PORTFOLIO 2024

Best of 2023

This is a web-based exhibit open to members of Front Range Contemporary Quilters. Art accepted into this show will be the home page feature on the FRCQ website that displays the best work completed by our members in 2023. There will be no catalogue published. The juror’s goal will be to select the best possible group of entries that collectively showcase the diversity of work being made in our region within the art quilt medium.

 Important Dates:

• Entries submitted: December 1- December 31, 2023
• Notification of selected work: January 22, 2024
• Exhibit posted Online: January 31, 2024

Juror: Deborah Fell is a mixed media textile artist and teacher. She uses fabric dyeing and painting to create organic and abstract shapes in her art. Her award-winning work has been displayed internationally. She won the Japan Prize at Visions 2018 and received the Jurors Choice Award at Quilt National 2021.

Eligibility

 You must be a member of FRCQ. Most current members are on an auto-renew system on our website. If you are a current member who did not choose the auto-renew option or are not a current member, you will have to join or renew. Click on the link:

     https://www.artquilters.org/join-frcq/

• Entries must meet this definition for art quilt: “The art is a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or that references this form of stitched, layered structure.” (Studio Art Quilt Associates)
• Single, diptych, or other multiple piece works, framed, mounted and three dimensional or wearable works may be submitted. Diptychs, triptychs and other multiple-piece works must be submitted as one entry.
• The work must be original and the result of independent (solo or collaborative) effort. If work is the result of a collaboration (including the production, design or quilting process) it must be noted in your description and collaborators listed. Art that was begun, worked on or resulted from a workshop and that is in the style of the workshop teacher is NOT considered original and thus is not eligible for this exhibit.
• All work must have been completed during the 2023 calendar year.
• Work submitted may have been displayed in previous exhibits and need not be in your possession, since this is a web-based exhibit.
• All communication for this exhibit is by e-mail, including notification of acceptance.
• Artwork will not be sold by FRCQ.

FRCQ Instructions for Photos

• Photos of entries will be submitted online. Since this is a web-based exhibit, the quality of the image is critical. Images that are not adequate for display on the website will be disqualified in the jury process. Images must be in sharp focus. You may wish to use a professional photographer.
• The full image should be on a neutral background with all outside edges of the art quilt visible. DO NOT CROP INTO THE EDGES OF THE ART.
• All entries should have one images: one overall image.
• File format: JPEG or JPG only.
• Size your images as follows: 72 dpi, 2100 pixels on long side, and under 2 MB. Tips for sizing images are on the web site under Exhibits, Useful information.

How to Enter

• Each member may enter up to three art pieces by submitting a separate form for each entry.
• Please name your artwork images as follows:
  • Title, dimensions of art work
• There is no entry fee.
• For each piece that you enter, write a SHORT paragraph describing the materials used in the art and your inspiration for the piece. Do not include your name.

ENTRY LINK:

Click HERE

to submit entries. This will open a new tab in your browser.

 Please direct any questions to ruthmurayama@gmail.com