The Judging Process

The past few Constant Contact emails have been explaining the judging categories and how to submit your rugs. This week we’ll focus on how the rugs are judged!

First up, meet Cheryl Boyd, who is our Awards Advisor. It’s her job to oversee the judging process and to assign the judging teams. For each of the categories (remember the ones we outlined a few weeks ago?), there is a team assigned, made up of an OHCG Teacher, and a non-teacher. These people have never seen the rugs in their category and don’t know who the artists are, so they can view them fresh, with no bias. (Hint: if your name is on the back of the rug, make sure that it is covered.)

These teams, who remain anonymous, will review each rug, using the criteria set out in the Judging Scoresheet. Here are the areas they consider:

- Overall Impression

- Composition

- Technique 

- Finishing

There is a separate scoresheet for the Alternative Fibres & Techniques. They tally up the scores for each rug, with the highest number of points receiving First Prize and the 2nd highest number of points receiving Honourable Mention. You can see the actual scoresheets here (or click on the link at the top of this page) - this is valuable information to those interested in entering their work for judging.

The completed scoresheets are passed to Cheryl who pins the Rosettes on the winning rugs, and provides the results to the Board for announcement at the Annual Conference. The completed judging scoresheets remain confidential and are not released.

In addition, OHCG members may vote on entries in the Theme category for their favourite. Judges do not score these rugs. The results are tallied by Cheryl and the winner announced at the Conference.

So…now you know:

- what the judging categories are and how they are defined.

- how to submit your rugs this year (different from other years).

- how your rugs are assessed.

We hope you’ve found this series of posts informative, and that maybe, just maybe, you can be enticed to enter one or more items for judging. See you at Peace, Love & Rug’n Roll in Cobourg on May 10!

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