Quilts=Art=Quilts 2017
Oct. 28, 2017, to Jan. 7, 2018
Quilts=Art=Quilts is an international juried quilt exhibition at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York. This year’s exhibit will feature quilts by 65 artists from across the US and around the world.
The exhibit will be on view from October 28, 2017, through January 7, 2018. The year’s exhibit was juried byJeannette DeNicolis Meyer, Marcia Young, and Joan Schulze. Prizes were choosen by Marica Young, each juror chose a juror’s choice award, and donor sponsored prizes were selected by the Schweinfurth.
This year’s prize winners are:
Best of Show: Ruins 1 by Leah Higgins
First Prize: People of the Wind by Shin-hee Chin
Second Prize: Infinity IV by Elena Stokes
Third Prize: Container by Kathy Ford
Award for Surface Design: Griffith and Broadway by Marian Zielinski
Juror’s Choice: Breakthrough by Elizabeth Busch
Juror’s Choice: Flying Geese- One Voice by Vicki Conley
Juror’s Choice: Frameworks IV by Julia Graziano
The Schweinfurth Award for Excellence: Tumbling by Naomi Velasquez
The Catherine Hastedt Award for Hand Workmanship: Compaction & Drift by Shea Wilkinson
The Shirley Hastedt Award: Red Jive and Blue Jive by Gerri Spilka
We encourage weekend visitors to plan their visits around the Trunk Shows which will be held throughout QAQ on four Sundays at 2:00 pm. Presenting artists bring a wide variety of their work and describe their process and approach to quilting. The admission fee allows visitors to view the exhibits and join the trunk shows. Trunk Shows will include:
Nov. 5th: Regina Sweet
Nov. 19th: Pat Pauly
Nov. 26th: Carol Boyer
Dec. 3: Beverly Kondolf
The exhibit will be on view through Sunday, January 7, 2018. Note that the Art Center is CLOSED on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, and we close at 2pm on November 22.
Artists accepted into this year’s exhibit include:
- Esterita Austin
- Liz Axford
- Suzy Bates
- Margaret Black
- Marianne Burr
- Betty Busby
- Elizabeth A. Busch
- Susan Callahan
- Susan E. Carlson
- Erika Carter
- Sharon Carvalho
- Sharon Casey
- Shin-hee Chin
- Sandra Palmer Ciolino
- Jette Clover
- Holly L. Cole
- Vicki Conley
- Lisa Corson
- Nancy Crasco
- Helene F. Davis
- Maggie Butterfield Dickinson
- Ann B. Feitelson
- Kathy Ford
- Diane W. Franklin
- Helen K. Geglio
- Leah E. Gravells
- Julia Graziano
- Sandy Gregg
- Ayn Hanna
- Leah Higgins
- Karen L. Hinkle
- Stacy Hurt
- Kathleen Kastles
- Patricia Kennedy-Zafred
- Paula L. Kovarik
- Liz Kuny
- Kimberly Lacy
- Viviana Lombrozo
- Niraja C. Lorenz
- Valerie Maser-Flanagan
- Diane Melms
- Elizabeth Michellod-Dutheil
- Orit Modiano
- Melody Money
- Elizabeth A. Nacenta de la Croix
- Kathy Nida
- Pat Pauly
- The Pixeladies
- Wen Redmond
- Ann Ribbens
- Helena Scheffer
- Barbara J. Schneider
- Beth Schnellenberger
- Karen Schulz
- Mary Ruth Smith
- Ileana L. Soto
- Gerri Spilka
- Andrew Steinbrecher
- Elena Stokes
- Naomi S. Velasquez
- Nancy Whittington
- Shea Wilkinson
- Marianne R. Williamson
- Ellen Wong
- Marian Zielinski