Juried Quilt Exhibit Up at Wayne Art Center

 ArtQuilt Elements, 10th Anniversary International Juried Quilt Exhibition, will be on display at the Wayne Art Center from March 30 – May 13.

The opening reception will be from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, March 30 in both the Davenport and Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Galleries.

This exhibition, celebrating its tenth anniversary year, is dedicated to enhancing the public's awareness of art quilts while providing a venue for established and emerging artists to share their creative endeavors. 

ArtQuilt Elements has earned a rapidly growing reputation as one of the nation’s most recognized art quilt exhibitions. 

The finest works are featured, supporting the Center’s mission of expanding the public’s awareness of fine contemporary craft, and significantly benefiting all educational programs for children and adults. 

“We are thrilled to host the 10th anniversary exhibition with this year’s artists from all over the United States like Alaska and Hawaii and abroad as far as, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Hungary, United Kingdom, and Switzerland” said Nancy Campbell, Executive Director of Wayne Art Center.

The jurors selected 48 works from a pool of more than 660 entries for this exhibition that is dedicated to providing a fine art venue for this genre of artwork.

The artists whose work is in the 2012 collection employ a huge range of techniques to create their vision. Various methods are used to prepare the fabric which is then layered and stitched. Most of the artists create their own surface design effects on fabric through painting, printing, dyeing and mark making, while others collage their pieces from commercially produced fabrics.

The major sponsors of ArtQuilt Elements 2012 are First Priority Bank, Pearl Pressman Liberty Communications Group, P&B Textiles, Mistyfuse, Steve’s Sew-n-Vac, Car Sense, Friends of Fiber Art International and FiberPhiladelphia2012.

Wayne Art Center will continue to offer Special Events related to ArtQuilt Elements 2012: 

Hang with AQE – Fiber Postcard Invitational Show & Sale:

March 30 – April 1, Opening Weekend. Each mini quilt $50.

SAQA Regional Symposium Workshops at WAC:

Monday, April 2 – Wednesday, April 4, 9:00 am – 5:00 p.m.  Call for registration. 

Gallery Tours: Saturdays, April 7 – May 12, 2:00 – 2:45 p.m.  Free.