I want my
art quilts to honor a special place or creature."
This show illustrates her travels around Wales and beyond, including Morocco and other European cites @ Off The Wall, Cardiff Road until August 4 Hidden Cities is a photographic exhibition by Gareth Kingdon @ Waterloo Gardens Teahouse, Penylan until August 1 An exhibition of paintings by Cardiff-based Portugese artist Angela Ferreira @ The Gate, Roath until July 17 CARDIGAN Inspirations is a collection of work by a group of artists and craft makers including paintings, textile panels and
art quilts, photographic art, jewellery, ceramics, mosaics and hand-made tiles, hand-spun and woven cloths, embroidery and needle-felt sculptures @ Corn Exchange Gallery until tomorrow CARMARTHEN Roger Cecil.
Over 20 is a collection of contemporary
art quilts by internationally acclaimed textile artist Bethan Ash.
BALTIMORE, MD -- NICHE magazine announces the start of its 2009 NICHE Awards competition and the addition of a Fashion Accessories and
Art Quilts category to the professional division.
Due to the student-made
art quilts that hang in the halls of our school, students already have one more frame of reference about the purpose of a quilt.
"They are not traditional and not contemporary
art quilts; it is sort of a blending of the two," she said.
New International Quilts, curated by the Shipley's Helen Joseph, features
art quilts ( which is to say they are not meant to be used on beds ( from China, India, Egypt, South Africa, Norway, Denmark and the UK.
She is a member of Studio
Art Quilts Associates and Surface Design Association, and is on the board of the Seattle Contemporary Quiltart Association.
A stunning pictorial quilts instruction manual with step-by-step photos, "Creating
Art Quilts with Panels: Easy Thread Painting and Embellishing Techniques to Create Your Own Colorful Piece of Art From Panels", by experienced quilter and fiber artist Joyce Hughes offers even the most novice of quilting making enthusiasts creative methods for creating visually memorable quilts and explore endless options for creativity with free-motion quilting, thread painting, trapunto, overlay, three-dimensional effects, machine techniques, raw edge applique, and a variety of embellishments.
(26) The Wilkinson Quilt Company of Ligonier, Indiana, was perhaps the earliest concern to capitalize on this trend with marketing that used phrases like "wonder-quilt," "exclusive design," and "Milady never tires of her Wilkinson
Art Quilts." (27) In addition to whole-cloth quilts, these firms included applique quilts in their product lines.
AN exhibition of striking
art quilts opens in Denbigh later this week.
Betsy Norris' landscape
art quilts will be on display, as will Liz Johnson's watercolors and photography by Stephanie Ames.