About Janet
Stitching, by hand or machine, and manipulating fabric are my most satisfying creative outlets. My quilts are improvisational, cut free-hand, and created intuitively without the use of patterns. A rotary cutter is used to “draw” the fabric elements of a piece. Quilt making is my art form, and incorporates principles of art: quality of line, value, proportion, and figure/ground composition. Exploring color, imaginative re-structuring of a simple motif, and developing a piece as I create it are important components.
Since retiring in 2013 from a career in music education I have traveled numerous times to Ohio to study with Nancy Crow, an innovative quilt maker and a Master of the Medium in the Smithsonian Museum’s Renwick Alliance. My background of musical training provides additional perspectives and depth of artistic understanding. Travel, observations of daily life and nature, reflections on personal insights, and a regular tai chi practice inspire and inform my abstract creations.
Current and Upcoming Shows and Events
"Artists Collective/Spartanburg" at ACS
Spartanburg, SC September 10-October 26, 2024: juried show
"Color Improv 3" Juried show at Museum Tuch + Technik
Neumunster, Germany March 15-September 22, 2024; international show curated by
Nancy Crow
"The Nook" Jasper Art Project at Koger Center for the Performing Arts
Columbia, SC November 2024; solo show
Artistic Resume
"South Carolina Festival of Flowers" at Greenwood Arts Center
Greenwood, SC 2024 (honorable mention); juried show
"Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Show" at City Gallery
Charleston, SC 2024 (honorable mention); 2023 (third place)
“ArtFields”
Lake City, SC 2024-2017 (Merit Award), 2016, 2015; juried show for artists of southern states
"DesignHer Women's Panel Discussion" Columbia Museum of Art
Columbia, SC 2024
"Quilts=Art=Quilts” at Schweinfurth Art Center
Auburn, NY 2024; 2022, 2021; international juried show
Solo show "Quilted Impressions 2" at Arts Center of Kershaw County
Camden, SC 2023
"Last CA 101" Invitational Show at Redondo Beach Historic Library
Redondo Beach, CA 2023
Solo show "Potential: Quilted Abstractions" at Stormwater Studios
Columbia, SC 2023
“Quilt National - The Best of Contemporary Quilts” at the Dairy Barn
Athens, OH; 2023, 2021; international juried show
"Bits and Pieces" Invitational show at Stormwater Studios
Columbia, SC 2023
“San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles”
San Jose, CA 2023; juried show from Quilt National
“B22 Wiregrass Biennial”
Dothan, AL 2022; juried show for artists of southern states
“1593 Project” at the Koger Center for the Performing Arts
Columbia, SC 2021; juried show (Runner up)
Invitational exhibit at Outposts Gallery
Columbia, SC 2021
Solo show at Milliken Art Gallery at Converse College
Spartanburg, SC 2021
Invitational exhibit “Common Threads: Past and Present” at Greenwood Arts Center
Greenwood, SC 2021
Solo show "Quilted Impressions" at Stormwater Studios
Columbia, SC 2019
“South Carolina State Museum 30th Anniversary Exhibit”
Columbia, SC 2019; juried show
Solo shows at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia
Columbia SC 2018, 2016, 2014
South Carolina State Park Artist in Residence
2017, 2014
Entries in Amateur Division of the South Carolina State Fair
2013, 2011, 2010 (Merit Award), 2009, 2005 (second place)