Artist Joyce Martelli, of Rochester, never plans her pieces. “When I am in a creative zone, I just go to my studio and start painting,” she said. “How I feel that day is represented on the material.” ...

When we think of quilts and quilting, we often remember the quilts that our mothers or grandmothers made. They were patchwork pieces with many repetitions of the same block in orderly rows. While ...

Thick beige-and-brown colored fabrics pad the walls of Ukrainian Village storefront space Fernwey. They’re not decorative—these four six-foot-tall quilts, which look more like topographic maps than ...

To look at Elizabeth Scott’s quilts is to see a world of life and a world of art. They refer back to her African ancestors’ way of making fabrics, and they resemble abstract art. They reflect her ...

Are you familiar with the term "abstract landscapes?" Hmm. Sounds like an oxymoron, you say? That's what Shirley Gisi thinks, too, yet she admires some oil paintings of the Southwest that are referred ...

Put some traditional American artwork on your desktop with quilts from the artists at Gee’s Bend. Women from Gee’s Bend, 2005 ONB Magic City Art Connection ...

Every year, the walls and galleries of View Arts Center in Old Forge fill up with intricately and painstakingly made quilts. Quilts Unlimited is a juried exhibition that features anywhere from 70 to ...