Call Opens: Dec 16th, 2024 Last Date for Entries: Apr 16th, 2025
Art is an excellent way to express emotions. For this exhibit, artists depict how they, a family member, or a friend celebrated a loved one’s wedding, birth, birthday, or memorial. Colors, patterns, traditional blocks, or abstract drawings can be combined or used alone to convey a range of emotions from happy to sad. Share your emotional art with others!
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Call Opens: Dec 16th, 2024 Last Date for Entries: Apr 24th, 2025
This exhibit will showcase Princess Feather and Feathered Star quilts. Quilters have long associated feathers with the 19th and 20th Centuries. The earliest documented use of the Princess Feather design was found on a quilt dated 1818, by Mary Summerville, and donated to the Spencer Museum. Feathered Star quilts began appearing in the 19th Century, as well, intricately pieced and time-consuming to construct. Modern sewing methods and machines make quick work of these two cherished designs. You may enter antique, modern, recently made, inherited, or purchased quilts in these two styles.
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Call Opens: Dec 16th, 2024 Last Date for Entries: Apr 3rd, 2025
Artists from around the world incorporate influences from their own cultures into the design and technique of their quilts. This prestigious, long-running international showcase includes recent quilts by some of these international artists.
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Call Opens: Dec 16th, 2024 Last Date for Entries: Apr 24th, 2025
Just as quilters create beautiful art with fabric, florists and gardeners cultivate works of beauty from the soil. This exhibit showcases floral-inspired quilts from across the spectrum in lush color and splendor.
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Call Opens: Dec 16th, 2024 Last Date for Entries: Apr 3rd, 2025
Contemporary quiltmakers often look to the art form’s rich tradition and history for inspiration in their own work. This exhibit features recently made quilts incorporating traditional blocks, styles, and/or techniques.
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Call Opens: Dec 16th, 2024 Last Date for Entries: Apr 16th, 2025
From valleys and volcanoes to mountains and monuments, landscapes ofteninspire artists, including many in the quilt world. This exhibit showcases many stunning geographical wonders.
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Call Opens: Dec 16th, 2024 Last Date for Entries: Apr 3rd, 2025
Modern quilts often take traditional blocks and reinterpret them by using solid-colored fabrics or give them a new twist by using negative space, minimal repeats, improvisational piecing, and gridding for quilting. A modern quilt can be pieced or appliquéd. Share your interpretation of a modern quilt based on a traditional pattern with us!
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Call Opens: Dec 16th, 2024 Last Date for Entries: Apr 24th, 2025
For over 10 years, the Barbara Bush Literacy Foundation has made a difference in the lives of children and adults by giving them the tools they need to become proficient readers. Use your creativity to make a quilt that illustrates a favorite book, tells a story of its own, or encourages someone to read. You can even depict Barbara Bush herself! Use any technique that you like to make this story come to life.
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Call Opens: Dec 16th, 2024 Last Date for Entries: Apr 16th, 2025
Buildings have a long history of inspiring the creative designs of quiltmakers. In the 19th century, American quilters developed classic architectural blocks and patterns such as Log Cabin, Schoolhouse, and Brick Wall. This annual juried exhibit challenges quiltmakers to create works based on architectural themes and inspirations. The quilt style may be traditional, modern, or art.
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