Yeiser Art Center

Yeiser's Yearly Fiber Art Show

http://fantasticfibers.theyeiser.org

FANTASTIC FIBERS is an international competitive exhibition that seeks to showcase a wide range of outstanding works related to the fiber medium. In four years Fantastic Fibers has grown to a truly international competition/exhibition.

Fantastic Fibers 2012 is hosted by the Yeiser Art Center, Paducah’s Gateway to the Arts. Located in downtown Paducah, the Yeiser Art Center is a non-profit visual arts organization celebrating more than fifty years of serving the community through exhibitions and education throughout the Tri-State Region.

Last year’s Fantastic Fibers 2011 had over 400 entries submitted by 187 fiber artists from Canada, France, Japan, and Qatar, and from 23 US states. 58 works by 47 fiber artists were chosen for the exhibit.

Paducah is the home of the National Quilt Museum. The American Quilter’s Society Annual Show and Contest will be held in Paducah from April 25 to 28, 2012.
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The competition/exhibition is open to all professional artists 18 years and/or over working in the field of fiber art. Contemporary and innovative works created with fiber as the primary medium are welcome. All work submitted must be original, completed in the last three years and not previously exhibited in a Fantastic Fibers exhibition. There are no size restrictions. A non-refundable entry fee $10 is required for each entry submitted for consideration with a maximum of five entries per artist. Entries must be submitted online by February 4, 2012.

Juror Luanne Rimel is an artist, curator, and currently the Director of Education Programs at Craft Alliance Art Center in St. Louis, Missouri. She holds an MFA in Fibers from Southern Illinois University and has taught numerous workshops and classes around the country. Rimel will award a minimum of $1,750 in cash prizes for this year’s exhibition.

Location:  Paducah, Kentucky, USA
Language spoken:  English

Fantastic Fiber Exhibit at the Yeiser Art Center in 2011

Tags:  Call for entries, exhibitions, art quilt, mixed media, contest, felt, fiber, workshops, 3-d, Paducah

browngrotta arts

http://www.browngrotta.com/

Tom Grotta and Rhonda Brown

For more nearly 25 years, browngrotta arts has promoted museum-quality, international, contemporary art textiles and fiber sculpture through exhibitions, at art fairs, online and in print through catalogs that we publish in-house.  

Our catalogs are sold at Amazon and Selvedge.

We have an exhibit in our home every two years.

Mission:  Our aim is bring art textiles and fiber sculpture to the attention of a wider audience and to expand the collector base.

Location:  Connecticut, USA

Online shop:  browngrotta 

Blog:  arttextstyle

Languages spoken:  English

 browngrotta arts

Clockwise: Tapestry by Sara Brennan and Sue Lawty, 
willow sculpture by Christine Joy

and bamboo basket by Dona Anderson

Tags:  tapestry; textile; basketry; fiber sculpture; Japanese art; Scandinavian art; weaving; willow; museums; art consultants

Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance

 

http://www.fiberartsalliance.org

"In Living Color" class by Rebecca Ewing

The Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance, a non-profit, provides seminars, classes, and workshops in a wide variety of fiber art disciplines.

In July 2011, when we open our fiber arts center, we will also host exhibitions, provide low-cost studio space, and provide low-cost rental space for meetings, classes, workshops, and events.  We are open to everyone with an interest in fiber and we aim to engage, educate and inspire!

Membership Info 

Workshops and Classes

Mission:  We celebrate, support, promote and perpetuate all fiber art forms and connect the fiber arts community.  We do this by addressing the following goals:

• Connect the fiber arts community; 
• Promote and support fiber artists, teachers, organizations, and businesses;
• Support the display and appreciation of fiber arts and artists;
• Provide fiber art education;
• Preserve fiber art skills and traditions; and
• Develop a purpose-built fiber arts center. 

Location:  Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Blog:  fiberartsalliance 
Social Media:  Twitter, Crowdrise 

Memberships:   

   Atlanta Knitting Guild 

   Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild 

Languages spoken:  English 

Schematic of Proposed Space for the Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance

SEFAA Promo Video from SEFiberArtsAlliance on Vimeo.

Tags:  textiles, artists, nonprofit, weaving, knitting, sewing, quilting, needlework, spinning, yarn, organization, classes, workshops  

California Fibers

www.californiafibers.com

"Ahh", Valentyna Royenko-Simpson

Since its founding in 1970, California Fibers has established itself as the premier Southern California contemporary fiber artist group. Diverse, creative, imaginative work is expressed in weaving, basketry, sculpture, quilting, tapestry, surface design, wearables, knitting, crochet, felting and mixed media.

Mission:  California Fibers was founded in 1970 in San Diego, CA with the purpose of providing professional advancement for contemporary fiber artists.  Many of its members are well represented in museums and private collections and are recipients of prestigious awards from around the world.  

Location:  San Diego, California, USA

Blog:  californiafibers.blogspot.com

Memberships:  Surface Design Association
   Friends of Fiber Art International
   Fiber Art magazine
   American Craft
   Visions Art Museum
   Oceanside Museum of Art
   Mingei International Museum

Languages spoken:  English

Out-of-Order by Christie Dunning
Digital print on cotton, hand-dyed cotton fabrics, 
cotton embroidery floss, paint. 
Sewn, embroidered, painted. 18" H x 24" W.

Shoreline by Polly Jacobs Giacchina
date palm, bamboo and caning
18”x12”x11”

   

  

Tags:  contemporary, tapestry, artist, fibers, textiles, fiber arts, sculpture, surface design,
professional

Fiberarts Connection - Anne Copeland

"Winter Migration" by Barbara Williamson, 

Physically challenged fiber artist.  

www.fiberartsconnection.blogspot.com

We are a nonprofit 501(c)(3) founded originally in 2003 by Anne Copeland. We seek to make good networking connections and locate more resources for physically/developmentally challenged fiber artists. We also are seeking to provide opportunities for children to have a safe and wonderful, inexpensive  means to express their creativity through some of our current and ongoing venues. We have long wanted to provide this opportunity, so this year is our first challenge geared to include children. You can find the challenge on our blog site under Calls for Entry.

We have events where pieces are sold to raise money for worthwhile causes and to assist the physically/developmentally challenged artists.  We also do Smilebox presentations online, and we have done online show catalogs that can be printed out to include in a portfolio or to just have to remember the events the fiber artists enter.

Mission: Our mission is to assist physically/developmentally challenged and emerging  fiberartists who wish to be professional with getting good exposure for their work and teaching them professional development. Although the nonprofit is located in Southern California, we serve physically challenged fiber artists in the United States and abroad.

Founder, Anne Copeland, is an AQS certified appraiser who specializes in art quilts, wearables, art dolls and other textile items.  She also appraises regular antique and traditional quilts, but specializes in the more contemporary items.  Anne lectures and teaches some classes, especially her quilt restoration class, which is quite popular.

Location: Lomita, California, USA
Blogs: ohmimola, fiberartsconnection
Memberships:

   SAQA
   The Alliance for American Quilts
   Cut-Loose Quilters
Languages spoken: English

Barbara Williamson, Secretary, Fiberarts Connection

Tags: Nonprofit, physically challenged fiber artists, developmentally challenged fiber artists, venues for physically challenged fiber artists, challenges for physically challenged fiber artists, challenges welcoming participation of children, opportunities for physically challenged fiber artists, resources for physically challenged fiber artists