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 As part of it's year-long focus on the role of place in quilt making, the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky will host a collection of quilts from Linzee Kull McCray's book Art Quilts of the Midwest .  I plan to exhibit One Life , as neither of my quilts featured in the book ( Venus Transit , Portmanteau ) are available for exhibit at this time. One Life, 2013 

  March 2014 I was recently thumbing through a book about weaving when I came across a design that really excited me as a potential quilt idea.  I wouldn't make the quilt in black and red, but this is just a simple way of remembering that basic concept so that I can later have the fun of choosing colors.  One thing I love about this design is that it holds together no matter how it is oriented. July 11, 2015 I'm advancing the inspiration of this found design (weaving pattern) toward one of my latest creative goals: colossal quilts. I want to make large-scale (~8' x 25') work inspired by my fascination with the patina of industrial objects (boxcars that pass by my window each day, and the fishing boats recently encountered in Bayfield, WI) July 20, 2015 Cross Quarter Embrace as imagined completed and on exhibit (projected size 8.5x24 feet): December 2015   It's early December 2015 and Iowa City's had its first snowfall.  I've embarked on creating this colossa...

Drawn from the recent book, Art Quilts of the Midwest, by Linzee Kull McCray, the quilts selected for this exhibition hint at the ways in which the Midwest’s geography, weather, people, and culture influence the work of quilt artists from the region.  The exhibition will be presented in two rotations between January 5 and May 8, 2016.   Venus Transit will be exhibited in the first rotation (January 5-March 5, 2016).  Thanks to the generous loan of collectors Stephen Kotsines and John Hecht, the IQSC will be exhibiting Venus Transit , one of two quilts of mine featured in Art Quilts of the Midwest . International Quilt Study Center, Lincoln, Nebraska Venus Transit, 2012   Pumphrey Family Gallery International Quilt Study Center Lincoln, Nebraska  

  Tuesday, April 14 7:00-8:30PM Iowa City Public Library Meeting Room A (1st floor) 123 S. Linn Street, Iowa City, IA Art Quilts of the Midwest  author Linzee Kull McCray, foreword contributor and fiber artist Astrid Bennett and I will each participate in this Prairie Lights bookstore-sponsored event.  Linzee will talk about the genesis of the book, as well as featured artists' motivations and inspirations.  The evening will conclude with a large-screen full screening of my video "A Piece of Me."  with longtime friend, Suzanne Koury  introductions by Maeve Clark, ICPL librarian  Linzee Kull McCray presents Astrid Bennett presents With "One Life" (quilt) With "Map of the World" (quilt) with Suzanne and my quilt (Map of the World)