Quilts=Art=Quilts 2020 Awards

welcome to our 40th annual quilt sequels art equals quilts exhibit at the schweinforth arts center i'm donna lamb executive director and i'd like to thank our sponsors tompkins trust company wrvo public media and the new york state council for the arts we'd also like to thank our staff volunteers and board of directors for their support throughout the year our jurors this year are valerie goodwin and mary lou alexander they selected 71 amazing artworks from 58 artists five of which are international for information on some of our other special projects and exhibits this year i'm going to send you over to our program director devana roberty davana thanks so much donna i want to talk about some other projects that we have going on at the art center before we get started with our prize announcements one of them is lessons of empathy in wonderland by anne clark it's an exhibit of monumental rugs that's going to be in our upstairs davis gallery so don't miss that if you come see the show in person and we have a public art exhibit that is off-site this year in skinny atlas at the corner of east lake road and pork street it's called sweeping statement it's an outdoor public sculpture that was created by anna warfield in partnership with jessica arb daniel who provided the location and sponsored the project so thank you to jessica for helping us with that project and be sure if you come visit the art center to take a trip out to skinny atlas to see that as well a special thanks to our jurors for this year i'd like to thank valerie goodwin hi valerie hello everybody and mary lou alexander thank you to both of you hi mary lou hi um our first prize is going to be announced by valerie goodwin valerie take it away yes uh so for uh jurors choice we have bonnie rate by irene roderick awesome thank you so much valerie our next prize is going to be announced by mary lou it's a juror's choice facade number five by judy langeau wonderful congrats judy donna is going to announce our schweinfurth award our schweinsworth award goes to um natalya horover for her quilt ironspine6sl and our catherine hashtag award for hand stitching goes to ananda dua by genevieve attinger donna the shirley hasted award for piecing is goes to playland number one by susan leyfam the finger lakes fiber artist award for surface design goes to adventure journal number six siberian autumn by judy hoower second place award goes to the day after number five by judy kirpage the first place award goes to middle passage america's legacy by ellen blaylock congrats ellen okay the next is our best in show take it away donna best in show is awarded to trees in autumn by shin hee chin congratulations to all of our award winners and thank you so much for participating in quilts equals art equals quilts 20 20.

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Length: 4min 7sec (247 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 17 2020