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What's New
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What's New
& News in Quilting Around the World
By Angie Hodapp
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Quilt National '07
Opens Memorial Day Weekend
May 26 marks the start of Quilt National '07 at the Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center in Athens, Ohio. The exhibit will be open to the public through September 3. After that, it will be broken into three smaller exhibits that will travel to various venues through 2009.
Works by fiber artists from 27 states and 9 foreign countries, including Belgium, New Zealand, and Uruguay, were juried into Quilt National '07 by artists Tim Harding and Paula Nadelstern, and by Robin Treen, former exhibits director of the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.
Jurors selected no more than one work per artist.
Quilt National began in 1979, when quilt artist Nancy Crow recognized the lack of opportunities quiltmakers had to exhibit work that didn't seem to fit traditional quilt shows. quiltnational.com, dairybarn.org
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Over the past 30 years, acceptance into Quilt National has become highly sought by fiber artists from all over the world.
The Gift, 32" x 52", 2006, by Lori Lupe Pelish of Niskayuna, New York.
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This May, 85 art quilts judged to be the best of their form will debut at the 14th biennial Quilt National exhibit.
Conversation Piece, 52" x 50", 2006, by Sara Impey of Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom.
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Yellow Bricks, 44" x 34", 2006, by Leslie Joan Riley of Skokie, Illinois.
Photos courtesy Quilt National.
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