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Enter Your Quilt for Display at Our Shows!

FESTIVAL/
LONG BEACH

FESTIVAL/
HOUSTON

2023 FESTIVAL JUDGED SHOW

More than $52,000 in cash, non-purchase prizes in several categories. Registration is open NOW and the deadline to enter is May 25 at 1 pm CST. 

Click the button to the left for all the info, rules, and entry form!

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Golden Greatness: 50 Years of International Quilt Festival 

Featured quilt: Oak Leaf and Reel quilt from the International Quilt Festival Collection. Artist unknown.

RULES
ENTRY

50 years of great quilts

START WORKING NOW ON A RED, WHITE, AND BLUE QUILT FOR FESTIVAL’S 50th ANNIVERSARY SHOW IN 2024!

The roots of International Quilt Festival began in 1974 when Founder Karey Bresenhan opened an antique store in Houston that soon became a quilt shop (Great Expectations Quilts). The next year, she held a “thank you” show, sale, and event for customers. Since then, over the years and at larger and larger venues, Festival has become the world’s greatest quilt show, sale, and Quiltmaking Academy, with tens of thousands of attendees coming from the U.S. and dozens of countries to Houston each fall to celebrate the artistry, creativity, and love of quilting. 

In the past, we’ve marked important anniversaries with impressive red & white quilts and blue & white quilts, hanging dramatically from the ceiling of the George R. Brown Convention Center. For our 50th anniversary celebration in 2024, we’ll have an even more beautiful exhibit featuring…what else?…red, white, & blue quilts! Whether antique or contemporary, or Art, Traditional, or Modern in design, you can submit your quilt to be part of this once-in-a-lifetime exhibit!

Note: All quilts pictures are from the 2022 exhibits.

Note: All quilts pictures are from the 2022 exhibits.

International Quilt Festival/
LONG BEACH 2023

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International Quilt Festival/
Houston 2023

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PROPOSE AN EXHIBIT

Special Exhibits welcomes queries from artists and curators about proposing exhibits for future shows throughout the year.

  • We welcome proposals for 2022 and beyond.
  • Once the proposal is complete, it will be submitted to a selection committee to be reviewed.

For further information, please email the Special Exhibits Manager, Becky Navarro, at beckyn@quilts.com.

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