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Attention Fiber Artists! Exciting News! Lynn Krawczyk’s Breaking Traditions Art Quilt Exhibit will support Art Now for Autism’s fundraising efforts on behalf of Autism Speaks.

The Breaking Traditions Art Quilt Exhibit is an annual exhibit that hangs at The American Sewing Expo in Novi, Michigan. It is an open call exhibit and an excellent show opportunity which includes prizes. Breaking Traditions has become a community effort, helping to support the fundraising projects of fellow fiber/mixed media artists. Past exhibits have supported Bernie Berlin’s A Place to Bark and Virginia Spiegel’s Fiber Art for a Cause. We are honored to be selected by Lynn!

The exhibit theme is “In My Words…” Artists are encouraged to express the ways in which autism has effected their lives by making a 12 x 12 inch art quilt. If you have not been personally touched by autism, you can still participate by making a quilt in support of autism research. $10 of the $15 entry fee will be donated to Autism Speaks through Art Now for Autism. The deadline for participating is August 21, 2010. For all the details, please visit the Breaking Traditions web site.

As a little inspiration, here is my art quilt which I made several years ago for one of the Art Now for Autism exhibits. The piece is called Putting the Pieces Together. I am looking forward to making a new piece (or two!) for Breaking Traditions!

A couple of quick things… (I hope to post a longer post soon with maybe a piece of art or two.)

- Facebook has disabled my personal account as well as the Art Now for Autism fan page. They did not send me a message prior to doing this. I just discovered it this morning when trying to login. In the meantime, continue to visit Art Now’s web site and Twitter account. Hopefully they will agree to enable the accounts again as I would hate to have to start from scratch.

- Over 80 artists are participating with just days until the close of the call for entry. Art donations must be emailed to Claudine by no later than 11:59pm on September 1st. Don’t forget to include the details about your piece listed on the donate art page. Click here for more.

A couple people have asked me about this year’s reverse auction and how it works. So I thought I would explain in more detail. This year’s Art Now for Autism is a reverse auction so prices actually go down instead of up. There are no bids in the traditional sense. Everything is grouped together at a set price that drops, but you don’t want to wait to buy your favorite piece or it might be gone!

Preview of exhibit is October 1 – 4, 2009
Art exhibit will be open online at www.artnowforautism.com. All work will be viewable but not on sale.

Reverse Auction – October 5 – 10, 2009
Everything starts at the same price with price cuts every two days.

October 5-6 – Day 1 & 2 – All art is $90.
The reverse auction begins at 9am EST on October 5th.

October 7-8  Day 3 & 4 – All art is $60.
Prices drop to $60 at 9am EST on October 7th.

October 9-10 Day 5 & 6 – All art is $30.
Art drops to the final $30 at October 9th at 9am EST.

Rmember 100% of art sales will go to Autism Speaks, a national autism awareness and research organization.

Lots of fabulous art has come in over the past few days and just two weeks until the deadline for art donations. Interested in donating art? Click here!