The rhythm and repetition of piecing fabric, cutting those pieces to create new configurations and rejoining them - without ruler or measurement - create vibrant, abstract structures. Bold color and value choices further propel the musicality of these compositions. The works are densely quilted, resulting in dynamic fabric paintings.

Peggy lives in rural Jenner Township, Pennsylvania. Although she is a retired accountant, a sewing machine has been central to her life since the age of eight. As a 4-H leader, she has taught basic sewing and tailoring for over 30 years. In the mid 1990’s she discovered a quilter named Nancy Crow and began following her work. It was not until 2011 that Peggy ventured to the Crow barn Art retreat Center to begin her studies into quilt making as art. She has studied with Nancy for the past nine years. Among other teachers who have facilitated Peggy's artist journey are Lisa Call, Claire Benn and David Hornung.

In 2017 Peggy was honored to receive Best of Show Quilt National 2017 at The Dairy Barn Art Center in Athens Ohio. Recently, she received Best of Show at Biennial 2020, a regional multimedia show. She has also received Awards of Excellence and Honorable Mentions at national and regional juried shows, including Quilt Art Elements at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne Pennsylvania, Form Not Function in New Albany, Indiana and Quilts=Art=Quilts in Auburn New York. She has pieces in several private collections.

Peggy is active on the gallery committee at Laurel Arts in Somerset Pennsylvania, and has participated in their Super Bowl Event and permanent collection documentation.

Pamela Loewen grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and has been making quilts since 1989. After finishing her formal education at Cairn University (B.S.) and Wheaton College (M.A.), she took her first quilting class. Initially, Loewen worked with commercial fabrics and created traditional quilts, many for family and friends.

It did not take long before Loewen discovered serious artists working in the medium of quilt making. After her first class in 2002, with Nancy Crow, a pioneer and lauded master of the medium, Loewen began the pursuit of quilt making as an art form. To have more control over the hue, value, and color intensity of her textiles, Loewen took up dyeing her own fabrics. This required her to learn a whole new skill set which greatly expanded the range of colors she could use in her work.

Loewen has exhibited quilts in national and international shows in the United States, both juried and invitational and won awards for her work starting in 1997. Between 1999 and 2006 while Loewen lived in New Zealand, her work was juried into local and national exhibits and appeared in issues of the New Zealand Quilter Magazine. One of her quilts, Color Study #3 (2014) graces the cover of one of her husband Shawn Loewen’s academic books.

Winona’s Garden (2012), a pivotal quilt in Loewen’s artmaking journey, was juried into the annual Quilts=Arts=Quilts ‘13 exhibition at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York. Midnight Garden (2015) received an honorable mention as part of Quilts=Arts=Quilts ’15. Junglescape (2015) was included in Circular Abstractions - Bull’s Eye Quilts curated by Nancy Crow. This show originated at the Muskegon Museum of Art, in Michigan, and traveled to four more museums between 2016 and 2019.

Butterfly Garden (2016) was featured in Quilt National ’17 at The Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio, and won the Persistence Pays and Heartland Awards. The International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, acquired Butterfly Garden for its collection. Garden of Innocence (2018) was juried in Quilt National ’19 and won the Outstanding Machine Pieced Quilt Award and Desert Garden (2018) was on view as part of Quilts=Art=Quilts ’19.

I love hard-edges - and my work with cloth and thread reflects this. I find the creative process to be a combination of ideas, intuition, experiment, discovery and chance, where form and balance emerge in surprising ways from combinations of line and color.

I don’t wait for inspiration.

My art takes form by allowing structure and movement to emerge through ongoing experimentation and a variation on different themes, incorporating chance exercises to inform the work. This creative process is a daily source of satisfaction, enjoyment, and surprise. Creativity involves work and discovery, and I have found that the art influences the artist to at least the degree that the artist influences the piece.

Pat Budge is a full-time quilt maker, creating art for the wall. Her work has been accepted into six Quilt National exhibitions (2021, 2019, 2017, 2011, 2009, 2007). She lives in the rural west-central mountains of Idaho, and was involved in quilting of various expressions for over a decade before discovering the contemporary quilted art community, adopting this medium as a full-time vocation. She is a juried artist member of the Studio Art Quilt Associates, a founder of the Garden Valley Center for the Arts, and a member of Garden Valley Art. Pat was a curatorial assistant at the Garden Valley Center for the Arts and has studied composition with artist Nancy Crow.