Remembering the City of Gold

68 x 80 inches
Cotton fabrics, hand lettering, decorative machine stitching

This is a recreation and elaboration of my original quilt presented to Juan Antonio Samaranch for the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland;

Exhibited:
Lynne Farris Gallery, Atlanta, GA

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Total Immersion

41 x 37 inches
Cotton fabrics

This was first of a series celebrating the Art of the Athlete. My goal was to capture an instant in the midst of intense competition.

Exhibited:
1996 Olympic Village, Atlanta, GA
Art in Motion, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
Natural Impressions, Santa Barbara, CA
Quilt Expo, Lyon, France

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Heat

48 x 42 inches
Cotton fabrics

Another quilt from the Art of the Athlete series. Heat refers to the intensity of the competition, as well as the specific event.

Exhibited:
1996 Olympic Village, Atlanta, GA
Art in Motion, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
American Quilters Society, Paducah. KY

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Title IX

48 x 44 inches
Cotton fabrics

This is another quilt from the Art of the Athlete series. The title refers to the program for ensuring equity for women in college sports.

Exhibited:
1996 Olympic Village, Atlanta, GA
Art in Motion, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
American Quilters Society, Paducah. KY

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Apogee

47 x 44 inches
Cotton fabrics

The final quilt from the Art of the Athlete series explores grace as well as strength in competition.

Exhibited:
Art in Motion, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
American Quilters Society, Paducah. KY
On loan to Atlanta Women’s Foundation, Atlanta, GA

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Another Coat of Many Colors

51 x 51 inches
Cotton fabrics, photo transfers, variegated quilting thread

Childhood photos of many co-workers are featured on this quilt. It was selected as one of the 50 finalists in 2004 Husqvarna Viking contest—Masterpieces: Color, Couleur, Colore, Kulör for 2-year traveling exhibition.

Exhibited:
International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
Quilt Expo, France and other countries including Korea, Australia and several Scandinavian countries

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Alliance Theatre Quilt

64 x 72 inches
Cotton fabric, photo transfers

A recreation of the marquee of the theatre was created with tiny circles of fabric cut with a hole punch and individually attached to represent the bright lights of the sign. This quilt was created as a tribute to director Kenny Leon and presented at a fund-raiser for the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA

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Late Night…Not Latte

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Cotton fabrics

Memories of drinking coffee and talking late in the night at a coffee shop were the inspiration for this quilt. Before there were expensive and complicated coffee concoctions, there was Waffle House!

Exhibited:
Georgia Celebrates Quilts, Atlanta, GA
International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX

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Threads of Thought #1

13 x 12 x 2 inches (extends to 40 inches)

Cotton fabrics, photo transfers, paper ephemera, acrylic painting
Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, this fabric book is divided into sections much like the novel. Each section is an interpretation of the novel and the piece can be presented closed, as a book or mounted as a dimensional fabric construction.

Exhibited: Cicely Art Quilters Exhibit, Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA

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Connubialis Timiditus

55.5 x 59.5 inches
Cotton fabrics, photo transfers, embellishments including wedding rings and a pin I designed for the Olympic Quilt Project in 1996.

This quilt is a celebration of our wedding and the relationship my husband and I have enjoyed for many years. It includes a multitude of memories, as well as signatures of many people who are dear to us.

Exhibited:
$100,000 Quilting Challenge Exhibit, 2006
2005 Georgia Celebrates Quilts, Marietta, GA

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Terrior…The Essential Sense of Place

45.5 x 51.5 inches
Cotton fabrics (some hand dyed by Judy Robertson), variegated decorative threads

Wine lovers use the French term ”terrior” to describe all of the essential environmental conditions that give a wine its distinctive taste. The color, texture and organic nature of fabric seemed an appropriate way to express that idea.

Completed February, 2006—not exhibited as yet.

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