Currently I
have five quilts travelling in internationally oriented exhibits.
Two of them
are with SAQA’s “Beyond Comfort”, which will next be ssen at the Butler
Institute of American Art, Youngstown ,
Ohio
Two of them
just had an appearance at the Alexandra Palace Knitting and Stitching Show to –
“Color Improvisations” was in London, and is now scheduled to go to Dublin and
then Neumünster in Northern Germany in December, before going on to other
international venues. The fifth quilt is my jury member’s contribution to this
year’s Contest at the Carrefour Ste. Marie-aux-Mines, which will be travelling
with the exhibition for a whole year before it gets returned.
And of
course, I had that big show in Ste. Marie-aux-Mines in September, so overall I
guess I could already now say it has been a successful year.
However, I
did not get into any of the other shows to which I submitted entries throughout
the year. Neither EQA nor Quilt Triennale nor SAQA’s Wide Horizons III, nor
Schweinfurth’s Quilts=Art=Quilts, and, most recently, Quilt National. Now with
QN I didn’t get my hopes up high to begin with, having heard about the numbers
of entries, which reduces probability to get selected even further than in any
other big event. And I’m in good company when looking at all the people I have
heard from who got declined as well. I think that might make a wonderful
exhibit – “We did not get in”! (And, of course, it raises VERY high
expectations as to the quality of the show as such, when all those well-known
people were rejected.) And after my
experience as a jury member at the Carrefour, I have heard that I have been the
cause of indignation in others, whom I (well, partly I) rejected...
Conclusions
from this? Keep trying, don’t take it personally, and look for other chances
and possibilities to exhibit.
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