Here are the rest of the quilts from the show…(click pictures to enlarge)

David M. Taylor, Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Maynard

The white-on-white portion of this quilt is what intrigued and challenged the artist.

David has been quilting since 1999 and became a full-time quilter and teacher in 2009.  His work has won numerous awards, including the Fairfield Master Award for Contemporary Quilting from the International Quilt Association (2006) and the Brother Wall Machine Workmanship Award for the American Quilter’s Society (2008) and first place in pictorial art quilts at the International Quilt Festival in Houston (2011) for Maynard.

John Scott Alden, Littleton, Colorado

Pennies From Heaven

The quilt was inspired by the dedication of the 9/11 memorial. John Graduated from CSU with a degree in horticulture. He was a landscape designer and loves the natural beauty of Colorado.  Pennies from heaven is his first completed quilt.

L. Scott Farmer, Lakewood, Colorado

May Cause Dizziness

This quilt is one of a series that explores the interaction of black and white.  L. Scott Farmer is a fiber artist who was drawn to the creative possibilities offered by firer after working in wood and stained glass, he finds that creating art with fiber allows him the greatest expansion and fulfillment of his creative process.

John Plutchak, Kingsport, Tennessee

Simple Elegance

The sashiko-embellished piece was made specially for this exhibit.  John comes from a family of 10. In addition to quilting he spins, weaves, knits, turns wood, and works with leather. He is a quilt judge and teacher.  This is his third time exhibiting at RMQM.

Jeff Donaldson, Fort Collins, Colorado

Blackbirds 1

Jeff is a retired elementary and special education teacher. he discovered quilting three years ago while watching his wife quilt.   Donaldson belongs to the Rocky Mountain Creative Quilters in Fort Collins where the members have been especially supportive of his efforts.

Davin Frey, Golden, Colorado

Cantii Man

The quilt was inspired by a 2000-year old Celtic coin found in Great Britain.  Davin is the son and brother of quilters he says “I guess it was just a matter of time before I tried my hand at quilting.”  Cantii Man is his first piece to be exhibited.

Michael D. Marsh, Marshall, Missouri

Another Time Another Place

The artist’s admiration for the culture of the Far East inspired this view into the lives of geishas at rest.  Michael has slept under quilts made by his grandmothers and great aunts all of his life and began quilting in the 1980′s perfecting his craft with the aid of books and television programs.

Michael E. Michalski, Brooklyn, New York

Prairie Window

Prairie window evolved from a class with Judy Doenias about designing with arcs and circles.  Michael has been quilting for 20 years and has a degree in chemistry and physics but chose a career in theatrical costuming, which he studied in graduate school. He works backstage on Broadway, taking care of the wardrobe and assisting the actors with their changes.

Shawn Quinlan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Visiting Gramps Memories

Shawn based this image on a photograph his grandfather took of himself on one of his trips to the western United States.  Quinlan attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and works as a video editor in the news department at WTAE-TV.  Given an old sewing machine in 1994 he became fascinated with all aspects of art quilting.

Andreas Wolf, Hamburg, Germany

Black and White and one other Colour

Andreas Wold became interested in needle-work as a child.  At age 18 he began making his own clothes, and began designing and making quilts in 1995.  He enjoys using his longarm artistry in quilts he makes for exhibition and competition and on customer quilts in his store, Quilthouse Hamburg.

Lucky Snyder, Longmont, Colorado

China Memories

The quilt was made to record memories of time spent living and working in China. Lucky is a professional welder and has built and driven champion drag race cars. He restores vintage English Fords and Sunbeams.  His grandmother handed him a needle and thread after he lost his father while very young, he has been practicing ever since.

Kenneth McCullough, Pueblo, Colorado

Tumbling Blocks with Piano Key Border

Kenneth’s oldest granddaughter helped him select the 18 different fabrics used in this quilt.  He made his first quilt in 2002 to have something to do during retirement.  His quilt “Terry’s Flower Bed” won first place and best of show at the Colorado State Fair in 2009.

J. Mackenzie Helton, Denver Colorado

Homework for Harriet

The quilt was a homework project for a class taught by Harriet and Carrie Hargrave.  Mackenzie has been sewing most of his life.  He has made clothing, bags, and household items from a variety of fibers including canvas, leather, and vinyl.

Dan Burke, Lansing Michigan

Interstellar Suite Square Hexagon

Dan began quilting about 6 years ago to have something he could do with his mother. Soon he discovered the more he quilted the more he wanted to quilt.  Dan is the past president of the Capital City Quilt Guild in Lansing and the treasurer for the Michigan Quilt Network.  One of his paper pieced quilts is in the AQS Quilt Art Engagement Calendar 2012.

J. Marcus Weekley, Gulfport, Mississippi

Desert Cactus II: Vacation in Charleston

The artist challenged himself to incorporate as many different log cabin blocks into the design as possible in response to a log cabin themed guild challenge.  Weekley teaches English in community college and writes poetry, prose poetry, short stories and screenplays.

