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Cummings spent his early artistic career as a part-time collage (with Romare Bearden as a mentor) and paint artist. [1] After a work project to create a cloth banner for an exhibition in 1973, Cummings discovered his love for working with fabric and taught himself to quilt by studying the works of local quilters and how-to quilt magazines and ...
Bisa Butler, born Mailissa Yamba Butler, was born in Orange, New Jersey, grew up in South Orange, and graduated from Columbia High School in 1991. [21] [22] Her mother is a French teacher from New Orleans and her father, a college president, was born in Ghana. [11]
Jenny Doan is an American quilter, author, and YouTube personality. She rose to prominence as the face of Missouri Star Quilt Company, the largest quilting supply vendor in the United States. Referred to as “The most famous quilter in the world,” her YouTube channel has surpassed over 210 million cumulative views, and she is regarded as a ...
Ekua Holmes (born in 1955) is an American mixed-media artist, children's book illustrator, and arts organization professional.Holmes' primary method of art making is mixed media collage, by layering newspaper, photos, fabric, and other materials to create colorful compositions.
quilts At his Los Angeles studio, Sterling Ruby bleaches large rolls of canvas and denim to use for his fabric collages and sculptures. Taking inspiration from the quilters of Gee's Bend in Alabama, as well as Boro textiles from Japan, he makes quilts from scraps of the bleached denim and other materials left over from the production of other ...
The International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has 41 of her quilts in its collection, the largest public collection of quilts in the world. [9] Michael James stated that "Jean Ray Laury was an artist, writer, poet, designer, teacher, mentor, and inspiration to countless numbers of quiltmakers and fabric ...
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Josh Faught was born in 1979, in St. Louis, Missouri. [citation needed] Faught graduated from Oberlin College in 2001.[citation needed] He earned an AAS degree in textile and surface design from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in 2004; and an MFA degree in fiber and material studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SIAC) in 2006.