Contemporary art and textile exhibition to be featured in MSU's Claypool-Young Art Gallery

The Claypool-Young Art Gallery offers opportunities for MSU students and artists to submit their work to exhibitions year-round. Most recently, the Claypool-Young Art Gallery has been accepting entries for Stitch: A Regional Contemporary Art Textile Exhibition.

Stitch will feature works of all textile and fiber media and is accepting submissions from artists living in Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia and Illinois. Work for consideration must be created, in sum or part, of textile or fiber techniques including but not limited to, two and three-dimensional artwork consisting of the following:

• Stitching
• Knitting
• Weaving
• Crochet
• Quilting
• Felting
• Surface design on fabric
• Stitched paper
• Art to wear

The exhibition is sponsored by the Kentucky Chapter of the Surface Design Association and will be juried by renowned textile artist Susan Shie.

Students and artists may submit up to three artworks before the March, 13 2015 postmark deadline.

Selected works will be on display in the gallery from June 8- Aug. 26.

A prospectus is available at www.moreheadstate.edu/claypool-young-gallery/.