ART QUILT MIDWEST Instructors

With a graphic, color-saturated palette using her hand-printed fabric, Pat Pauly’s fiber art is seen around the world. Her textile work began in the early 1980s, and was first accepted in Quilt National ’83, and has continued to be seen in exhibitions. Her fiber art’s distinction uses strong  abstracted natural forms and complex color combinations. Her work is in both private and public collections.

With a degree in art, and graduate work in design and fine art, Pat chose fiber art as the perfect amalgam of construction, painting and printmaking. She has taught throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia, in design and surface design. Her lectures are fast paced, funny, and speak on the intersection of traditional quilt arts with contemporary fiber art. She brings the same pace and relaxed atmosphere to her workshops.

Often seen in exhibitions, Pat’s work is also widely published, and she has appeared in Quilting Arts televised segments. If not teaching, she is found in her studio in Rochester, New York where she has the best advantage of being surrounded by great artists as well as the beauty of the Finger Lakes.

Learn more about Pat on her website; https://www.patpauly.com/

Artist, Author, Architect, and College Professor, Valerie S. Goodwin is a mixed media fiber artist and architect whose works of fine art are included in museum and private collections. Most of her work is inspired by a love of aerial views of landscapes and cities. Many of her quilts are based on maps. Goodwin’s art has moved through various stages from traditional quilting to an interest in abstract expressionism and, currently it is inspired by real and imaginary landscapes and cities. In some cases, her work shows an architectural sense of space with an archaeological perspective.  In others, the network of the city and its built form is more prominent.  These compositions work on several levels, from close up and far away as if one was looking at it from above.

She received degrees in architecture from Washington University and Yale University. Her award winning work has been widely published and exhibited. She also lectures and gives workshops nationally and internationally. For over 26 years, she taught architectural design at Florida A & M University. Her book, Art Quilt Maps: Capture a Sense of Place with Fiber Collage-A Visual Guide is widely available.

Learn more about Valerie at: valeriegoodwin@comcast.net

Vicki Conley lives in the mountains of southern New Mexico. She has been a creative person all her life and has recently retired from 42 years as a studio potter. She has been a fiber artist for about 20 years and is now also exploring surface pattern design and online teaching. 

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and was part of Quilt National 2017 and 2024. Vicki has an eye for interpreting the natural world and is best known for her original national park poster art quilts. She and her husband now travel extensively in their RV with their two dogs, always looking for the next inspiration. Vicki enjoys bold graphic landscapes as well as abstract improvisational piecing.

You may have seen Vicki’s work in Machine Quilting Unlimited, Art Quilting Studios and Art Quilt Quarterly and she has articles in recent issues of Quilting Arts Magazine. She has also been a guest on The Quilt Show with Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson demonstrating some of the techniques she uses in her national park art quilts. She recently finished taping for Quilting Arts TV series 3100. Look for it this fall on PBS. In her class you will learn all the techniques she uses in these stunning quilts.

Learn more about Vicki at: https://www.vicki-conley.com/

Kevin Womack is a textile artist living in Lynchburg, Virginia. In 1986, he was introduced to quilting by his maternal grandmother, who taught him the tradition. Inspired by the legacy of scrap fabrics in family quilts, he explored the boundless possibilities of pattern and cloth. Through the years, his fervor for using fiber as a medium has endured.Kevin is passionate about hand dyeing and patterning fabrics with surface design techniques and 

composing quilts with his one-of-a-kind cloth. His works have been exhibited at many regional and national shows.

Quilts from his “Swaddling to Shroud” collaborative series with artist Eleanor McCain have been included in the Quilt National ‘13 exhibition and Quilt Visions Biennial 2014.He was awarded Best in Show in Quilts=Art=Quilts 2021 at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, NY, and the Award of Excellence in 2023 Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie at the Floyd County Carnegie Library Cultural Arts Center in New Albany, IN. Kevin teaches and lectures nationally.

Learn more about Kevin at: https://www.kevinwomackart.com/

I’m Julie Booth. I’m an artist, an author but most of all, I’m a teacher who loves to inspire my students to stretch. My greatest joy is watching students get excited, jump in fully and produce works that speak to them and others. I personally enjoy hours in the studio playing with fabric and threads but also painting and printing my own fabrics. I’m the author of Fabric Printing at Home (2014), a book that focuses on using household materials to create print blocks, stencils, and fabric resists. 

I’ve been a featured artist in three Quilting Arts TV series and have written several articles for Quilting Arts magazine on hand stitching and surface design projects. I’m the proud initiator of the Textile Museum Muse Project (2017-2020), where I provided opportunities for textile artists to study ancient textiles and objects from the Textile Museum’s (in Washington DC) collections, using them as inspiration for new fiber art works. In 2020, I moved my teaching online. I teachworkshops and classes in hand stitching  as an expressive art medium as well as how to create beautiful, hand stitched art objects. 

In 2020 and 2022, I had the wonderful opportunity to teach lessons in hand stitching techniques for TextileArtist.org’s Stitch Club, a virtual community of 60,000 stitchers. In 2023, I was invited to teach creative hand stitching classes at the Quilt and Surface Design Symposium in Columbus, OH. I’m really looking forward to sharing my love of hand stitching with participants of Art Quilt Midwest!

Learn more about Julie at: https://www.threadborn.com/