THE QUILTERS’ GUILD OF THE BRITISH ISLES

CITY & GUILDS AWARD

GUIDELINES

The Award

The Quilters’ Guild City & Guilds Bursary of £1,000 is awarded to a student graduating from a City & Guilds Level 3 Certificate or Diploma course centred on Patchwork and Quilting. The winner of the award is chosen at the Festival of Quilts in August every year.

Selection Procedure

Tutor Assessors teaching the City & Guilds Level 3 Certificate and Diploma centred on Patchwork & Quilting will have the opportunity to recommend for this award a maximum of two students from either the Certificate or Diploma courses whose work they consider to be of outstanding quality. All correspondence will be by e-mail. Entries should be sent to The Guild’s head office () by the 31st March.

Upper Street Events will allocate space in the Further Education Gallery at the Festival of Quilts for selected students to display a selection of their coursework. Students selected at Certificate level must include their design work and a selection of assessment pieces in their display. Students at Diploma level must include their research project, together with a representative body of work from their assessment pieces.

Judging

Judging will take place at the Festival of Quilts. The judging panel will consist of at least onemember of the Quilters’ Guild judging team and two independent judges with a textile background. The judging panel’s decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into.

Judging of the award takes place in the Further Education Gallery on the Wednesday afternoon during the setting up of the Festival of Quilts. All students and tutors will be expected to leave the area during this process.

Conditions of Award

The award winner will receive membership of The Quilters’ Guild for one year.

The winner is expected to use the Award to further their textile studies or textile work.

A full illustrated report with appropriate photographs of their textile studies during the year following the award is to be submitted to The Guild by August of that year and made available for printing in the winter edition of The Quilter.

Upper StreetEvents will provide appropriate exhibition space for the award winner to show their work resulting from the award at the Festival of Quilts the same year as the report. At least one piece of the work exhibited must be quilt-related. The winning student will be expected to liaise with Upper Street Events with regard to the following year’s exhibition to ensure all necessary details are passed on to them within adequate deadlines for publicity, etc.

The Bursary will only be awarded if entries are judged to be of merit in the craft of Patchwork and Quilting.

Responsibilities

The Quilters’ Guild will provide promotional material to centres providing City & Guilds Patchwork & Quilting tuition each year that the Bursary is to be awarded and will publicise the award as is appropriate.

Associated Form: HR25 City & Guilds Bursary Acceptance Agreement

THE QUILTERS’ GUILD OF THE

BRITISH ISLES

CITY & GUILDS AWARD

Entry Form

Name and email address of course Tutor
Name of place of learning
Name of course undertaken
Name of Nominee
Nominee
Address
Telephone
Email
Statement of reason for nomination. Please attach a separate sheet if necessary. Also please attach one imageas a .jpeg of student’s work.
Signature
Date

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