One in a growing number of SDA’s “Men in Quilts”, Joe Cunningham has been working in the medium since 1979. Follow along as he takes you through his process on a breakthrough quilt he made in 2006. Creative sparks along his way home in San Francisco’s Presidio ignited his imagination, leading him to freely fuse the ideas and materials that took him to a new level of working “in flow”….
Read More »Vicki Jensen & the Ambassadors sounds like a rock band but these SDA rock stars have radically transformed the formerly lonely struggle of building community around the textile arts. Find out how they have energized SDA on the local level by creating blogs, holding effective quarterly meetings & brainstorming future projects through inspired teamwork. …
Read More »Meet SDA Member Melanie Siegel of Ontario, Canada, who recently sent in news of this public works commission she completed in 2010. She wrote a winning proposal to teach felting to 8th and 9th graders in the public schools and her students did the rest. “UNITY” now hangs in the Richmond Green Library. …
Read More »Therese May’s mission is to “create art with a healing message and inspire the flow of creative juices in the viewer.” She is recognized worldwide as a leader in the creation and development of the “art” quilt, particularly in her use of embellishment and the spontaneous folk art style of her work. …
Read More »“Like many others, I’m concerned about the baggage of “quilt,” Linda Colsh observes. “I think of myself as an artist—no adjectives, no modifiers. If asked to be more specific, I would identify myself as a surface designer, fiber artist, or printmaker. I think the majority of serious studio quilt artists are surface designers and it’s a bit of a mystery why surface design isn’t more widely accepted as a nomenclature for the métier and medium.”
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Susan’s work often begins with a found object—a shoe last, a mannequin hand, an old ammunition box—that becomes part of the stage set she assembles to draw the viewer in. “I work intuitively, without loom, pattern, or graph.” …
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