Quilt like an Artist
Overlaying every little thing from wealthy floor design to over-the-top embellishment, Quilting Arts Journal is the premier useful resource for passionate artwork quilters world wide. We’re at present searching for submissions for the Fall 2023 situation!
Quilting Arts Fall 2023: An Exploration of Modern Artwork Quilting
Whether or not self-taught or professionally skilled, each artwork quilter explores the world round them in distinctive methods. Some strictly create life like portraits or ethereal landscapes, whereas others favor to interrupt the foundations and improvise. Irrespective of the method, all of us work with distinction and sample, push the boundaries of shade and texture, and attempt to maximize the distinctive results we will obtain with material and thread. This situation of Quilting Arts is all about exploring modern artwork quilting by the lens of an artist. We’ll be taking a contemporary have a look at making use of ideas that each one artists—regardless of the style—use of their work.
We’re Trying For Articles
All articles are as much as 1,500 phrases in size and canopy the subject totally. The contributors present art work for us to {photograph} and/or high-resolution photographs for instance the articles and could also be requested to supply particular documentation or caption data.
A newbie’s information to the Parts of Artwork (as they apply to artwork quilting): Many artwork quilters work intuitively with out the advantage of a level in artwork or design. This text ought to be aimed toward explaining the weather of artwork and the way they are often utilized to create much more profitable items.
Making a signature shade palette: Each artwork quilter loves shade, however shade confidence comes with expertise and know-how. Utilizing a up to date artwork quilt for instance (your individual work or that of one other artwork quilter who has given their permission), stroll the reader by constructing a palette that features selection, visible texture, and distinction whereas additionally being unified and interesting.
An eye fixed for design: Cloth is a key part of any quilt. Designing a line of cloth for the quilting trade is a monumental process. Stroll the reader by how a material line is created from the inception of an concept to the supply of a bolt of cloth to the native material retailer.
As well as—we’re all the time in search of the next and our submissions pointers are right here:
Inspiring articles about artwork quilting subjects, venues, and teams.
Distinctive methods, new methods to make use of present instruments and provides, and concepts we’ve by no means featured earlier than. What are you doing in your studio—it’s time to share!
Artists with wealthy portfolios of labor to be featured in our In The Highlight, Artist Profile, and Q&A articles. Present us your work and inform us your story.
Essays for The Final Phrase column: Do you wish to have ‘the final phrase’? Submit your accomplished essay (as much as 800 phrases) together with {a photograph} of your work (as much as 4MB) to [email protected] with ‘The Final Phrase’ within the topic line.
See previous problems with the journal for examples. In case you are instructing, running a blog about, or exhibiting your artwork quilts, you in all probability have nice concepts to share!
Please be aware: We favor to do our pictures in-house. If accepted, we hope your work will likely be obtainable to be shipped to our workplaces.
The right way to Submit
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Write a quick description of your concept and e mail it to [email protected]. Your submission ought to give us an outline of what you plan to write down with sufficient element and supporting data for us to rigorously take into account your concept.
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Connect 1–3 low-resolution images (as much as 4 MB per picture) of your artwork or course of to the e-mail.
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Embrace your full identify, web site, social media deal with, and call data.
Observe: We work far forward within the 12 months and typically can’t match a chunk into the journal straight away. Our editorial evaluation course of can take as much as 12 weeks however, in lots of circumstances, we’ll reply to you a lot sooner.
Submissions for the Fall situation are due by March 24, 2023.
Questions? Please contact us at [email protected]. Click on right here to obtain a pdf of our submission pointers.
At Quilting Arts, we rejoice excellence in every situation. Be part of us on our journey as we proceed to look at modern artwork quilting by the lens of an artist. We sit up for receiving your proposal!