March 14-23, 2025, Cleveland, Ohio
Featuring art quilts, postcard quilts & wearable arts
At the
Darl Center for the Arts
Featuring art quilts, postcard quilts & wearable arts shows, it starts with a thread of an idea. To showcase a collection of textiles, quilts, and wearable art – creating a global collection. Inspired by a previous Traveling Postcard Quilt Exhibit, 214 postcard quilts from around the world! Many of the original postcard quilts will be displayed at the Art Quilts & Fiber Art Show at The Darl Center for the Arts in Cleveland. This collection will be a beautiful global mosaic of quilters colorful creativity, showcasing the rich tapestry of our interwoven world!
ART QUILT CHALLENGE
Art Quilting is a type of art that uses traditional and modern quilting techniques to create art objects. Art quilts are often inspired by real life or other art, and can be a free-form expression of the artist’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions. They can be created in many styles, including abstract, collage, landscape, pictorial, or improvisational. Art quilts are usually hung or mounted, and are often displayed as paintings or tapestries.
Juried Show. Cash Awards will be presented for Best of Show, Jurors Choice & Best use of Color.
POSTCARD QUILT
Our world is inspired by the colors that surround us – beautiful gardens, the forest nearby, the blue seas, the wild animals, natural vistas, charming cottages, happy moments in our lives. For the Worldwide Postcard Quilt Challenge, we want you to illustrate how rich and colorful your world is by creating your postcard quilt, share the adventure of your world, your life, your city, your country, your quilting style and then mail it to us for the show!
WEARABLE ART CHALLENGE
Wearable Art, also known as Artwear or “art to wear”, refers to art pieces in the shape of clothing. Wearable Art is a creative and an expressive form of fashion where garments transcend mere functionality to become unique, artistically significant pieces, blurring the lines between traditional and practical clothing, while experimenting with a wide range of materials – metal, plastic, paper, wood, vinyl, spandex, fabric and so much more.
The Wearable Art is a work of art, not a costume or fancy dress and will be worn by models at the fashion show in Cleveland. Examples of wearable art can be found at the World of Wearable Art™ (WOW) competition held annually in New Zealand. Wearable Art pushes artists’ originality and creativity to inspiring levels. We are looking for artists and designers who can establish a work of art using the usual and unusual materials.
Cash Awards will be presented for Best of Show, Jurors Choice, Best use of Material, & Best use of Color.
Featured Judge: David Walker, International Award-Winning Wearable Artist
Winner, World of Wearable Art™ (WOW) Avant Garde Section; 1st Supreme Award & 1st Avant Garde Award
“Lady of the Wood” (pictured here) won the wearable art show in Juneau, Alaska, before moving on to take the top award at World of WearableArt™ in New Zealand. This was the first international entrant to win the award in the show’s 21-year history. He went on to win several other awards with his work at the WOW show.
“I have combined my skills as a carpenter and as an artist to create wooden wearable art. My creations range from full wooden wearable gowns to wooden accessories. My goal is to transform the static form of wood into a fluid wearable piece of art while emphasizing the natural beauty, color and grain of the wood.”