QUILT ARTISTS
These are just a few of my favorite artists, working in the quilt medium.
Many of them lecture and teach as well as having artwork for sale.
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Charlotte Warr Anderson: gorgeous figurative applique.
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Cozy Bendesky: wearables, art quilts, and a very witty website!
Liz Berg: surface design, beautiful abstracts based on geology.
MaryJo Bowers wonderful and whimsical artwork, full of color.
Jenny Bowker still lifes and great referneces to traditional quilting heritage.
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Lauren Camp: one of my favorite artists, portraiture, jazz
Susan Carlson: beautiful figurative work, look for “Twighlight” and “Elements”
Hollis Chatelain: exquisitely dye painted african portraits and more!
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Judy Dales: flowing soft colors, curved piecing.
Eileen Doughty: landscapes and artquilts.
Jane Dunnewold: one of the best surface design artists around, author.
Julie Duschack: figurative fantasy work, some tasteful nudes
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Robbi Joy Eklow: bright and wild hand dyed quilts with layered vessels.
Nancy Eha: beaded quilts and clothing
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Caryl Bryer Fallert: a very comprehensive site with many resources!!!
Joan Ann Fanser: nature inspired artwork, embroidery, embellished, etc.
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Dottie Gantt: art quilts, jewelry, paper art.
Diane Gaudynski: exquisite machine quitling on traditional looking quilts.
Leslie Christine Gelber: wearables, “take-out boxes”
Rayna Gillman: surface design and mixed media
Lorraine Glessner: surface design, abstract encaustic paintings.
Keiko Goke:beautiful use of color
Kerr Grabowski: surface design, wearable art
Martha K. Grant: art cloth, art to wear, prayer scarves.
Ellen Guerant: quilts, lectures and workshops
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Michele Hardy: colorful art quilts, abstract and geometrical.
Lynn Harris: art cloth, surface design.
Deana Hartman: fiber collage and lots of beaded embellishment.
Ann Hartwell: kaleidascopic art quilts.
Ana Lisa Hedstrom: surface design, shibori, art quilts.
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Micheal James art quilts, surface design.:
Melody Johnson: colorful quilts, faculty at the “Chicago School of Fusing”
Ann Johnston: surface design, art cloth, art quilts, author.
Lydia Johnston: beautiful abstract art quilts.
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Linda Kemshall: surface design, one of my favorite artists (from England).
Beth Thomas Kennedy: sumptous complex cloth.
Lyric Kinard: surface design, art to wear, art cloth, art quilts.
Alan R. Kelchner: art quilts, nice figurative work.
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Shawna Lampi-Legaree: art quilts
Jean Ray Laury: author of several great surface design books, humerous quilts
Mickey Lawler: skydyes fabric! gorgeously handpainted skyscapes.
Libby Lehman: art quilts, threadplay.
Judy Zoelzer Levine: look for her “body of evidence” series, wearables too.
Darcy Love: surface design, art cloth.
Vita Marie Lovett: art quilts, old barn doors are her inspiration!
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Mary Manahan: lovely abstract as well as pictoral work
John Marshall: japanese surface design, wearables and fabric art
Barbara Barrick McKie disperse dye surface design.
Mary McRae: journal quilt 2002 participant
Cynthia Morgan: work inspired by the landscape of Australia, disperse dyes.
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Barbara Olson: exuberant curved piecing.
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Emily Parson: gorgeous and large scale flora and fauna.
Vikki Pignatelli: curved piecing.
Marie Placos: surface design, wearable art, art cloth.
Barbara Pucci: surface design, art quilts and cloth, inpired by letters, architecture.
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Sharon Rexroad doily magic.
Kim Ritter: surface design, look for her “trail of tears” quilt.
Amy Ropple collaged and beadedart quilts.
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Diedre Scherer: work that honors aging and dying, incredibly touching!
Barbara Schneider: surface design, art cloth, art quilts.
Lura Schwartz Smith surface design, painted people.
Ken Smith Australian textile artist, surface design, embroidery.
Virginia Speigel beautiful abstracts...also involved in fundraising for breast cancer
Mary Stori: wearables, embellishments, very humerous lecturer and teacher.
Laura Strand: surface design.
Carol H. Straus: figurative work in an art nouveau style.
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Carol Taylor: beautiful abstracts and geometrics with hand dyed fabric.
Melanie Testa: surface design, complex cloth and art quilts.
Ricky Tims: musician and artist presenting both to th quilting world.
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Carolyn Lee Veschlage: new work is inspired by computer technology
Michelle Verbeek: Beautiful figurative works.
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Elsa Wachs: judaica, beautful chuppas and other artwork.
David Walker:: look for his recent “monolith series” under small works.
Laura Wasilowski: artfabrik!!! faculty at the “Chicago School of Fusing”
Maggie Weiss: surface design and art cloth inpired by the divine feminine.
Amy Stewart Winsor: mathaphobic quilting, look for “make an appointment”