David Taylor – September 1-3
Website: davidtaylorartquilts.com
David Taylor was born in Peterborough, NH, and currently resides in Fort Collins, CO. He has been the recipient of the Fairfield Master Award for Contemporary Quilting from the International Quilt Association (2006, 2014), the Brother Wall Machine Workmanship Award from the American Quilters Society (2008), the Director’s Award at Road to California (2022), and a two-time Best-of-Show winner at IQA’s Spring Festival in Chicago (2007, 2008), among others. His art quilts hang in numerous private collections.
David ‘semi-retired’ from his career as a computer graphic artist in July 2009. Since that time, he has enjoyed teaching his appliqué and quilting techniques throughout the world. He has logged more than 300,000 actual flight miles (twelve times the circumference of Planet Earth), journeying to 47 of these United States, five countries, three continents, and 1,000 quilt shops (well, maybe not a thousand – but close).
Artist’s Statement:
I breathe, so I buy fabric. Because I have fabric, I make quilts. Because I need to buy more fabric, I sell all of my quilts. It’s a vicious cycle.
IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL LECTURE: September 1, 9:30 am (CT): 50 Years of Pictorial Appliqué
A natural storyteller, David Taylor will share images of his pictorial appliqué quilts with humorous anecdotes about each one and his creative process. This oral history of the progression from his first quilt top (made in high school) to his current master works some 50 years later, will keep the audience in stitches.
In-Person Workshop: Feathered Friends: Pictorial Appliqué
Tues, Sept 1: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Wed, Sept 2: 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
Thurs, Sept 3: 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
The focus of this class is to rethink the traditional appliqué process. We will create highly detailed images by using simple shapes and by letting fabric create texture to give the image a “painted” effect using a layered appliqué technique.