Create a Landscape Art Quilt

Create a Landscape Art Quilt

Adult Course | Registration opens 3/4/2025 7:00 AM MST

200 Grant Street Denver, CO 80203 United States
207 Fiber
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4/9/2025-5/14/2025
9:00 AM-12:30 PM MST on Wed
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$388.50
$330.22
$30.00

Create a Landscape Art Quilt

Adult Course | Registration opens 3/4/2025 7:00 AM MST

If you have always loved fabric and want to translate it into a wonderful art quilt this class is for you. You can create a landscape, a cityscape, an abstract , or a figurative piece. If you are nervous about figure drawing, come and relax, use fabric and have the freedom to be abstract. Learn how to compose a design that you then create with pieces of fabric into a  expressive art quilt. You will use collage technique and then free motion stitching to create texture and interest. Class is good for both experienced quilters and those who have never quilted before.

A Six Week Class of Creating an Expressive Art Quilt: Everyone can experience the wonderful creativity of making a piece of art that expresses beauty, a place, an emotion, or a personality. This class is appropriate for people who have never quilted and those with lots of experience. Everyone can learn new techniques and have a rewarding experience. I firmly believe everyone is creative in their own way and can enjoy the experience creating art using of textiles, paint, and stitching.

Learning objectives: Have fun while you use fabric, paint and stitch to create a fabulous art quilt. Learn techniques that are freer and more creative than any other work you have done. Finish at least one large piece that is frame able. 

  • Learning Objectives:
    New skills are learning the stages of creating an art quilt, learn composition, collage techniques, and free motion sewing.

    Week 1:     Have a demo on stages of creating an art quilt - Plan your choice of subject with your teacher, bring ideas to first class. (photos, books, or drawings) - Prepare your quilting substrate and color palette

    Week 2: Start with paper, you might work out a figure that will later be drawn on fabric. - Make a paper collage of your design - Begin  choosing, cutting, and collaging fabric to your piece.

    Week 3: Finish collaging your piece - More tips on techniques - Learn how to create own fabric if a commercial choice doesn’t work

    Week 4: Complete your collage on quilt blanket. - Learn designs and choices of motifs for stitching -Begin stitching and work on your piece

    Week 5: Continue stitching.

    Week 6: Finish stitching - Finish edges - Learn various methods to present your work, mounting or hanging

  • Supplies for student to bring to class

    Photos you might want to use as inspiration

    Or an art book with picture you might want to interpret

    Bring several magazines for practice collage

    Wait until after the first class , bring fabric in colors that fit your potential palette . I will bring some fabric and scrapes. Plan on everyone sharing so do not bring your whole stash

    Sketch pad and pencil

    After 3rd class bring thread colors to match palette (again sharing is good)

    Small empty container for gel medium

    Scissors

Herman, Jean
Jean Herman

Art Education

Cincinnati Museum of Art, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Art League of Houston, Art Students League of Denver, Denver Art Museum

Art Instruction Experience

Collage as a Fiber Art/mixed media Technique:

FRCQ Collage workshop Central Presbyterian Church, October 2017, July, 2018

Rocky Mountain Creative Quilters, Loveland, CO, 2013

Studio Workshops, Denver, CO, October 2015, January 2016
Monarch Quilters, Bueno Vista, CO, 2014
Front Range Contemporary Quilters, Denver, CO, 2012, 2015
Quilting for Healing, Parker Adventist Hospital, Parker, CO. 2015