Self-taught Deborah Schwartzman’s early quilts were full-size and functional. Later, she began to use the quilt as a medium for self expression. Her quilts have traveled to exhibits throughout the ...
What do you do? “I make T-shirt, memory, baby, Christmas, any type of quilt for any occasion,” Tracy Husch-Lissak said. What is quilting? “It’s three layers of fabric. The backing, the batting and the ...
If the African American tradition of quilting has begun to find its place in the contemporary art world, it’s thanks in no small part to Carolyn Mazloomi, a self-taught quilter who has been a champion ...
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 ...
Carol Krueger's background includes 17 years as a professional hairdresser and makeup artist, working with design, balance, color, texture and the constant challenge of communicating her ideas to ...
Rennie Zulu, “Twelve Squares of Traditional Culture in South Africa" (1999) and Crossroad Quilters, “Sacred Animals II Quilt” (2000) (all images courtesy Collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art) ...
Four Centuries of Quits by Linda Baumgarten and Kimberly Smith Ivey (Image courtesy of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Association with Yale University Press) Does quilting count as art? In Four ...
LEWISBURG — The Samek Art Museum at Bucknell University will display its latest exhibit, "Star Gazing: Pennsylvania Quilts Revisited," at the Samek's Downtown location at 416 Market St., Lewisburg, ...
Loved for their beauty, appreciated for the industry behind their making, and cherished as links to the past, some 1,000 people passed in and out of a recent three-day quilt show in Abita Springs to ...
The East LA Stitchers will surprise more than 100 students with a warm keepsake “It’s a surprise for some resilient students,” said 74-year-old Hernandez. It’s a project dear to her, as a former ...