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 ...
Fiber Arts Club, a student organization focused on fiber and textile art, is creating a community quilt through collaboration with Athens residents and artists.
Quilts are as American as apple pie, but these traditional bedcovers are often overlooked by the general public. Typically considered a craft, the art world has only recently begun to give quilting ...
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 ...
The Ozone Layers Quilt Guild will celebrate National Quilting Day with a free open studio day on March 14 in Abita Springs. It will be six hours of quilts, quilters ...
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) ...
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 Schweinfurth Art Center's annual "Quilts=Art=Quilts" show showcases the best of contemporary quilt-making. This year, a companion exhibit will showcase what came earlier. While "Quilts=Art=Quilts" ...
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, ...
Quilts, says Wanda Eash, "are a language of love." "They represent comfort and warmth. They connect people across the generations, along with the memories of the people who made them." But ...