COLLECTION NAME:
University Art Galleries (UMassD)
Record
exhibition_title:
Quilt Art Invitational
exhibition_dates:
October 1984
exhibition_year:
1984
exhibition_location:
SMU Art Gallery
exhibition_note:
Photographs documenting the Quilt Art exhibition.
exhibition_genre:
fiber art
resourceID:
14002_011_0033b
resource_type:
slides
copyright notice:
COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
credit line:
Claire T. Carney Library - Archives and Special Collections
artist name:
Johnson , Pamela Gustavson
artist_nationality:
American
artist_vital dates:
mid 20th century - early 21st century
artist_biographical note:
Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Pam Johnson moved to the United States in 1980 and worked in management for 13 years at Digital Equipment Corporation, a major computer company in the Boston area. She and her husband, Bill (BJ), live full time in Monterey. Pam has been creating art quilts since 1981, and has made quilts using a variety of techniques including: piecing, machine thread painting, hand and machine appliqué, trapunto and hand and machine quilting. Gardening has been a life-long passion and the inspiration for quilts in the Woodland and Garden series, which are all machine pieced and quilted. The process involves creating a sketch, often based on photographs or detail drawings, developing that into a master piecing diagram with each element numbered and from those creating templates. The fabrics are all cotton. Most are designed especially for quilting, but some are decorator fabrics. Selecting the dozens of fabrics in each quilt from hundreds laid out in the studio takes the most time. All the pieces are pinned to the design wall before starting sewing to ensure the colors work together, to create illusions of depth, light and shadow and to create overall balance. Recently Pam has been experimenting with non-representational work and different construction techniques. Pam studied Botanical Drawing, Graphite Levels I & II at the New York Botanical Garden and Colored Pencil at the Berkshire Botanical Garden; she has taken water color classes focused on drawing from nature, has twice taken Ruth B. McDowell's week long art quilt design classes and also classes from professional art quilters Jude Patoka and Pamela
work_title:
Log Cabin: 4 Corners Paired
work_medium:
fiber
work_technique:
fiber art - quilted
work_date:
1984
date_of_ record:
2015
name_cataloger:
ac
Log Cabin: 4 Corners Paired
