Text in Quilts, Text in Art

Text in Quilts, Text in Art

For years I've been drawn to artists who use text in their works. Favorites of mine include Ed Ruscha, Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer. I felt drawn to begin creating text for quilts in 2017 following the Women's March.  My daughter encouraged my husband and I to...

Get Informed – Fight Back with Facts…and VOTE

Get Informed – Fight Back with Facts…and VOTE

The 2022 Dobbs marked a monumental setback for women’s rights, effectively shifting the decision to permit or restrict abortions to individual states and igniting the rollback and impinging of additional rights and reproductive freedoms, including contraception, IVF...

Women’s Work: Abortion Rights Commentary Quilts

Women’s Work: Abortion Rights Commentary Quilts

In 2022, in anticipation of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade (and following the Texas Heartbeat Law, September 2021), I began a quilt series, “Women’s Work.”  This series of "commentary quilts" seeks to make a subversive statement about the status of women in...