An Art Quilt Project
to support and enhance the INOVA Schar Cancer Institute permanent art collection
Directed by Lisa Ellis

View this video about the Arts and Healing program

Concept

• Participating Artists will be given images of 30 to 50 of the best and favorite pieces within the Schar Art Collection.
• Artists will choose a piece as inspiration to make an original art quilt “in conversation” with their chosen artwork.
• They will use their inspirational piece as a jumping off point. For example, they might choose the color palette, an emotion, or a memory that the artwork evokes.
• The art quilts will be hung with a small companion wall label showing an image of their conversational piece along with its location within the Schar campus.
• Each quilt will be 30” x 30”
• A quilt is defined using the Studio Art Quilt Associates definition: "a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or that references this form of stitched layered structure."

Trying to decide whether to participate?
View the Inspirational Gallery Here [link to the gallery]

Two-Phase Jury Process

• Phase 1 -  jurors (Lisa Ellis, Shanti Norris, Lillian Fitzgerald) will choose a set of finalists from images of the completed quilts
• Phase 2 – The INOVA Schar Art Selection Committee will choose the final accepted pieces from actual artworks

Permanent Location:
The art quilts will be installed at the Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Fairfax, VA.

Timeline

• Issue call for entries in October 2019
• Deadline to receive images of completed art quilts: July 31, 2020
• Finalists Selected by August 31, 2020
• Finalists send their quilts to Lisa Ellis by September 30, 2020
• Art Selection Committee will choose final selections by October 31, 2020
• Notifications of accepted artworks will be sent via email by November 15, 2020
• Artworks will be framed and installed by March 31, 2021 (subject to change)

Photos

• Digital images need to be provided for phase I of jurying
• Images should be 2100 – 4200 pixels
• Each artwork will require an overall and detail image. The overall image should include the outside of the artwork. The detail image should highlight an important element of the design or craftsmanship.

Sale Price

• Artists will be given the opportunity to put a price on their artwork. You can choose to donate it or charge up to $800.
• The final selections will be based on the total number of high quality pieces and the Arts and Healing Art in Conversation budget. Private donors are underwriting the purchases and framing. If anyone wishes to donate $’s to the project to increase the purchase opportunities, please donate here.