Artist Joyce Martelli, of Rochester, never plans her pieces. “When I am in a creative zone, I just go to my studio and start painting,” she said. “How I feel that day is represented on the material.” ...

To look at Elizabeth Scott’s quilts is to see a world of life and a world of art. They refer back to her African ancestors’ way of making fabrics, and they resemble abstract art. They reflect her ...

Lou Ann Smith recently returned home from the Quilt National 2015 at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Ohio, where her beautiful abstract quilt known as “Leaf 2” was one of just 86 quilts selected for the ...

When we think of quilts and quilting, we often remember the quilts that our mothers or grandmothers made. They were patchwork pieces with many repetitions of the same block in orderly rows. While ...

Thick beige-and-brown colored fabrics pad the walls of Ukrainian Village storefront space Fernwey. They’re not decorative—these four six-foot-tall quilts, which look more like topographic maps than ...

Put some traditional American artwork on your desktop with quilts from the artists at Gee’s Bend. Women from Gee’s Bend, 2005 ONB Magic City Art Connection ...

Jane Burch Cochran combines her art training in painting, her love of fabric and the tradition of American quilting. Her quilts are highly embellished with beads, buttons, and paint to enhance the ...