The quilt hanging on the wall is a portrait of a cat. Peaches is aptly named, as her coloring brings the fruit to mind. Her eyes are expressive, and as one gets closer to examine the quilt it becomes ...
Free spirit fabric art using raw edge appliqué makes beautifully crafted fabric portraits. Fiber artist Lola Jenkins explains her free spirit approach to fabric art using raw-edge appliqué to create ...
Quilts, says Wanda Eash, "are a language of love." "They represent comfort and warmth. They connect people across the generations, along with the memories of the people who made them." But ...
17-year-old Oliva Ensign, who attends MCPS Visual Arts Center Program at Albert Einstein High School, wins the Eighth District Congressional Art Competition with her self-portrait, “The Memory Quilt: ...
Bisa Butler’s quilted portraits are redefining what is accepted and excepted within the walls of art museums. Butler‘s unmistakable visuals forever obliterate any notion of quilting merely as “craft.” ...
Each of the portraits is a quilted collage made out of pieces of cloth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The 50th woman to fly ...
Getting “Bisa Butler: Portraits” before the public has been a struggle against COVID-19 from the start. Days before the exhibition of the artist’s extraordinary and ebullient quilted portraits of ...
It’s the eyes. Young, happy faces captured on large, canvas quilts. Their striking eyes — outlined by thick, black paint — follow you down the narrow corridor of the Evanston Art Center, where the ...