After graduating with a degree in Painting and Art Education from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1964, I began a teaching career from which I retired in 2003. In 1968, with a new baby and limited time and space to continue my oil painting, I decided to make a bed quilt. At that time, there were very few books on the subject and no easily procured patterns; I relied on my acquired sewing skills and design training to create my first work. Enjoying the process, I made several more, and then in 1975 entered an original design of a Bicentennial Star in the Boston 200 quilt competition. I won first prize for a quilt made by an individual, and my art quilt career was born. In addition to creating more original works, I began to attend quilt shows and exhibits and for several years I taught quilt classes at various locations in the Boston area.
 
I joined the Quilters’ Connection, a Boston area quilting guild in 1977, and continue to be an active member. The connection with other quilters and artists is very stimulating, and I look forward each May to the camaraderie of the members during our very well known annual exhibit, which beckons visitors from all over New England and beyond. I have organized, juried, curated and helped to organize both quilt shows and gallery exhibits of contemporary crafts including venues at the New England Quilt Museum, the Arlington Center for the Arts and the Fuller Craft Museum.  I am currently teaching at the Arsenal Center for the Arts.
 
In 1979 I entered a quilt in the first Quilt National exhibit and my work was accepted, which validated my choice of a new medium for artistic expression. Acceptances to other quilt and art exhibits followed, including Quilt San Diego/Quilt Visions, and I soon began wishing that I could travel to all the places where my quilts were exhibited, including South America, Europe, Japan, and many states in the US which I still have not visited. In 1986, I became part of a crit group which meets every three weeks to share ideas, to critique works in progress, and to support and encourage each other in the creating, promoting and exhibiting of our work. Judy Becker, Linda Behar, Barbara Crane, Sandra Donabed, Sylvia Einstein and Carol Grotrian are all close colleagues and friends. Our group is well known in the quilt world for its productivity and longevity and we have had several group shows at galleries and museums in New England. I also keep in close contact with Elizabeth Busch, a dear friend and RISD classmate. Although our studios are 250 miles apart, we share our works in progress and our insights thanks to digital photography and the web.
 
I have continued my education in the crafts by attending the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. Every few summers, my husband and I spend two weeks of intense study in the most beautiful spot in New England, with a most creative and generous staff and student body, and each session enriches and enlarges our visual vocabulary.
 
I remain active in the Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Association, and my activities as a Boston Club Member keep me in touch with artists all over the US. In addition to my daily work with in the studio, I enjoy reading, swimming several times a week and walking along the banks of the Charles River which is near my home.
 
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