Art Quilt Australia 2013 - Call for Entries

 

In 2013 Art Quilt Australia will be a curated exhibition of innovative, new contemporary art quilts to celebrate the centenary of the naming of the nation’s capital city as Canberra.

Works will be selected that are inspired by, or reflect on ideas of people, place and nation.

With the definition of a quilt as "a stitched layered textile", the exhibition is open to all artists across Australia. It will be curated by Valerie Kirk, Head of Textiles at the ANU School of Art and be held at Craft ACT Design Gallery in Canberra from 31 October to 14 December 2013.

Entry is open to full members of Ozquilt Network Inc and all Australian artists. Large quilts are preferred but must not measure more than 2 metres in either direction.The closing date for entries is 19 July 2013.
Go to the Ozquilt Network site (click here) to download entry form and get further details.

New Year's Day Mystery Quilt

Want something to while away your New Year's Day?
Each year Janet Wickell of qilting.about.com provides instructions for a mystery quilt. Click here to go to the site to get the cutting instructions and then return on New Year's Day to start your quilt.

http://quilting.about.com/