2023 EGA Seminar Award Winner

September 18, 2023, 12:13 pm
Filed under: Embroidery Guild of America, Lady Sybil, Melita's Designs, Seminar 2023 - Boston

I was pleased to see Lady Sybil got a 2nd Place ribbon at the EGA Golden Needle Exhibit. The critique was late arriving but I finally got it.

For some reason, my photo of Lady Sybil didn’t appear in my Artist Statement. So, that didn’t help the judges. And, I do agree with the judges that the artist’s statement needed more connection to the theme of the exhibit, “Stitch Party.” I indicated that it was a party of Jean Hilton stitches. Not that I could have said much more about it. I don’t much care for entering themed exhibits to begin with. But, I didn’t realize the theme/Artist Statement weighed in at 40% of the judging.

Otherwise, they said, “Your work scored high in Aesthetic Quality, which defines a design’s unity in visual terms. (balance, color, repetition, pattern, scale, shape, and value).” The Pepper Pot Silk showed irregularities but the rest of the piece exhibited a high quality of skill in the execution of the work.