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Browngrotta Arts Blog: "Gold Medal Winner: Katherine Westphal" American Textile History Museum: "Art Quilts from Around the World on Display in New Exhibit" The Kimono Inspiration: Art and Art-to-Wear in America, The Textile Museum, ISBN 0876545983; Eichler Network: "Textile Artists Get Personal" SFGATE: "Jungles of Images by Katherine Westphal"
In 1977, Hopkins opened a quilt shop in Santa Monica called Crazy Ladies and Friends. Hopkins' short book, The Double Wedding Ring Book, was released in 1981 and her first full-length book, The It's Okay If You Sit on My Quilt Book, in 1982. She founded a company, ME Publishing First Printing, to publish the latter.
Mary Catherine Lamb (March 12, 1949 – August 15, 2009) was an American textile artist, whose quilts reframed traditional Roman Catholic iconography. Recycling vintage textiles popular during the mid-20th Century, she both honored and affectionately skewered her Catholic upbringing.
Harris Sears's most famous work is a signature quilt.Begun in 1856 when she was seventeen and finished around 1867, the quilt includes the autographs on top of the blocks of many known celebrities and politicians of the day including the writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
Bisa Butler, born Mailissa Yamba Butler, was born in Orange, New Jersey, grew up in South Orange, and graduated from Columbia High School in 1991. [21] [22] Her mother is a French teacher from New Orleans and her father, a college president, was born in Ghana. [11]
The International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has 41 of her quilts in its collection, the largest public collection of quilts in the world. [9] Michael James stated that "Jean Ray Laury was an artist, writer, poet, designer, teacher, mentor, and inspiration to countless numbers of quiltmakers and fabric ...
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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.