Quilt Artist Ellen Fisher talks about her creative process in making her Sister Artists quilt.
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Sister Artists
Janice Jones contacted us and said, “It pulls on my heart strings to think that one of the blocks did not get chosen. Surely we can’t have one of the girls blocks not chosen.” It turns out there were two unclaimed blocks, and Janice undertook to finish both of them. As you can see below, each […]
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Ellena is new to Art Quilting and finds the improvisational aspects appeal to her the most. The process of taking a germ of an idea and turning it into a completed, one of a kind, art piece is exciting. Partnering with a young woman from Mali to produce a single unified piece was challenging but […]
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I love cooking so I entitled this piece, “It’s Meal Time!” I love the embroidery the artist chose for her piece and I decided to add borders that bring out the colors within the panel while adding some African and Asian fabric flavors from my stash. It is my hope that this project will bless […]
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It’s my favorite thing: art quilts as advocacy. So I was quick to answer the call from Quilt for Change and The Advocacy Project. Under the initiative, known as Sister Artists, survivors of gender-based violence created embroidered blocks depicting scenes of their life in Mali. Quilters — mostly American — were invited to choose a […]
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