Form, Not Function
Quilt Art at the Carnegie

January 8 - March 6, 2010

For the seventh year, the Carnegie Center for Art & History is pleased to present Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, an exhibition exploring the world of contemporary art quilts. This 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 Nancy Crow, Mary Anne Jordan and Kathleen Loomis as jurors for the 2010 Form, Not Function exhibition. In addition to selecting the works for the exhibit, they will also select the exhibition awards on the opening day of the exhibition. The awards include the Carnegie Center, Inc. $1,000 Best in Show prize as well as Merit Awards sponsored by local individuals and organizations with an interest in the fiber arts. We invite you to read about our jurors below and to attend the opening reception on January 8th to meet them in person!

Nancy Crow is an internationally known quilt artist who lives and works in Ohio. She exhibits internationally and her works are included in prestigious collections, including those of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Arts & Design and the Museum of American Folk Art in New York, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. A founder of Quilt National, the Quilt and Surface Design Symposia, and the Art Quilt Network, Crow holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees in ceramics and weaving from The Ohio State University. She has published several books about her work, the most recent of which is Nancy Crow, published by Breckling Press in 2006. Her works have graced the covers of two of Maya Angelou’s books.

Mary Anne Jordan is a Professor in the Textile Program in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.  She received her Master of Fine Arts at Cranbrook Academy of Art (1985), and Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Michigan (1981).  Her work has been shown nationally across the US and internationally in Japan, Poland, South America, France and Canada.  In 2005-2006 Jordan was a Research Fellow at the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She has taught workshops at Arrowmont, Haystack, Penland, Splitrock and the Quilt and Surface Design Symposia. Jordan’s work has been published in various exhibition catalogs, magazines and journals such as Fiberarts, Surface Design Journal and American Craft.

Kathleen Loomis of Louisville Kentucky has been working full-time as a fiber artist since her retirement in 2000 from a career in journalism and corporate communications.  She has been on the organizing committee and has served as a juror for Form, Not Function since its inception.  She received the Quilts Japan Prize for her work in Quilt National 2009.

Form, Not Function has become an annual event on the calendars of many notable fiber artists, and the Carnegie Center is proud to continue its emergence as a known venue for the exhibition of contemporary art quilts. This year for this competitive exhibition, 31 art quilts were selected from the 316 that were submitted.

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