41st Annual New Legacies Contemporary Art Quilts

This juried exhibition features the current work of the finest national contemporary quilt artists. Art quilts accepted for exhibition will exemplify innovation in quilting and surface design techniques as well as excellence in artistic composition and craftsmanship. The goal of the exhibition is to recognize the world’s finest contemporary quilt artists and to advance the art form.

Exhibition Jurors: Vicki Carlson, Barbara Danzi, Annie Hudnut 
Awards Juror: Annie Hudnut 

Vicki Carlson is a studio art quilter and fabric designer residing in Fort Collins, Colorado. Working with her hand dyed and hand painted fabrics along with other surface design techniques, she creates predominantly abstract quilts. Influenced by her traditional roots, her emphasis is on finding rhythm and unity through color and line.  Her work has been juried into numerous regional and national exhibits and can be found in quilting publications as well as public and private collections.

Barbara Danzi is an artist who makes large scale improvisational abstract quilts. Her approach of freehand cutting each line or shape individually while composing the design on her design wall creates quilts where the seams look hand drawn. Barbara merges her engineering degree and design coursework with her outdoor adventures to create compelling designs based on technology and the natural world. Besides exhibiting her award-winning quilts around the world, Barbara lectures to quilt and fiber art groups and serves as a juror and judge for exhibits. Barbara is a Juried Artist Member of SAQA, the Studio Art Quilt Associates, and a member of Textile Arts Los Angeles, and the Textile Study Group of New York.

Annie Hudnut is a Loveland, CO, artist who has been making quilts since 1987. She started out as a traditional quilt maker and gradually layered in improvisational elements, culminating in a shift to serious improvisation in 2020. Annie has had 22 quilts juried into QuiltCon and has been awarded first place twice in the Improvisation category (2021 and 2022) and has also shown work in Geometric Expressions (Studio Art Quilt Associates [SAQA] Virtual Gallery). Her work has been included in the publication Curated Quilts and has appeared in a feature article in Make Modern magazine. Currently she has a quilt in Abstraction: Textural Elements (SAQA Global Exhibition). 

Awards
$1,000 Best of Show Award
$500 Prize for Creative Artistry – exceptional artistic expression and craftsmanship
$500 Prize for Creative Innovation – exceptional integration of new materials, techniques and design

Awards will be announced at 5:00 p.m. during the Opening Reception Awards Presentation.