Kathy McNeil
6813 Totem Beach Road
Tulalip, WA 98271
360-659-4002
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Biography
Kathy McNeil, quilt artist, teacher, judge and designer is passionate about the health benefits of creativity. A registered nurse for 35 years, events from her life inspire her Pictorial quilted story paintings. She is 57 years old and is married to the same wonderful guy that she fell in love with at the age of two. She has 4 children, two adopted from Korea.
Kathy loves traveling and teaching nationally about the creative process. She designs appliqué patterns and exhibits widely in international competition. She has won many awards. Her quilts have been featured in museums, magazines, calendars and the American Quilters Society website. Four of the country’s top Quilt Museum’s have exhibited her work in solo shows. Many of her quilts are in private collections.
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Artist's Statement
Every creative act begins as a connection between the artist and their world. Exploration of that moment of inspiration fuels the process of telling a story and making art. Results are never predictable, as the discovery is different each time. A mastery of techniques and design will be noted and appreciated by others, but will the magic that inspired the artist reach out and touch someone else? When it does.... something big is shared.
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Museums: • National Quilting Museum 2010.New Quilts from Old Favorites • Mark Twain Museum and Childhood home- 2008 -Permanent collection / Gone Fishin •Cannon Beach Historical Museum 2008 •Latimer Quilt Museum Solo exhibition, Summer 2007 and upcoming 201 •Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Solo exhibition 2006
Publications: • Lark Books- 500 Art Quilts 2010 ( 4 of my quilts are pictured) • American Quilters Society, New Quilts from old Favorites 2010 book edition, 2nd place •Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, March 2010, April 2007, May 2004, January 2004,December 2003 Photo Finish, December Photo Finish 2008, 2002 cover photo •Machine Quilting Unlimited, January 2010•
• Love of Quilting; Fons and Porter-March/April •American Quilter: Spring 2007, Winter 2003, November 2008 • AQS Engagement Calendar 2005, 20007 • New Quilts from Old Favorites books- AQS publisher- 2010, 2000
National and International Awards: • Feathered Friends. 1st place large quilts. AQS Lancaster 2010 • Crossing Calamity Creek- Best Pictorial Quilt Odyssey 2009, Best Pictorial Mid Atlantic 2010 • Pass it on- BEst Machine Workmanship Denver National 2010, 1st Applique large, Indiana heritage 2010 • Take Me There- 1st Place Nature Quilts. Road to California, 2009 • Monkey Business at Grandma's- 3rd place Innovative AQS 2008
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