Continuum: Quilts x Fiber

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Presented by Fiber Art Now, Quiltfolk, and Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) 

A Show Like No Other
 
CONTINUUM: Quilts X Fiber will be a definitive statement; a celebration of quilts as art, as craft, as memory, as innovation, and as a limitless form of human expression. This exhibition will reveal that the quilt, long seen as a single category, is in truth a dynamic, an ever-expanding continuum—one enriched by fiber art, mixed media, technology, cultural exchange, and the daring of artists who refuse to be confined by definitions.

From traditional bed quilts to three-dimensional mixed-media works, CONTINUUM will celebrate the infinite ways artists and makers use fiber and fiber-adjacent materials to tell stories and create visionary art. This exhibition will not be a single aesthetic, region, or lineage, but the entire spectrum of quiltmaking. From heritage techniques to experimental materials, from functional to conceptual, from hand-sewn to digitally engineered, we want to see it all. 

The exhibition will be juried by a panel of jurors: Jacob Hashimoto, Kenny Nguyen, and Victoria Findlay Wolfe, and will be featured in an online exhibition hosted by SAQA. Selected artwork will be eligible for an on-site exhibition at the International Quilt Museum in 2028.
 

The Jurors
 
Jacob Hashimoto uses sculpture, painting, and installation to create complex worlds from a range of modular components: bamboo-and-paper kites, model boats, even astroturf-covered blocks. His accretive, layered compositions reference video games, virtual environments, and cosmology, while also remaining deeply rooted in art-historical traditions notably, landscape-based abstraction, modernism, and handcraft.

Victoria Findlay Wolfe is a quiltmaker who’s training as a painter has given her a unique view on quilting, leading to work that breaks down traditional quilting shapes in order to investigate principles such as scale, line, shape, color, repetition, and movement. In blending quilting from the past with contemporary design sensibilities, her work takes on a unique identity of tradition made modern.

Kenny Nguyen explores the concept of cultural identity, integration, and displacement through his work. Using silk, a cultural-rich material, as a metaphor for my personal identity, he creates layered, sculptural work influenced by Vietnamese cultural heritage and his background in fashion design. His process involves deconstructing and recreating, a metaphorical expression of his own identity transformation.