This patchwork quilt represents the (lack of) gender and racial diversity in the US Senate during the 116th Congress (2019-2021). Every blue triangle in the star field represents a female senator; the red stripes represent the proportion of non-white senators.
28.5″ x 22.5″
Commercial cotton fabrics, cotton batting, cotton thread, machine pieced patchwork, custom hand-guided longarm quilting, trapunto
This piece appeared in the following exhibitions:
- Art Quilts: Going Forward 2021
- Juror’s Choice Award
- Vermont Quilt Show 2021
- Fantastic Fibers 2021
- Shifting Tides: Art That Speaks To Our Ever Changing Times 2021
- Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival 2022
- New York State Fair 2022
- Second Place – Small
- Quilts Unlimited 2022
- Made in New York 2023
- Indiana Heritage Quilt Show 2023
- Original Sewing and Quilting Expo Quilt Contest 2023
- Creative Resistance: The Art of Protest, First Presbyterian Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2026