Former BJ Features Department editor/columnist Connie Bloom will have birthday visitors Saturday, Nov. 1.

Posted Connie: “The TV camera crew and hosts will be visiting my studio tomorrow-- my birthday.”

More details were given on The Penthouse Artists of Summit Artspace’s Facebook page: “New Day Cleveland” (WJW-Channel 8) is doing a story on Connie Bloom's quilt art and will be visiting her studio just in time to see the completion of Magic Realism II, on view at Saturday's Art Walk at Summit Artspace,” 140 E. Market Street,  downtown Akron.

Connie is an Ohio quilt art guru and publisher/editor of QSDS (Quilt Surface Design Symposium), a quarterly online magazine about fabric art for Ohio.

Connie has a 350 square foot studio as the resident quiltmaker in Summit Artspace on the third floor. It’s next door to the Akron Art Museum.

Her phone number is (330) 472-0161. Or you can email her at connie@conniebloom.com

David Moss and Natalie Herbick host “New Day Cleveland.” No air date was given for Connie’s masterpieces to be on the show.