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List Of Quilters
This is a list of quilters - notable people who are known for their quilts or quilting. :''This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it.'' __NOTOC__ A * Nellie Mae Abrams * Willie Abrams * Alex Anderson * Anna Maria Horner B * Cuesta Benberry * Annie Bendolph * Mary Lee Bendolph * Agatha Bennett * Amelia Bennett * Delia Bennett * Linda Diane Bennett * Loretta Pettway Bennett * Mary L. Bennett * Polly Bennett * Janet Catherine Berlo * Jinny Beyer * NedRa Bonds * Georgia Bonesteel * Sandy Bonsib * Barbara Brackman * Tina Williams Brewer * Jo Budd * Eleanor Burns * Bisa Butler C *Dorothy Caldwell * Jennifer Chiaverini * Jane Burch Cochran *Nancy Crow * Michael Cummings (quilter) D * Madeline Davis *Mimi Dietrich * Radka Donnell *William Rush Dunton E * Tracey Emin F * Kaffe Fassett G * Beth Gutcheon H * Misses Jane and Mary Hampson * Karen Hampton * Peggie Hartwell *Joseph Hedley * Kyra E. Hicks * Susan Hoffman * Mary Ellen Hopkins J * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quilt
A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of two or more layers of fabric or fiber. Commonly three layers are used with a filler material. These layers traditionally include a woven cloth top, a layer of batting or wadding, and a woven back combined using the techniques of quilting. This is the process of sewing on the face of the fabric, and not just the edges, to combine the three layers together to reinforce the material. Stitching patterns can be a decorative element. A single piece of fabric can be used for the top of a quilt (a "whole-cloth quilt"), but in many cases the top is created from smaller fabric pieces joined, or patchwork. The pattern and color of these pieces creates the design. Quilts may contain valuable historical information about their creators, "visualizing particular segments of history in tangible, textured ways." In the twenty-first century, quilts are frequently displayed as non-utilitarian works of art but historically quilts were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jinny Beyer
Geraldine Elizabeth Kahle Beyer (born July 27, 1941) is an American quilt designer, quilter, author, teacher and lecturer. Considered by the quilting industry and the publishing media to be of the first designers to form a fabric collection suited to the needs of quilters, she began her career in India after she had run out of yarn. Beyer's works have won awards in the print media, and she has written about the history of quilting and her techniques. She has designed collections for fabric companies, and has taught and lectured on the subject domestically and internationally. Beyer was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 1984. Early life Beyer was born in Denver, Colorado on July 27, 1941, to artist Polly Kahle and has three sisters. The family later moved to California, and she was taught knitting and sewing by her mother from an early age. Beyer graduated from the University of the Pacific in Stockton with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and French in 1962, and ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cummings (quilter)
Michael Cummings (born November 28, 1945) is an American artist and quilter who lives in Harlem, New York. Early life Cummings grew up in Los Angeles, California, and earned a BA in American Art History at Empire College. He moved to New York in the early 1970s to take a position with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. He worked with event planner Karin Bacon. Cummings spent his early artistic career as a part-time collage (with Romare Bearden as a mentor) and paint artist. After a work project to create a cloth banner for an exhibition in 1973, Cummings discovered his love for working with fabric and taught himself to quilt by studying the works of local quilters and how-to quilt magazines and books. Cummings was in a pilot program that created the Studio in a School program in the 1970s. Philanthropist Agnes Gund funded the program and visited the artists many times. Cummings also worked at the New York State Council on the Arts for many years before retir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Crow
Nancy Morrison Crow (born 1943) is an American art quilter and fiber artist. She is one of the leading figures in the development of the art quilting movement of the 1970s and 1980s, and is also known for her development of certain techniques to allow more spontaneity and expression. Early life and education Crow was born in 1943 in the small town of Loudonville, Ohio. She is the youngest of eight children. Crow studied ceramics and weaving at Ohio State University where she earned a BFA in 1965 and a MFA in 1969. Quilting In 1979, Crow began to concentrate seriously on quilt making. Her emphasis from the beginning was on graphic power of color. In her early quilts, she juxtaposed traditional quilt patterns like the Log Cabin block with vibrant color combinations. Her later works use her own asymmetrical designs. Crow is one of the leading figures in the development of the art quilting movement of the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s, Crow developed freeform cutting techniques allo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Burch Cochran
Jane Burch Cochran is a fabric artist who is known for her work that combines traditional American quiltmaking with painting and fabric embellishments. She received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for quiltmaking in 1993. She is also included in the book, ''New wave quilt collections : Setsuko Segawa and 15 American artists'' and ''Masters: Art Quilts: Major Works by Leading Artists''. Collections The Smithsonian and the National Quilt Museum display her quilts. Her artwork, ''After Meeting the Monument Salesman'' (1990), a quilt collage, 36x30 inches, is in the collection of University of Kentucky Libraries. Her artistic process involves preparing lightweight canvases with gesso, deciding on the main colors for the piece, cutting from found or purchased fabric or clothing, then embellishing the canvas with the fabric and found beads. Cochran, who marched in a Freedom March with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964, created "Crossing to Freedom," a 7 ft by 10&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Chiaverini
