{"id":2844,"date":"2015-02-04T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2015-02-04T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T13:00:12","slug":"2015-featured-artist-meet-sheila-frampton-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/04\/2015-featured-artist-meet-sheila-frampton-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Featured Artist: Meet Sheila Frampton Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tAward winning artist, Sheila Frampton Cooper, has come a long way in her six short years as a quilter. \"Sheila1\"<\/a>Prior to quilting, Sheila had an extensive art background in oil, acrylic and watercolor painting, jewelry-making, and architectural photography. Her first foray in to quilting was in 2009 when she made quilts for the Project Linus<\/a>. Sheila began working on her first art quilt in January of 2010 and completed that project in October of the same year. Titled, \u201cLife in the City<\/em>,\u201d it was her first entry in to any quilt show. And that first quilt show just happened to be Road to California 2011!<\/p>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_2845\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"497\"]\"Life<\/a> Life in the City by Sheila Frampton Cooper[\/caption]\n\n

In 2013, Sheila was asked by Carolyn Reese to curate the special exhibit, Perspectives:<\/em> <\/a>Fantasy and Reality<\/a>, <\/em>which showcased quilts that were inspired by maps, aerial views and topography of actual or imaginary places. Then, in November 2013, Matt Reese asked her to be 2015\u2019s featured artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheila\u2019s favorite quilting technique is taking piecing, using her hand dyed fabrics, and pushing the piecing to \u201cthe max\u201d using engineering, thought, consideration, and forward thinking to see, \u201chow far I can go to bring my vision to life.\u201d\u00a0\"Sheila's<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To prepare for her featured artist exhibit, Sheila began with Life in the City<\/em> and created 7 new pieces just for the 2015 show.\"Sheila's<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheila was so \u201cgrateful to be invited as the featured artist. I enjoyed interacting with the show attendees, and was thrilled to see my work on the cover of the catalog.\u201d\"Sheila's<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does the future hold for this talented art quilter? Until April 4, 2015, a special exhibit she curated, Expressions in Equality<\/em><\/a>, is on display at the Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts + Textiles, in San Diego, CA. Sheila recently relocated to Pont Royal, Mallemort, France. Her new home in this small village is providing the inspiration for 10-12 new pieces she is currently creating for her next exhibit which will be shown at the European Patchwork Meeting<\/a> being held September 16-19, 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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