Carnegie Center

Annual Exhibit
Form, Not Function
Quilt Art at the Carnegie

January 6 - March 3, 2012

For the ninth year, the Carnegie Center for Art & History invites artists to submit entries for Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, an exhibition exploring the world of contemporary art quilts. This annual, juried exhibit draws works of art by artists across the United States and celebrates innovation and creative thought in the increasingly popular medium of art quilts.

The Carnegie Center is pleased to have Kate Lenkowsky, Marti Plager, and Jennifer Sargent as jurors for the 2012 Form, Not Function exhibition. In addition to selecting the works for the exhibit, they will also select some of the exhibition awards on the opening day of the exhibition. The awards include the Carnegie Center, Inc. $1,000 Best of Show prize, a $300 Award of Excellence presented by River City Fiber Artists, a $200 Award of Excellence presented by the Louisville Area Fiber and Textile Artists, a $100 Award for Political and Social Commentary, a $100 Award to the quilt that best interprets and was inspired by nature, and a $50 Visitors' Choice Award, as well as additional Merit Awards sponsored by local individuals and organizations with an interest in the fiber arts.

Read about the 2012 jurors and enjoy images of the 2012 award-winning artworks below.

2012 Accepted Artists

Katherine K. Allen, Fort Lauderdale, FL	Brooke A. Atherton, Billings, MT
Deborah J. Bein, Poughkeepsie, NY	Peggy Brown, Nashville, IN
Betty Busby, Albuquerque, NM	Erika G. Carter, Renton, WA
Marcia Y. DeCamp, Palmyra, NY	Jayne B. Gaskins, Fernandina Beach, FL
Martha C. Hall, Vernon, NJ	Liz Kuny, Mendham, NJ
Valerie Maser-Flanagan, Carlisle, MA	Patricia Mink, Johnson City, TN
Kathy Nida, El Cajon, CA	Sandra Palmer Ciolino, Cincinnati, OH
Pat Pauly, Pittsford, NY	Lisa M. Penny, Ridgefield, CT
Julia E. Pfaff, Richmond, VA	Shawn P. Quinlan, Pittsburgh, PA
Mary Ruth Smith, Waco, TX	Virginia A. Spiegel, Byron, IL
Janet W. Steadman, Langley, WA	Linda T. Walburn, Grand Rapids, MI
Marianne R. Williamson, Miami, FL	Charlotte Ziebarth, Boulder, CO

2012 Jurors

Kate Lenkowsky is the author of Contemporary Quilt Art: An Introduction and Guide, an award winning book published by Indiana University Press in 2008. Since then, she has written for Surface Design Journal and Fiberart and for the websites of AmericanStyle and Studio Art Quilt Associates. In 2009 -2010, Lenkowsky taught pieced textile construction at Indiana University. She has given lectures at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, the Textile Museum in Washington, DC and as a part of Indiana University's Burke Lecture Series. She has been making quilts since the mid-nineties and is a member of several quilt and textile organizations. Her website is www.katelenkowsky.com

Marti Plager has been creating art quilts for more than 20 years. She has participated in many juried world wide exhibitions and is currently one of the exhibiting artists in Quilt National 2011. A founding member of River City Fiber Artists she is passionate in pushing the art of quilting beyond the traditional. What can fabric, dye, thread, machine, hand, mind and heart become? Visit her website at http://www.martiplager.com/

Jennifer Sargent is an Associate Professor and Director of Exhibitions and Lectures at Memphis College of Art. Her work has been exhibited nationally and has been published in Fiberarts Design Book Seven and numerous textile periodicals. Selected exhibitions include: Solo Exhibitions, Fiberart International 2010, and American Tapestry Biennial 8. Sargent's work is in private and public collections including the Tennessee State Museum, the City Collection of Memphis, Christian Brothers University and the Wichita Center for the Arts. She has been awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission.

2012 Form, Not Function Winners

Best in Show
Fracture