Join Sharon Peoples on her path from wall-hung fiber art to sculptural work shown on a plinth in a riveting new Textile Talk. In this week's talk, Sharon shows how she works to create small, stitched individual fragments that build up into larger three-dimensional pieces. If you’re interested in machine stitching, using soluble fabrics, bonded fabrics, and thinking “outside the square,” this Textile Talk is for you! Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, April 19, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
This week's Textile Talk brings us Tracey Lawko, who will discuss creating “Reflections of Ourselves” and the new-to-her task of producing a documentary. The documentary showcases her collaborative work, a large textile artwork celebrating Canada’s rich cultural heritage that 100 Indigenous, settler, and immigrant Canadians created a textile leaf for to honor their cultural heritage, its exhibition, and interviews with the artists. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, April 5, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
In this week's Textile Talk from the Quilt Alliance, Barbara Brackman and Merikay Waldvogel reminisce about their early sleuthing adventures in the 1980s, culminating in the 1993 book and exhibit Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. At the time of its publication, they had located 100 Sears Contest quilts, but not the grand-prize quilt entered by Margaret Caden of Lexington, KY. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
What artists are doing with textiles these days couldn't even be perceived 100 years ago, maybe even 20 years ago. In this week's Textile Talk from the Quilt Alliance, scholar and curator Keidra Daniels Navaroli brings together a group of artists who "are pushing the perceived boundaries of textile practice" and "whose work provides opportunities for public engagement." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
Every time you decide to make a quilt you are taking a creative risk that you can execute the quilt the way you want to. All quilters face this issue, and in this week's Textile Talk QuiltFolk's Mike McCormick and Mary Fons (a past guest of the show) "discuss risk and intuition vis a vis the global quilt community" and share "their thoughts on the future of the industry". Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, January 18, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
The Textile Talk this week features a very special guest in addition to the special guest that they already have. That's right, The Quilt Show's own Lilo Bowman, a SAQA board member herself, speaks with quilt collector Frank Klein as they view his collection. Recorded live at Houston 2022, "They discuss several of the pieces in his collection, and what each piece means to him." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, January 11, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
Join the Surface Design Association (SDA) in this week's Textile Talk for Learn & Make with SDA and get a preview of their "inaugural online workshop series starting in early 2023." You will get a sneak peek of their "workshop instructors and learn more about their personal art practice." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.
On this week's Textile Talk, the Sacred Threads Exhibition founded by Vikki Pignatelli is shared. Hear Lisa Ellis discuss "this unique exhibit that explores textile artists' most personal stories of healing, grief, spirituality, peace, joy and inspiration." Plus, get a glimpse of some of the artwork shared "over the twenty years and hear some first hand video recordings of artists sharing their stories." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, November 30, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.
Coming up in this week's Textile talk is a conversation between Pat Kroth, Linda Kim, and Deborah Boschert (who's been a guest right here on The Quilt Show). Join these three artists from the SAQA Global Exhibition sustainABILITY for an hour of art and inspiration! Register today and watch when this episode airs thisWednesday, November 9, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.
This week's Textile Talk is an overview of Laura Petrovich-Cheney's work and her combining of two mediums, quiltmaking and woodworking. Learn how even though her designs may be different from the traditional quilt or sculpture, the "result is the same - an object of beauty and comfort, a pieced-together whole from scraps that tells a story of hope and resilience." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, October 19, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.
This Wednesday's Textile Talk is a conversation with Argentinean-American artist Tamara Kostianovsky who "will discuss 15 years of work and reflect on the inspirations, techniques, and concepts that make up her elaborate textile sculptures." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, October 12, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.
Through sumptuous, colorful embroideries and quilts, this creative duo plays with themes of gender, culture, queerness, and domestic life. Join Leo Chiachio and Daniel Giannone on a tour of 20 years of creative collaboration, along with their son-pet-dog, Piolin. They are Chiachio & Giannone, a couple in art and in life. They live and work in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, September 28, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.
Jenny Bowker's exhibition, Pack and Follow - The Quilts of Jenny Bowker, is ending its run today at the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery in New South Wales. If you missed out on this wonderful presentation of Jenny's quilts have no fear, because the past president of SAQA, and former guest of The Quilt Show, Lisa Walton made a video documenting the exhibit in all its glory. Give it a watch and be in awe of all the amazing work that Jenny has made.
The 2022 SAQA Benefit Auction opens this Friday, September 9, 2022, at 2 pm EDT (US/Canada). Get ready to bid in this exciting fundraiser featuring 423 art quilts. All of the pieces were made and donated by SAQA members from around the world.
You may have seen Audrey Esarey's quilts featured on our site a time or two. There is a reason for that, as her quilts, often circular in nature, are stunning examples of the Modern Quilt movement. In this Wednesday's Textile Talk, you will get a glimpse of those quilts and more as the National Quilt Museum presents Contemporary Curves, "a collection of quilts exploring circular shapes and dynamic, high-contrast colors made by Audrey Esarey. The quilts featured in this exhibit are primarily from three ongoing series: Radial Quilts, Watercolor Quilts, and Aura Quilts." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, August 31, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.
In this week's Textile Talk, we'll hear from Christine Martens, an artist and researcher who'll speak on "her extensive travels in Central Asia and about the collecting of patchwork and quilted objects she has done." She will be in conversation with Marin Hanson, Curator of International Collections at the International Quilt Museum. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, August 24, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.
This weeks Textile Talk is brought to you by SAQA and is a discussion with Paola Carmago González about "the work of Colombian embroiderers: Flor Tapia, Gladys Acevedo, and Blanca Nubia Díaz. Paola will focus on the relationship between embroidery, memory making, and demanding justice, within the context of forced disappearances in Colombia." Register today and watch when this episode airs thisWednesday, August 17, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.
This Wednesday's Textile Talk is all about "the intersection of fashion and art in The Fusion of Fiber Arts, Fashion, & Design" as explored by the Surface Design Associationwith featured guests Dong Kyu Kim and Leisa Rich. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, August 10, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.
On this week's Textile Talk, the Quilt Alliance welcomes HollyAnne Knight, the "founder of String & Story, an online platform for learning free motion quilting and other machine quilting skills" for a conversation "about technology, the evolution of HollyAnne's career, and of course, quilts!" Register today and watch when this episode airs thisWednesday, August 3, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.
The Textile Talk this week centers on the Legacy quilt, made to "tell the story of 400 years of Black Culinary Icons." Hear how the vision for this beautiful and quite large (14’ x 30’) quilt was brought to life. Register today and watch when this episode airs thisWednesday, July 27, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.