Instructor: Ed Johnetta Miller
Monday - Friday
July 6 - 10
9am - 12pm
Open Studio Mon - Thurs, 1pm - 4pm
5 sessions
Join internationally celebrated fiber artist Ed Johnetta Miller for a joyful exploration of improvisational quilting and expressive fiber collage. In this dynamic workshop, students learn how to transform fabric scraps into vibrant quilts, note cards and ready to frame artwork. Working with hand-dyed fabrics and global textiles from Ed Johnetta’s personal collection, participants will explore color, composition, texture and spontaneous design.
Students are encouraged to bring their own fabric scraps - plus a few to share - as we build a communal palette of stories, textures and memories. The workshop celebrates creative freedom, intuitive making, and the beauty of stitching from the heart. Through guided demonstrations and supportive individual coaching, Ed Johnetta shares her signature improvisational approach-accessible to compete beginners and inspiring for seasoned quilt makers and collage artist alike.
All levels welcome, basic sewing skills would be great, but not necessary.
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Ed Johnetta Miller is an author, fiber artist, teacher, independent curator, former Management Envoy from the US to Cote D’Ivoire, Ivory Coast. Widely exhibited in the US and internationally, her quilts can be found in numerous important museums, and private collections such as the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of Art, Washington DC, The Contemporary Quilt Museum, Golden Colorado, The Wadsworth Museum of Art, Hartford Ct., Nelson’s Mandela’s National Museum, Cape Town, South Africa, Safeco Corporation, Johnson & Johnson Corporation, Hartford Hospital, Michigan State University, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, US Embassy in Cotonou, Benin, West Africa and in 2019, US Embassy in Chad, US Embassy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia commissioned by the West Hartford Art League to design five quilts for a mural project on the grounds of the Art League, One Woman exhibition, Art For the Soul Gallery, Springfield, Mass., Nov. 2021, and in 2022 my quilt, And I Have Lived with Injustice All My life, was acquired by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The Sunday New York Times featured Ed Johnetta in the Best of the Best series, and again in 2020 one of her quilts, around Black Lives Matter, was featured in the New York Times, Best of the Best series and she has received many awards for her role as an artist, community leader, including Connecticut’s most prestigious artistic award, The Governor’s Award, July, 2022, the William A. Yandow Educators Award from the Bushnell Performing Arts Education Department. Ed Johnetta has been featured on HGTV, Simply Quilts, Modern Master’s Holiday Show, Debbie Allen’s series “Cool Women”, Visionaries, WGBH-Boston and 2020, Christian Science Monitors “People Making a Difference”.