Quilts=Art=Quilts 2026

October 31, 2026, to January 3, 2027

Quilts=Art=Quilts is an international juried quilt exhibition at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York. The Art Center has been a longstanding proponent of quilts as a visual arts medium and has been presenting quilts in a gallery setting since its opening in 1981. 


Approximately 200 artists submitted hundreds of works, and jurors Victoria Findlay Wolfe and Fuzzy Mall selected 73 works from 60 artists for the exhibition. The show includes seven international artists who live in Australia, Canada, Mauritius, Switzerland, and Taiwan.


The Art Center will host an opening reception 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. Awards will be announced at 5 p.m. The reception, which includes light refreshments, is free and open to the public. Several of the participating artists will be in the gallery at 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, to talk about their artworks during our Director's Tour. 


The Art Center will also host four Trunk Shows, during which art quilters will display their work and talk about their process and inspirations:

  • Nov. 8, 2026: Participating artist Susan Griffith
  • Nov. 15, 2026: Participating artist Linda Salitrynski
  • Nov. 22, 2026: Artist Rochele Royster
  • Dec. 13, 2026: Participating artist Rachel Ivy Clarke

The trunk shows are free with regular admission.

Participating Artists

Meet the jurors

Victoria Findlay Wolfe is an award winning artist and quilter whose designs balance traditional, modern, and art quilting styles. A farm girl raised in Minnesota; her influences are heavily based on her grandmother’s scrappy colorful double knit polyester quilts. Victoria considers her process as an artist/storyteller, incorporating memories of life, travels and nature in all that she does. She lives in NYC, and teaches and lectures on creativity and process. Her quilts have traveled the globe with notable exhibits in Japan, Australia & UK, and have been featured at museums across the country. Victoria won Best in Show at the first QuiltCon in 2013 with her quilt, Double Edged Love,  the first quilt in a large series of double wedding ring quilts for which she is well-known. She was honored to be featured in the Craft in America: Quilts episode on PBS.


Victoria's online shop, vfwquilts.com, offers her own patterns, templates, quilt kits, courses, and community. She is an author of several quilting books, including 15 Minutes of Play, Double Wedding Rings: Traditions Made Modern, Modern Quilt Magic, Playing with Purpose, and The Quilting Experience. 

Fuzzy Mall is a self-taught textile artist whose bold quilted portraits have redefined the boundaries of contemporary fiber art. His work has been recognized with some of the field’s most prestigious honors, including the Fiber Art International People’s Choice Award, Craft Forms Best in Show (Textiles), and Quilt=Art=Quilt’s Best in Show, and the Canadian National Juried Quilt Exhibition’s Excellence in Innovation and Best Art Depiction of Human/Animal Form. Fuzzy has also been the recipient of maker’s grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, and Ontario Arts Council.


Known for his innovative use of reclaimed fabrics, hyper-realistic detail, and willingness to “kill his darlings” by deconstructing and reinventing his own work, Fuzzy Mall’s creative risk-taking and technical mastery continue to inspire artists and audiences alike.  His work comments on modernity through portraiture.