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“Fresh Beginnings: Healing Our Earth”
Pacific Piecemakers Quilt Guild Challenge for 2022
PPQG has held an annual quilt Challenge Show at Gualala Arts Center for over 21 years. Each year Pacific Piecemakers Quilt Guild (PPQG) challenges its members to create a quilt that fits certain parameters. (A link to the registration form is below).
This show promotes the art of quilting in our coastal community by displaying a wide variety of quilts related to a central theme. Following a year of sheltering in place for the COVID-19 pandemic, we chose the theme of “Fresh Beginnings: Healing our Earth” for 2022. This is a way of acknowledging all the challenges we face as a people and to promote a collective healing through the art of quilting.More information can be found at the website, PPQG website.
Key Dates:
• The Exhibit Opening Reception will be May 13, 2022 pending COVID guidelines.
• Entry Forms MUST BE RECEIVED no later than April 29.
• Artwork must be delivered on May 11.
• Last day of exhibit is June 5, 2022.
Exhibit Curators: Sylvia Evans (sylthesailor@gmail.com) and Della Zita (Motherbears57@gmail.com)
Theme: “Fresh Beginnings: Healing our Earth”.
Inspiration may come from anywhere and anything effecting the delicate balance of our culture and environment. May healing begin one quilt at a time.
Here are the 2022 Challenge Rules:
1). Download the Registration Form.
2).Make a quilt of your own design and/or pattern/color choice
3). Natural fibers are recommended but not required.
4). Repurposing/upcycling items that are no longer wanted or needed into a quilt giving those materials new life is encouraged.
5). No maximum or minimum sizes
6). Piecing techniques are the designers choice
Date of Exhibit: May 13, 2022 to June 5, 2022
Turn in Entry form by: April 29, 2022
Deliver Artwork: May 11, 2022
Opening Reception: May 13, 2022
Pick up Artwork: June 6, 2022
Registration and entry directions:
1). Registration fee is $20.00 per entry if the item is not for sale. Make checks payable to Gualala Arts and include your entry/registration form. While there is not limit on number of entries, please indicate your order of preference if hanging space becomes limited.
2). Please fill out an Entry Form for EACH piece. Turn in the top portion to Gualala Arts, with the entry fee, if applicable, by the deadline. When delivering the art, attach the Entry Label portion securely to each piece.
3). This show will NOT be juried and is open only to PPQG members in good standing.
4) For this exhibit, artists are encouraged to enter 2-D or 3-D work. The work submitted should be no more than 2 years old and may not have been exhibited publicly on the Mendonoma coast at any time in the past.
5) Gualala Arts will retain 30% commission on all sales of entries made during the course of the exhibit.
6). The curator will provide a binder to display an “Artist Statement” for each artist. Please submit with your Entry Forms.
7). Prepare your quilt for hanging: Each quilt entry should have a 4” hanging sleeve and a dowel or slat that measures 1” less that the width of the quilt. Artist name and quilt title should be on the dowel or slat. Mini-quilts may have a 2” hanging sleeve with a dowel Measuring 1” less than width of quilt. A sleeve is not required for postcard size quilts.
8). All quilts, except postcard sizes, must have a label stating the quilt title, name of artist, date and location stitched onto the quilt back in the lower right corner.
9). Gualala Arts is not liable for any art work or installation, at any point in the process.
10). Quilts must be picked up between 11:00 & 2:00pm June 6, 2022. There will be a $5.00 per day fee charged by GAC for those remaining after June 6.
11). The Exhibit Opening Reception will be May 13, 2022 pending COVID guidelines.
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