Ruth Kennedy Blocks and Stripes (2003) corduroy, 86 x 75in, the Tinwood Alliance The Evolution of Quilting and/in Museums Gee’s Bend is a small and isolated African American community in…
Read More…quilting which suggest mandalas, and hence stability. Fabric, he said, is part of what it means to be human. Hyuk Kwon, artist and educator, displayed work by her students which…
Read More…the walls, although one, Rose Blanket, is draped over a bed) follow traditional quilting motifs. Most have borders, and in most cases there’s a discernable repeat pattern. Where the artist…
Read More…lighter and more intimate touch–including the cartoony skyscrapers and their drawing-like markings. Underneath this work is another grid besides that of Minimalism–grid of the quilting tradition and the grid of…
Read More…back and forth among those mediums; the resulting work has a feel of collage, quilting and applique. The African-American quilting influence also seems to be reflected in the willful anti-rectilinearity….
Read More…The other fabrics in the quilt, she said, are commonly produced quilting fabrics–just cotton. Since I had never been in a store that catered to quilters, she told me that…
Read More…do. It depends on what you’re looking for. I’d go to both quilt shows if quilting were my subject. I’d go to Snyderman for breadth and depth as well as…
Read More…packets, a branch of a tree, patchwork quilting, and a young girl eating a happy meal are not the first things that come to your mind when you think of…
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