學創媒藝廊

2009
　Mar.　Taiwan International Quilt Exhibition 2009, National Tainan Living Art Center
　Apri.　“Taiwan International Quilt Exhibition 2009”, National Tainan Living Art Center
　　　　“Community ArtCraft Incubation Program- Taijiang’s Pouches of Bliss,” sponsored by National Taiwan Craft Research Institute? 　　May.　“Gorgeous- Exhibition of Art Quilts”, Creative Media Art Gallery, Kun Shan University

2008年
　 2月 Joan Schulze「非傳統拼布」研習
　 3月 承辦國立臺灣工藝研究所「97年婦女工藝技能暨知識成長-拼布創作種子教師育成計畫」
　10月 「拼布嘉年華I：大師經典原創系列-劉棟的奇幻馬賽克異想世界」研習
　　　 「拼布嘉年華II：大師經典原創系列-詹智成 我的收藏箱」研習

2008
　Feb.　The Quilts and Collage Workshop, instructed by Joan Schulze
　Mar.　“Quilt Teachers’ Training Program 2008,” commissioned by National Taiwan Craft Research Institute
　Oct.　The Fantastic World of Mosaics Workshop, instructed by Danny Liu
　　　　My Treasure Handbag Workshop, instructed by Chan Chih-Chen

2007年
　 4月　社團法人台灣螞蟻拼布研究會成立
　 8月　樂活拼布：大自然拼布展，國立台南生活美學館
　　　　大自然拼布研習
　 9月　搶救諸羅樹蛙行動
　10月　女人的針線藝術∼大自然拼布展，台南市德光女中
　12月　花布精靈~拼布藝術之美，台南縣佳里鎮立圖書館

2007
　Apr.　Taiwan Ant Quilt Society is founded.
　Aug.　“LOHAS Quilts: Exhibition of Nature Quilts”, National Tainan Living Art Center
　　　　The Nature Quilts Workshop, instructed by Lin Hsin-Chen
　Sep.　Action of “Saving Rhacophorus arvalis”
　Oct.　 “Women’s Needlework Art: Exhibition of Nature Quilts”, Deguang Catholic High School, Tainan City
　Dec.　“Fairies of Fabrics: The Beauty of Art Quilts”, an exhibition held in Tainan Chiali Public Library