PatCHquilt
PatCHquilt is the Swiss Quilters Association. They aim at supporting all Swiss makers in their patchwork, quilting and textile art projects. Their goal is to promote mutual contacts between the members and further develop the knowledge and appreciation of textile art within the country. PatCHquilt is the central point of contact for national and international […]
France Patchwork
In 2024, France Patchwork, the French Quilt Guild, celebrates its 40th anniversary, reaffirming its desire to showcase its know-how and exchange practices. The aim of this voluntary association is to promote patchwork and its different fields (Artextures, Quilts de Légende, Les Jeunes Poussent, Modern Quilt, Traditional…). With worldwide representation, France Patchwork is the link between […]
Quilt Art
The first group of its kind in Europe, Quilt Art was founded in Britain in 1985 to develop the quilt as an artistic medium and promote its recognition as an art form. Its members are leading practitioners who exhibit nationally and internationally. Many have won major awards and been selected into prestigious exhibitions. Their work […]
European Quilt Association
EQA is a cooperation of the European Quilt Guilds above the national level. It has developed into a joint venture amongst the 19 member guilds with the overall intention to offer all European quilters a means of interaction and exposure. Annual challenges on a certain topic without jurying are regularly backed by selected exhibitions to […]
Martine Apaolaza
After years of diverse experience in textiles, clothing and patchwork, and a few essential classes, Martine has been working almost exclusively by hand for the past thirty years. Most of her work is in appliqué, including reverse appliqué, which reinforces the perspective of her work. She also adds appliquéd or embroidered characters, often accompanied by […]
SAQA
SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the art quilt, “a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or that references that form of stitch layered structure”. SAQA is dedicated to bringing beautiful, thought-provoking, cutting-edge, artwork to venues across the globe. With access to a museum-quality […]
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 […]
Heidi Drahota
Heidi Drahota studied to be a teacher at secondary school level I with a focus on art, history, mathematics and biology. After 27 years of teaching, she has been working exclusively as a freelance artist for 10 years. She was engaged in photography, ceramics and watercolor painting. From 2002 her artistic focus totally changed on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
20 Perspectives
20 Perspectives was founded in early 2022 by a group of 20 international artists covering 4 continents and 9 countries: France, Hungary, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, USA, Canada and Australia. They create 3-4 collections for exhibitions per year, each based on a theme chosen by the members. The members contribute one or more textile […]