2025 HGB Show & Sale Juried Showcase Exhibit Theme
Artistic Endeavors
Call For Entries
Showcase Submission Timeline
Applications open September 1, 2025Deadline for paid HGB Membership
– September 9, 2025
Deadline for Showcase Submissions
– October 1, 2025Jury fee $20.00 – Maximum two submissions
Juror: to be announced
2025 Showcase Managers: Jane McAtee and Denise Perreault
A look back at previous Showcases
- 2024 – Past Made Present
- 2023 – To Everything There is a Season
- 2022 – I make things because I must
- 2021 – Colorful Colorado
- 2019 – Inspired by Music
Artistic Endeavors
2025 HGB Fiber Art Show & Sale Juried Showcase Exhibit Theme
Applications open September 1, 2025 – October 1, 2025
- 2025 Showcase Theme: Artistic Endeavors
- The pursuit of artistry through the medium of fiber is an ever-evolving personal journey. Each piece reflects not simply technique, but an emotional and creative investment in the process.
Magic can be found in the tactile engagement while weaving, knitting, crocheting, or stitching, inspiring a meditative energy, pulling the artist into a place of reflection, exploration, and expression.
Artists are asked to lead the viewer through the artistic endeavor involved in their submitted pieces.
- What was your inspiration?
- Why or how, do you think, did that inspiration evolve into an idea for a piece of fiber art?
- At what point did you feel the piece was complete?
- Is the idea complete?
2025 HGB Show & Sale Showcase Application Preparation
• Please note once you begin the application process online you will not be able to save your application and revisit it later.
• Chrome and Firefox are recommended browsers.
It is recommended you gather the following information before starting the application process.
• Contact information – Name – Email – Phone – PIN – Address
• Prepare digital images
– Images are uploaded as attachments to the application
– if unable to upload images – email as attachments to showcase@handweaversofboulder.org
– Images submitted in .jpg format
– Images recommendation of minimum of 300 dpi and file less than 500kb
– Identify image files with LastName_FirstName_Image#.jpg
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• Submission details
– Title
– If the piece is a collaboration, provide additional artist information to: showcase@handweaversofboulder.org
– Artist Statement – Describe how the piece relates to the theme of “Past made Present”
– the artist statement is limited to 250 characters
– Materials and Techniques represented in the piece
– Price – if available for purchase
– Year made
– Size – width x height x depth
Available September 1, 2025 – Members click here to begin 2025 HGB Show & Sale Showcase Application
Entries must meet Show & Sale 2025 Rules & Regulations and be complete at the time of entry – works in progress are not eligible
Click here to review and download HGB Fiber Art Show & Sale Rules & Regulations.
HGB Fiber Art Show & Sale Juried Showcase
Each year, during the five-day HGB Fiber Art Show & Sale at the Boulder County Fairgrounds, Handweavers Guild of Boulder members show their best work in the juried showcase. According to the theme chosen for that year, members of the Guild interpret their reflections in a wide variety of media including weaving, quilting, knitting, crochet, basketry and felting which may be hung on the wall or stand as sculpture.
The Showcase brings visitors the opportunity to see creativity and skilled artisanship up close and personal, and the chance to vote on the People’s Choice Award for their favorite work.