Featured Member Special Exhibit at the Dallas Quilt Show

That’s me! Quilts from left to right: Scattered Showers, Indigo Garden, Even and Odd, Cuts and Bruises and Near and Far.

It was such an honor to be invited by the Quilters Guild of Dallas to be one of the featured artists at the 2025 Dallas Quilt Show. I selected 26 art quilt collages to including in the exhibit. They ranged from 2012 to 2023 and embody the style of work layering fabric, paint and stitch, personal symbols, bold contemporary compositions that make an impact from across the room and include lots of intimate details that can be appreciated upon close viewing.

It’s the first time I’ve hung so many pieces all together and it was so validating and exciting to talk with attendees about my art. It made me eager to make more art quilt collages!

The front panel of my special exhibit. Quilts from left to right: Cultivate and Climb (at the top left), Limbs, Ladders, Roots and Rocks, Waxing Crescent Endeavor and Waning Crescent Meditation.

I had an amazing team who helped me hang 26 of my art quilt collages!

These amazing people helped me figure out pipes, drapes, signage, measurements, and artistic flow!

Two self-portraits greeted visitors at the entrance to the exhibit space. Waxing Crescent Endeavor on the left and Waning Crescent Mediation on the right. Here I am recreated the original pose that the silhouettes were based on.

Before the show, I spent a lot of time considering how to group and arrange the quilts. I hung some by common theme or subject matter. Others I hung by color as with these four pieces in neutral color palettes.

Boundless and Bare, Glimpse, Twilight Lifting and Neighborhood

With the grouping pictured below, I opted to hang the four landscapes together. The large quilt on the left leads into the neutral quilts pictured above.

Multitudes, Shelter and Stream, Dusk Breeze, Moon Rise Over Red Fields, and Haze and Hope

My husband Jeff even made a special trip back from his Navy job in Korea to see the show (and help with takedown). I’m beyond grateful for the friends and family who support me in creating art—and who truly see me in these layers of fabric, paint, and stitch.

Join me on a short tour of the exhibition where I point out each quilt and share a few insights into the creative process, themes and techniques that are a part of my work. Of course, there’s no substitute for viewing quilts in person, but I hope you’ll enjoy this walk through. The sound is not great, which is just what you get in a cavernous exhibition hall full of activity but I really wanted to document this wonderful experience.