Baseball: As American as Apple Pie and Quilts

"Baseball: As American as Apple Pie and Quilts" by Holley Junker was at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in 2017

From the Quilt's Sign: "Junker uses her innovative pointillist technique--small pieces of pinked or frayed fabrics, layered and stitched - to create a feast of color, depth, texture and theme. The artist's humorous depiction of American icons is in the artist's words, an "investigation of light and texture."

Techniques: Machine Pieced, with fused fabric pieces

Machine quilted Gift of Yvonne Porcella

Here is what the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles had to say about the exhibit: "The studio art quilt was the result of a complex intersection of art, craft, universities, and the traditional American quilt. Three national cultural developments resulted in the re-evaluation of quilts as a suitable art medium and increased artists' awareness of quilts: the art museum's legitimization of the quilt as art, the junction of art and craft at the university level and social political and fashion trends that brought quilts to national prominence.

California artists were among the first to embrace the quilt medium as their primary means of expression and charted new territory in art and quilt making, leading the nation in creativity and innovation. The art quilt pioneers transformed a functional domestic object into an art form and inspired subsequent generations of quilt artists. Their legacy continues in the work of today's artists, who are reinterpreting the quilt medium with non-traditional materials and pushing the boundaries of what can be called a quilt.

This exhibition included work by twenty five artists, including pioneers of the art quilt movement such as Jean Ray Laury, Yvonne Porcella, Joan Schulze and Therese May, and highlighted works by late 20th and 21st century artists such as Alice Beasley, Judith Content, Joe Cunningham, Linda Gass and Susan Else."

Maker: Holley Junker

Quilter: NA

Year Made: 1990

Owned By: NA

Size: NA

Shows & Museums: The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in 2017

Awards: NA