Connie Tiegel
Atherton, CA

Connie Tiegel started quilting during the Gulf War while visiting a friend in England. After taking numerous classes at her local quilt shop she discovered the joy of dyeing fabric and designing images. Classes with Jane Dunnewold, Yvonne Porcella and Anne Johnson helped her interest to blossom into passion for the making of artcloth. Her work has won awards at the Quilt Surface Design Show (Ohio) in 2004 and St. John’s Art Show (Sacramento, Ca.) in 2003. Other Shows include the Mendocino Center for Visual and Performing Arts (2004), AyersLoft Gallery, Ma. (2004), Expressions in Textiles, New Haven, Conn. (2004). Her work is included in www.artquiltsonline.com, and www.ArtclothNetwork.com.

Artist Statement

“Creative engagements wake us up to the task of contributing to human history by accepting the challenge to compose our own story.”

These words from Peter London in No More Second Hand Art echo what I have been thinking for many years. I am leaving my thoughts, my history in the fabric and quilts that I make. In some way all of the designs that I make are tied to current events and my emotional reaction to them. Whether it is a graduation, birth, war, death, marriage or travel, the chosen images and patterns reflect my thoughts in a language known to me and possibly understood by others, but not necessarily. These are my unique gifts to history and my motivation for engaging in art.  A side effect of creating is the deep emotional satisfaction of making something beautiful.