Jennifer Chiaverini (born 1969) is a ''New York Times'' bestselling author of several historical novels and the Elm Creek Quilts series, as well as six collections of quilt patterns inspired by her books. Her original quilt designs have been featured in ''Country Woman'', ''Quiltmaker'', ''Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks'' Volumes 3-5, and ''Quilt'', and her short stories have appeared in ''Quiltmaker'' and ''Quilters Newsletter''. She also designed the Elm Creek Quilts fabric lines for Red Rooster Fabrics. Her first book, ''The Quilter's Apprentice'', was released in 1999. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, she taught writing in the English Departments of Penn State and Edgewood College. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, she currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin. About her historical fiction, the '' Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'' writes, “In addition to simply being fascinating stories, these novels go a long way in capturing the texture of life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Caldwell
Dorothy Caldwell (born 1948) is a Canadian fibre artist. Her work consists primarily of abstract textile based wall hangings that utilize techniques such as wax-resistdischarge dyeing stitching, mark-making, and appliqué. Biography Caldwell was born in Bethesda, Maryland, US in 1948. She immigrated to Canada in 1972 to live and work in Hastings, Ontario. In 1974 Caldwell co-founded and opened the gallery Conqueror Worm, a wholesale and retail craft outlet, in Hastings, Ontario. Career Caldwell studied painting at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and received a B.A. in 1970. She was inspired to start working with textile techniques in her painting practice after seeing the World Crafts Council 1974 exhibition "In Praise of Hands". In 1980 she participated in a fibre-artists interchange at the Banff Centre and made the switch from painting to textile art. Upon receiving a research grant in 2007, she travelled to India to study women’s co-ops and Kantha stitching. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler (born Mailissa Yamba Butler in 1973) is an American fiber artist who has created a new genre of quilting that has transformed the medium. Although quilting has long been considered a craft, her interdisciplinary methods -- which create quilts that look like paintings -- have catapulted quilting into the field of fine art. She is known for her vibrant, quilted portraits celebrating Black life, portraying both everyday people and notable historical figures. Her works now count among the permanent collections at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Art Institute of Chicago, Pérez Art Museum Miami and about a dozen other art museums nationwide. She has also exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the Epcot Center, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and many other venues. In 2020, she was commissioned to quilt cover images for ''Time'' magazine, including the "Person of the Year" issue and its "100 Wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Burns
Eleanor Burns (born July 3, 1945, in Zelienople, Pennsylvania) is a master quilter and former TV series host of ''Quilt in a Day'', which aired in 1994 on PBS for six seasons. Career Burns first started stitching on her Aunt Edna's feed sacks. Her first book, ''Make a Quilt in a Day: Log Cabin Pattern'', was self-published in 1978. The book has been credited with starting a quilt-making revolution as people learned Burns's style of stitching a quilt. She has since written more than 100 books on the subject of quilting. In addition, Burns has written many patterns and developed a series of specialty rulers for quilting. The ''Quilt in a Day'' TV series, which first aired in 1990, was based on Burns's book ''Make a Quilt in a Day''. Award In 2012, Burns was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame. List of publications * All Star Quilts * Amish Quilt * Applique in a Day * Bears in the Woods * Birds in the Air * Boston Common Quilt * Christmas Quilts and Crafts * Cross Sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Budd
Jo Budd ( fl. 1980 -) is an English artist specialising in creating art from textiles. Trained as a Fine Artist her work could be described as Quilt Art, but frequently contains both collage and/or printing. Biography Josephine Budd was born in 1961 in Norwich. She completed her Fine Art education in Newcastle University and began a career in teaching as well as practising her art. She is known for her art work using quilts, collage and printing.Jo Budd at Festival of Quilts, 2006 , Celia Eddy, September 2006 Budd has tackled a number of commissions for notable companies and her work is in a number of collections including the , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Williams Brewer
Tina Williams Brewer is an American quilting artist, recognized for story quilts about African Americans, African American history. Brewer was born in Huntington, West Virginia. She graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design. Brewer started in interior design and pottery, but moved to quilting in 1986, feeling it was more compatible with motherhood. She is currently based in Pittsburgh, PA and has served on the boards of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Career Brewers weaves symbolism into her works to tell stories focusing on issues of family, women and children, and the spirituality of the African American culture, and her personal experiences associated with them. Much of her older works focused on the Middle Passage and her ancestors arriving to America on slave ships, but she also focuses on African American contributions to history and society, such as Jazz. Brewer works in artistic community outreach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Brackman
Barbara Brackman (born July 6, 1945) is a quilter, quilt historian and author. Barbara has written numerous books on quilting during the Civil War A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ... including ''Facts & Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts and Slavery, Barbara Brackman's Civil War Sampler, Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Appliqué, America's Printed Fabrics 1770-1890, Civil War Women, Clues in the Calico, Emporia Rose Appliqué Quilts, Making History–Quilts & Fabric from 1890-1970,'' and ''Quilts from the Civil War,'' all published by C&T Publishing''.'' Her ''Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns'' contains more than 4000 pieced quilt patterns, derived from printed sources published between 1830 and 1970. She was inducted into the Quilters Hall of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
