Name: Form, Not Function: Quilt Art Biennial
Start: 2025-01-16T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-04-12T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Cultural Arts Center

Form, Not Function: Quilt Art Biennial

The Cultural Arts Center is pleased to present the returning Form, Not Function: Quilt Art Biennial exhibition, featuring 20 quilts selected by guest jurors Michelle Amos, Terry Jarrard-Dimond, and Kevin Womack. This exhibition will be on display from January 16th, 2025 through April 12th, 2025. Admission is free for all ages.

Opening Reception:
Thursday, January 16th, 2025 from 5 PM – 7 PM
Juror’s Talk with Michelle Amos and Kevin Womack, 5 P.M. – 6 P.M.

Enjoy complimentary appetizers, non-alcoholic beverages, and live music from the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Quartet as you explore Form, Not Function.

Jurors: The exhibition is juried each year by a rotating panel of fiber artists & experts, who consider the originality, design, technique, and craftsmanship of the submitted works. The 2025 jury includes:

Michelle Amos

Michelle Amos is a fiber artist and textile historian residing in New Albany, IN. She is the Executive Director for the Little Loomhouse in Louisville, KY and a 2024 Center for Craft (Ashville, NC) Archive Fellow. Amos has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Louisville in fiber construction, has been a Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft Resident Artist, and 2020 Collider Artist in Residence for the South Central Regional Library in Louisville, KY. She is a veteran Berea (Kentucky) Learnshop Instructor, whose design was selected to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Berea Learnshops. After producing six solo and performance art exhibitions (2001-2011), she shifted focus to undertold Kentucky Fiber Artists’ stories and influence on contemporary craft. She has curated three exhibitions on the subject for the Lou Tate Gallery at the Little Loomhouse, one of which was covered in Forbes. Amos has taught workshops and presented on Kentucky weaving patterns and history across the state, and virtual national presentations. Her first national article, “Kentucky Weaver Leaves a Legacy” was published in Handweavers Guild of America’s, Shuttle, Spindle, and Dyepot, Fall 2021 with her next one on the “Untraditional and Influential Lives of the Women Weavers at the Little Loomhouse, Louisville, KY” coming out February 2025 in Hyperallergic.

mkamos.com

Terry Jarrard-Dimond

Terry Jarrard-Dimond is a native of South Carolina and resides in Pendleton, South Carolina. She earned a BA from Winthrop University and an MFA from Clemson University. She has taught extensively as a workshop instructor at venues including: The Crow Timberframe Barn, The Textile Museum in Washington D.C., QSDS and Quilting By The Lake. She worked as a textile designer for manufacturing before retiring and focusing on her personal work. She is represented in collections including Coca-Cola International, Atlanta, Georgia, The Federal Reserve Bank, Charlotte,North Carolina, and The State Museum of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina among others.

Instagram @t.jarrarddimond

https://studio24-7.blogspot.com/

Kevin Womack

Kevin Womack is a textile artist living in Lynchburg, Virginia. In 1986, he was introduced to quilting by his maternal grandmother, who taught him the tradition. Inspired by the legacy of scrap fabrics in family quilts, he explored the boundless possibilities of pattern and cloth. Through the years, his fervor for using fiber as a medium has endured.

Kevin is passionate about hand dyeing and patterning fabrics with surface design techniques and composing quilts with his one-of-a-kind cloth. His works have been exhibited at many regional and national shows.

Quilts from his “Swaddling to Shroud” collaborative series with artist Eleanor McCain have been included in the Quilt National ‘13 exhibition and Quilt Visions Biennial 2014. He was awarded Best in Show in Quilts=Art=Quilts 2021 at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, NY, and the Award of Excellence in 2023 Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie at the Floyd County Carnegie Library Cultural Arts Center in New Albany, IN. Kevin teaches and lectures nationally.

kevinwomackart.com