Joe Cunningham has been a professional quilt artist since 1979. He has written a dozen books on the subject, many magazine articles and essays for museum catalogs. His work has been widely shown and is in the collections of major museums. He has received grants for shows and travel, including his 2024 exhibition at the Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cape Cod where he wrapped the building in patchwork. Cunningham lives in San Francisco with his wife and there he maintains a gallery/studio where he works and teaches.
Workshop: Big and Bold – A New Comfort Zone
In Joe’s five-day workshop you will learn how to find and use ideas for starting a quilt and the techniques you need for making it. He covers the ways you can balance the positive and negative spaces while letting the quilt in process guide where you go. Joe will lead a special session on the quilting designs and how you use the quilting to extend the ideas in the quilt. This is a workshop for anyone who wants to feel more free in their approach to a quilt, who might feel blocked or as if they end up doing the same thing over and over. With these techniques and with this way of finding inspiration at the beginning of your project, you will be more open to new discoveries as you create.