Ekphrasis* 2020 Winners
In honor of Susan de Wardt
Winner: Kathleen Guler “Time Shudders”
Quilt: “Passage at Knowth” by Denise Labadie
Honorable Mention
Dagny McKinley: “Sunshine and Shadows”
Quilt: Antique Log Cabin Quilt circa 1930
Honorable Mention
Harriet Freiberger: “Needle, Thread and Human Hands”
Quilt: Created by Helen Sherrod, circa 1950
Youth Winner: Layla Baker
Quilt: “Marmalade’s First Snow” by David Taylor
*The word ekphrasis comes from the Greek for the description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical exercise, often used in the adjectival form ekphrastic. It is a vivid often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined.