QBL teachers are nationally & internationally recognized quilt artists and teachers.  Below you will find biographical information on all of the QBL 2011 teachers.        

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Marilyn Belford is an international, award-winning quilter, well-known for her realistic fabric portraits and art quilts. She comes to the quilting community after a long, successful career in the art world. Marilyn has been nominated three times for Teacher of the Year by the Professional Quilter Magazine. Her book, Time and Space Concepts in Art, was used as a text at Columbia University, NY. Her latest book is Portraits for Fabric Lovers and is available on her website: www.marilynbelford.com.

Marilyn is teaching Class #17 & #18:  Studio with Teacher (2 & 3-day Session II)

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Judi Blaydon judges, teaches and lectures internationally and her work has appeared in Quilt National, Quilts = Art = Quilts at the Schweinfurth Art Center, and is included in public and private collections in the US, Australia and Japan. She is also featured in Robert Shaw’s The Art Quilt and 88 Leaders in the Quilt World Today (Nihon Vogue) and her quilt, The Mountain and the Magic: Night Lights is in the permanent collection of the national quilt museum. Judi's new book, Collage + Cloth = Quilt, [C&T Publishing 2010] documents the work of several QBL participants who took her workshop, as well as her own quilts. Autographed copies are available. If you are interested please email blay555@yahoo.com for more information.

Judi is teaching Class #1: Collage + Cloth = Quilt (5-day Session I) & Class #19: You like Tomato and I like Tomato (5-day Session II)

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Cynthia Corbin sees her work as an eclectic personal expression based on the classical quilt form. She explores dyeing and painting, intensive machine quilting, and a problem solving, seat-of-the-pants approach to quilt construction. As an artist, she has devoted herself to extensive study to deepen her understanding of the processes that drive her work. As a teacher, she encourages her students in their search for uniqueness and authenticity, drawing on her passion for developing each student’s individual voice.

Read more about Cynthia on her website:  www.cynthiacorbin.com

Cynthia is teaching Classes #2 & #3:  Studio with Teacher (2 & 3-day Session I) & Class #20:  To Be Continued (5-day Session II)

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Jane Dunnewold is the author of Art Cloth: A Guide to Surface Design on Fabric, (Interweave Press; 2010) and co-authored Finding Your Own Visual Language (2007) and Paper and Metal Leaf Lamination (2008). She teaches and exhibits widely and was awarded the Quilt Japan Prize in the 2002 Visions exhibition, and the Gold Prize, at the Taegue International Textile Exhibition. Dunnewold is currently Vice President of Outreach for the Surface Design Association.

Read more about Jane on her website: www.artclothstudios.com

Jane is teaching Class #5:  The New Complex Cloth (5-day Session I) & Class #22: Hot Colored Wax (5-day Session II)

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Internationally recognized for her bold use of color and free-form design, featuring flying geese, Gail Garber has won awards and been published in the US, Japan, New Zealand, France and England. Author of three books including, Flying Colors: Design Quilts with Free-form Shapes, (C & T Publications 2010), which features a wide variety of designs and variation in her trademark “Goose is Loose” fashion. She leads quilting and bird watching tours in the US and New Zealand.

Read more about Gail on her website:  www.gailgarberdesigns.com

Gail is teaching Class #23: Sensational Stars & Spectacular Circular Borders (2-day Session II). Class #24: Flying Colors (3-day Session II)

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Hollie Heller is a mixed media collage artist living in Bridgewater, NJ. Her unique creative process begins with a curious investigation and collection of diverse yet common materials. She describes her work as experimental, using processes that she has discovered in her studio with products such as latex, acrylic mediums, wood stain, pigments, dyes and bleach with paper and fabric. She has been teaching surface design and collage for over 20 years in universities and workshops nationally and her wall pieces are included in many corporate and private collections.

Read more about Hollie on her website:  www.hollieheller.com

Hollie is teaching Class #6:  Experimental Layers:  Surface Design, Photo Transfer & Collage (5-day Session I)

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Early during her formative years in Germany, Anna Hergert was exposed to fiber art. igniting her passion for art and textiles. She holds diplomas in Art, Design, Contemporary Embroidery, Patchwork and Quilting. Her life-long pursuit of the arts makes her a passionate and committed artist, teacher and lecturer. She is a full time professional artist and works in her dream studio overlooking breathtaking scenery that serves as a constant source of inspiration. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo shows and traveling group exhibitions.

