California Society of Printmakers and Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) worked together to create an exhibit examining the overlap between the hand pulled print, and the art quilt. The first exhibition of Printed and Stitched will be from 5/20/23 to 6/18/23 at Art Ark Gallery artarkgallery.com,1035 S. Sixth St, San Jose, CA 95112 Swirling Suns2 – … More Printed and Stitched
Peninsula Museum of Art May 20 – July 17, 2022 The Shops at Tanforan, Space 204 1150 El Camino Real, San Bruno CA 94066 The opening and reception on Saturday, May 21, 2022 was a big success with 80 people attending. The Peninsula Museum of Art gallery, located at the The Shops at Tanforan, proved the perfect venue … More Prism Play at the Peninsula Museum of Art
My Sunrise Reflections is heading to Ohio to be included in the 2022 SAQA Spotlight Auction. I was inspired by sunrises seen at a recent quilting retreat at the Bishop’s Ranch in Healdsburg, CA. I made this 6”x 8” quilted piece for the SAQA Spotlight Auction which will take place online during our 2022 Conference … More SAQA Spotlight Auction
BLUE was my choice for my contribution to the spectrum of quilts for the SAQA Northern California/Northern Nevada Prism Play call for entry. We started working on our quilts in June 2021. Members are now beginning to turn in their entries for the show juried by color expert Joen Wolfrom. In March 2022, we will … More Prism Play: A Full Spectrum of Art Quilts
Juried in! My quilt, Rockin’ Robin was accepted for the “New Quilts of Northern California” exhibit that will be shown at Pacific International Quilt Festival in October 14 – 17, 2021 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. I started this quilt in 2020 with the EBHQ and SF Quilt Guilds’ Lone Robin challenge where quilters … More Rockin’ Robin at Pacific International Quilt Festival
My 12″x12″ quilt, Leucojum, is heading to Albuquerque, NM where it will reside until goes to a lucky bidder at the SAQA Online Benefit Auction. You can bid on this and/or other great 12″ x 12″ art quilts to support SAQA exhibition and outreach programs. This year’s auction will take place online from September 14 … More SAQA Benefit Auction
Continuing with my project to depict women who should be on the twenty dollar bill, I completed this quilt for the Century of Women’s Progress Challenge, a voluntary collaboration of quilt enthusiasts, arts organizations, and museum and historical groups in the San Francisco Bay Area. “This story quilt challenge honors the hundred-year anniversary of the … More On the Money
For the second year, I participated in a group of women committed to creating art in a 12″ x 12″ format and making at least 8 – 12 pieces during a 12 month period. We met monthly at the Textile Dream Studio in Berkeley. We’re showing our work at Bay Quilts in Richmond in Feb 2019 … More Twelve by Twelve Challenge 2018
I’ve been a quilter since 2000, but mostly focused on making the quilt tops, leaving the quilting as an afterthought or something I could hire experts to finish the work for me. I decided to spend the year focusing on making the quilting an important part of my work. I invested in a new Bernina … More My Year of Quilting
A few weeks ago I completed a silk screening class at San Francisco Art Institute with artist Jonathan Palmer. I was inspired by some of his prints where he combined silk screening and relief printing and decided to create my own series using these techniques. I posted about it here. I created three related prints … More Two new prints
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