Awarded Carol R. Brown Award for Creative Achievement!

November 20, 2014

Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award video, by Emmai Alaquiva

I'm very honored to have been awarded a Carol R. Brown Award for Creative Achievement by the Pittsburgh Foundation. Filmmaker Emmai Alaquiva visited my studio and made this short piece for the award ceremony.

exhibitions & events:

Instagram / sketchbook

This is about one quarter of the quilt so far made from quilt bits started but hever finished by other people, made over the last 120 years or so. There are currently about 50-60 abandoned quilts represented. I might continue adding onto it forever.

Our Art21 episode is out on the Art21 website now! Link in bio. Thank you so so much to everyone we worked with on this ❤️ photo Chris Uhren / courtesy Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

Pittsburgh, Spring 2026

It has been an amazing couple of weeks, I'm just catching up with myself. Please pretend this was posted two weeks ago.

Thank-you to everyone who came out to watch our art21 segment at the Harris Theatre in Pittsburgh. I feel very lucky to live in

@phillipandrewlewis and Winter at the lighthouse.

Purchased for $1 in the rain this morning at Rossi’s.

Thank you so much to all the people who have been sending me unfinished quilt bits! I have received so many beautiful blocks and bits. It might be the most fun thing thing in the world to sew them all together. Not too late to send if you have any qu

A three church sale weekend. Looking forward to seeing some of you tonight at our Pittsburgh Art21 screening at the Harris Theatre x

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