Although she has a background in teaching academic psychology, she has worked with art and cloth all her life as a professional dyer, weaver, clothing designer, knitter, and quilter. After many years working principally as a weaver and quilter she fell in love with digital art possibilities and presently concentrates on creating digital imagery printed on cloth and assembled into quilt art.
When not working in the digital darkroom or in her sunny quilting studio, she can be found reading, or knitting, or listening to opera, or hiking in the mountains with her camera, or trying to tame her messy, leafy garden. Her experience living where the plains meet the Rocky Mountains exerts a strong influence on her work. She was born in Chicago and raised in the Midwest. She has lived with her husband, Ken, in Boulder, Colorado for more than thirty years.
Charlotte is a member of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Surface Design Association, and Front Range Contemporary Quilters.
Recent Exhibitions
Weave: A Celebration of Fiber Arts, presented by the Northern Colorado Weavers Guild, Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, Longmont, CO, March 10-April 29, 2012.
Facets of Fiber, an exhibit of theSurface Design Association, Art Institute of Colorado, Denver, CO, January 20-February 26, 2012.
Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, New Albany, IN, January 6, 2011–March 3,2012.
Interpretations 2011, Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts and Textiles, San Diego CA, November 4, 2011-January 22, 2012
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn NY, October 30,2011-January 8, 2012
New Legacies: Art Quilts (formerly Fabric of Legacies) Lincoln Center, Ft. Collins, CO , October 7–November 13, 2011
Muses, an exhibition of the Front Range Contemporary Quilters, Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO, August 5-September 3, 2011
Frontiers, an exhibition of the Front Range Contemporary Quilters, Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO, June-July, 2011
Denver International Airport and Colorado State Capitol Building, November 2010 through May, 2011
Publications
Charlotte is the author of Artistic Photo Quilts, published in 2009 by C&T Publishing. It is about her development of digital fabric techniques as used in her quilts. She enjoys introducing people to the world of digital art on cloth.
Her quilt, Moons and Mars: Sand Pictures #3 appeared as the cover image for the exhibition catalog and book Quilt Visions 2008: Contemporary Expressions.
The February/March 2012 issue of Quilters Newsletter and the January/February 2012 issue of Machine Quilting Unlimited each featured one of her quilts. Her quilt, Urban Reflections #2 appears in: The Studio Quilt #6: State of the Art, Sandra Sider, to be published in December, 2011. She also has two quilts in the Lark Books 500 Art Quilts, published in 2010.
