The Red Dress
2024 International Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival Challenge
2024 International Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival Challenge
February 15: Only a few more kits remaining! Get yours now!
Your Inspiration: From 2009 to 2023, pieces of the Red Dress have traveled the globe and been continuously embroidered onto. Constructed out of 85 pieces of burgundy silk dupion, the garment has been worked on by 366 women/girls, 7 men/boys and 2 non-binary artists from 51 countries. (The total number of artisans is now 380!) Initially the project sought to generate a dialogue of identity through embroidery, uniting people around the world without borders. However, over the 14 years the dress has also become a platform for self-expression and an opportunity for voices to be amplified and heard. It has been exhibited in over eleven different countries and is coming to the Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum in late 2024-early 2025! We will be the West Coast premiere for this extraordinary exhibit! Please visit The Red Dress website to learn more about this unique project.
The 2024 Challenge will be a bit different than previous years. We will ask that all pieces be submitted to the Museum in time to be on exhibit at the 2024 Festival. During the event, festival goers will vote on their favorites and the Museum will award a “People’s Favorite” challenge winner! We will then select at least the top ten favorite challenge pieces to be shown on exhibit along with The Red Dress when it is opened to the public.
Challenge Kit - $20.00 Your fee goes directly to help cover exhibit costs and shipping for The Red Dress exhibit. Each kit contains guidelines, an entry form, information sheet and lots of reds! Kits are limited supply and available in the Museum's gift shop or call (360) 466-4288 x 101 to order by phone. Each challenge entry requires purchase of a kit.
Entry Guidelines:
Your entry must be received between September 8 - 15, 2024, 5pm. Please package your entry securely for shipping in a box or padded envelope. Entries may also be dropped off in person at the Museum.
Please consider donating your entry to the Museum. Your entry could be part of our fundraising efforts through auctions or raffles or sold through our Gift Shop to generate revenue. If you choose not to donate your entry, you will be billed for return shipment costs unless you will be picking it up in person.
Entries may be delivered in person or mailed/shipped to the Museum, along with entry form.
2024 Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival Challenge
Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum
U.S. Mail: P.O. Box 1270, La Conner, WA 98257-1270
UPS/Fed Ex or in-person: 703 South Second Street, La Conner, WA 98257
Your Inspiration: From 2009 to 2023, pieces of the Red Dress have traveled the globe and been continuously embroidered onto. Constructed out of 85 pieces of burgundy silk dupion, the garment has been worked on by 366 women/girls, 7 men/boys and 2 non-binary artists from 51 countries. (The total number of artisans is now 380!) Initially the project sought to generate a dialogue of identity through embroidery, uniting people around the world without borders. However, over the 14 years the dress has also become a platform for self-expression and an opportunity for voices to be amplified and heard. It has been exhibited in over eleven different countries and is coming to the Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum in late 2024-early 2025! We will be the West Coast premiere for this extraordinary exhibit! Please visit The Red Dress website to learn more about this unique project.
The 2024 Challenge will be a bit different than previous years. We will ask that all pieces be submitted to the Museum in time to be on exhibit at the 2024 Festival. During the event, festival goers will vote on their favorites and the Museum will award a “People’s Favorite” challenge winner! We will then select at least the top ten favorite challenge pieces to be shown on exhibit along with The Red Dress when it is opened to the public.
Challenge Kit - $20.00 Your fee goes directly to help cover exhibit costs and shipping for The Red Dress exhibit. Each kit contains guidelines, an entry form, information sheet and lots of reds! Kits are limited supply and available in the Museum's gift shop or call (360) 466-4288 x 101 to order by phone. Each challenge entry requires purchase of a kit.
Entry Guidelines:
- Your entry may be any type of quilt or fiber art including wearable art and may be of any shape, but the combined total of all sides of the entry cannot be more than 72” (excluding wearable art.) A round entry must have a diameter of at least 6” but not more than 22”.
- Your Challenge entry must arrive at the Museum on or before 5pm, September 15, 2024. Entries will be taken to the festival venue for exhibit October 4-6, 2024. The piece voted as “People’s Favorite” challenge piece and at least nine other favorites will be held at the Museum and re-displayed during The Red Dress exhibit. (Exact exhibit dates pending but selected artists should plan on their piece remaining with the Museum until April 1, 2025.)
- Entries must be clean & odor free. Out of consideration for those with chemical sensitivities and allergies, please do not add potpourri, sachets, or fragrances to your entry.
- Any number of other fabric/fiber/embellishments may be used to complete your piece. Design elements included in your kit may be used as provided or cut apart and incorporated into your design but must be a visible part of your design.
- Each entry that is a quilt must have a 4” wide hanging sleeve attached to the top back. Other entries that hang must also have a 4” sleeve or have hardware for hanging installed on back. Small entries may be securely attached to and within a shadow box, if appropriate.
- An identification label must be securely attached to the back of the entry and include the title and full name of the entrant as it appears on the Entry Form. Accessory items must also have securely attached identification labels.
- The Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum reserves the right to refuse any entry for any reason.
Your entry must be received between September 8 - 15, 2024, 5pm. Please package your entry securely for shipping in a box or padded envelope. Entries may also be dropped off in person at the Museum.
Please consider donating your entry to the Museum. Your entry could be part of our fundraising efforts through auctions or raffles or sold through our Gift Shop to generate revenue. If you choose not to donate your entry, you will be billed for return shipment costs unless you will be picking it up in person.
Entries may be delivered in person or mailed/shipped to the Museum, along with entry form.
2024 Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival Challenge
Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum
U.S. Mail: P.O. Box 1270, La Conner, WA 98257-1270
UPS/Fed Ex or in-person: 703 South Second Street, La Conner, WA 98257
Each entry requires purchase of the Challenge Kit.
Download entry form here (required for each entry).
Download entry form here (required for each entry).
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The Red Dress exhibit is made possible through generous donations to the Jenny Walker Memorial Fund by the sponsors listed here. Gifts made to this fund allow us to bring in exhibitions we would not normally be able to by covering exhibit fees, shipping costs and other related expenses. Please give your gift today!
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Sponsors:
Sharon Stewart Jane Clark Carol & Harold Harrington Pamela & Michael Fiorini Marilyn Johnstone Cora Rolfe |
