Modern American women may be quilting more out of passion than necessity, but they are doing it in a big way. This household craft, which traveled with early settlers to the U.S. and was developed in ...
Sheila Green remembers a time when she would have never, ever considered quilting as something enjoyable. Today, it's a different story. Green and about 350 members of the Lincoln Quilters' Guild are ...
Auburn, N.Y. – A green line flows through a field of pink in Italian artist Paola Machetta’s art quilt: “River gone green,” one of many artworks in Schweinfurth Art Center’s new exhibit that ...
Fiber artist Irene Roderick, who has two art quilts in Schweinfurth Art Center’s “Quilts=Art=Quilts 2022″ exhibition, created a series of “Guardian” quilts to keep her company during the years of ...
Are quilt makers artists or crafters? This question has been kicking around creative circles all over the world for scores. But, ask any serious quilter around the Palos Verdes Peninsula and they will ...
When you step into Darlene Garstecki’s studio in her Hot Springs Village home, you know you are visiting an artist. Pieces of her art are displayed on two walls. There are plenty of windows that not ...
UC Berkeley Art Museum was recently gifted the world’s largest collection of this type of art, all of it created by black women. Much like certain perspectives have historically been shut out from the ...
In ways our foremothers never envisioned, the definition of "quilt" is being stretched to the limits of artistic imagination. Quilting can encompass a bowl, a bag or a jacket -- something to hang on ...
Like many creatives passing time during pandemic lockdowns, Justin Ming Yong yearned to expand his artistic repertoire beyond the landscape and commercial photography he was known for. “I was looking ...
Jane Burch Cochran combines her art training in painting, her love of fabric and the tradition of American quilting. Her quilts are highly embellished with beads, buttons, and paint to enhance the ...