Read more about Anna on her website:  www.annahergert.com

Anna is teaching Class #7:  Elements that Please (2-day Session I),

Class #8: Layers of Intrigue (3-day Session I), Class #25: From Conception to Implementation:  Integrating Reused & Recycled Materials (5-day Session I)

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Terry Jarrard-Dimond is a native of South Carolina and resides in Clemson where she maintains a studio. Her love of art began as a child and she studied art through graduate school. Her interest in quilt making began while working as a textile designer and her vision of this medium continues to expand. She enjoys teaching as well as being a student and finds that each position teaches her new things about the creation of art. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Read more about Terry on her website:  www.terryjarrarddimond.com

Terry is teaching Class #9:  Ask "What If?":  Building Pathways to Creative Work (5-day Session I)

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As a quiltmaker, teacher and author, Mary Ellen Kranz shares her experience of teaching computer technologies and how to combine quilting, digital photography, and computer software to create fiber art with quiltmakers nationally and internationally. Her classes provide an opportunity to try out these tools as well as the latest quilting software. She has authored 2 books, the latest, Blending Photos with Fabric 2, (The Electric Quilt Company), containing the latest information and techniques about digital photography and printing geared to quiltmakers.

Read more about Mary Ellen on her website:  www.quiltingimages.com

Mary Ellen is teaching Class #10:  Quilts with Something to Say (2-day Session I) & Class #11:  Photo Inspired Landscape Quilts (3-day Session I)

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Libby Lehman has evolved from a traditional handworker to one of the leaders in innovative machine stitching. Her studio art quilts have won many awards and appear in private, corporate, and museum collections. Her quilt Joy Ride was chosen as one of the Best 100 American Quilts of the 20th Century.  Libby states that making quilts is an utter joy and though parts of the process can be tedious, the product is always worth the effort. In addition to making quilts, most of her time is spent teaching, judging and lecturing in the US and internationally.

Read more about Libby on her website: www.libbylehman.us/

Libby is teaching Class #26:  Radiant Circles (2-day Session II) &

Class #27:  Threadplay (3-day Session II)

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For nearly 30 years Katie Pasquini Masopust has produced contemporary art quilts. From her early beginnings as a painter dabbling in traditional quilt making, her work has evolved from structured Mandalas and mind-blowing dimensional pieces to painterly landscapes and abstracts executed with the finest fabrics and creative stitching techniques. She has taught in North America, Europe, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. In 2005 she was honored with the Silver Star Award presented by the Houston Quilt Festival.

Read more about Katie on her website: www.katiepm.com

Katie is teaching Class #12:  Painted, Stitched Canvas (5-day Session I)

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Best known for her Fragment series of small fabric collages, Lesley Riley is an internationally known quilter and author with a passion for image, color and the written word. She has taught extensively in the US and internationally. Her art and articles have appeared in numerous publications and juried shows. She has written 4 books that focus on combining fabric with innovative materials and ideas.  Lesley is also an Artist Success™ expert, providing solutions for the struggling artist, inspiring and helping others to find their own voice and share in the magic that is art.

Read more about Lesley on her website: www.lesleyriley.com

Lesley is teaching Class #28:  A Common Thread (5-day Session II)

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Rebecca Ringquist is a visual artist and her drawings on paper and stitched drawings on fabric explore issues of identity through thinly veiled metaphors utilizing old fashioned imagery and double entendres. She teaches, lectures and exhibits nationally and is currently represented by the Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago. She earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Fiber and Material Studies department, where she is now an Adjunct Assistant Professor. She is also the director of Textile Arts as Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago.

Read more about Rebecca on her website: www.rebeccaringquist.com

Rebecca is teaching Class #13:  Sampling:  Making Embroidery Your Own (2-day Session I) & Class #14:  Fast/Slow Drawing & Embroidery (3-day Session I)

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A background in art and clothing construction led Fran Skiles into surface design and fabric collage. Her painted and layered work is widely recognized in collections and exhibitions including Quilt National, Visions, Fiberart International, Contemporary American Quilts in England and Art Quilts: America at the Millennium, in France. In addition, Fran’s work has been featured in Surface Design Journal, Fiberarts and Robert Shaw’s two books, The Art Quilt, and Quilts: A Living Tradition.

Read more about Fran on her website: www.franskiles.com

Fran is teaching Class #29:  Paper & Fabric Collage with Painting & Printing (5-day Session II)

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