Quilts=Art=Quilts 2024
November 2, 2024, to January 5, 2025
Quilts=Art=Quilts is an international juried quilt exhibition at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York. The Art Center has been a longstanding proponent of quilts as a visual arts medium and has been presenting quilts in a gallery setting since 1981.
Jurors select quilts based on overall quality of design, visual impact and originality. Prizes are awarded, including $1,000 for Best of Show.
Opening Weekend Events
ARTIST’S TALK: Juror Dorothy Caldwell, 3 pm Nov. 2
OPENING RECEPTION: 4-6 pm Nov. 2; awards announced at 5pm
QUILTERS’ DINNER: 6:45 pm Nov. 2 at Springside Inn; Call 315.255.1553 for reservations
DIRECTOR’S TOUR: 1 pm Nov. 3
Trunk Shows
The Art Center has scheduled four QAQ Trunk Shows, where quilt artists display their pieces and talk about their inspirations and processes. All trunk shows are held at 2 pm on Sundays and are free with admission. Here is this year’s schedule:
- Nov. 10: Christine Wickert, quilt artist
- Nov. 24: Jean McCreary, quilt artist
- Dec. 1: Sharon Bottle Souva, quilt artist
- Dec. 8: Pat Pauly, exhibiting artist
Take a virtual tour
Jurors
Dorothy Caldwell is a graduate of Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and presently maintains an active international exhibition and teaching schedule from her studio in Hastings, Ontario. She has been awarded grants to carry out research projects in Japan and India, and has worked “on site” in the Australian outback, the Canadian Arctic, and Newfoundland. Dorothy has completed major architectural commissions, and her work is included in public collections including the American Museum of Art and Design, NYC, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The International Quilt Museum and Study Center University of Nebraska, The Canadian Department of External Affairs, The Jack Larsen Collection, New York, The Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec, and the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, among others.
She was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and is the recipient of the Prix Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in the Crafts, awarded to one artist annually (a Governor General’s Award in visual and media arts).
Michael James’s practice is focused on fabric constructions. His textiles have been recognized and exhibited internationally. They are included in the collections of the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Racine Art Museum, the Newark Museum, the Mint Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Shelburne Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, among others.
For his work in the domain of non-traditional quilts James was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 1992 by his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, became a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 2001, and in 2009 was honored with the University of Nebraska’s system-wide “Outstanding Research and Creative Activity” Award (ORCA), given for a sustained record of excellent accomplishment in research or creative activity while at the university. In 2015 he was honored by the Renwick Alliance with its Master of the Medium Award, for lifetime accomplishment. Since 2002 he has concentrated his creative efforts on digital textile printing and its interface with the quilt as mixed media platform. His work explores the liminal and fluid borderland between the physical and metaphysical worlds.
James joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2000. He served as department chair and Ardis James Professor in Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design in the College of Education and Human Sciences from 2015 to his retirement in early 2020. While at UNL he taught foundation design and textile design, as well as graduate courses in the areas of material culture/quilt studies.
Participating artists
Mary Lou Alexander
Bobbi Baugh
Astrid Hilger Bennett
Elizabeth Bennett
Rodger Blum
Eszter Bornemisza
Deborah Boschert
Anna Brown
Michelle Browne
Betty Busby
Susan Byrnes
Jennifer Candon
Katie Chester
Shinhee Chin
Julie Sevilla Drake
Ann Feitelson
Jennifer Fons
Helen Geglio
Nancy Goodman
Valerie Goodwin
Julia Graziano
Kerri Green
Judy Hooworth
Jean Howard
Patty Kennedy-Zafred
Lauren Klementz-Harte
Yan Liu
Viviana Lombrozo
Kathleen Loomis
Fuzzy Mall
Terrie Mangat
Judy Martin
Gabrielle McIntosh
Andrew McPhail
Lela ODell
Carolina Oneto
Laurie Paquin
Pat Pauly
Jennifer Raish
Sheree Rasmussen
Irene Roderick
Karen Schulz
Judy Gaynes Sebastian
Laura Shaw
Catherine Smith
Jan Soules
Jessie Stampfli
Karen K. Stone
Janet Swigler
Marge Tucker
Shari Werner
Kevin Womack
Sophie Zaugg