Susan created this quilt for "Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Suffrage". (Photos: Susan Shie)

Arist Statement:

Materials: White kona-like cotton from Test Fabrics, airbrush paint, fabric paint, fabric markers, Aurifil cotton machine thread, Artfabrik variegated hand dyed perle cotton embroidery thread, one Green Temple Buddha Boy bead. Nature-fil bamboo and organic cotton batting. Mostly commercial batiks on backing and border.

Techniques: Whole cloth painting. Black line freehand drawing and color areas painted with Aztek double action airbrush and airbrush paint. Smaller writing done with fabric markers, because my arm was broken, and I didn't have the strenght to use my airpen. Mostly machine sewn, with one row of hand stitching of perle cotton thread (on the border's outside edge.)

Statement: I made this piece for a show that I was invited to participate in, about the Suffragists, the women who fought from 1848 to 1920, to achieve the right to vote for women in the United States. "Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Suffrage" will open its 3-year tour at The National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY, April 3 - June 9, 2020. The exhibition is curated by Sandra Sider and Pam Meeker. There are 28 artists who were invited to make art quilts specifically for this exhibition, each of us choosing a suffragist to honor in our work. My suffragist, whom I prefer to call a suffragette, is Charlotte Woodward Pierce.

To learn much more about the quilt and see more photos - please go to Susan's website, click here.