Visions Museum of Textile Art (VMOTA) is proud to announce the call for entries for Quilt Visions 2024, the museum’s 25th international juried exhibition. Exhibition jurors Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Karl Reichert and Sandra Sider will select work exemplifying art quilting at the highest level of quality, innovation, surface design techniques, excellence in composition, and craftsmanship. Selected works will be featured in a full-color exhibition catalog. Cash prizes will be awarded.
Exhibition jurors will select innovative textile art that explores form and technique of 2D art quilts. Selected works will be featured in a full-color exhibition catalog. Cash prizes will be awarded.
Quilt Visions 2024 will be on display at VMOTA in San Diego, from October 12 to December 28, 2024. Selected artists will receive further information regarding participation during Quilt Visions 2024 Festival Days. Festival Days will include workshops, lectures, artist meet and greets, receptions and other gatherings. Participation by selected artists is highly encouraged but not required.
Jan 1, 2024 | Call for Entry Opens (Online Only) |
Feb 9, 2024 | Call for Entry Closes (12 midnight PST) |
April 8, 2024 | Artists notified of jurors’ selections |
Apr 22, 2024 | Public announcement of accepted artists |
Sep 23, 2024 | Deadline for artwork to arrive at VMOTA |
Oct 18-19, 2024 | Quilt Visions Festival Days |
Oct 19, 2024 | Opening Reception |
Dec 28, 2024 | Exhibition Closes |
Jan 8-15, 2025 | Artwork pick up deadline |
Jan 8-15, 2025 | Artwork shipping deadline |
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND ELIGIBILITY
ARTWORK SPECIFICATIONS
PHOTOGRAPHY REQUIREMENTS
For information or questions about Quilt Visions 2024, please contact us at quiltvisions2024@gmail.com.
SELECTION
NOTIFICATION
Artists will be notified of jurors’ selection via email by April 8, 2024.
A public announcement will be made on April 22, 2024.
SHIPPING AND INSURANCE
COPYRIGHT
The artist retains the copyright of the work at all times. Images of selected artworks will be retained by VMOTA for promotional and educational purposes. Acknowledgment of the artist will be made in all such uses.
If an accepted artwork is withdrawn from the exhibition by the artist, that artist will be ineligible to submit to any VMOTA juried exhibition for the subsequent two juried exhibitions.
Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry is internationally known for her award-winning fine-art quilts, which are easily recognized by their luminous colors and illusions of light, depth, and motion. Her attention to detail has earned her a reputation for fine craftsmanship as well as stunning designs. Her quilt, Corona 2: Solar Eclipse was voted one of the hundred best quilts of the 20th Century. Caryl's work has appeared in hundreds of exhibitions and publications throughout the world, and can be found in museum, corporate, public, and private collections in almost every state and eight foreign countries. For 30 years, Caryl traveled extensively, lecturing and conducting workshops for quilt and textile arts groups throughout the United States, and in ten foreign countries. She continues to share her knowledge, putting many of her patterns and tutorials on her website as free downloads (www.bryerpatch.com).
Karl Reichert is the Executive Director of Textile Center, a nonprofit national center for fiber art. Textile Center’s mission is to “honor textile traditions, promote excellence and innovation, and inspire widespread participation in fiber art.” Karl is a senior arts executive who has expertise in arts program development, community engagement, and national/international outreach. He is a creative and entrepreneurial changemaker with decades of success in developing and promoting the arts in Minneapolis-St. Paul. He is a deeply committed and connected leader and team-builder who thrives in multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environments.
Sandra Sider, has been editor of Art Quilt Quarterly (2016-2023) and is a New York contemporary quilt artist specializing in cyanotype and other photographic processes since 1980. One can find her studio quilts in public collections as well as quilts currently available for purchase and exhibition. For forty years, Sandra has written about crafts and fiber art, especially quilt art, for Fiberarts Magazine and other journals. Sandra has served as juror or curator many times, and will serve as a juror for Houston International Quilt Festival's 2023 Judged Show. From 2019 through 2022, Sandra taught the History of Textiles course in the MFA Textiles program for Parsons School of Design. The twelve volumes of The Studio Quilt publication series founded by Sandra in 2010 can be purchased via Amazon.com. The series, which closed in 2013, documents a broad range of the quilt art genre. For more information about Sandra, go to her website, sandrasider.com.
For information or questions about Quilt Visions 2024, please contact us at quiltvisions2024@gmail.com.