Pascale Goldenberg
Pascale Goldenberg balances her life as an independent artist with managing the transcultural hand-embroidery program Guldusi, which she initiated in Afghanistan in 2004. On one hand, she considered her responsibility toward 200 embroiderers a priority, but on the other, she neither could nor wanted to give up her artistic pursuits. Over the years, she had […]
National African American Quilt Guild
The African-American Sampler Quilt Group (AASQG) and the National African-American Quilt Guild (NAAQG) consist of creators from all corners of the United States, from Rhode Island in the North, Texas in the South, California in the West, and Pennsylvania in the East. The artists range from beginners to professionals. They are self-taught, having learned from […]
Marina Landi
Marina Landi is a fine arts graduate.She worked for many years creating decorative mosaics for large surfaces such as walls, pools, and furniture.Around the year 2000, she discovered patchwork and fell in love with this art, which shares many similarities with mosaics. That’s when she applied her knowledge, experience, and techniques to create her artistic […]
Léna Meszaros
Léna Meszaros is of Hungarian and Russian origin, living in France, where she discovered patchwork in the 1990s. Through contemporary patchwork, she finds her personal expression in figurative art quilts, which she transposes into mixed media. The use of various materials in her creations—acrylic pouring, plastic, metal, recycled cardboard—pushes her toward 3D.She employs different techniques […]
Lauren Austin
Lauren Austin is an African-American artist with over 30 years of experience in creating artistic quilts. She uses woodblock printing and lithographic impressions, fabric dyeing, and painting to create portraits of the life and work of African-Americans. Lauren employs color, 3D sewn sculptural effects, and beaded and threaded sketches and tableaux to bring her works […]
Korea Contemporary Quilt Group
The Korea Contemporary Quilt Group is an organization of artists who work on both the practical and artistic aspects of machine quilting. They have systematically studied textile art, traditional quilts, and artistic quilts at the educational institute they belong to, and are gradually evolving in their artistic careers. It is currently a group of artists […]
Hilde Hoogwaerts
Hilde Hoogwaerts started creating quilts in 1989 while living in Atlanta, USA.She lived there for three years before moving to eight other countries around the world, then returning to her home country, the Netherlands, in 2018.Her last mission abroad was in Ghana, where she challenged herself to use only local African textiles in her works.Hilde […]
France Patchwork
France Patchwork celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2024 and reaffirms its commitment to showcase its know-how and exchange of practices. The aim of this volunteer association is to raise awareness of patchwork and its various fields (Artextures, Quilt de Légende, Les Jeunes Poussent, Modern Quilt, Traditionals…).With a global presence, France Patchwork serves as the link […]
European Quilt Association
EQA, the European Quilters’ Association, is a cooperation between European patchwork guilds that resonates beyond the national level.It has become a joint venture between the 19 member guilds with the general aim of providing all European quilters with a means of interaction and opportunities to showcase their work.Annual competitions on a given theme, without a […]
Dieter Filler
After studying artistic and manual education, Dieter Filler could only pursue his artistic ambitions during his free time, mainly with clay creations or bookbinding works. It was when he moved to Switzerland in 1993 that he had his first contact with patchwork. Thanks to courses, he learned traditional techniques, which were quickly expanded to include […]