Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Quaint might be the first word that comes to mind when considering quilts. A hand-stitched quilt can warm the heart, as well as the rest of the body. Yet ...

Rambling River Art Quilters is bringing an exhibit of colorful and intricate art quilts to the Historical Society of Lee’s Summit Museum. The group includes several area women from Lee’s Summit and ...

Self-taught Deborah Schwartzman’s early quilts were full-size and functional. Later, she began to use the quilt as a medium for self expression. Her quilts have traveled to exhibits throughout the ...

Attend ArtQuilts at the Sedgwick (AQatS) and everything that you thought you knew about quilts will be challenged. Instead of being made up of traditional fabrics and stitching, these quilts are ...

HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE — There’s a common thread that binds together three women from Hot Springs Village: their love of making art quilts. Darlene Garstecki, Michelle Jones and Ruth Anne Yax have art ...

It may have been inevitable that Petra Fallaux became a fiber artist. She grew up in The Netherlands, the daughter of a textile worker and a seamstress. “As a child, my father took me to the looms he ...

After Sheryl Sims got bored with traditional quilting, she started making story quilts and found her calling. “I paint with fabric. I quilt what is in my heart and mind,” she explained at an Oct. 2 ...

The collector Eli Leon left almost 3,000 quilts by African-American artists to Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive as a bequest. By Peter Libbey Almost 3,000 quilts by African-American ...

The Schweinfurth Art Center's annual "Quilts=Art=Quilts" show showcases the best of contemporary quilt-making. This year, a companion exhibit will showcase what came earlier. While "Quilts=Art=Quilts" ...

Jeanne Williamson is a visual artist. She combines printmaking, painting, collage, and sewing in her art work. She is very interested in working with monoprints of orange construction fences, and how ...