Judith Baker Montano
About our special guest - Judith Baker Montano (www.judithbakermontano.com)
Quilt Camp at Sea is very excited to announce Judith will be our special guest on the 14 day Circle Hawaii cruise sailing roundtrip from San Diego, California March 17-31, 2012 - this cruise is included on Quilt Camp at Sea's Collector's Voyage Cruise (our 20th Quilting Cruise Celebration!!) itinerary that will sail March 10-31, 2012 and will include both the 2012 Mexican Riviera and 2012 Hawaii Spring Fling cruises!!
Detailed information about the 2012 Hawaii cruise and the 2012 Collector's cruise featuring Judith as our special guest, lecturer, and instructor can be found on the links below:
Judith’s newest book, Fibreart Montage: Combining Quilting, Embroidery & Photography with Embellishments recently received The International Book Award for 2010 as the most outstanding Craft/How To book and the Ben Franklin 2010 Most Outstanding Craft Book award!!! The Benjamin Franklin awards recognize excellence in independent book publishing and are hosted by the Independent Book Publishers Association. Judith teaches internationally, including traveling 25 times to Australia and 17 times to Japan, and designs for Robert Kaufman Fabrics. She is well known for mixing mediums into original art pieces, easily working between the needlework, quilting and fiber art world!!!! Judith is a Canadian fibre artist who grew up on the historic Bar U ranch in the beautiful foothills of Alberta, Canada. A love of fabrics and embellishments reflect her heritage. Her great-grandmother was a master quilter and her mother taught her needle skills at an early age. She attributes the rich, embellished ethnic influence in her work to living next door to an Indian Reservation and a Hutterite Colony where she observed beautiful handicrafts. Eight years overseas in England, Germany and Japan was another profound influence on her artwork and outlook. She started quilting in 1976 while living in Houston, Texas. There she was an active member of the Kingswood Quilt Guild. Judith made her first prize winning quilt in 1982, winning Best of Show at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was a special victory as her great-grandmother won the same award in 1934. She began to concentrate on appliqué quilting and “Pekisko Memories” a quilt depicting her childhood home, won Best of Show at the Texas State Fair and the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver, British Columbia. It won the Mountain Mist award, the Margaret Steel award for design and color, plus many more. It was presented to the Bar U Historical Museum in 1995 and represents ranching in Canada. Her designs soon turned to clothing and crazy quilting. Using rich fabrics, vibrant color combinations, embroidery, beading and punch needle, original pieces took on a unique style. Judith’s Indian heritage appears in many of her art garments and embellishment projects. Experimenting with materials and sewing machine, Judith created a machine method of crazy quilting using a five-sided centerpiece, which proved to be fast and effective. This led to teaching classes and her first book on crazy quilting. Over the years she has become the leading expert on Crazy quilting and embellishments. Judith has been honored to be spokesperson and endorser for both Kanagawa Silk Company of Tokyo, Japan and W.F.R. Ribbons, USA distributors for Mokuba Ribbons of Tokyo, Japan. She was presented with the prestigious “Governor General’s Centennial Award of Canada” in recognition for her work in the Arts and representation of Canadians living abroad. Her work has been featured at the Denver Art Museum, Denver Colorado; Profiles Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; The Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio; Mitskoshi Department Show, Tokyo, Japan. She has been a guest artist at many Stitches and Craft Trade shows, throughout Australia; the Tokyo Hobby Shows in Tokyo, Japan; Profiles and Visions, Alberta, Canada and the La Conner Quilt Museum, La Conner, Washington. Judith’s career has taken her from painting, to quilting, to crazy quilting and embellished embroidery artwork. Although her work keeps evolving, crazy quilting always appears in new designs, and she has turned it into a contemporary art form. She is renowned for her fibre landscapes, which incorporate all aspects of art and needlework techniques. Judith now resides in La Veta, Colorado with her husband Ernest Shealy and an ever-growing menagerie of pets.
Detailed information about the 2012 Hawaii cruise and the 2012 Collector's cruise featuring Judith as our special guest, lecturer, and instructor can be found on the links below:
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