Quilt art, sometimes known as art quilting, mixed media art quilts or fiber art quilts, is an art form that uses both modern and traditional quilting...
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In the twenty-first century, quilts are frequently displayed as non-utilitarian works of art but historically quilts were often used as bedcovers; and...
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Quilting is the process of joining a minimum of three layers of fabric together either through stitching manually using a needle and thread, or mechanically...
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The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, often abbreviated to AIDS Memorial Quilt or AIDS Quilt, is a memorial to celebrate the lives of people who have...
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The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the isolated African-American hamlet of...
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decorative elements were often also present, and many quilts are now primarily art pieces. In Europe, quilting appears to have been introduced by Crusaders in...
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quilting Quilting Patchwork Quilt trail Quilt art "A Brief History of Patchwork & Quilting". Retrieved 24 February 2014. "How To Applique On A Quilt Complete...
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The National Quilt Museum, located in Paducah, Kentucky, is an art museum that exhibits fiber art and quilting from around the world. The museum is recognized...
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"crazy quilting" is often used to refer to the textile art of crazy patchwork and is sometimes used interchangeably with that term. Crazy quilting does...
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Patchwork (category Quilting)
local quilting guilds and shops in different countries. "Quilt Art" is established as a legitimate artistic medium, with quilted works of art selling...
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including quilt art and "wearable" or "pre-wearable" creations, frequently reach the category of fine art objects, sometimes like part of an art display...
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War when women with lots of time and money began to use quilting as an art form. These quilts were not meant for typical use but instead were status symbols...
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and lectures, and features more than 1,600 quilts and other works of textile art. The festival began as a Quilt Fair organized by Karey Patterson Bresenhan...
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Sandra Sider (category American quilters)
in chief of Art Quilt Quarterly from 2017 until 2023. She has taught art history at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in New York...
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The Quilt National is a juried biennial exhibition of contemporary quilt art, first held in 1979. The primary exhibition is held at the Dairy Barn Art Center...
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Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima? (category Quilts)
Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima? is an acrylic on canvas narrative quilt made by American artist Faith Ringgold in 1983. Named for the Edward Albee play Who's...
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Laurie Swim (category Quilters)
known for her quilt art. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the New York Museum of Arts and Design, the Nova Scotia Art Bank, the Nova...
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Apr. 2013. "Quilt Art @ The Mona Bismarck American Center." Quilt Art @ The Mona Bismarck American Center. Needleprint, 16 Feb. 2013. Art Slant Paris...
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The Studio Art Quilt Associates, abbreviated as SAQA, is a leading non-profit advocacy group for art quilts based in Hebron, Connecticut, in the United...
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material Quilting, a sewing technique Quilt art, a visual fine art The Quilt (Ismat Chughtai story) The Quilt, children's book by Ann Jonas 1984 The Quilt, young...
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Mixed media (redirect from Mixed media art)
media artists Modular art Multimedia New media art Quilt art Visual Focus Depth Art William Vaughan (2000). Encyclopedia of Artists: Art movements, glossary...
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educator, author, and lecturer. He is best known as a leader of the art quilt movement that began in the 1970s. He currently lives and maintains a studio...
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Linda MacDonald (category American quilters)
the forefront of the studio quilt art movements. She has been called[by whom?] a "fine artist [who works] with quilting techniques."[citation needed]...
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The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA; Arabic: متحف الفن الإسلامي) is a museum on one end of the seven-kilometer-long (4.3 mi) Corniche in Doha, Qatar. As per...
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Quilts of the Underground Railroad describes a controversial belief that quilts were used to communicate information to African slaves about how to escape...
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The Log Cabin quilt block is a North American pieced quilt pattern where narrow strips of fabric surround a central square. Usually, the block is bisected...
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Bisa Butler (category American quilters)
methods—which create quilts that look like paintings—have catapulted quilting into the field of fine art. She is known for her vibrant, quilted portraits celebrating...
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The International Honor Quilt (also known as the International Quilting Bee) is a collective feminist art project initiated in 1980 by Judy Chicago as...
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Harriet Powers (redirect from Bible Quilt 1886)
American folk artist and quilter born into slavery in rural northeast Georgia. Powers used traditional appliqué techniques to make quilts that expressed local...
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International Quilt Museum at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, is the home of the largest known public collection of quilts in the world...
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