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Art Quilts

Category: <span>Art Quilts</span>

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

Flow by Geraldine Warner

Spotlight: Geraldine Warner, Fiber Artist

Fiber artist Geraldine Warner had never quilted, but knew she wanted to somehow paint with fabric. Working mostly with silk, she immerses herself in every part of the creative process,…
A Night to Remember by Bobbie Gideon

Letters Home: A Night To Remember

This quilt draws from our Mother’s letter to the grandparents about an evening of dining, live performances, and dancing ending in a boat ride that was not quite as planned!
Slot Canyon by Vicki Conley

Spotlight: Vicki Conley, Potter and Art Quilter

As a scientist, Vicki Conley loved doing research. It was while "researching" for a new job that she took a pottery class and never looked back. But she kept looking…
Flow Full Image

Letters Home: Flow

Flow illustrates small moments that create an amazingly rich life in an environment with many restrictions, a bit like these times in a very different way!
Letters Home: On Our Way

Letters Home: On Our Way

On Our Way is the first of a series of art quilts inspired by letters our parents wrote home. In 1959, our parents took two little girls to Abadan, Iran.
High Desert Garden

Spotlight: Shannon Conley, Art Quilter

Part art quilt, part sculpture, Shannon Conley's fiber art displays the free-thinking to visualize her idea while designing an engineering strategy that gives form to her vision.
Swim Team

Spotlight: Betty Busby, Fiber Artist

Always open to the new-and-what-if possibilities, Betty Busby creates fiber art using technological innovations and unconventional materials to create work with inviting texture
Artimis

Spotlight: Margot Lovinger, Artist

Combining her fine art training with her love of textiles, Margot Lovinger creates figurative fiber art with layers that evoke the subtle translucency of Old Masters' paintings. With careful planning…
Weaving Life

Spotlight: Sue Beevers, Fabric and Quilt Pattern Designer

While most people are content with just one or two creative pursuits, a few people seem to create nonstop. Sue Beevers doesn't think it's unusual that she quilts, spins, weaves,…

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