A Page from My Book: Journal Quilts

Journal Quilts

Project Description

The Journal Quilt Project was organized by the International Quilt Festival in Houston as a free-form exercise in creativity, specifically planned to encourage quilt artists to stretch and grow by trying new methods; by experimenting with color, image, composition, materials, and/or technique; by keeping an informal journal to record the influences on their experimental work and their own reactions to this work; and by showing the further influence of time on an artist's creative development and personal progress. The Journal Quilt Project was not a contest or competition.

The exhibit, A Page from My Book: Journal Quilts 2002, consisted of nine monthly Quilt Pages from each participating artist and was hung at the 28th annual International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas, Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2002. The exhibition traveled to the International Quilt Festival held in Chicago from April 11th - 13th, 2003.

At Quilt Festival, the Journal Quilts were hung in a grid style, with multiple rows of Journal Quilts hung one above the other on each wall. If you read each row from left to right, you will see one artist's progression through the nine months. But if you read a row from top to bottom, you'll see how four or five different artists reacted to any one month - March, for example.

Journal Quilt Pages 2002

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Journal Quilts by other artists

Linda Dawson

Marijke de Boer

Melissa Devin

Eileen Doughty

Maria Elkins

Ann Fahl

Rayna Gillman

Mary Beth Goodman

Terry Grant

Gloria Hansen

Margaret Hunt

Lily Kerns

Judy McIrvin

Mary McRae

Amanda Perkins

Jeri Riggs

Lesley Riley

Julie Zaccone Stiller

All 157 entrants

Rose Rushbrooke
Rose Rushbrooke
Artist, Quiltmaker,
Fractalist and Character Animator

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