Priscilla Bianchi
Born 1955, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Maintains a studio in Guatemala City, Guatemala
Woringer is an expert on Priscilla Bianchi has been
sewing since age four, when her mother taught her on
a treadle sewing machine. After a career that
allowed her to study drawing, painting, and graphic
design in countries all over the world, she taught
herself to quilt five years ago. In 1999, she
left her job in industrial psychology to devote
herself to her art full time. Guatemalan
Blocks uses traditional Guatemalan woven
textiles in a American "Tumbling Blocks" pattern. |
Guatemalan Blocks 瓜地馬拉方塊
Cotton, hand
woven and hand dyed by Guatemalans,
commercial cottons
Machine piecing, machine quilting by Beverly Rodgers
196 x 178 cm
2001
Gift of the artist to
the
Museum of Art and Design
Photo: Eva Heyd
"Since
I was isolated in a country with no quilting
tradition at all, I had to learn on my own...
For the first two years, my only connection with the
outside world was a quilters' mailing list on the
Internet. Whenever I was desperate, I would
post a question, and, lo and behold, half an hour
later I'd have five or six answers." |
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