Quilted and bejeweled fabric paintings are the stuff of Terrie Mangat’s incredible creativity. An embellishment pioneer and decades-long Taos artist, her fabric pieces pop with beading, sequins, …
Taos artists Ron Cooper and Larry Bell, along with their longtime friend master clockmaker Johnny MacArthur, invite the public to see their recent work the second weekend of February. February
The history of quilting can be traced back to medieval times, but the word quilt — from the Latin word culcita , meaning a bolster or cushion — seems to have
They invite one to just sit in their presence and soak them in.
And then move in for yet a closer look.
The Quilt National â19 show now on exhibit at the Holter Museum of Artâs Sherman Gallery runs through April 8.
The traveling exhibit of 31 quilts is part of a larger national juried show of nontraditional quilts curated by The Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio.
Quilt National began in 1979 and is held every two years, attracting submissions from around the globe.
These quilters take âthe definition of quilting far beyond its traditional parametersâ of being a âfabric sandwichâ typically used as a bedcover, wrote Hilary Morrow Fletcher, the former Quilt National project director.