Eye of the Artist: Approaches to Critiquing Quilt Art--Critique workshop (maximum of 10 quilts per two-hour session). For this workshop you may bring one completed quilt or (even better) a work in progress. Please be prepared to give a brief explanation of what you hope to accomplish in the quilt. Then, in a friendly and supportive atmosphere, we will closely examine several aspects of each quilt, critiquing it as a piece of contemporary art within the quilt mode. Each critique lasts 8 to 10 minutes, and is shared with your group. One of the goals of these workshops is to encourage quilt artists to critique their own work. [Photos shown above, by Lisa Chipetine, are from the SAQA/NY critique workshop at City Quilter, August of 2006.]

The usual fee for a quilt art critique session alone is $240, for up to 12 quilts (2 hours), plus travel expenses. I am happy to double up on critiques and can do two sessions in one day if two groups near each other would like to share my travel expenses. While I am president of SAQA, there is no workshop fee is for any regional SAQA group, and no fee for my lectures at venues exhibiting SAQA shows. (Expensives still must be reimbursed.)

I am also conducting digital GROUP PORTFOLIO REVIEWS for guilds or other organizations that wish to have a group of studio quilts selected as representative examples of their best quilt art, for submission to potential publishers or exhibition venues. The group must submit all the images on a CD viewable by a Mac, with a Word document listing the quilts and their dimensions. My fee is $300 (up to 100 works reviewed, in overall and detail images) or $400 (up to 150). If you wish to have brief comments accompanying each quilt, there is an additional fee of $15 per quilt selected by me. (I retain copyright to the text but you have non-exclusive worldwide rights, in perpetuity.) Guilds are welcome to combine my comments with images of the selected quilts for presentations at guild meetings or in documents sent to prospective venues and publishers. Below is a testimonial from a group whose portfolio I reviewed:

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Front Range Contemporary Quilters was founded in Colorado in 1988. In 2008, we asked Dr. Sandra Sider to jury a new portfolio. Our members submitted digital images, and Dr. Sider reviewed them with the same expert scrutiny as she would for an exhibit. In no time we had a new portfolio of images, juried, and including the full range of work from our members. One year later we have several exhibits completed and planned in art centers and museums. Thanks to our new portfolio, FRCQ was chosen to represent change and innovation. What a difference a new portfolio makes! See our portfolio online at www.artquilters.org

Mary McCauley
Front Range Contemporary Quilters, Exhibits Chair
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My previous workshops in studio art have included fabric painting and stamp printing (NY Quilts, 1999), photo transfer (Houston Quilt Festival, 1998), and cyanotype printing (Peters Valley Craft Center, 1995). I currently teach art history and contemporary visual culture at colleges in and near New York City.

I am available for Power Point lectures, exhibition walk-throughs, and critique workshops concerning studio quilts, for beginners as well as more advanced quilt artists. My current lectures are:

Approaches to Critiquing Quilt Art

People, Places, Things in SAQA's Creative Force 2012 Exhibition

Jurying and Curating an Art Quilt Exhibition: Choices and Voices
(the 2006 Surface Tension exhibition--see "Curatorial" in my site)



September 2006
Lecturing at the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin.

Fee structure
Jurying $300 (exhibition of up to 20 works), $500 (exhibition of up to 40 works)
Catalogue essay $500 for up to 1000 words, plus three copies of the publication
Group portfolio review $300 (up to 100 works); $400 (up to 150)
Lecture $400 (45 minutes)
Critique workshop $240 (2 hours, up to 10 quilts)
SPECIAL: Lecture plus one critique workshop on the same day $500