art quilt collection: bold words

Legacy: What You Do (June 2025)
37.25” x 31.75”
Hand-stenciled on cotton and linen with metallic gold fabric paint; hand-dyed and commercial cotton; Japanese yarn-dyed cotton; embroidery; free-motion quilting
Art Quilt: Legacy: What You Do



The Gift Givers (April-June 2025)
18"w x 20”h
Letterpress printed on cotton; hand-painted cotton; Japanese yarn-dyed cotton; decolourant with hand-drawn stencils; machine and free-motion stitching
Art Quilt: The Gift Givers



Blue Hot Blue Cold (July 2024)
23.75"w x 44.5"h
Letterpress printed, handpainted, stenciled, and hand-dyed cotton; commercially printed and woven cotton; reverse appliqué; hand quilted with cotton sashiko threads
Art Quilt: Blue Hot, Blue Cold



Precarious (March 2024)
24.5"w x 44.5"h
Letterpress printed from wood type on cotton; fabric paint with handmade stencil; hand-dyed velvet; Japanese cotton; embroidery; sashiko style "crossed birds" and "arrow feather" patterns; hand and free-motion quilting
Art Quilt: Precarious



Unmoored (March 2024)
19.5"w x 44"h
Hand-dyed cotton; letterpress printed from wood type on cotton; fabric paint with handmade stencil; silk thread; cotton thread; hand and machine quilted
Art Quilt: Unmoored
Accepted to Marin Museum of Contemporary Art's Open, July 13 - September 28, 2024; juried by Facundo Arganaraz, Mariah Nielson, Lawrence Rinder, Mari Robles, and Donna Seager.
Accepted to Impressions in Ink: Celebrating Printmaking in All Forms Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA; January 4 - February 2, 2025; juror: Eileen Parent




Owl Construction (January 2024)
25"w x 41.5"h
Letterpress printed from wood type on cotton; found cotton; Japanese cotton yarn-dyed and printed cotton; embroidery thread; free-motion quilted
Art Quilt: Owl Construction



Home More or Less (December 2023)
42.5"w x 30"h
Letterpress printed from wood type on cotton; hand-dyed cotton and linen; hand-dyed velvet; hand-pigmented linen; yarn-dyed Japanese cotton; embroidery thread quilting; free-motion quilted
Art Quilt: Home More or Less



Where's Owl (December 2023)
21"w x 25"h
Letterpress printing from wood type on cotton; hand-dyed cotton; Japanese yarn-dyed cotton; cotton thread; reverse appliqué; embroidery; sashiko-style “crossed birds” pattern; free-motion quilting
Art Quilt: Where's Owl?
Accepted into juried letterpress show, Press On! at Pyramid Atlantic, MD: May 30- July 15, 2025; jurors: Allison Tipton, Manager of Globe Press at MICA in Baltimore, MD and Celene Aubry, Shop Manager and Designer-Printer of Hatch Show Print in Nashville, TN / one of three award winners for "excellence in letterpress" for Where's Owl. PRESS ON! Letterpress Exhibit at Pyramid Atlantic with Art Quilts



Redacted (September 2022)
34.25"w x 32.5"h
Letterpress printed cotton from wood and metal type, linocuts, engravings, and collagraphs; Japanese cotton; free-motion quilting
Art Quilt: Redacted
Selected by juror Christine Aaron for SAQA + CSP Exhibition, Printed & Stitched: May 20 - June 16, 2023 at Art Ark Gallery in San Jose, CA; Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA; October 28, 2023 - March 17, 2024; San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, CA; April 28 - September 1, 2024; Maloof Foundation for Arts & Crafts, Alta Loma, CA; Tentative dates February 16, 2025 - June 29, 2025; touring thereafter with Exhibit Envoy until July 2027. Full link at SAQA here. Featured in BathHouse Journal #26: Known/UNknown.



Would He Hide Me (November 2021)
30.5"w x 44.5"h
Hand-dyed cotton and velvet; woven taupe cotton; handmade stencils: deColourant, fabric paint; hand and machine quilted
Art Quilt: Would He Hide Me
Accepted to SAQA Virtual Gallery exhibition, "Textile Expressionism" and debuted July 1, 2022. (Take a tour of the virtual gallery at the link.)
Accepted into the de Young Open 2023; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Sept. 30, 2023 - January 7, 2024. Featured in BathHouse Journal #26: Known/UNknown.



City Share (June 2021)
25"w x 40"h
Hand-stenciled cotton, decolored cotton, woven cotton, velvet, sashiko thread, embroidery thread; hand and machine quilted
Art Quilt: City Share



Undersea Colonies (November 2018)
43.5"w x 60"h
Letterpress from wood type, hand-dyed, eco-dyed, and printed cotton, machine pieced, and hand quilted with linen and embroidery threads
New Work: Undersea Colonies
Accepted for SAQA exhibition, Convergence in Cloth: Shifting Tides; a traveling exhibition, April 19, 2019 through September 30, 2021. Venues: Works/San Jose; Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum (La Conner, WA); Chehalem Cultural Center (Newburg, OR); CityScape Community Artspace (North Vancouver, B.C.) [closed]: Wailoa Center [closed]; International Gallery of Contemporary Art (Anchorage, Alaska); Pratt Museum (Kachemek Bay, Alaska); Visions Art Museum (San Diego, CA); Olive Hyde Art Gallery (Fremont, CA) virtual gallery here; Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History (CA)
See the virtual tour at Visions here




Where Is My Home When My Home Turns Against Me? (October 2018)
62"w x 43.5"h
Letterpress from wood type, solar printed images from original photos, cotton, muslin, eco-dyed cotton, machine sewn and handstitched with linen thread
Form and New Work: Where Is My Home When My Home Turns Against Me?
Accepted for California Society of Printmakers exhibition, "Perception of Place: Works by the California Society of Printmakers & Monterey Peninsula College Printmakers Club" at Pacific Grove Art Center. September 6 - October 25, 2019. Juried by Marianne McGrath.



They Know Which Way to Go (March 2018)
21"w x 50"h
Letterpress printing from wood type, embroidery thread; hand quilted
New Art Quilt: They Know Which Way to Go
Exhibited: Richmond Art Center Members' Show, 2018



Conversation (March 2018)
19"w x 20"h
Scraps pleated from previous quilts. Printed from solar-dyed cloth,
letterpress printing from wood type and linoleum blocks, embroidery thread; hand quilted
Conversation: A New Art Quilt
Exhibited: Home 1: Berkeley Art Center, CA, 2018; Accepted to SAQA SOFA Chicago 2022 (although exhibition ultimately was cancelled) by juror Carol Sauvion (Executive Director and Producer of PBS series, Craft in America)



What Are We Becoming (February 2018)
26.5"w x 59.75"h
Letterpress printing from wood type and linoleum cut in various colors, embroidery thread, cotton; hand quilted
New Art Quilt: What Are We Becoming
NFS



Hope Rants (August 2017)
43.5"w x 69.5"h
Cyanotype, letterpress printing from wood type and linoleum blocks, embroidery thread
A Quilt as an Open Book: Hope Rants
Accepted for exhibition and for show card image, Regional Collective, at the Janet Turner Print Museum, California State University, Chico; Spring 2019





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