nepotism?

My children will appear on a disproportionate number of squares on the GREAT KIRBY DOCUMENTARY quilt. Sammy is on her square twice along with her fantastic friend. This past summer I dragged them with me to many protarit sessions. They were of course very helpful AND carry much crowd appeal with them. ("What lovely, well behaved girls!") I let them have a sheet of film and use of the Wista; they photographed a sunflower together. Walker is in three incarnations on his square.

**This project is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts!

quiltstravaganza- girl art to the max

This is my first photo quilt. I made it as a documentary tribute to Colleton County, South Carolina. It was made with funding from the South Carolina Arts Commission and with an Alternate Roots Grant. My husband, Bill Storz helped to do the massive amounts of technical work that creating this quilt involved. I worked on it through two pregnancies.
When I moved from urban New England to the rural South Carolina Low Country in 1991 (to begin life as a schoolteacher) I felt that I was in another world. I began to explore my new home with my camera in hand. I printed these images on fabric and then made a quilt. This work was completed in 1998. It is 100" x 100".