We are pleased to announce our judge for
Florida Celebrates Quilts 2008 "Vibrant Visions of Florida"
Madeline Hawley, NQACJ
155 Quail Run Drive
Athens, Georgia 30606
706/548-1068
Madeline Hawley, a resident of Georgia, spent the majority of her career at The University of Georgia in the area of small business and women entrepreneurs. She is a quilt judge, certified by the National Quilting Association, Inc.in 1984, and a member of three guilds, Decatur Quilters (Ill., founding member), Cotton Patch Quilters in Athens, Georgia and the Georgia Quilt Council. From a base of traditional quilts, her focus expanded to art and challenge quilts, such as the two accepted in the I Remember Mama project, an exhibit shown at the International Quilt Festival in Houston (2003 and 2005) and the traveling exhibit in two other locations in 2006. Both of these quilts are pictured in the book, I Remember Mama, released in October 2005. She Can Bake a Cherry Pie, her 2005 entry for the I Remember Mama exhibit appeared in the January 2006 issue of Quilters Newsletter Magazine. Her short story, Georgia’s Bounties, a tale of her involvement in providing a quilt for the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, will appear in a book, Patchwork Prose, scheduled for release in 2007.
Philosophy of Judging
Coming from a background of traditional quilts, my own work has evolved to innovative quilts. I appreciate art quilts and retain a love of the traditional as well. In my view, art quilts should not abandon good workmanship, although the techniques take on a new identity.