From Karey Bresenhan:
The International Quilt Festival is proud to announce the creation of the
Journal Quilt Project II, a new series of quilt exhibitions featuring small,
experimental quilts with specific themes. This year’s theme is “Elements:
Earth, Water, Air, and Fire.” Each quilt artist may enter up to two quilts;
there is no entry fee; and the exhibit will be juried to control its size.
For details on the new JQ2008 project, go here:
http://home.att.net/~kareyb/JQ2008/JQ2008.htm
Whether you have entered every year before or whether the Journal Quilts are
entirely new to you, I’d like to encourage all of you to participate in this
new project. To participate, you must make a $15 donation to Quilt Art. Go
here to find out how to make your contribution:
http://www.quiltart.com/contributions_info.html
There are some changes in this new JQ Project.
* The quilts must be 17″x22″ (vertical orientation only).
* The quilts must be based on the “Elements” theme.
* You are NOT required to cite any references to the book, “Creative
Quilting.”
* The quilts will be juried to control the size of the exhibition.
If you’re not sure what a Journal Quilt is, I’d like to suggest that you
take a look at the “Creative Quilting” book, which contains photos of more
than 400 JQs (full disclosure: I wrote it!). You can also go to QuiltArt for
images from past JQ projects. Here’s the link to the 2007 images:
http://www.quiltart.com/2007journals/index.html Judy also offers photos
from 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. And “Quilting Arts,” the publisher of
“Creative Quilting,” has also covered the Journal Quilt projects extensively
since the beginning, so for more information, you can refer to back issues
of the magazine.
The JQ Project was developed to inspire creativity, experimentation, and
growth among quilt artists. It is a free-form exercise in creativity,
specifically planned to encourage quilt artists to stretch and grow by
trying new methods-experimenting with color, image, composition, materials,
and/or technique. Keeping an informal journal to record influences on your
experimental work and your own reactions to this work is part of the
project, intended to capture your creative development and personal
progress.
For details on the new JQ2008 project, go here:
http://home.att.net/~kareyb/JQ2008/JQ2008.htm