Resumé
Education: BS 1980 Engineering (Construction), Purdue University, WestLafayette, Indiana
Awards:
2008 Best Use of Color, Innovative, Denver National Quilt Festival (Nine Patch)
2008 Third Place, Custom Heirloom/Show Wall Quilts , Machine Quilters Exposition(One Last Orange)
2006 Second Place, Innovative, Denver National Quilt Festival (Fantasy Flowers)
2006 Second Place, Art-Abstract Large, IQA World of Beauty, Houston Texas, (Fantasy Flowers)
2005 Best Use of Color, Innovative, MAQF (Gears To You)
2004 Rookie Of The Year Award, Machine Quilters Showcase
Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, 2001 Best Machine
Workmanship, (Half Past Midnight)
IQA, World of Beauty 2000, First Place, Large Art Quilt (Tea &
Empathy), Third Place Merit Quilting, Machine (Half Past Midnight)
Pacific International Quilt Festival, Best Use of Color, Innovative and
Second Place Large Innovative (Queen Of Cups),2000
AQS 2000 Nashville, Tennessee, State of Illinois Representative Quilt
(Queen of Cups)
Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival Honorable Mention, Innovative, 2000 (Queen
Of Cups)
IQA, World of Beauty, Honorable Mention, Large Art Quilts, 1999
(Vessels V: Blown Glass)
American Quilter's Society, Paducah, Kentucky, Third Place Pictorial,
1998 (Vessels V: Blown Glass)
Quilts At The Crossroads, Flint, Michigan, Fourth Place Innovative,
1998 (Vessels V: Blown Glass)
Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival Best Use of Color, Innovative,1999 (Vessels
V: Blown Glass)
Hoffman Challenge: Second place Pieced Quilts, 1992
Published:
Free Expression: The Art and Confessions of a Contemporary Quilter. Book, published by Quilting Arts Magazine
Quilting Arts 2004 Calendar, pattern for Guitar Quartet
Column in Quilting Arts Magazine, The Goddess of the Last
Minute beginning Summer 2002 and ongoing. Also article in Issue Eleven and Twelve on Free Motion Quilting.
Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting, January 2004
Cover, Quilting Arts Magazine, Fall 2002 (Still Life With Strawberries)
Cover Popular Patchwork (British), August 2002 (Tea and Empathy)
Quilts For Kids, published by Country and Craft Magazine, Australia, 2003, quilt and pattern.
Great American Quilts, 2002 (Tea and Empathy, Half Past Midnight)
2002 Masterpieces: A Voyage of Self Discovery, Huskvarna Viking (Sock
It To Me)
Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, November 2001, (Queen of Cups)
AQS 2000 Quilt Exposition Catalog (Queen Of Cups)
British Patchwork and Quilting January 2001 (Tea and Empathy)
Article in American Quilter Magazine, Winter 1999.
Quilt in FiberArt Six by Lark Books, 1999. (Borrowed Time)
Quilt in the book: Easy Applique by the Rodale Press, 1999 (Plaid
Teapots)
Special Exhibitions:
Denver National Quilt Festival, Denver, CO 2007 Special Exhibition (25 Quilts)
Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, VA 2005 One Woman Show (25 Quilts)
Quilt America, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2002 Featured Artist (29 quilts).
Philadelphia Quilting and Embroidery Showcase, 2002 Featured Artist, sixteen quilts.
Walker Gallery, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, 2003 Five quilts.
Consuming Passion: Edible by Design, an exhibition featuring 20 artists Ohio Wesleyan University's Richard M. Ross Art Museum,2003 Four quilts
Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau Wisconsin, November and December 2003, five quilts.
Selected Juried Exhibitions:
Quilt National 2001
Denver National Quilt Festival 2006, 2008
International Quilting Association, World Of Beauty, Houston, Texas 1995,
1997,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2008
American Quilter's Society, Paducah Kentucky 1994,
1995,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008
Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Williamsburg, Virginia,
1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008
World Quilt and Textiles, Lansing, MI 1998,1999,2000,2001,2005
Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, 1996,1999,2001,2002,2003,2008
Pacific International Quilt Festival, 1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2008
Quilt America, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1993,1996, 1998,2001
Quilter's Heritage Celebration, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1997,1999
(contest and also To The Nines Invitational),2000,2001,2002
Fantastic Fibers 1999, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky, 1999
AQS 2000 Nashville, Tennessee, 2000
Quilts At The Crossroads, Flint, Michigan 1998,1999
Material Images 2001, Southern Illinois Arts Gallery, Rend Lake &
University of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois
Illinois Crossroads: Quilts 1998, Southern Illinois Arts Gallery, Rend
Lake &University of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois
Beyond Women's Work, The Quilt As Art, University of Illinois,
Springfield, Illinois, 1997
Recent Works, College Of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois, 1996
Professional Art Quilters Alliance, College of DuPage, Wheaton,
Illinois 1996
Hoffman Challenge National Traveling Exhibition, 1992
Lectures and Teaching:
National travel to lecture and teach for guilds.
Teaching has included Quilt Festival in Houston, TX and Chicago, IL, American Quilter's
Society Show in Paducah KY, World Quilt and Textile in Lansing, MI, New Jersey Quilt Festival, Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Denver National Quilt Festival, Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, Quilter's Heritage Celebration, Lancaster, PA, National Quilting Association Annual Show 2003 and 2004 as well as guilds all over the US. Internationally: Canada,New Zealand, Australia
I also appear on Simply Quilts, an HGTV show, show #917.
Five of my quilts were shown on Fons and Porters Love of Quilting TV#303.
Artist Statement:
I enjoy working with fiber and use it as a way to introduce myself to
people. I make art quilts from cotton fabrics that I dye myself, use
bonded applique and free motion quilt extensively on the surface. I
enjoy lecturing and teaching in order to share the techniques I'm using
and to encourage others to find their voice through fiber.
Biography:
Robbi Joy Eklow has an Engineering degree from Purdue University in
Lafayette, Indiana. In college she married her husband Brian, they have
two children. Robbi lectures and teaches internationally, and has shown
quilts and won ribbons in major quilt shows across the United States. She writes a bi-monthly column "Goddess of the Last Minute" for Quilting Arts Magazine. She has designed quilts and written articles for many quilting publications. Her first book is Free Expression: The Art and Confessions of a Contemporary Quilter.
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