Biography "It is not quantity which counts [with colors], but choice and organization."-- Henri Matisse
Home What's New Gallery Marketplace Teaching & Lecturing Studio About / Contact Link Central Site Updates	A self-taught artist, I'm a University of Northern Iowa education graduate and an English education graduate from Iowa State University.  I've studied with internationally known quilt artists including David Walker, Jane Sassaman, the art quilt team of Susan Shie and James Acord, Wendy Huhn and Nancy Eha.  I've been teaching quilting since 1997. I create original designs sculpted by fabric, extensive free-motion quilting and beaded embellishment.  My works reflect diverse topics from the spiritual realm, to nature, to technology. In recent Moonstone series works, I incorporate my love of reading and writing in ‘speaking quilts.’ These art quilts contain sewn writings of inspired phrases, thoughts and famous quotations.   Featured in Quilting Arts Magazine Fall 2004 (Bead Collage) and Fall 2001 (Artist Spotlight & Cover) as well as the 2003 Calendar, I've also been published in the Kansas City Star, Kansas City Artist’s Coalition’s publication, Show and Tell,  Quilter's Newsletter and The Point, a Sprint Corporation internal magazine article, "The Net Worth of Art and Science." I will also be featured next year in the School of Colour book on color in quilts.  I am also be featured on the new HGTV Series, Crafters Coast to Coast in a show about The Artful Needle Book. My art quilts can be found  in corporate as well as private collections across the United States and Canada. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, I was raised in Fort Dodge, Iowa. I met my husband, Wayne, in Neal Bower's poetry class at Iowa State University and married him 2 years later.  As a ‘Navy Wife,” I was fortunate to live in interesting places and meeting many types of people.  During our first 8 years of marriage, we lived in Honolulu, Hawaii, San Diego, California, Norwich, Connecticut and Groton, Connecticut.  After a short time back in Hudson, Iowa, our family moved to Kansas City in 1996.  I live in the Kansas City Metro area with Wayne, daughter Kayla, a Cairn Terrier named Zoë, two tanks of fish,  and a herd of cats.  No, really, they are a herd.	Deana and Blue Man

 

...