Artist Nancy Crow has been making quilts for over 30 years and maintains a large studio and teaching facility on her 90 acre farm east of Columbus, Ohio. Nancy was named a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 1999 and in 1996 received two major awards: Individual Artistʼs Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council and The National Living Treasure Award from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
She has had major solo exhibitions at the Renwick Gallery/National Museum of American Art/ Smithsonian Institution and at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City. In 1998, she had a one-person exhibition at the Cultural Arts Museum, Konstanz, Germany. In 2005, she had major solo exhibitions in New Zealand at the Auckland Art Museum and the Hawkeʼs Bay Exhibition Centre. In 2008, she had a major solo exhibition at The International Quilt Study Center & Museum, The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and most recently, an exhibition of 55 quilts
at Carnegie Mellon Universityʼs Regina Miller Gouger Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

In 2009, she will exhibit a large body of work at The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, and in 2010, she will have solo shows at The Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, and at The Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York. Nancy teaches quiltmaking as an art form using improvisational techniques that allow for enormous personal interpretations. She has taught in Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, Austria, England, Germany Switzerland (2009, 2010, 2011), Spain, Australia (2011), New Zealand (where she will
teach for three weeks in January 2011), Japan, Canada, and South Africa (where she taught in August 2009 at a retreat in the Drakensburg

www.nancycrow.com

For nearly 30 years Katie Pasquini Masopust has produced high quality contemporary art quilts that have been coveted and collected by a broad range of admirers. From her early beginnings as a painter dabbling in traditional quilt making, her work has evolved from structured Mandalas and mind-blowing dimensional pieces to very painterly landscapes and abstracts executed with the finest fabrics and most creative stitching techniques. Katie's easy, energetic manner has made her a very popular teacher and lecturer.

When not in residence at her studio in Santa Fe she travels the world presenting her contemporary quilting theories and techniques to classes; not only in North America, but in Europe, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. Awards and accolades have been numerous for Katie, culminating with her 2005 induction into a very select group of art quilt professionals who have earned the Silver Star Award presented by Houston Quilt Festival.
A prolific author, Katie shares her enthusiasm for the art of creative quilting through her numerous books, her many classes, and now as a member of the Experius Academy Advisory Council as they work to develop the art mission for the new Gateway Canyons Resort in Colorado

www.katiepm.com

Since 1981, Judi Warren Blaydon has judged quilt shows and presented lectures and quilt-making worships in the U.S., Japan, Canada and Switzerland. A background in Art Education, an MFA degree and experience teaching Design and Drawing Foundations at the college level enable her to convey color and design vocabulary in a supportive and challenging classroom environment and to encourage her students to explore, discover and express personal themes in their quilts. Her work has been included in Quilt National and Crafts National exhibitions and is in private and public collections in America, Japan and Australia.

Judi has written articles for American quilter, Quilts Japan, Patchwork Quilt Tsushin and Quilting Today magazines and is the author of "Fabric Postcards: Landmarks and Landscape/ Monuments and Meadows (AQS 1995). Her current book is "Collage+Cloth=Quit: Create Innovative Quits from Photo Inspirations" (C&T)

Her work is included in "88 Leaders in the Quilt World Today" (Nihon Vogue 1995), in Robert Shaw's "The Art Quilt" and she designed the "Buds and Blossoms" fabric for Bernartex, Inc. Her quilt, "The Mountain and the Magic: Night Lights" is in the permanent collection of The American Quilters Society and 15 of her pieces were exhibited at the New England Quilt Museum in 2001.

Rosalie Dace is a full time quiltmaker whose work reflects her passion for colour, pattern and texture. She has had a lifelong interest in art generally and textiles and embroidery in particular. She has a BA in Fine Art and English, and a post-graduate teaching diploma (U Ed), all from the University Of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. 

While she values the traditions from which our quiltmaking has come, she believes that a quilt should say something about its time and place in history.  This, and her awareness of being a South African artist, give her work its particular character.

Locally she is a member  of Grassroots Quilters’ Guild, Village Quilters' Guild, Natal Quilters’ Guild and the South African Quilters' Guild of which she was the first President in 1989. She is currently chairperson of Fibreworks, a group of full-time exhibiting artists. (www.fiberworksarts.com)

In America, she serves on the Advisory Committee of the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, New York.

She has participated in numerous local, national and international exhibitions.  Locally these include exhibitions at the Grassroots Gallery, the Anthea Martin Gallery, the African Art Centre, the Tatham Art Gallery, the Natal Society of Arts and Midlands Arts and Crafts Society galleries and the NAPAC Living Arts exhibition (all in KwaZulu-Natal).  She has exhibited at Association of Arts exhibitions in Pretoria and Bellville, and exhibited regularly at Innovative Threads in Cape Town.  She has also participated in exhibitions at the Pacific International Quilt Festival, Quilts=Art=Quilts, Houston International Quilt Festival, the Fresno Art Museum in California, and exhibitions in London, New Zealand, Australia, Bad Homburg, Hanau and Berlin in Germany, and in Paris, France.  In 2002 she exhibited work at the NSA Gallery in the Clay and Fibre Exhibition.  She has also had work on several touring exhibitions including: the Jabulisa Exhibition (which toured South Africa), and the Innovative Threads and Fibreworks exhibitions

She has been invited to open several art and quilt exhibitions including those  in South Africa,  Australia and Germany, and has delivered the opening or closing addresses at a number quilt conferences in America.

She has been teaching quiltmaking and embroidery in South Africa since 1983, and has been invited several times to teach at quilt conventions and workshops in America, Australia, New Zealand and Germany.  She is a national and international quilt judge and has been involved for some time in training judges.  She was a judge at the South African National Quilt Festivals in 1989, 1994 and 2002.  She was also the chief juror for the Innovative Threads 1999 exhibition in Cape Town, and chief judge at the New Zealand National Quilt Symposium 2003.She has judged at PIQF, the World Quilt and Textile Show, and was a juror for Art-=Quilts=Art.

Apart from her normal art and teaching commitments she has in the past taught Art and English at various schools and colleges including elementary and high schools and at university level. She has worked in a school readiness program, and been invited as an opening speaker at a conference for Education For Girls In a Technological Age. She has also been involved in programs aimed at training in embroidery skills for Zulu women in Durban and in rural KwaZulu-Natal.

Her work, which has won several awards, including Best of Show at the South African National Quilt Festival in 1988 and 1998, is to be found in private collections, in the Durban Art Gallery, and First Rand Bank, and has appeared in national and international publications.  Some of her work can also be seen on her own website as well as that of the Fibreworks group.

www.rosalidace.co.za

www.fibreworksart.com

Emily Richardson has a background in fashion design (BS University of Cincinnati) and theatrical costuming, and has been making art quilts since 1988. She received a 1995 grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the 1997 Leeway Award for Excellence in Fiberarts, and the 2004 Nihon Vogue Quilts Japan Award. She has exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad including several solo exhibitions at Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia and Jane Sauer Gallery in Santa Fe. Her work recognized for its painterly and expressive qualities and is in many corporate and private collections including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, and the International Quilt Study Center in Lincoln, NE, and the Nihon Vogue Company in Tokyo. It has been published in exhibition catalogs, Surface Design Journal, Fiberarts, and The Art Quilt by Robert Shaw.  Emily maintains a studio in her Philadelphia home and is represented by the Gross McCleaf Gallery

http://www.grossmccleaf.com/artistpages/richardsonpage.htm