When FNF was started, the show ran early in the year, but after a while the Carnegie Center decided to change the date. Winter weather made faraway visitors think twice about driving, and the entry process was too close to the holidays. So the show tried several different schedules -- February, March, April, July, May. After visiting Quilt National several years ago, the museum director and curator thought it would be a good idea to overlap FNF's dates so people might be able to see both shows in a single road trip.
This year, there are many overlaps between the two shows, and not just in scheduling.
- Both shows opened on May 24.
- Judy Kirpich, who was one of the QN jurors, won best in show at FNF. (Judy also won a big prize at FNF in 2013.)
Judy Kirpich, Circles No. 6, FNF 2013
- Arturo Alonzo Sandoval's quilt Pattern Fusion No. 18: Motherboard 9, won a big prize at FNF. Meanwhile, a quilt that looks like its twin brother, Pattern Fusion No. 16: Motherboard, won a big prize at QN. (click here and scroll down a bit to see it)
- Margaret Black, whose quilt Curb Appeal 6 was a prizewinner at FNF, had the best in show quilt at the last QN two years ago, even though I wouldn't have known these two works came from the same artist had I simply seen them both on a wall. (click here to see it)
I haven't had a chance to see Quilt National yet this year, although I hope to do so in July en route to a family reunion. There may be other overlaps and cosmic coincidences yet to be discovered; if I find some, I'll let you know!
FNF is on display through July 20 at the Carnegie Center for Art and History, 201 E. Spring Street in New Albany IN, just across the river from Louisville. Quilt National is on display through September 2 at the Dairy Barn in Athens OH.
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