Iterations #1: Aquamarine, 30 x 66 inches, © 2006 Deidre Adams
Wow, this last week has been quite a whirlwind. My entire last weekend was spent preparing all of my newest work for hanging at the Aurora Municipal Center for their Art in Public Places program. I was one of four artists selected for their 2007-2008 rotating exhibition schedule. This is a solo show of my work titled “Spaces and Places.” If you are nearby and can go to see it, details are available on my Exhibitions page.
As any artist knows, making the art is only a small part of the scope of what we do. We also have to spend a lot of time on marketing/promotional efforts (including photography – either doing it yourself or hiring some else to do it), tracking inventory and other recordkeeping details, and preparing the work for exhibition. In the case of art quilts, that very often involves sewing on sleeves and labels, which is what I had to do for nine new works that I finished in time to put into this show. My fingers were sore for days!
My pain (oh, poor me!) was somewhat mitigated by the exciting news that my piece “Counterpoint” has been accepted into Quilt Visions 2008. I should say provisionally accepted, since they are very clear in stating that “final acceptance will be determined at the time of photography” and if it “varies significantly from the image submitted for jury” it will be summarily booted out of the show. I’m fairly confident that won’t happen in my case, but as you know, only two things in life are certain.
After delivering the work for the Aurora show, I came back to find an e-mail from the gallery manager at Translations. Turns out she had more good news for me – The above piece, “Iterations #1: Aquamarine,” has sold to a corporate client. I was very excited about that, and immediately some thoughts for new works in this series started flooding my brain. Now, just where did I leave that sketchbook …
Congratulations on both the sale and Visions.
I have a question about displaying fiber work in public venues.
As most fiber pieces fairly beg to be touched, how do
you protect you work for public display. Do you lock it
up under plastic or glass?
Congrats on the Visions acceptance! I wouldn’t worry about the provisional thing if I were you, I’m not sure why everyone plays that up so much. Last Visions when I got in, I was worried too because of that party line, but someone from the committee told me that as far as they could remember, only one quilt ever got rejected, because it showed up and had a dead fish sewn to it!
Congratulations all around Deidre! Well done!
Thanks, everyone.
Deb, I don’t put anything up over the work while it is on temporary display. I guess you just have to trust that your work will be treated with respect in galleries and other display venues, and accept that any risk must be borne as a consequence of the privilege of being able to display it. In the case of my permanent installations so far, the work that has gone into hospital locations has an acrylic sheet in front of it, which they specified and installed themselves, and the work at the libraries is up too high to be easily accessible.
Pam, you are right, but it’s that superstitious “don’t count your chickens” thing…at least I don’t think I’ll have any issues with dead fish!
Congratulations Deidre…that is fabulous news. It is an absolutely gorgeous piece. Lucky corporate client!
Congratulations Deidre, it is a wonderful piece, I was awe struck when I saw it on the post!!
Good luck with your exhibitions, I wish I could be there to see your work in the flesh, I so admire what you do.