Sue Siefkin
Fiber Artist
I am a fiber artist; my medium is fabric and my principal technique is fabric collage. I fell in love with fabric as a child while following in my mother’s wake through the fabric stores of Southern California. I have always loved to sew and eventually dipped my toes in the world of traditional quilting. But finding my tribe in the art quilt world has been life changing. I credit my membership in Studio Art Quilt Associates, attendance art Empty Spools’ weeklong seminars at Asilomar in Pacific Grove and exposure to outstanding internationally known artists as especially influential. I have experimented with paints, fiber-reactive dyes, inks, digital cutting, collage, and decorative free motion machine quilting. I am constantly on the lookout for interesting and unusual fabrics for my stash, with a particular penchant for organic, nature-inspired prints and batiks used in the landscape subjects I prefer. I began entering my work in juried fine art exhibitions in 2000. My work has been included in shows in the Haggin Museum, the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, the Texas Quilt Museum, Visions San Diego and many local and regional art shows and galleries throughout Oregon and California. Since retiring from a demanding career as a Superior Court Judge in Modesto, I have been able to make fabric collage a top priority. I am also an artist member of the National League of American Pen Women and Country Crossroads Quilters of Modesto.
Fiber Artist
I am a fiber artist; my medium is fabric and my principal technique is fabric collage. I fell in love with fabric as a child while following in my mother’s wake through the fabric stores of Southern California. I have always loved to sew and eventually dipped my toes in the world of traditional quilting. But finding my tribe in the art quilt world has been life changing. I credit my membership in Studio Art Quilt Associates, attendance art Empty Spools’ weeklong seminars at Asilomar in Pacific Grove and exposure to outstanding internationally known artists as especially influential. I have experimented with paints, fiber-reactive dyes, inks, digital cutting, collage, and decorative free motion machine quilting. I am constantly on the lookout for interesting and unusual fabrics for my stash, with a particular penchant for organic, nature-inspired prints and batiks used in the landscape subjects I prefer. I began entering my work in juried fine art exhibitions in 2000. My work has been included in shows in the Haggin Museum, the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, the Texas Quilt Museum, Visions San Diego and many local and regional art shows and galleries throughout Oregon and California. Since retiring from a demanding career as a Superior Court Judge in Modesto, I have been able to make fabric collage a top priority. I am also an artist member of the National League of American Pen Women and Country Crossroads Quilters of Modesto.
