Indeed, They Are Dangerous Women

Meet four more quilt artists from our “Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage” exhibit during Tuesday@12 on March 1, 2022.

Let’s keep learning about these “dangerous women” and their roles in women’s suffrage along with the journey of each artist in depicting their topics. 

 Our guests include:

• Laura Wasilowski, whose quilt features Jane Addams using hand-dyed fabrics and pictorial images.
• Jayne Gaskins focuses on the legislative highway using digital art and appliquéd pieces.
• Sandra Sider, co-curator of the exhibit, highlights Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s speech at the 1866 Eleventh National Woman’s Rights Convention.
• Alice Beasley makes a big impact using portraits to show black civil rights activist and journalist Ida B. Wells, who refused to walk behind the white suffragists in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. in 1913.

 Hear directly from the artists on their creative process and more about these “dangerous women”.

 

Featured Quilt Artists:

Laura Wasilowski creates hand-dyed fabrics and threads, pictorial art quilts, and free-form embroideries. Her whimsical textile pieces tell stories of family, friends, and home. They express her joy and love of making artwork. The artist is also a lecturer, quilt instructor, pattern designer, and author of Fanciful Stitches, Colorful Quilts and Joyful Stitching: Transform Fabric with Improvisational Embroidery.    

Alice Beasley has been making portraits of people and objects since 1988. Fabric is my chosen medium of expression through which I incorporate the same light, shadow, and realistic perspective used by artists in other media. Rather than using paint, dyes, or other surface treatments, however, I rely instead on finding color, line, and texture in the print of commercial fabric and thread, or in fabrics that I print myself.

  

Jayne Gaskins work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world and can be found in both private and museum collections as well as in numerous publications. She is a Juried Artist Member in Studio Art Quilt Associates and currently serves on the Board of Directors. Gaskins, who holds a BFA and an MBA, left a successful career in communications to pursue her love of art, where her imagination takes her places she never knew existed.

  

Sandra Sider, a New York quilt artist since the early 1980s, has led critique workshops since 2005. She holds an M.A. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Sider has served as president of SAQA, and today she is Editor of Art Quilt Quarterly and Curator of the Texas Quilt Museum. She has written or edited more than a dozen books concerning contemporary quilt art, including Art Quilts Unfolding: Fifty Years of Innovation.