Art critics have compared Mary Lee Bendolph's quilts to abstract masterpieces by Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko and Paul Klee. She and fellow quilters from Gee's Bend, an isolated Alabama community of 800 ...
Navajo/Diné quilt artist Susan Hudson featured in the QUILTS episode Navajo/Diné artist Susan Hudson's pictorial quilts honor her ancestors and the proud history of the Navajo people using a crossover ...
The Vermilion Sit and Stitch Quilt Guild will meet at 7 p.m., Sept. 27 in the pavilion at Trinity Lutheran Church, 3747 Liberty Ave. in Vermilion. The program for the evening is an explanation of the ...
When she took up sewing at age 9, Susan Hudson did so only because she was forced to — not to indulge her sense of creativity and certainly not because she enjoyed it. “My mom thought it was time for ...
A Navajo woman who has spent 50 years sewing has now been honored with an NEA award for her unique quilts. She is unafraid to criticize the mainstream culture that's marginalized Indigenous artists.
Susan Hudson's studio near Ignacio, Colorado, is often a chaotic mess of brightly colored fabrics and half-finished projects. "I'm disorganized/organized," she said ...
The work of Navajo quiltmaker Susan Hudson is sought after by collectors and museums. This year, she was named a National Endowment for the Arts fellow. It's been a long and difficult road to ...