Tag Archives: creativity

The Quiltmaker as Artist

“As a creative person, you are especially sensitive to the world around you.” -Matt Tommey The word makes me uncomfortable. It conjures up projects that are too grandiose for a person like me to create. Using the word stops progress on my work. Even today, it is difficult to for me to say that I […]

Quilting in the Classroom

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”  – Albert Einstein    The theories developed by the great minds of education paraded before our class in Educational History and Philosophy. The imagination of Mary McLeod Bethune as she made desks out of orange crates and saved butcher paper […]