Quilt National '93

Quilt National '93

The whole collection is documented in New Quilt 2 published by Taunton Press.

Five hundred sixty artists submitted 1101 works. Jurors Elizabeth Busch, Michael Monroe, and Judi Warren selected 82 quilts by 82 artists. The exhibitors represented twenty-three states and eight foreign countries. There were four awards granted.

Best of Show
Jan Myers-Newbury
Birch Eyes, ©JMN
54 by 57 inches. Hand-dyed cotton fabric; machine pieced and quilted.
Artist's statement: This work is a departure from the emphasis on color that has been a distinguishing feature of my quilts for the past 15 years. As I become more involved with tie-dying my fabrics, pattern has become more of a design consideration. The shibori panels are monumental and subtle at the same time, much as the same as the forest of trees. The lack of color conveys a certain quietude that interests me.

Award of Excellence
Merrill Mason
Scrap Thatch, ©MM
91 by 65 inches. Phototransfers on cloth; machine pieced and appliquéd, machine and hand embroidered, hand quilted.
Artist's statement: Comforter or discomforter? My work combines photography with traditional women's art forms and aims to create lush, seductive images out of the industrial landscape. My quilts contrast the conventional associations of stitched cloth -- beauty, security and domesticity -- with unlikely, provocative content and treat ugliness as though it were beautiful.

Most Innovative Use of the Medium
sponsored by
Friends of Fiber Art International
Arturo Alonzo Sandoval
Lady Liberty/Babylon II, ©AAS
60 by 86 inches. Cibachrome photographs, webbing, acetate transparencies, threads, fabric; machine pieced and stitched.
Artist's statement: My political imagery addresses issues of nuclear war, terrorism and government corruption. Using drawing and collage to create my imagery allows me to develop a contemporary artistic statement with high tech photo-imaging materials. Figures begin to suggest themselves. Working in this manner creates color, texture and form not possible with traditional materials. My quilts are meant to be both beautiful and informative.

Domini McCarthy Memorial Award
Ellen Oppenheimer
Neon Maze, ©EO
48 by 50 inches. Silk-screened and hand-dyed fabric, some over-dyed commercial prints; machine pieced and hand quilted.
Artist's statement: My "Neon Maze" series of quilts are textile constructions in which a line or several lines make a long and convoluted circuit or journey through the quilt. Originally a visual description of the complexity and confusion that I perceive in my life, these mazes have evolved into complex patterns that are determined by fairly random rules and parameters.

People's Choice Award
M. Joan Lintault
In the Grass, ©MJL
91 by 98 inches. Hand-dyed, screen-printed and painted cotton fabric; machine pieced and quilted, embellished with beads.
Artist's statement: I begin with white fabric because I see its possibilities. I dye, print and paint my own images and feel free to use any technique that contributes to my work. I do not reject a technique simply because it is laborious. I base my work on geological time rather than TV time. Here the flowers and insects bring perpetual summer indoors; the cool of the forest, the whine of the insects, and nasty things waiting in the grass.

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	Best of Show Jan Myers-Newbury Birch Eyes, ©JMN 54 by 57 inches. Hand-dyed cotton fabric; machine pieced and quilted. Artist's statement: This work is a departure from the emphasis on color that has been a distinguishing feature of my quilts for the past 15 years. As I become more involved with tie-dying my fabrics, pattern has become more of a design consideration. The shibori panels are monumental and subtle at the same time, much as the same as the forest of trees. The lack of color conveys a certain quietude that interests me.
Award of Excellence Merrill Mason Scrap Thatch, ©MM 91 by 65 inches. Phototransfers on cloth; machine pieced and appliquéd, machine and hand embroidered, hand quilted. Artist's statement: Comforter or discomforter? My work combines photography with traditional women's art forms and aims to create lush, seductive images out of the industrial landscape. My quilts contrast the conventional associations of stitched cloth -- beauty, security and domesticity -- with unlikely, provocative content and treat ugliness as though it were beautiful.
	Most Innovative Use of the Medium sponsored by Friends of Fiber Art International Arturo Alonzo Sandoval Lady Liberty/Babylon II, ©AAS 60 by 86 inches. Cibachrome photographs, webbing, acetate transparencies, threads, fabric; machine pieced and stitched. Artist's statement: My political imagery addresses issues of nuclear war, terrorism and government corruption. Using drawing and collage to create my imagery allows me to develop a contemporary artistic statement with high tech photo-imaging materials. Figures begin to suggest themselves. Working in this manner creates color, texture and form not possible with traditional materials. My quilts are meant to be both beautiful and informative.
Domini McCarthy Memorial Award Ellen Oppenheimer Neon Maze, ©EO 48 by 50 inches. Silk-screened and hand-dyed fabric, some over-dyed commercial prints; machine pieced and hand quilted. Artist's statement: My "Neon Maze" series of quilts are textile constructions in which a line or several lines make a long and convoluted circuit or journey through the quilt. Originally a visual description of the complexity and confusion that I perceive in my life, these mazes have evolved into complex patterns that are determined by fairly random rules and parameters.
	People's Choice Award M. Joan Lintault In the Grass, ©MJL 91 by 98 inches. Hand-dyed, screen-printed and painted cotton fabric; machine pieced and quilted, embellished with beads. Artist's statement: I begin with white fabric because I see its possibilities. I dye, print and paint my own images and feel free to use any technique that contributes to my work. I do not reject a technique simply because it is laborious. I base my work on geological time rather than TV time. Here the flowers and insects bring perpetual summer indoors; the cool of the forest, the whine of the insects, and nasty things waiting in the grass.