Melted

2002
24" x 24" x 14" when installed
The actual quilt is 6" wide by 18+ yards long
$5000

Artist's Statement
Melted: Lost its distinct outline or shape.

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Exhibits
• SAQA: Up in Stitches 2008 - Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky

• Kansas Artist Craftsmen Association 40th Anniversary Exhibition 2006 - Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
Juror - Paul Smith, Director Emeritus of the American Craft Museum, NYC

• Exposed! Contemporary Art Quilts 2006 - Noho Gallery, New York City, New York   
Juror - Dorothy Twining Globus, Exhibitions Curator, Museum of Arts & Design, NYC
Installation pictures

• New Directions 2005 - Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
Juror - Steven Evans, Assistant Director of the Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, NY
Installation pictures

• Midpoint 2005 - Merriam Community Center Art Gallery, Merriam, Kansas

• Opening Night Art Gala 2005 - Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Installation pictures

• The Art and Soul of Quilting 2004 - Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, Wisconsin
Installation pictures

• Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show 2003 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Juror - Marc Pachter, the Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Installation pictures

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Review
Gallery & Studio magazine, February/March 2006
From "Exposing the Significance of Contemporary Art Quilts in Noho Gallery Exhibition"
by Ed McCormack

"Context is everything, thus art quilts really come into their own in a gallery setting,
where they shed all domestic associations and assume their true power as art objects.

One of the most radical departures in this regard is "Melted," by Jill Rumoshosky Werner,
in which stitched fabric strips are twisted into a
freely flowing 3-D configuration that brings quilting into the space of sculpture,
suggesting a softer counterpart of John Chamberlain's macho masses of smashed auto parts."