The International Quilt Museum, University of Nebraska
The International Quilt Museum (IQM) is home to the world’s largest publicly held quilt collection. With objects from more than 65 countries and dating from the 1600s to today, the IQM aims to collect and exhibit works that represent quilts and quiltmaking traditions from around the world and throughout history. The International Quilt Study Center […]
Lauren Austin
Lauren Austin is an African-American quilter with 30+ years of experience making art quilts. She uses woodcut and lithographic print making, fabric dying and painting to make fabric portraits of African-American work and life. Lauren uses colour, 3D sewn sculptural effects, beading and thread painting/sketching to enliven her quilts. Lauren’s work is in private and […]
Beverly Smith
Beverly Smith is a mixed media fibre artist who chooses to express herself through quilts. She was introduced to quilting by her grandmother and uses this connection in her art practice to explore a new narrative of equal rights and opportunities for all genders. Her combinations of media act as encoded sigils through which she […]
Aliyah Bonnette
Aliyah Bonnette is a multidisciplinary artist working out of Raleigh, North Carolina. Working using a variety of materials, she creates painted quilts as her medium. Using bold and often abstract shapes in her background, she juxtaposes her realistic figures as a way to play with the natural comfortability of the quilts and the often-unspoken discomfort […]
National African American Quilt Guild
The African American Sampler Quilt Group (AASQG) and the National African American Quilt Guild (NAAQG) is comprised of quilters from across the United States as far North as Rhode Island, South as Texas, West as California and East as Pennsylvania. The quilters skill levels range from beginners to professional. Quilters are self-taught, learned from family […]
Concours International du Carrefour
The EPM International Contest is an exceptional showcase for quilters from all over the world. The European Patchwork Meeting organizers come up with a theme every autumn. The result is a new edition of the contest, open to all quilt enthusiasts. Several months of imagination and creation are required for each participant to create his […]
Quilt National
Presented by The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Quilt National offers some of the best contemporary fine art quilts worldwide. For over 40 years, this show has consistently displayed new forms of experimentation and development in fabric art, extending the definition of the ‘quilt’. Quilt National is the exhibition that helped to legitimize quilts as fine […]
Hilde Hoogwaerts
Hilde Hoogwaerts started quilting in 1989 when living in Atlanta, USA. She lived there for 3 years and then moved through 8 countries, across the world before, ultimately, returning home in the Netherlands in 2018. Her last overseas posting was in Ghana where she challenged herself to only use the local African textiles in her […]
Debra Milkovich
Debra Milkovich is an art quilter, mother to four girls, military spouse, and collector of weird vintage treasures. Early in life, she dreamed of becoming an artist but ultimately chose a steadier path by earning a doctorate in pharmacy. Debra made her first quilt in 2017, with the encouragement of her friend Emi. For her […]
Bára Bartošová
Bára Bartošová is an artist born in Prague, Czech Republic. She loves oil painting and acrylic painting. Over time, she found herself in the technique of painting on silk and its subsequent quilting. Like a first step, she paints the main motif on the silk and then quilts it. It is now her most popular […]
Korea Contemporary Quilt Group
The Korea Contemporary Quilt Group is an organization of artists who work on practical quilts and art quilts based on machine quilts. They systematically studied textile art, traditional quilting, and art quilting at the educational institution to which the group belongs and are gradually building their careers and growing as artists. Currently, it is a […]
Ramona Conconi & Michèle Samter
Ramona Conconi is an artist of Swiss and Italian origin. She creates contemporary quilts with a graphic design. Following the series “SIGNES”, Ramona currently likes playing with shapes that she reproduces using colour to transpose them into her “RÉPÉTITIONS” series. She dyes every fabric that she uses or incorporates those of Heidi Stoll-Weber to achieve […]