Katie Pasquini Masopust - 2021Workshop Teacher

For nearly 30 years Katie Pasquini Masopust has produced high quality contemporary art quilts that have been coveted and collected by a broad range of admirers. From her early beginnings as a painter dabbling in traditional quilt making, her work has evolved from structured Mandalas and mind-blowing dimensional pieces to very painterly landscapes and abstracts executed with the finest fabrics and most creative stitching techniques. About Katie: • A very popular teacher and lecturer with an easy, energetic manner. • World traveler presenting her contemporary quilting theories and techniques to classes. • Numerous awards and accolades culminating with her 2005 induction into a very select group of art quilt professionals who have earned the Silver Star Award presented by Houston Quilt Festival. • A prolific author • Member of Experius Academy Advisory Council to develop art mission for the new Gateway Canyons Resort in Colorado, a destination resort for quilting enthusiasts and fiber artists.

Katie Pasquini Masopust Workshops

WKS 101: From Watercolor to Quilt - (2 days) Wednesday and Thursday, June 2-3, 2021, 9 AM to 4 PM

$160 GVQC Member, $185 Non-Member

Abstract watercolor paintings will be created the first day using 10 different painting techniques that will leave the student with several paintings to work from. Techniques include, transparent layered shapes, tape resists, rubber cement drawing resist, washes, glazing, dropping in of colors, surface treatments using soap bubbles, rubbing alcohol and grids, etc. One painting will be chosen and cropped to find the most dynamic part. This will be drawn to make templates, then enlarged, and translated with fabrics into a quilt using either my turned edge technique or the students preferred technique. When the quilt is done it will look like a watercolor painting. No painting experience is needed. Supply List

WKS 201: Artful Log Cabins - (2 days) Friday and Saturday, June 4-5, 2021, 9 AM to 4 PM

$160 GVQC Member, $185 Non-Member

T he log cabin block is so very versatile, we will use that as the basis for creating linear abstract art quilts. Start with a painting or photograph, crop that to a strong personal composition, overlay a grid, this can be an even grid, an uneven grid, curved or random grid, this linear drawing is laid over the inspiration photo or painting to become the map. Then log cabins made up of the colors found in each unit of the grid will be constructed and then put together to make the quilt. Emphasis on composition, variety, color, value and visual pathways. Supply List