Current Exhibitions
October 21, 2024 ~ January 18, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday October 25, 2024, 6-8pm
ENGLISH PAPER PIECING
Main Gallery
Bravo to all of the English Paper Piecing (EPP) quilters taking part in this challenge.
In this call for entry, stitchers were asked to create a quilt that incorporates their favorite motifs: fussy cut, floral, Millefiori style, to name a few. After all the entries came in by May 31st, the jury selected 37 quilts which fill the main gallery with color and beautiful examples of traditional hexagon patterns such as tributes to Grandmother's Flower Garden, diamond patterns and even art quilts created from hexagons. But hexagons are not the only shapes used in EPP! These hand pieced works of art use a multitude of shapes to create Millefiori patterns, starbursts, stars and crosses, and tumbling blocks to name a few. Fabric choices and fussy cutting turn patterns into kaleidoscope and mosaics of fun adventure as you discover animals, flowers and other objects in the shapes.
You'll be amazed at the incredible work presented in this exhibit!
SAQA WILD!
NE Gallery
A collection of Art Quilts submitted by Studio Art Quilt Associates members from an invitation to let their imaginations take them on a journey to a WILD place – ANY wild place. The exhibit includes pieces from 30 artists, many from our own state of Colorado!! WILD is a small word, with BIG opportunity especially when you live in the area of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. These art quilts use texture, shape, color and a multitude of techniques to take you to their WILD places.
A book in our Gift Shop can be purchased to help you share the exhibit with far away friends, but the quilts are so much better in person, where the textures are so readily apparent.
Exhibits are developed multiple ways.
Call for Entries (CFE)
One way an exhibition is developed is through a Call for Entries (CFE). CFE exhibits are when an exhibit hall sets requirements for an exhibit, then puts out a call for potential exhibitors to enter their work as a possible entrant to the exhibit. Anyone who meets the requirements set - can enter and many artists get their first opportunity to exhibit in this fashion. Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum presents Calls for Entries on a regular basis and "Quilts from Men" is a result of one of them. An exhibit later this year is also a CFE Exhibit: English Paper Piecing - for which the Call period will open May 1 and close May 31. See the Qualifications and Requilrements HERE.Proposals for Exhibits
Curated Collections or Shows
Curated Collections or Shows
Another way Exhibits are developed is by artists and groups proposing sharing curated collections or shows. For information on how you might submit something - CLICK HERE.