Marcia Stein
Marcia Stein is a San Francisco textile artist whose award-winning work has been shown in a number of juried exhibitions at galleries, museums, and quilt shows throughout the country and is included in several public and private collections.
Marcia's recent designs combine her interest in photography with her quilt art, and she is currently at work on a series of pieces based on her photographs from Santa Fe, Italy, England, and the South of France.
Originally from Chicago, Marcia is a graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She took up quilting in 1992, after a lifelong interest in other needle arts, and has been pursuing her interest in textile art full-time since 1996. She is the author of Picture This! Appliqué Pictorial Quilts—From Photo to Fabric, published by C&T Publishing in 2010.
Originally from Chicago, Marcia is a graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She took up quilting in 1992, after a lifelong interest in other needle arts, and has been pursuing her interest in textile art full-time since 1996. She is the author of Picture This! Appliqué Pictorial Quilts—From Photo to Fabric, published by C&T Publishing in 2010.
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Artist's Statement
| I have had a lifelong interest in the needle arts, and I love the tactile nature of quilting. Like many quilters before me, I began by taking classes to learn standard methods and traditional patterns before moving on to designs of my own creation. | |
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I enjoy seeking out photographic subjects with an eye toward their successful translation into fabric. I like to portray a scene in a representational way yet with a whimsical quality that makes the work smile back at me as I recall the moment I caught the image on film. My current series is based on photographs I took in Santa Fe, Italy, England, and the South of France. |
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While I still enjoy using the geometric shapes of traditional quiltmaking and the more free-form techniques of contemporary quilt art, my current work focuses on storytelling through appliqué, and for this I call upon my interest in photography. |
I am most satisfied with a piece when my enthusiasm for the subject shows through. I want to evoke a sense of place for the viewers, who are nonetheless free to imagine their own stories behind the quilt. I want the work to smile back at them the way it smiles back at me. |
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Lecture - Destinations: Travel-Inspired Quilts
Thursday, Thursday, June 28, 7 pm
Lecture - Destinations: Travel-Inspired Quilts
Thursday, Thursday, June 28, 7 pm
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Workshop - Picture This!
Saturday, June 30, 10 am - 4pm. Set up at 9:30 am
Click here for the class supply list.
Workshop - Picture This!
Saturday, June 30, 10 am - 4pm. Set up at 9:30 am
Click here for the class supply list.