Self-taught Deborah Schwartzman’s early quilts were full-size and functional. Later, she began to use the quilt as a medium for self expression. Her quilts have traveled to exhibits throughout the ...

Rambling River Art Quilters is bringing an exhibit of colorful and intricate art quilts to the Historical Society of Lee’s Summit Museum. The group includes several area women from Lee’s Summit and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Quaint might be the first word that comes to mind when considering quilts. A hand-stitched quilt can warm the heart, as well as the rest of the body. Yet ...

Attend ArtQuilts at the Sedgwick (AQatS) and everything that you thought you knew about quilts will be challenged. Instead of being made up of traditional fabrics and stitching, these quilts are ...

HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE — There’s a common thread that binds together three women from Hot Springs Village: their love of making art quilts. Darlene Garstecki, Michelle Jones and Ruth Anne Yax have art ...

It may have been inevitable that Petra Fallaux became a fiber artist. She grew up in The Netherlands, the daughter of a textile worker and a seamstress. “As a child, my father took me to the looms he ...

After Sheryl Sims got bored with traditional quilting, she started making story quilts and found her calling. “I paint with fabric. I quilt what is in my heart and mind,” she explained at an Oct. 2 ...

The collector Eli Leon left almost 3,000 quilts by African-American artists to Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive as a bequest. By Peter Libbey Almost 3,000 quilts by African-American ...

The Morris Museum presents a new exhibit, Visual Thoughts: The Art Quilts of Fiber Revolution, with 19 works by 19 textile artists. See the show from June 23 to Oct. 16. The opening reception for the ...

JACK WALSH was introduced to the world of quilts around 1990, he said, when he saw a BBC program on the subject and started collecting with the passion of the newly converted. In short order, he ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) — It’s the “Art Space” at the Chattanooga Airport, tucked away in the corner of the ticketing area. There are usually paintings on display here, for sale. Not this time.