Quilters' Save Our StoriesInterview with Pam RuBert

The Alliance for American Quilts Q.S.O.S. Tape Number: AQATS19119-032 To see a full listing, click here

Interviewee: Pam RuBert Interviewer: Melva Hightower Project Name: Art Quilts at the Sedgwick QSOS Location: between Springfield, Missouri and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Date: 2006-05-24 Here's a snippet of the interview:

I've always been an artist and worked in various media including paint and ceramics and illustration but have also always been interested in fabric. I made some large textile sculptures and some art furniture but when I first saw art quilts I was very surprised and excited. It took me several years to learn some techniques, experiment and build up a collection of fabric and a studio to create quilts in but I wasn't sure what I wanted to create, what I wanted to ‘say’ with art quilts. Then one day I had a revelation—I could make cartoons that I've always drawn (even when I try to draw realistically, it usually comes out cartoonish) with fabric.

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