Ed Johnetta Miller
3 days • May 13 – 15, 2025
10 am – 1 pm, daily*
Pricing
Early-bird (special rate through March 15, 2025): $615
Nonmembers (rate after March 15, 2025): $700
Members (rate after March 15, 2025): $630
Payment plans and scholarships available. For questions, reach out to Cristin McKnight Sethi: cmcknightsethi@textilecentermn.org.
Join us in welcoming Ed Johnetta Miller for a special 3-day workshop on Improvisational Quilting. Learn an approach to quilting that encourages creative expression and new possibilities for improvisational piecing. Explore strategies for surface design using a variety of fabrics. Consider how color, texture, and pattern can work together to create personal, visual narratives through the art of quilting. All levels welcome. No previous quilting experience necessary.
* Instruction from Ed Johnetta Miller will occur from 10am-1pm on each day of the workshop, however students are invited to keep working on their quilts in the classroom space until 4pm.
$25 materials fee, payable to the instructor at the start of the workshop.
**See supply list of items to bring to class**
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Instructor Bio:
Ed Johnetta Miller (she/her) is an author, fiber artist, teacher, independent curator, and former Management Envoy from the US to the Cote D’Ivoire, Ivory Coast. She began her artistic career as a weaver. Twenty-five years later, in frustration, she destroyed one of her weavings by cutting it into pieces. She then sewed the destroyed weaving back together, stuffed it, and hung it up for display. The result was a transition from one art form to another. After viewing this piece, Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network, suggested Ed try quilting and offered to show her how. Beginning without traditional knowledge of or formal training in quilting, Ed Johnetta is not constrained by either. She combines improvisation with inspiration from her own spiritual and cultural experiences. She gathers materials and fabrics on her many journeys around the world as well as from stores in Hartford, Connecticut, where she lives. Her brightly colored and elaborately patterned fabric pieces offer a stunning, contemporary spin on a traditional form of expression. Her quilts retain the essence of her positive energy and joy for living.
Ed Johnetta’s work has been exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, including in the National Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; Nelson Mandela’s National Museum in Cape Town, South Africa; The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford; and the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC. She has received numerous awards as an artist, teacher, and community activist and has received attention on Home and Garden Television, The Modern Masters, Public TV, the Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times. Her designs were worn by Phylicia Rashad on the Cosby Show and her quilts are in several public and private collections around the world.
Info for out-of-town guests:
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Withdrawal Policy
If your notice of withdrawal is received by the early bird deadline for this workshop, you will receive a 50% refund of your workshop fee. Due to the scheduling nature of these classes and arrangements for instructors, no refunds are available after that. We will be happy to provide you with a receipt for your donation to Textile Center for any forfeited tuition. Please make this request in writing to cmcknightsethi@textilecentermn.org.
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