Quilts=Art=Quilts 2007 Events & Programs

Quilts=Art=Quilts Preview Reception with Award Presentation & Silent Auction

Saturday, November 3, 6 – 8pm

Be among the first to see our 26th annual juried Quilts=Art=Quilts exhibit, meet exhibiting quilters and bid on quilts donated by quilter's from the 2007 Quilts=Art=Quilts exhibit.   Free and open to the public.

Silent Auction Artists

Open House & Walk-About Tours

Sunday, November 4, 1pm & 3:30pm

Join us for the opening day of Quilts=Art=Quilts.  Meet some of this year’s exhibiting quilters and enjoy a walk about tour guided by Executive Director Donna Lamb & Executive Consultant Eugenia Barnes.  Admission fee: $5.  Members and children under 12 free.

Lecture “Looking at American Quilts” by Jonathan Holstein

Sunday, November 4, 2:30pm

Jonathan Holstein is a collector, whose gift of over 400 quilts and related materials to the University of Nebraska Foundation in 2003 helped to establish the International Quilt Study Center. The quilts he assembled for the 1971 exhibition “Abstract Design in American Quilts” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York is regarded by scholars as instrumental in igniting the quilt renaissance of the 20th and 21st centuries and elevating quilts to the level of “high” art by presenting them on the walls of a prestigious art museum.

Trunk Show by Mary Diamond

Sunday, November 11, 2pm

Inspired by nature and its limitless palette, Mary fashions art quilts, wearable art and soft sculpture.  Presently she enjoys working with African prints, once having lived in Kenya, and also focuses on experimentation in cloth portraiture.  She loves to share her joy of working with color and fiber with others and has had the pleasure of having her work on national and international tour. 

Trunk Show by Caren Betlinski

Sunday, November 18, 2pm

Caren Betlinski’s has taken a 10 year journey in the quilt world from a Special Education Teacher who couldn't sew to a Fiber Artist who creates art quilts and has a growing passion for thread painting. With the use of thread, she is able to add color, create details and even create entire pictorial quilts.

Trunk Show by Janet Root

Sunday, November 25, 2pm

Janet Root has only been quilting since 1989, but sewing forever. She teaches traditional quilting classes in several Rochester area quilt shops, and was nominated for The Professional Quilter's Teacher of the Year award for 2005. Janet is also am a member of Genesee Valley Quilt Club and RAFA (Rochester Area Fiber Artists).

Trunk Show by Bette Rogers

Sunday, December 2, 2pm

Bette Rogers is a quilt artist from Honeoye Falls who has been attracted to fiber since she was a small child learning to knit, crochet and embroider. She went on to study textiles in college and started to make functional quilts while living in Japan. Bette was also studying ikebana (the art of Japanese flower arranging) at that same time and decided to combine her interests by making ikebana quilts.

Trunk Show by Tompkins County Quilter’s Guild

Sunday, December 9, 2pm

The Tompkins County Quilters Guild is a non-profit educational organization which encourages interest in quiltmaking by sharing and increasing knowledge of the mechanics of quiltmaking and by studying quilt making as an art form.  The guild presents a show every two years, and participates in many community service projects including ABC quilts provide for at-risk babies at birth. 

Quilts=Art=Quilts 2007 Jurors

Liz Azford • Nancy Halpern • Jonathan Holstein

Executive Consultant: Eugenia Barnes

Liz Axford           Houston, TX

Liz Axford is an artist whose work includes an increasing variety of fiber techniques including quilt-making, surface design, handmade felt and embroidery. A former architect, she teaches quilt-making design and fabric dyeing nationally. Her work has been included in Quilt National, Crafts National, Fiberarts International, CraftHouston and Materials: Hard and Soft. She was the
1998 recipient of the QuiltVisions Quilt Japan Prize, and in 2005 received an Individual Artists Fellowship Grant from the Cultural Arts Center of Houston.

Nancy Halpern            Natick, MA

Nancy Halpern has been one of the leading exponents of the American “art quilt” for nearly two decades, and she has taught quilt making for over thirty years. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. She received the visual artist’s fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Domini McCarthy Award for Exceptional Craftsmanship at the 1985 Quilt National. She has
a BA from the University of California, Berkley, and has studied at Radcliff and the Boston Architectural Center.

Jonathan Holstein           Cazenovia, NY

Jonathan Holstein is a collector, whose gift of over 400 quilts and related materials to the University of Nebraska Foundation in 2003 helped to establish the International Quilt Study Center. The quilts he assembled for the 1971 exhibition “Abstract
Design in American Quilts” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York is regarded by scholars as instrumental in igniting the quilt renaissance of the 20th and 21st centuries and elevating quilts to the level of “high” art by presenting them on the walls of a prestigious art museum.