We invited artists to submit their best work for display in the ‘Now: Contemporary Art Quilts of Today’ gallery at Houston in 2025. This dynamic exhibition will be appreciated by a diverse audience, including art enthusiasts, collectors, and industry professionals.
The sole venue for this exhibition will be at Houston. All pieces will be for sale and will be available to buyers after the show ends.
International Quilt Festival, Houston Texas: October 9-12 2025
This is a single-venue exhibition - artwork will be returned by December 31, 2025.
Sandra Sider, a past president of Studio Art Quilt Associates, recently retired after ten years as Curator for the Texas Quilt Museum. She edited Art Quilt Quarterly for six years, and has published numerous articles and books on fiber and textile art for more than three decades. A studio quilt artist since the late 1970s, she focuses on photographic processes in her work, embellished with surface design techniques, including hand embroidery. Her art quilts have been acquired by several museums and corporate collections.
She studied photography and printmaking in workshops at the School of Visual Arts (NYC) and Manhattan Graphics Center, and has an M.A. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of North Carolina. From 2019 through 2022, she taught the History of Textiles course for the MFA Textiles program at Parsons School of Design
Selected Artists:
Ludmila Aristova (New York, USA) - Nostalgia
Anne Bellas (France) - Happy Blues
Gay Bitter (New Jersey, USA) - Ode to Mr. Gallagher
Shin-hee Chin (Kansas, USA) - Winter Trees - A Glimmer of Light
Sue Colozzi (Massachusetts, USA) - Flowing Downstream
Liz Davidson (Illinois, USA) - Great blue heron
Sue Dennis (Australia) - Leaf Mandala
Linda Geiger (Florida, USA) - Awakening
Cindy Grisdela (Virginia, USA) - Aquarius
Michele Hardy (Colorado, USA) - Dimensions #9
Barbara Oliver Hartman (Texas, USA) - Good Vibrations
Pat Hertzberg (Ontario, Canada) - New Dawn Breaking
Michelle Jackson (New Mexico, USA) - May I Have This Dance?
Patty Kennedy-Zafred (Pennsylvania, USA) - Spirits Rising
Linda M Kim (Texas, USA) - Let Freedom Ring
Anne Kobus (Florida, USA) - They Tell Me to Calm Down
Irene Anna Koroluk (Australia) - Soft Coral Atoll #1
Jody B Larson (Wisconsin, USA) - Saxophone Jazz
Niraja C Lorenz (Oregon, USA) - Emergence 2
Kathleen McCabe (California, USA) - The Journey
Virginia E McConnell (Virginia, USA) - Sunday Morning
Diane Melms (Alaska, USA) - Thinking Outside the Block
Denise Oyama Miller (California, USA) - Matilija Poppies
Kathleen Nero (California, USA) - Ombre #1
Carolina Pia Oneto Tapia (Mexico) - Chromatic journey to stillness
Amanda Preston Araujo (Colorado, USA) - Iguana
Lena Pugachova (Ireland) - Mad Tea Party
Wen Redmond (New Hampshire, USA) - Continuing the Conversation
Carole Rossi (California, USA) - Kaleidoscope Joy
Jan Soules (California, USA) - Magic Beans #2: Eden
Jean Sredl (Wisconsin, USA) - Stormy Sea II
Daphne Taylor (Maine, USA) - Quilt Drawing #29
Maggie Vanderweit (Ontario, Canada) - Outside Inside
For purchase inquiries, please contact William Reker, Director of Global Exhibitions at exhibitions@saqa.art or 937-912-5009.
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