ARTISTIC FIGURES IN CLOTH **** Exhibits

“Look Ma No Doll Stand”

This year’s challenge is designed to set your mind in motion.  All the Dolls entered must not be sporting a traditional Doll Stand. Get those creative juices flowing!  Put your mind to work and come up with a clever piece of art work that stands or is posed without the aid of a traditional doll stand.

Don't miss entering and don't miss seeing the 2011 Challenge  

 

Challenge 2009 - It's my Hang Up by Mary Ellen Asselin

       

Leslie Molen- Moon Rabbit / Kathryn Walmsley Molly Lou Spring from 2009 Exhibit

Professional Exhibits

Professional Doll Makers and Fiber Artists will display their finest work.   This should prove to be an extraordinary exhibit.  Our instructor’s tastes and skills cover many fields.  Not to mention their imaginations are off the charts.  This exhibit will inspire you and make your eyes dance with delight.  

The Professional Exhibits are for sale during the Exhibit.

Figures in Cloth Just for Fun

Not everyone is comfortable entering a competition.  Some just want to make dolls for fun. This could be the category for you.  Many gorgeous cloth figures are rarely shared and they should be.  Please bring them for us all to enjoy.  We promise to touch them only with our eyes.  This exhibit is a carry in and out exhibit only.  Limit is 3 dolls per student.

Laurie Scott - Study in Gray 2009 Just for Fun Exhibit

Doll Clubs

We could not be more delighted with the exhibit of talent from Doll clubs challenges and works. This is a display of extraordinary creativity, and helps promote doll clubs.  These exhibits make a surprising impact on our visitors.  Sign up to bring your doll clubs dolls on a display!  Let the world see what we already know!  You are GRRRRReat!!!!!!

Doll Club Exhibit and Information                                                                                                                

  The Club Exhibit has rules. Everyone wants to be involved and some people do not want to follow the rules. Everyone is special; their work is special and no one else knows how handle their art work.  To keep order,  and more important, your dolls do not come up missing the rules must be followed.  If you fill out your doll clubs name on page 21, we will send you detailed information kit, and we will care for your dolls as if they were our own. Here are some of the general information.

1. For a faster doll check-in, have pre-made tent cards.  We will also have them available and will make them for you when you check in. The tent cards are for display, so please write neatly.  Samples will be provided in your info pack to copy. The tent card should be pinned on the back of the doll with a straight pin.

2. There also will be a sign made out by AFIC on the table identifying the Doll club, City and State with the dolls.

3. You can bring flyers to put on the table about your club. 

4. Two people will be allowed to check the club dolls in.  You will need to fill from your information packet or when you arrive we will give you one to fill out.

5. The check out sheets will be stapled to a “Your Check out Card”.  Every single doll is checked off the list as you pack the dolls up or walk them out the door..  You and your partner will sign for these dolls being released.. 

6. This year one doll per doll member.  This display is growing and so is the display for the students.

Your rules are to keep your work safe. I would hope that you respect our rules as much as we respect your work.  This exhibit takes us better than one and half days to check in and set up only takes 30 to 45 minutes to tear down. We take precautions to only have a limited amount of people in the exhibit room at any one time.  Yet we go as fast as humanly possible, so that everyone can get in and out as fast.

 

Tell Your Friends, That Visitors are Welcome!

Let them be part of the experience.  Join the fun and visit the Vendors and Exhibit Hall

 

Opens to the Public

Saturday April 30, 2011-  9:00 AM to 6:00 PM ** Sunday May 1, 2011- 11:00 am to 4:00 pm

Entrance fee is $4.00 to view exhibits and vendors   Children under 12 Free

All entrance fee will be donated to Homereach Hospice, Columbus, Ohio