Fences 2025

Theme: Fences

Visible and functional or internal and metaphorical? Decorative or plain, made of wood, iron, or wire, the ranchers and homesteaders of the west valued a strong fence. However, a blizzard, flood, or drifting sand blur the function of boundaries or the efficacy of keeping critters in or out. Fences delineate political and social jurisdictions. As a noun, a fence can be an obstacle in an equestrian event, or as a verb, to fence. Fences may support a flower box, have blooms poking thru, or be the star in the idyllic picket fence home. Perhaps it becomes a key lyric for a song, “Don’t Fence Me In” or a metaphor as in “sitting on the fence” or “side of the fence.” Members of The Art Quilt Association explore their connection to Fences.

Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza (Oaks Pennsylvania)

  • Show dates are September 11-14, 2025

The member’s choice was Jacque Weimer nostalgic family piece entitled This Fence.

Juror choices are as follows:

  1. Kathy Reece “The Price of Eggs”
  2. Marla Ferguson-Leak “The Plight of the Refugee”
  3. Terry Egan “Fences of the Dust Bowl”

Congratulations all!

Juror’s Statement  Lisa Flowers Ross 
The Art Quilt Association group’s theme of fences is unique and timely. As I viewed the artworks, not only was I looking at how well the theme is represented visually, but I also considered the composition and aspects of design such as contrast, value, visual balance, etc.
 
The members of the group used varying techniques to create the idea of a fence from quilted lines, to ribbon, cording and fabric. The range of emotions expressed in the artworks varies from the whimsy of a cottage fence that might evoke happy memories, a feeling of safety a coop provides, the sadness one might feel at seeing a person behind the fence to the optimism of finding a way through the fence. Each artwork is unique and shows how each person approaches a fence differently.
 
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