The Patch House Project
The Quilt Artists
(all 120 of them)
When choosing a Ruins Artist to highlight for
The Lamplight Series, I take into consideration so many variables. This month was one of my easiest to date.
I chose them all!
The largest and most ambitious group project at The Ruins
The Patch House Project
The quilt, that most American of art forms, was our template for pulling you into a niche in time. Each coal company house may have been a cookie-cutter of its neighbor, but inside was a family, as diverse as the artists who bring their art to The Ruins. The Quilt Artists used their unique skills to represent the vibrancy locked inside the sameness of the patch house. The block frames followed a predetermined design and then each artist's block was installed to build three, veryquilt-ish compositions.From patterns like flying geese, nine patches, log cabins and even a Gees Bend inspired house tograndmother's china and heirloom plates to Scottish tartan and houndstooth fabric houses.These talented artists dove into the deep end ofquilt-ishness Enjoy perusing the photos and have fun matching the artist to the house. You can match each name to each house by their corresponding number/letter identifications.
The Stone House Artists
Aya Kinoshita: 1A, 3E, 4D
Beverly DeMotte: 1B, 2B, 4F
Christine Hume: 6F, 7G, 9E
Christy Dunkle: 6G, 9F, 10G
Deb Engelbaugh: 2H, 3B, 3C, 4E, 10H
Erika Johnson: 1D, 3A
Jennifer Ruttman: 9B, 9C, 10F
Karma Duff: 6C, 7F, 8B
Kathy Thaden: 5C, 6D, 8G
Kathy Trexel Reed: 2G, 9D, 10C
Kim Wozniak: 2A, 2D, 5G
Laura Epstein: 1G, 4G, 6E
Laurie Frazier: 1F, 4A, 5A
Linda Cundiff: 1C, 7E, 8F
Linda Rosenbloom: 1H, 4B, 4H, 5B, 8A, 8C, 10E
Lynn Donihe: 2C, 7B, 8E
Margaret Eastham: 2F, 3G, 10D
Mary Trahanovsky: 3H, 5H, 8H
Pam Carlson: 5D, 10A, 10B
Patrice Lehocky: 1E, 3F, 5F
Polly Loy: 3D, 53, 7D
Rachel Davies: 4C, 6B, 9A
Rachel Sager: 6A, 6H, 7A, 7C, 7H, 9H
Stannye Baringer: 2E, 8D, 9G
The Smalti House Artists
Ann Della-Rose Hunter, 2D
Barbara Bussler, 6D
Barbara Schwartzbach, 7C
Beth Klingher, 1C
Christopher Pickslay, 5A
Colleen Bass, 7D
Deb Engelbaugh, 3C
Dianne Sonnenberg, 6B
Doreen Guarano, 6A
Jan Barker, 2C
Jane Chaskey, 3A
Jeannine Rudolph, 4A
Jennifer Ruttman, 2B
Jennifer Swank, 7B
Karen Crisman, 4B
Kenneth Blaine, 6C
Kim Wozniak, 1D
Lenni Gilbert, 1A
Libby Hintz, 8D
Linda Biggers, 3B
Linda Roncourt, 8C
Linda Rosenbloom, 4C
Lisbeth Bennett, 7A
Lynn Adamo, AB
Mary Len Brown, 5D
Michele Simkoff, 8B
Michelle Fuhrman, 3D
Nilgun Eke Kurdi, 5B
Rachel Sager, 4D
Sage Krumbolz, 2A
Sue Sandmeyer, 5C
Tami Macala, 8A
The Scrap House
Alissa Blumenthal, 4E
Alix Paul, 1C
Amy Gilman, 7B
Angel Cacciola, 8E
Ann Della-Rose Hunter, 2F
Anne Kelly-Contini, 1D
Barbara Cortese, 8C
Barbara Sheinberg, 6A
Betsy Rodman, 1G
Bonnie Kinnaird, 4C
Bonnie Lankford, 6C
Cara Noland & Carol Erwin, 9C
Cecilia Kremer, 5A
Cindy Robin, 3B
Cynthia Stanton, 8B
Dawn Mendelson, 2D
Deb Engelbaugh, 5G
Deb Simmonds, 2B
Debra D'Souza, 8D
Diane Cooper Cabe, 3C
Eileen Palmer, 9B
Erika Johnson, 6F
Fiona Siseman, 9D
Gila Rayberg, 4D
James & Rosalind Blair, 6D
Jane Chaskey, 3A
Jane Snedeker, 9G
Jill Chisnell, 5D
Jo Braun & Rachel Sager, 7E
Jody Best, 7C
Karen Shablick, 9F
Kathleen Maisel Stinebaugh, 2A
Kelley Knickerbocker, 1A
Kim Alexander, 7G
Kim Porter, 4F
Laurie Agard, 6G
Linda Cundiff, 3E
Linda Rosenbloom, 2E, 4G
Lori Manfra, 5B
Luz Mack, 5E
Lynda Donovan, 9A
Lynn Donihe, 8F
Marlies Wandres, 7D
Mary Berk Gidzinski, 6E
Mary Kim Lavery, 3F
Maryellen DiSilvio, 6B
Michaela Borghese, 3D
Michelle Fuhrman, 1B
Nancy Holt, 4B
Nikki Jennings, 5C
Patrice Lehocky, 1F
Rachel Sager, 8A
Robin Zweig, 5F
Sara Melville, 2C
Sarah Joyce McCarron, 1E
Susan F. Starr, 8G
Susan Lynch, 9E
Suska Matsik, 4A
Suzanne Daub, 7F
Terry Clarbour, 3G
Tina Santoni, 2G
Wendy Casperson, 7A
The quilt artists are a diverse bunch. They are beginners and professionals. Local and international.Some come from coal families and included beautiful, bittersweet stories to accompany their house art. Each one infused a very particular kind of love into their piece of the project.
We anticipate more formal documentation of the project in the form of a collection of mini-books in 2023. In the meantime, you can keep up to date with many of The Quilt Artists through their Instagram pages. Just search for #thepatchhouseproject and#theruinsproject to track them down!
If you are intrigued by all this quiltish art, you may want to check out my latest course at Mosaic Arts Online Quilt Blocking in Picassiette
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