The whole collection is documented in Quilt National 2015: The Best of Contemporary Quilts, published by The Dairy Barn Arts Center. There were 689 quilts submitted by 378 artists from 44 states and 19 countries including 3 Canadian provinces. Jurors Rosalie Dace, Ann Johnston and Judy Schwender selected 84 quilts by 84 artists. The exhibitors represented 33 states and 8 foreign countries. In this exhibition 30 percent of the exhibitors are first time Quilt National artists. There were 14 awards granted. In addition, the People’s Choice award will be chosen by the visitors to the show.
Artist’s Statement:“Action and reaction. My artistic process is often an interesting combination of the two. After finishing a series of pieces working with bright colors I felt drawn to work in a severely limited palette. I narrowed the value range. My work is primarily concerned with the formal considerations of composition. The quilted line and the thicker couched line, both an integral part of my current efforts, grow out of the underlying structure. The title appeared.”
Artist’s Statement:I majored in ceramics and spent almost 20 years operating my own business. I am revisiting the classical pottery forms of the past, this time in fiber, using the medium to push the traditional shapes in new directions. The title refers to the traditional Chinese ginger jar shape that inspired this work.
Artist’s Statement:“Red suns at night is a fisherman’s delight” refers to sunlight shining thru a high concentration of dust particles. This indicates high pressure approaching and bringing good weather. As the wife of an avid salt water fisherman, we always wished for good weather and good fishing.
Artist’s Statement:In 1972, Edward Lorenz asked: does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? Chaos theory describes systems that are predictable for a while and then appear to become random. The flapping butterfly wing represents a very small change in a pattern of behaviour initially…however this can cause a chain of events leading to large-scale phenomena. Had the butterfly not flapped its wing at that time, the systematic pattern might have been very different.
For those of us who work improvisationally, when a meaningful prediction cannot be made…is the pattern random?
Artist’s Statement:I have taken another leap further into minimalism.
Clean design and simplicity are my beacons, which is why I’m utterly drawn to midcentury modern furniture and architecture. This attraction is a clue to the path I’m on. In Blue Veil, large expanses of space have claimed a voice of their own with simple quilt lines scaffolding bold composition.
Artist’s Statement:My work is about our complex society, many disparate pieces held together by fragile bonds. We may think things are under control, but order naturally yields to disorder, solidarity becomes fractured, things start to fray around the edges.
Artist’s Statement:This quilt illustrates the Chinese government’s September 2012 Filial Piety Act, wherein children are now legally required to care for their aging parents. Before the Communist Revolution, elders were revered as national treasures; afterward, many were abused and neglected. China’s history since the 1949 Communist Revolution is filled with attempts at social engineering. Their 1980 One-Child policy appears to have reaped unintended consequences for China’s capital market reforms, thus making this ironic law necessary.
Artist’s Statement:Rocky Trail is part of my Journeys series. A journey can be real or imaginary, the distance, any length. Choose any destination. All means of transportation are possible, from one’s own feet to spaceships. In this quilt, I explore rocky terrain, its variety of color, texture and scale, its visual and tactile properties, and their emotional and physical impact on the traveler along the way.
Quilt Surface Design Symposium Award of Excellence
Artist’s Statement:As a landscape architect I think three dimensionally while drawing and designing two dimensionally. This work takes it one step further and is literally a small cross section. Instead of drawing lines on paper I am using fabric strips as my medium. The fabric strips are creating my line drawing and graphically represent the bright texture of our earth’s subgrade. To me it is just like doodling.
Artist’s Statement:Texture, light and color all play a part in discovering the essential lines needed to flow across the stage with a sense of freedom. They disappear and reappear sometimes connecting, other times not.
