Artists' Statement

Each year the Kansas Art Quilters organizes an exhibit of member works. This year the theme of the show was My World and the goal was to depict the personal, political, or environmental commentary about the world in which we live, the world as we see it, or the world as we have experienced it.

 

The works you see reveal our preoccupations with art and pattern and graphics; with work, dual career households, and family life and travel.

 

We celebrate the natural world, yet are aware of the shrinking family farm.

 

We worry about a dimming of certainty and our aging, and, yet, we yearn to do the impossible and we see that the world is as full of possibility as any twelve-year old could ask for.

 

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Ruth Powers, Carbondale, KS                        Grasslands, 2009      

 

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The juror for this show was Professor Carol Ann Carter, who teaches in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Kansas. She began working in intaglio printmaking, then in mixed media painting, fiber construction and multimedia installations. Her work was exhibited in Germany in June 2009.

 

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Karen J. Cooper, Wichita                                 Swynke!, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Dianne Vottero Dockery, Kutztown, PA                    Jubilation, 2008

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Kansas Art Quilters (KAQ) is locally based but has a national membership.  The organization was formed in 2001 and serves to promote an interchange of ideas among those engaged or interested in contemporary quiliting and fiber art.

For more information about KAQ, visit www.kansasartquilters.org

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Karen Stiehl Osborn, Omaha                               Rural Remnants #1, 2009