Quilt Artist of the Week: Valerie S. Goodwin
Valerie Goodwin took an unusual path to becoming a fiber artist. She is a professor of Architecture at Florida A&M University and has (amazingly) only been quilting since 1998. The design principles found in both disciplines inform her university teaching and her quilt workshops. She makes quilts inspired by maps/aerial views of landscapes and cityscapes, real and imagined. Some are quite literally city grids, others more abstract. Most of her works, including the dazzlingly detailed architectural quilt above, are small-scale or minature.
From her website : “Her work as an artist uses architectural elements such as built form, city grid, mapping and composition as a source of inspiration. These pieces are part of a continuing investigation of ideas that focus on geometrical relationships, patterns and ordering principles found in architecture. Her work conveys these ideas abstractly, through the use of collage, layering, transparency, density and improvisation.”
Wouldn’t you just love to live in a space she designed?
March 13th, 2006 at 10:49 am
really awesome. thank you.
March 14th, 2006 at 4:42 am
awesome! awesome! awesome! thank you so much for sharing!
i love how the rough edges of the city become soft when recreated in fabric.
March 14th, 2006 at 7:02 am
Seaside! She made a quilt out of Seaside, Florida. Very cool–a new urbanist quilt.
March 14th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
I can’t believe these are quilts – such amazing detail – wonderful
March 31st, 2006 at 3:32 am
Nice to see Valerie’s work not only flourishing, but getting some exposure. I enjoyed her as an architecture professor, too.