Sentences with phrase «quilt making»

I'm currently tucked up under a beautiful lap quilt made by my mum for my 30th birthday.

I have a family quilt made by my great grandmother that sits in a box cause I am afraid to use / display it.

Next, Smith mentioned «War and Pieced,» a show of quilts made from military fabric at the American Folk Museum.

For Rib Mountain, she'll be exhibiting text quilts made from uneven scraps of fabric that spell out various phrases.

Delaunay's explorations into abstraction began, modestly, with a patchwork quilt made for her newborn son in 1911 (now in the Musée National d'Art Moderne's collection).

After being largely known for her story quilts made in the 1970s, the exhibition brought to the fore Ringgold's bold political paintings made in the previous decade in response to the civil rights and feminist movements.

I am currently looking at the stunning patchwork quilts made by the women of Gees Bend, the weaving workshops of The Bauhaus and landscape paintings by Eric Ravilious.

Employing the language of textiles as form and process, the artist's latest body of work transcends the boundaries of traditional quilt making.

HANK WILLIS THOMAS, «We The People,» 2015 (quilt made out of decommissioned prison uniforms).

Love this «Sweet Orchard» Fabric and the lovely little quilt you made with it.

Muse pulls from African American quilt making traditions to use scraps of knowledge and traces of remembrance to fashion a clearer picture of her familial past / legacy.

In short, a picture of the hearsay rule with its exceptions would resemble an old - fashioned crazy quilt made of patches cut from a group of paintings by cubists, futurists and surrealists.

Wood - planked floors and cozy quilts made of light, sea - colored pastels honor the rustic feel of the century - old cottage, embracing the charm of the setting and the house.

Taking it beyond the traditional painted surface, Charleen Kavleski synthesizes a family history of mason work and quilt making into her concepts.

Along six blocks of Old Town Front Street, hundreds of handmade quilts made with thousands of yards of patch - worked fabric hang from banisters and along storefronts.

Instead, I did get hold of a Very Hungry Caterpillar quilt made up and it was used when he was a toddler and preschoolers before he outgrew the bed.

We have seen some amazing quilts made from these scraps.

«Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt» features seventy spectacular quilts made by four generations of women in Gee's Bend, a small, isolated African American community in southwest Alabama.

Schrott's work frequently portrays strong, joyful women in quilts making use of hand - dyed fabrics, threadwork and embellishment.

Mendive's soft sculpture is light years away from Claes Oldenburg but does invite subtle parallels with celebrated quilts made by African - American women of Gee's Bend, Alabama.

African American Quilts from the Collection of Corrine Riley, an exhibition on view through October 7, 2012, featuring more than 50 quilts made throughout the American South between 1910 and the 1970s.

The Whitney Museum mounted an exhibit of «The Quilts of Gee's Bend,» large, abstract quilts made by women in Gee's Bend, a small rural community nestled into a curve in the Alabama River southwest of Selma, Alabama.

The Visual Arts Center of Richmond's newest exhibition explores how contemporary artists are reinterpreting traditional quilt making processes in their own practices.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that it had received a major gift of 20th - century works by African - American artists from the South, including 10 pieces by Thornton Dial and 20 important quilts made by the Gee's Bend quilters of Alabama.

Combining quilt making, genre painting, and story telling through images and hand - written texts, the series «The American Collection» (1997) endeavors to rewrite African American art history, emphasizing the importance of family, roots, and artistic collaboration.

Labor in art and in general is often invisible and underappreciated — Alloro's work highlights the effort of quilt making as an expression of care, an alternative to the dominant approach in conceptual art where the concept is more important than the fabrication of the work.

These sculpted pieces pay homage to the tradition of telling stories through quilt making.

Ms. Boyd's quilt is surrounded in the gallery by twelve colorful quilts made by kids from Colfax Community Network.

Exploring 300 years of British quilt making, the exhibition shows more than 65 quilts from a cot cover made in the 1690s to recent examples by leading contemporary artists including Tracey Emin and Grayson Perry as well as special commissions by Sue Stockwell, Caren Garfen and Jo Budd.

I switched the blue and white quilt for this all white bedspread, and added a couple of red and white stripe pillowcases.Then I folded one of the red and white quilts I made at the foot of the bed.Some greens from our yard in white ironstone, classic and simple.

Your grandmother's flower garden quilt makes my heart go pitter pat!

A buttoned headboard, white bedlinen and a pewter quilt make a focal point of the bed, while a jacquard fabric used for the curtains adds a luxe look.

Here are quilts made from baby clothes you can DIY or buy!

In our video, Verity Sharp introduces some of the highlights of the show, and tells the riveting stories behind them — from a bone - sculpture made by a prisoner of war to a patchwork quilt made by a couple in love, celebrating their engagement.

Hank Willis Thomas, Meschers, 2017, quilt made out of decommissioned prison uniforms, 75.25 × 57.625 × 1.5 inches.

The Visual Arts Center of Richmond's newest contemporary exhibition, and artist Aaron McIntosh, is redefining traditional quilt making.

For her new exhibition at Metro Pictures, New York based photographer Sara VanDerBeek embarked on a meticulous research into American quilt making, Pre-Columbian textiles, and modernist textile weaving to arrive at the geometric plastic sculptures that are the subject of her large scale photographs.

The painting is simultaneously a fantastical terrain, a crazy quilt made of beaded swatches, and an abstract painting.

Wood - planked floors and cozy quilts made of light, sea - colored pastels honor the rustic feel of this century - old cottage, embracing the charm of the setting and the house.