Tag Archives: Quilts

Slow Projects in Winter

Posted on January 08, 2025
For the first time in a long while, my family had a free weekend. With minimal chores and errands to run, I was excited. Midday Saturday, I was inspired to break out a project that had been in storage for a year.

Sarah’s Sea

Posted on June 23, 2021
Earlier this month, sculptor Sarah FitzSimons pulled her car into the Woodson Art Museum’s loading-dock parking lot, safely transporting the Pacific to the Midwest. The ocean, folded and wrapped in on itself, fit in the trunk, where it waited patiently to stretch and spill out across the gallery floor.

Animal Motifs + Relief Printing = Classroom Quilts

Posted on February 07, 2018
I met printmaker Sherrie York late Sunday evening at the Central Wisconsin Airport where she arrived after a harrowing day of travel to begin a two-week printmaking residency, which kicked off early Monday morning. During her residency, Sherrie and I will work with over 150 area students, first onsite at the Woodson Art Museum and then again in their classrooms.