2021 Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie
Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie is an annual juried exhibit of contemporary quilt art held at the Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany, Indiana. All works must be quilted (two or more distinct layers held together with stitches). The layers may include fiber and textile materials, but this is not required and other techniques and mediums are acceptable as long as the work is quilted, as defined above. The exhibit is open to artists, age 18 or older, living in the United States.
The 2021 exhibition will be on view May 14 – July 17, 2021. An opening reception will be held on Friday, May 14.
Accepted artists will be eligible for cash awards, including a $1,000 Best of Show award. See annual entry information here.
2021 Jurors
The exhibition is juried each year by a rotating panel of fiber artists & experts, who consider the originality, design, technique, and craftsmanship of the submitted works. The 2021 jury is below.
Denise Mucci Furnish uses discarded quilts and the remains of quilts and paints into them, interacting with their form, pattern, and surface. Her work has evolved from 1980 as a commentary on the quilt itself as a sign of women’s visibility in the arts, later as a sign of the invisibility and deterioration as well as strength and beauty of ageing. Her current work examines the relationship of the quilt to the bed, as a witness to birth, dreams, sex, illness, and death, both personal and political.
Furnish was born in Louisville, Kentucky. She has a BA from the University of Kentucky and a BFA and MA from the University of Louisville. She is one of the founding mothers of the Louisville Area Fiber and Textile Association. She has backgrounds in quilt restoration, painting, surface design, and graphic design. Her work has been exhibited internationally and has won awards in national exhibitions. She currently works from her Portland studio in Louisville.
Image: Denise Mucci Furnish, Double Pinwheels. Two discarded Pinwheel quilts, cut and re-assembled, canvas, acrylic. 96 x 96 inches.
Valerie Goodwin is a mixed media fiber artist and architect whose works of fine art are included in museum and private collections. Most of her work is inspired by a love of aerial views of landscapes and cities. Many of her quilts are based on maps.
Goodwin’s art has moved through various stages from traditional quilting to an interest in abstract expressionism and, currently it is inspired by real and imaginary landscapes and cities. In some cases, her work shows an architectural sense of space with an archaeological perspective. In others, the network of the city and its built form is more prominent. These compositions work on several levels, from close up and far away as if one was looking at it from above.
She received degrees in architecture from Washington University and Yale University. Her award winning work has been widely published and exhibited. She also lectures and gives workshops nationally and internationally. For over 26 years, she taught architectural design at Florida A & M University.
Image: Valerie Goodwin, Map Abstractions.
Dan Olfe creates quilt designs using a variety of 2-D and 3-D software on his computer that get directly printed on fabric prior to quilting, sometimes hand painting on the surfaces for added visual layering. Because of his experience in developing and teaching a computer graphics course, it was natural for him to design on a computer.
Olfe has exhibited in a number of juried and invitational national exhibitions. He has received the Surface Design Award at the Quilt Visions 2008 exhibition, the New Directions Award at Interpretations 2017, the Jill Le Croissette Memorial Award at Quilt Visions 2018, and the Miriam Machell Award for Beauty at Interpretations 2019.
Olfe received a B.S.E. degree from Princeton and a Ph.D. from Caltech. He began making art quilts in 1997, after a career as an engineering professor (primarily at the University of California, San Diego).
Image: Dan Olfe, Color Square #5, 2019. Digitally-printed whole cloth polyester top, polyester batting, cotton canvas back. 59 x 58 inches.
2021 Artists
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Mary Alexander | Hubbard, OH |
Linda Anderson | La Mesa, CA |
Margaret Black | Boswell, PA |
Emily Bellinger | Rochester, NY |
Peggy Brown | Nashville, IN |
Betty Busby | Albuquerque, NM |
Shin-hee Chin | McPherson, KS |
Holly Cole | Triangle, VA |
Sue Cortese | Holland, MI |
Jayne Gaskins | Reston, VA |
Kerri Green | Dallas, TX |
Deborah Hyde | West Bloomfield, MI |
Deborah Kuster | Hot Springs |
Pamela Mick | Greenfield, IN |
Elizabeth Morisette | Fort Collins, CO |
Clara Nartey | West Haven, CT |
Bobbe Nolan | Eagle Lake, TX |
Fabienne Peter-Contesse | Auke Bay, AK |
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Daren Redman | Nashville, IN |
Denise Roberts | Albright, WV |
Karen Schulz | Silver Spring, MD |
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Rebecca Siemering | Pawtucket, RI |
Lee Sproull | Leeds, MA |
Questions? Contact Laura Wilkins at 812-944-7336 or lwilkins@nafclibrary.org
Pictured above: Marty Ornish, detail of She gazed at the carousel through rose-colored glasses, 2020 Suellen Wilkinson Best in Show Award Presented by Carnegie Center for Art & History, Inc. winner.