Art Quilts
Art quilts are made with 3 layers of fiber, creating art for the wall using textiles, stitches and surface design – not your grandmother’s quilt, unless Granny is an artist!
Sometime referred to as art quilting, art quilts are an art form that uses traditional and modern quilt techniques to make art. Art quilts can be whole cloth and use the stitching line to create the art, or use multiple fabrics, surface design and embellishments to create art.
Browse through the art quilts and quilters to be inspired to make your own.
More Art Quilts
Spotlight: Ann Shaw, Art Quilter
With her unexpected use of printed fabrics as her palette, Ann Shaw begins with photographs, then abstracts design lines for the pictorial quilts she creates. Careful planning of stitching lines…
Spotlight: Michelle Jackson, Fiber Artist
When you see fiber artist Michelle Jackson's work, it will come as no surprise that she has much to say and that she speaks fluent color and value. Her experience…
Spotlight: Barbara James, Textile Artist
As a professor with the Ohio State University Extension, Barbara James enjoyed a career of teaching family and consumer sciences and community development, focused on local community issues. So she…
Spotlight: Dianne Koppisch Hricko, Fiber Artist
Delighted by surprises, lifelong artist Dianne Koppisch Hricko finds the fluidity and endless possibilities of applying dyes to silk opens more than enough creative doors to inspire her next fiber…
Spotlight: Meri Vahl, Quilt Artist
With a painter's fine art training, art quilter Meri Vahl transports viewers to fascinating places around the globe using fabric instead of paint. She has developed techniques of her own…
Spotlight: Al Cote, Fiber Artist
Try to pigeonhole Al Cote's art. We dare you. As a painter, hair stylist (yep) and fiber artist, Al finds inspiration in things most people overlook - shiny shoes, squeaky…
Spotlight: Katie Fowler, Art Quilter
When Katie Fowler found quilting as an art form, she ditched the patterns right away - improvisation better suited her style and her path to happy. But if structure is…