Quilt Week | September 2020

Denise uses discarded quilts, a craft medium most commonly associated with women’s domestic work, recognizing that these artifacts have value as material repositories/artifacts embedded with the decisions of their makers–aesthetic, utilitarian, and creative. She appropriates the remains of quilts and paints into them, interacting with their form, pattern, and surface.

As a textile artist, Valerie chooses to express herself using dye, fabric markers, discharging agents, textile paint and a host of wet materials.In her Roots and Refuge Series, Valerie encourages one to consider roots as metaphors. Roots, like people, are intertwined and connected. Her intent is to challenge the viewer to see the beauty and complexity of roots.

John gained international recognition as a quilt artist in the late 1990’s and has since shown works nationally and internationally in this medium.John also creates works in many other media including sculpture, painting, cartography, and the graphic arts.