Cindy Friedman

Cindy Friedman

Megan Dwyre interviews Cindy Friedman, a quilter and fiber artist based in Pennsylvania. She discusses personal aspects of quilting, including how she began to quilt, her style and creative processes, and her feelings on what makes a great quilt and quilter. She talks about her accomplishments as a quilter, including her charity work, commissioned pieces, and how her quilts have been received in the quilting and art worlds. She talks with Dwyre about the art form of creating art quilts, including how these quilts have transformed the art world in recent years. She talks about the various mediums quilts interact with, particularly wearable arts and other forms of textile arts. Friedman also discusses her personal feelings about quilting as an art form, its impact on American and women's history, as well as its impact on her life.

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Quilts

Quilting

Textiles

Textile crafts

Fabrics

Fabric arts

Quilts--United States--Exhibitions.

Art--Commissioning.

Crafts & decorating

Quilting today

Creativity

Families

Communities

Cindy Friedman

Megan Dwyre

Le Rowell

Art quilts

Traditional quilts

Quilting as an art form

Contemporary quilts

Youth culture

Quilts for charity

Commissioned artworks

Quilting guilds

Quilting communities

Artistic processes

Creative processes