Studio Art Quilt Associates Entry Prospectus

Call for Consideration

Open to all SAQA members.

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Title: Celebrating Silver

Premiere Location: Houston Quilt Market and Festival, October 23-November 2, 2014

Additional confirmed venues: Cincinnati, April 2015; Long Beach, California, August 2015

Additional venues may be added; work must be available to travel through the end of 2017

Exhibition Concept

Silver is indispensable. From industrial use to decoration, technology, photography and medicine, its unique properties of strength, malleability, reflectivity and conductivity make it an irreplaceable force in the global market.  In addition to its physical properties silver is recognized as a symbol of love, insurance and commitment for twenty-five years.  We invite you to share your reflections on the precious metal’s economic and symbolic value in order to celebrate SAQA’s 25th anniversary.

The juror will select approximately thirty artists to create artworks specifically for this commemorative exhibition.  She will endeavor to form a cohesive exhibition that includes a wide range of creative styles, techniques and imagery.

Juror: Yvonne Porcella

Founder of Studio Art Quilt Associates, artist, author and teacher Yvonne Porcella, has played a leading role in the expansion of interest in studio art quilts.  For her numerous accomplishments in quilt making, she was inducted into the Quilter’s Hall of Fame in 1998 and awarded the Silver Star at the International Quilt Festival, Houston.  Porcella has extensive judging experience that includes International Quilt Association, American Quilter’s Society and Fashion Institute of Technology and serving as a juror for Quilt National. She has held four one-artist exhibitions in the past three years. Porcella also served on the Board of the Quilt Alliance and the Advisory Board of the International Quilt Study Center and Museum, Lincoln, and is a current Board member of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles.

Curator: Nancy Bavor 

Please contact at nbavor@gmail.com with any questions regarding this prospectus.  Nancy currently serves on the SAQA Board, is an AQS Certified Appraiser of Quilted Textiles and the Curator of Collections at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles.

Eligibility and Guidelines

• Artist will submit a portfolio of THREE (3) works which best represent her/his style and voice.  There are no size or date restrictions on the works submitted for consideration.

  • Artist must be a SAQA member to enter.
  • Consideration is by digital images only (directions below).
  • Selected artists agree to create new work for the exhibit.
  • Due to size and exhibition limitations at the confirmed venues, each artist’s installation shall be between 30 and 40 inches in width and between 40 and 72 inches in length.
  • No 3-D works will be accepted for the exhibition, although they may be submitted in the Call for  Consideration.
  • Quilts must be created specifically for this exhibit and cannot be shown in any previous exhibition, online or in any publication prior to the opening of this exhibition.
  • All accepted entries must have a 4 inch finished sleeve sewn onto the back of the quilt along the top edge.
  • Artwork must meet the SAQA definition of an art quilt: The art quilt is a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or that references this form of stitched layered structure.
  • Artists are responsible for shipping and insurance to SAQA’s shipping facility in Ohio.  SAQA will arrange to insure the artworks during the exhibition and while it travels, until it is returned to the artist.
  • Artwork MAY be for sale. SAQA will charge a 25% commission on all sales; exhibiting venues may also charge a commission but the total commission will never exceed 50%.
  • Work MUST be available to travel through December 2017. Travel details to follow.  It is the policy of SAQA that once work is accepted, it cannot be withdrawn for any reason until the end of the run.
  • Artwork must be completed and photographed for publication by February 1, 2014. 
  • By submitting your work for consideration, you confirm that you will adhere to all the Guidelines above.

  Any and all works accepted into a SAQA exhibition will be required to travel to all venues with the exhibition.  We ask that artists engineer their pieces to be able to be rolled, folded, collapsed or otherwise able to travel between venues in one of SAQA’s traveling crates along with the other works in the exhibit.  Where this is not possible, the pieces will be subject to SAQA’s new shipping policy which requires the artist to pay any additional shipping costs for their work.  For questions regarding the shipping policy, please contact Bill Reker at shipping@saqa.comor check on the SAQA website for additional information on SAQA’s shipping policy.

Calendar:

• April 15, 2013 - Announce Call for Consideration
• May 15, 2013 - Online Call for Consideration OPENS
• June 15, 2013  - Online Call for Consideration DEADLINE at 11:59 pm CDT
• July 1, 2013  - Notification of acceptance   (All notifications will be sent by email)
• February 1, 2014 - Artwork completed (and images sent to Deidre Adams for inclusion in catalog—if funding permits)
• September 15, 2014 - Artwork to be RECEIVED by SAQA (details to be given upon acceptance)
• October 24, 2014 - Exhibit opening at International Quilt Market and Festival, October 24-November 2, 2014
• August 2015 - Exhibit closing at Long Beach, California August 2015
• Additional exhibitions to be determined; artists will be advised as venues are added
• December 2017 Return of work to Artists--If no other venues are scheduled after Long Beach, August 2015, artwork will be returned after this exhibition

Checklist of what you will need to provide:

Artist Information:

Artist’s First Name:
Artist’s Last Name:
Address (street):
City/Postal Code/Country:
Phone (include country code):
Email:

With your artwork submission in this Call for Consideration, please describe briefly (50 words or less) how you propose to interpret the theme, Celebrating Silver.

Digital Images of THREE artworks:

• Submit one overall DIGITAL image and one detail DIGITAL image for each piece of artwork
• Save your digital images as a high quality JPEG file (No TIFF files).
• Finished image should be 1800 pixels on the longest side.
• Please do not use special characters (e.g., /, ") in your image file names.

Information about each piece:

Artist name:
Title:
Size: height x width, in inches
Materials: (25 words or less)
Techniques: (25 words or less)

You will be asked to agree with these Terms and Conditions:

If accepted in this call for consideration I agree to create a work of art specifically for the exhibition “Celebrating Silver” and follow the size guidelines set forth in this call for consideration. I agree to loan my artwork to Studio Art Quit Associates, Inc. I understand that the cost of insuring and shipping my artwork to the shipping center in Ohio are my responsibility.  I further agree to permit the images or detail images and/or all of part of my artist statement to be used in the exhibition catalog, articles, ads, promotions, books, websites, blogs CDs, current event news coverage, television productions, and/or multi-media productions for and about the exhibit or for and about the shows at which the exhibit may be seen.

Fee

You may pay either before or after you submit your application.
US$40 for up to three entries. Members must pay their fees using a credit card (Visa, Mastercard or American Express) though the SAQA Store.
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If you need help with payment issues, please contact Eileen Doughty at website@saqa.com.

Registration

Registration is now open. The last day to register is June 15, 2013 until midnight CDT.

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When you have completed your registration be sure to print a copy of the confirmation page for your records.

For More Information

If you have any questions, please contact Nancy Bavor at nbavor@gmail.com. If you have technical questions about the on-line system, please contact Lisa Ellis at lisa@ellisquilts.com.