Call for Entry

PORTFOLIO 25 – The Best of 2024

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 2024. 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, 2024
• Notification of selected work: January 23, 2025
• Exhibit posted Online: January 31, 2025

Juror: Jo Fitsell is a mixed media textile artist and teacher. She employs a wide variety of techniques such as fabric marbling, deconstructed silk screening and fabric painting while using fiber, paper paint and the stitched line. Her work has been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally. She has taught for many years at The Art Students League in Denver. She is one of the founders of FRCQ and recently has facilitated our on-line book club.

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 2024 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 two images: one overall image and one detail.
• 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, with 2 images of each.
• Please name your artwork images as follows:
  o For overall image: Title, dimensions of art work
  o For detail image: Title, detail
• There is no entry fee.
• For each piece that you enter, write a SHORT statement describing the materials used in the art and your inspiration for the piece. Do not include your name.

Send your images and short paragraphs to ruthmurayama@gmail.com. 

Please direct any questions to ruthmurayama@gmail.com