Call for Entries

Title: A Sense of Scale
Open to all SAQA members

Premiere Location: International Quilt Festival: Houston

Additional venues will be added

Exhibit Concept

This exhibit will compare and contrast a series of very large works with several small work installations. The works will be displayed on the outside walls of the SAQA exhibit space. This will allow the viewer to step back and contemplate the dramatic juxtaposition of the sizes of these works.

Juror:

Ulysses Grant Dietz has been the curator of Decorative Arts at The Newark Museum since 1980. The curator of over 100 exhibitions during his tenure, Mr. Dietz is particularly proud of his work on The Newark Museum’s 1885 Ballantine House, which was re-interpreted and restored as the centerpiece of the decorative arts department in 1994. In 1997 Mr. Dietz was the project director for The Glitter & The Gold: Fashioning America’s Jewelry, the first-ever exhibition and book on Newark’s once-vast jewelry industry. He was the curator of Great Pots: Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy in 2003, an exhibition of the Museum’s studio ceramics for which he wrote the catalogue. In 2007 Mr. Dietz organized The Art of Glass from Gallé to Chihuly: Highlights from the Lowenbach Collection, to commemorate a major promised gift to the Museum. For the Museum’s centennial he organized Masterpieces of Art Pottery, 1880-1930, for which he also wrote the catalogue. In the fall of 2011 he organized the exhibition Patchwork from Folk Art to Fine Art, drawn from the Museum’s historical collection of American quilts.

Managing Curator:

Anne Hiemstra <ahiemstra@mac.com>

Eligibility and Guidelines:

Artist must be a SAQA Member
SAQA members may submit up to 3 entries
Each entry consists of either a large single work or a small work installation, as described below:

Large single works: Minimum 72” height x 72” wide and Maximum 90” height x 90” wide.
Small work installations: a series of three or more works that relate to one another.  All works must fit within a display area of not more than 39” wide by 42” tall, including the spacing between the works.  The minimum size for each piece in the installation is 12” x 12”.  Each work may be matted.  Installations should be photographed as the artist wishes them to be hung.

No date limit for any works, but they must not have appeared in any previous SAQA or IQF exhibit

3-D, freestanding work will not be considered due to shipping restrictions

Artwork must meet the SAQA definition of an art quilt: A contemporary artwork exploring and expressing aesthetic concerns common to the whole range of visual arts: painting, printmaking, photography, graphic design, assemblage and sculpture, which retains, through material or technique, a clear relationship to the folk art quilt from which it descends.

Artist is responsible for shipping work to SAQA Shipping Center in Ohio.

Work MUST be available to travel through 2014.

Calendar:

August 2011	Announce call for entry
February 1, 2012	Online Entry open
February 29, 2012	Online Entry Deadline at 11:59 pm EST
March 1-28, 2012	Selection Process
April 8, 2012	Notification of acceptance (All notifications will be via email)
April 21, 2012	Images for catalogue due if funding is available
August 20, 2012	Artwork to be RECEIVED by SAQA
November 1, 2012	Exhibit opening
November 1, 2014	Exhibit closing
December, 2014	Return of work to Artists

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

During the online registration process (which will be open February 1-29, 2012), you will be asked to upload artist information, digital images, and information about each work. Once you begin your submission, you will need to complete your entry in one session. Here is a 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:
An artist statement of 50 words.

Digital Images:

• Submit one overall digital image and one detail digital image for each piece of artwork.
• If submitting an installation work, provide one overall image of the installation, as it should be hung, and a detail image of your choice.
• Digital images must be saved as a high quality JPEG file (No TIFF files).
• Finished images should be 1800 pixels on the longest side.

Information about each work:
Title:
Size: Height x width, in inches for large work
         Height x width, in inches for overall size of installation of small works
Materials: (25 words or less)
Techniques: (25 words or less)

You will be asked to agree with these Terms and Conditions:
I agree to loan my artwork to Studio Art Quit Associates, Inc. I understand that the costs 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 or part of my artist’s statement to be used in the exhibit catalog, articles, ads, promotions, books, websites, blogs, CD’s, current event news coverage, television productions, and/or multi-media productions for and about exhibit or for and about the shows at which the exhibit may be seen.

Fee:

US$30 (22 €) for up to three entries. Members must pay their fees using a credit card (Visa, Mastercard or American Express) though the SAQA Store.

Registration

Registration has closed. No further registrations will be accepted at this time.

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Help and Questions

If you have questions about the exhibit, please contact Anne Hiemstra at ahiemstra@mac.com. If you have technical questions about the on-line registration system, please contact Lisa Ellis at lisa@ellisquilts.com.

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