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Website. www.fonsandporter.com. ISSN. 1525-1284. Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting is a magazine and television program focusing on the art and technique of piecing and quilting quilts. The show was hosted by Liz Porter (Katie Porter ’s mother) and Marianne Fons. Both have retired and occasionally make guest appearances on the show.
George Webster Jr. Marie Daugherty Webster (July 19, 1859 – August 29, 1956) was a quilt designer, quilt producer, and businesswoman, as well as a lecturer and author of Quilts, Their Story, and How to Make Them (1915), the first American book about the history of quilting, reprinted many times since. She also ran the Practical Patchwork ...
www.pasteljournal.com. ISSN. 1524-9034. The Pastel Journal is a bi-monthly magazine focused on pastel artists and pastel art. [1] The magazine was started in 1999. [1] It is headquartered in Cincinnati. [2] The magazine was published by F+W Media until 2019, when it was acquired by Macanta Investments and became part of the Peak Media Properties.
Molly Upton. Martha Neill Upton (September 30, 1953, Pittsfield, Massachusetts – March 30, 1977, San Francisco, California) was a watercolorist, sculptor and studio quilt artist. Her quilted tapestries helped quilts become seen as fine art, rather than craft work, during the early 1970s. [1] Her quilts were shown in the first major museum ...
Cuesta Benberry (September 8, 1923 – August 23, 2007) was an American historian and scholar. [1] Considered to be one of the pioneers of research on quiltmaking in America, she was the pioneer of research on African-American quiltmaking. Her involvement in quilt research spans from founding and participating in various quilt groups to writing ...
June 30, 1949 (age 74) New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S. Occupation (s) Artist, educator, author and lecturer. Known for. Leader of the quilt art movement. Michael Francis James (born 30 June 1949) is an American artist, educator, author, and lecturer. He is best known as a leader of the art quilt movement that began in the 1970s. [1]
Leman grew her magazine readership to more than 200,000 subscribers in more than 100 countries, as well as writing and publishing numerous books and other publications on quilt making. She traveled much of the world in the course of her career, and contributed to the growth of the quilt making art in many countries.
The Quilt National is a juried biennial exhibition of contemporary quilt art, first held in 1979. The primary exhibition is held at the Dairy Barn Art Center in Athens, Ohio in odd-numbered years. The exhibition includes between 80-90 quilts. After the conclusion of the Quilt National, selections of the exhibits also tour the country.