Connie Bloom in First Night Akron

Former BJ staffer Connie Bloom will be participating in Friday's First Night Akron, the 15th annual welcoming of the New Year at various downtown Akron venues. Connie's Quilting Arts Studio and Gallery will be open 5-11 p.m. Friday on the third floor of Summit Artspace, which is next to the Akron Art Museum, 140 E. Market Street.

Connie moved in autumn 2010 from her Red Light Galleries, 111 N. Main Street, next door to Luigi’s, to Summit Artspace. She left the BJ in 2008 after 34 years with the newspaper.

She is publisher/editor of QSDS (Quilt Service Design Symposium), a quarterly online magazine about fabric art, which she dived into with a passion after taking her BJ buyout.

First Night buttons cost $10.

Click on the headline to read Kerry Clawson's First Night story in the BJ.