These Colors Should Run

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