Geoff Hamada, Seattle, Washington

Bodhichakara

The quilt is a Budhist-inspired mandala in bright, striking colors and sparkling embellishment.  Geoff has been making quilts for 20 years and enjoys exploring a wide use of materials and needlework techniques.  He is on the board of directors of the LaConner Quilt and Textile Museum.

Ian Guy, Centennial, Colorado

Ships at Sea

This is Ian’s first quilt, made while visiting his grandmother during a 3 year period.  Ian is 15 years old and has been homeschooled his entire life. He repairs cars, computers, electronics, and cell phones.  He completed this quilt at age 12, and has since used his sewing skills to make things such as cases for cell phones.

Mike McNamara, San Fransisco, California

Holy Scissors

Images of scissors were printed on fabric using the thermofax process.   Mike “Mac” made his first quilt in 1976 and is an active member of both Quilters Connection in Watertown, Massachusetts and the Pajaro Valley Quilt Association in Santa Cruz, California. 

 

Apologies to Ken Casey….his quilt is just barely visible through the window in this picture.

Ken Casey, Phoenix , Arizona

Roy G. Biv Pixellated (pictured in the window)

This quilt was made specifically for RMQM’s “Male Call” exhibit.  Ken has been quilting for about 25 years.  He is a retired elementary school teacher and was the featured artist on the Arizona Quilters Hall of Fame website in 2010.

Apologies to Jack Brockette, Dallas, Texas.  I did not get a picture of his quilt Through a Glass Darkly.  Jack is a native Texan and taught art in the Dallas public schools and at several colleges and universities.  He holds a master’s degree from Rhode Island School of Design.

I think that covers everyone.  It was an amazing show and a great Museum!

If you go to Colorado you must make time to visit the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum

I hope to get back soon when I have time to visit the city of Golden. 

I did buy a few things at the museum gift shop, I will post about them in the next few days.

One more thing….apparantly there is a football game today?  So enjoy

Happy Quilting

Tim

After a very doubtful start I did make it to Colorado for the opening reception of “Male Call: Quilts Made By Men” at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum on Friday night.   After I finished teaching class on Thursday night and got home I checked the weather channel….yikes a blizzard was on the way!  My Flight was scheduled for 7:00 on Friday A.M. out of Detroit.  Flights were being canceled already on Thursday night…will it be mine?  In the very early morning on Friday the flight was still a go so off to Detroit (quite sure the by the time I get there the flight would be canceled).  Well it was not….It was one of the few that made it out….so arrival at the Denver airport and out to pick up the rental car

It was actually much worse than it looks in the picture.  The news in Denver was that this was the worst snow storm in February since 1912!

The Denver airport is not all that close to Golden so it was a scary drive to the hotel with many cars sliding off the road on the way.  But a safe arrival and check in  and I felt a lot better.

look out the window!

The reception started at 5:00 in Downtown Golden

At the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum

What a great event!  Many of  the Quilters were able to make it.

A bit blurry but here we all are.

There are 39 quilters represented at the show.  So now on to the quilts. (click pictures for enlargement).

Is it self-centered to start with mine? 

Tim Latimer, Lansing, Michigan

Trees

see post about the quilt here

Alan R. Tremain,  Wyoming, New South Wales, Australia

Billabong Corroboree

Alan has been making quilts since the mid-1970s.  He manages a successful quilt design studio and sewing school and is the only male Martha Pullen licensed Phaff Heirloom instructor in Australia.

Dan Olfe, Julian, California

Free Fall #5

The digitally-printed wholecloth piece is the last in a series depicting free-falling cloth.

Dan Olfe began making quilts in 1997 after a career as a professor of engineering.  His work has evolved from machine pieced and quilted wall hangings to hand-painted wholecloth to computer-created designs printed directly on cloth.

 

Carl Rohr, Roan Montana

Blue is Orange and Orange is Blue

The quilt was created from fabric acquired during a men’s round robin quilt project in 2007.  Carl has been quilting for about 14 years.  After retirement, he says, “I found out how important it is to work with my hands and create something tangible.”

Michael Clifford, New Your, New York

Ohio Star (Joan Christian’s Quilt)

Clifford began quilting 30 years ago after finding some antique quilts in need of repair, at a second-hand store. Since then he has made about 60 quilts-each individualized to reflect the recipient’s favorite colors and interests.

Ricky Tims, LaVeta, Colorado

Firewall

This quilt represents an expansion of Ricky Tim’s passion for freedom and improvisation.  Tims is an internationally known teacher, lecturer, and award-winning quilter, and co-creator and co-host, with Alex Anderson, of The Quilt Show, an online video/web magazine and social network for quilters.

