Tag: sexism

• Anonymous Was A Woman

  

  

  I bought this pink patchwork top at a reuse store with the intention of making it into a coat. But when I got it home, I couldn’t bear to cut it up. Instead I layered it beneath a length of gray wholecloth wideback fabric and used digital longarm quilting motifs from Karlee Porter and cut away reverse applique text to encourage us all to reflect on who gets credit for creating art in the quilt community and beyond.

  76″ x 90″

  Found vintage patchwork quilt top, commercial cotton fabrics, cotton batting, polyester thread, wholecloth custom digital quilting, reverse applique

  This quilt appeared in the following exhibitions:

  • QuiltFest Greenville 2024
  • Genesee Valley Quilt Fest 2024
  • Smoky Mountain Quilt Show 2024
    • 2nd Place, Large Appliquéd and/or Mixed Techniques – Team
  • Text on Textiles exhibit, International Quilt Festival (Houston) 2024
  • New York State Fair 2025
    • 4th Place, Mixed Techniques

  2024.03.08

• Tenure Race

  

  

  In my second year as an assistant professor on the tenure track, I began logging how I spent my time to ensure it aligned with my contractual expectations of 40% research, 40% teaching, and 20% service. This quilt visualizes these categories and their subcategories, as well as my articulation work–the often undocumented and invisible work that needs to happen to enable the main work to occur (Suchman 1996). The patchwork is inspired by the well-known “jelly roll race” pattern and is quilted with lines at a 17-degree angle to represent the salary difference between me and my male colleagues.

  Materials: commercial cotton fabric; machine pieced patchwork; custom hand-guided longarm quilting

  48″ x 60″

  This quilt appeared in the following exhibitions:

  • The American Woman: Feminist Futures 2024
  • Creative Resistance: The Art of Protest, First Presbyterian Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2026

  2024.01.09

• What Is Essential Is Invisible To The Eye

  

  

  This wholecloth panel quilt uses traditional quilting techniques like trapunto–often considered feminine skills– to contrast the typically masculine professions lauded in American culture and to surface invisiblized professions that are consistently ignored, under-resourced, and scorned, yet arguably more essential to a functional society.
  
  38.5″x32.5″
  
  Commercial cotton panel, cotton batting, cording, cotton thread, trapunto, custom hand-guided longarm quilting

  View a viral TikTok video about this quilt made by an AQS Des Moines attendee: https://www.tiktok.com/@glamourviking/video/7144426454355381550
  
  This quilt appeared in the following exhibitions:

  • Great Wisconsin Quilt Show 2021
  • Quilts = Art = Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center 2021
  • AQS Des Moines 2022
  • Quilts Unlimited 2022
  • New York State Fair 2023

  2021.06.28