Deidre Adams

Machine Quilting Unlimited magazine includes a regular feature called “Art Studio.” I’m the featured artist for the November 2009 issue. I enjoyed writing the copy for it, since the subject is one with which I’m intimately familiar — and I can always use the practice talking about my work. The magazine did a fantastic job [...]

I’m woefully behind in posting this news, but better late than never, right? This wonderful new book by Spike Gillespie profiles 20 art quilters, detailing their stories and working methods, with beautiful photography and layout. I’m honored to have been chosen to be a part of it. It was also really cool to find out [...]

This is a photo of my grandfather. It came from an old square-format negative that was hanging around at my parents’ house for years, stuck in an envelope full of other such miscellaneous pieces of film that had long ago lost association with any known prints. My mother had always wanted to “do something with [...]

Kerr Grabowski, May 2009. Photo by Deidre Adams.
Today’s SDA conference agenda included a variety of lectures and demos related to textile arts. The most inspiring for me today was a demo by Kerr Grabowski, in which she shared her techniques for working with things normally associated with art on paper — like charcoal, graphite, pastels, [...]

This week I’m in Kansas City attending my first Surface Design Association (SDA) conference. This time I wanted to make a concerted effort to get a photo from an actual conference event, so here you see a shot of the Thursday night dinner. Not exactly a stunning example summing up the heart and soul of [...]

Well, I knew there had been a big push during the last several years to privatize all the public resources, but this is going just a bit too far, don’t you think?
What’s that you say? Oh, you mean this isn’t the real Gateway Arch?
OK, you caught me. Alert readers will notice that the shape isn’t [...]

Chairs, ©2009 Deidre Adams
I have been in Athens, Ohio, all this past week. For three days I taught a Photoshop class, and then for the next three I attended the SAQA conference, where I met some wonderful new friends and listened to some interesting discussions about making and promoting artwork. I also went to the [...]

I knew it had been awhile since my last post, but when I was asked the other day why I hadn’t been posting, I realized that it’s now been over a month since the last post. I haven’t posted due to a personal dilemma — I got myself kind of backed into a corner by [...]

I’ve been feeling a little stymied lately about posting for several reasons, not the least of which is that I’ve started to get quite a lot of SPAM comments. Luckily, Wordpress invites me to approve a comment when it comes from a source I’ve not approved previously, so they don’t just show up without warning. [...]

Shoe near Pueblo, Colorado. © 2006 Deidre Adams
Why are there so many single shoes out there in the universe? This is a question that has always plagued me. I’m not the only one who thinks about this, as evidenced by the great discussion of the question at The Straight Dope.
I wish I had [...]