Scott A. Murkin, Asheboro, North Carolina

Kiruto  (sorry Scott I did not get a picture of the full quilt)

Scott exhibits nationally and internationally and has textile artworks in prestigious public and private collections. His quilts have appeared in numerous publications, including American Quilter, Quilters Newsletter, Quiltmaker, Quilting Quarterly and Great American Quilts.  He is a NQA Certified quilt judge who has judges for the American Quilter’s Society, National Quilt Association and International Quilt Association.

Carmon Slater, Evergreen Colorado

Spring Comes to the Prairie

This three-dimensional piece was made especially for this exhibit.  Carmon is both a scientist and an artist.  He has taught in the art and education department at the University of Iowa, served on the American Craft Council, the Ames (Iowa) Civil Rights Task Force, and was a keynote speaker at the New Zealand Crafts Council conference.

Edward Bostick, Brooklyn, New York

Geese in the Log Cabin

Batik scraps were arranged in a barn raising set.  Quilted by Janice Jaminson. 

Edward has been designing and constructing quilts for seven years, and says he quilts to revive and maintain an interest in the art form.  His work celebrates the legacy and culture that Southern African-American women brought to this country when slave women used scraps from sewing the slave master’s clothing to make quilts for their own use.

Jimmy McBride, Brooklyn, New York

M1 V2 (The Crab Nebula)

Jimmy’s Quilts are inspired by images from the Hubble telescope and NASA’s astronomy pictures.  They are machine pieced entirely from thrift-store fabrics.  McBride is a sculptor and painter and discovered quilting as an art form when friends had a baby and he made them a quilt depicting the galaxy.  His quilts have been juried into the AQS show in Paducah and featured in Quilter’s Home magazine.

Brian Clements, Wray, Colorado

Lone Star

Brian has been quilting for over 20 years. For the past four years, he has been quilting on his Gammill for other quilters and enjoys the opportunity to work on a variety of styles. Some of his work has been showcased in the book Sweetwater’s Simple Home.

D. M. Sanford, Denver Colorado

The Falling Stars Burned Up MY Dreams and Set Me Free

Inspired by the quilts of Gee’s Bend, this quilt is made from wool jacket fabric.

Fascinated with sociology, anthropology, and archaeology he says “The concepts of ancient trends through modern times and the reassembly of broken objects informs a lot of my work.”

M. Mueller, Boone, North Carolina

Dropcloth 2011

The paint spatters on the quilt are intentional.  The artist prefers to use solid fabrics so as not to incorporate other people’s designs into his work.  Mueller began quilting in the early 2000′s.  He was encouraged to enter three quilts in a juried show, and all were selected.  The juror was Joe Cunningham, who included Mueller’s work in his book Men and the Art of Quiltmaking.

Steve Bowley, Denver, Colorado

Point Well Taken

Point well taken was made for a guild challenge to use only stash fabrics.  Steve started quilting in 1990 after buying a used Singer machine for $15 at a church bazar.  Originally from Newport, Rhode Island, he is a classroom teacher and school Librarian.

George Smith, Silver City, New Mexico

Blend Up Your Shakespeare

Pictures of Kelmscott Manor, the home of William Morris, Inspired this quilt.  George has been around the creative industries his entire life.  The 50-year span started with sweeping the floors of his mother’s craft store and ended as vice-president of creative development for a major paint and crafts manufacturer.  Smith was designated craft designer of the year in 1997.  He started quilting upon his retirement 6 years ago.

Gerald Legan, Danville, Indiana

Love those Old Barns

This quilt was made to promote the Kankakee County Barn Quilts project.  Gerald is a retired engineering technician for the Illinois Department of Transportation.  He became interested in quilting while recording television quilting shows for his wife.  Since 2008 he has been involved with the Kankakee County Barn Quilts project, he has created and installed many of the 42 eight-by-eight quilt blocks that are mounted on historic barns in Kankakee county.

Robert A. Scipione, Bedford, New Hampshire

Homage to Marie

The tumbler one-patch pattern was machine pieced from Daiwabo taupe fabrics,

Robert is a retired biochemist and teacher.  He began quilting while trying to help his wife re-learn manual skills after she suffered a heart attack and two strokes.  Sadly Mrs. Scipione died suddenly during the creation of this piece. It is dedicated to her memory.

Phil D. Jones, Denver, Colorado

Paradigm Shift

The quilt is part of a series inspired by a study of Amish Quilts.  Having learned to sew on his grandmother’s treadle sewing machine when he was five years old, Phil pursued clothing construction starting in his late teens.  His current interest in quilting started in 1990 working on several panels for the NAMES project AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Don Beld, Los Angeles, California

Fort Hood Memorial Quilt

The quilt was inspired by the tragedy at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009. Don is a retired health administrator.  He is one of the leading experts on Civil War soldier’s quilts and has reproduced every existing quilt made by the U.S. Sanitary Commission.  He is the founder of the Home of the Brave Quilt Project, which presents replica Civil War  soldier’s quilts to families of fallen heroes from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Next time I will post the remaining quilts…so much more to see!! 

Till then

Happy quilting

Tim