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Textile artist since 1967, Laura Lee Fritz has taught and exhibited across the Western hemisphere, and is published internationally by C&T Publications.
Laura has studied, collected and created textiles for over six decades. Raised in Berkeley, CA, she has relocated extensively, since she left home at age 16, thriving in rural and rugged communities where nature and indigenous textile arts lured her to learn ever-new techniques to enrich her quilting sensibilities.
In her own words: “I know three truths: 1. I walk my life with a poet’s heart, 2. Our lives are a wealth of legends both cultural and personal, 3. My passion is for handling fibers, from farm to fabric. It is my life work to interlace these three truths to reveal and celebrate the significance of our legends through the beautiful and visceral medium of textiles.
With a generous love of bringing other quilters to their best abilities and expressions, Laura has taught quiltmaking at international conferences, quiltshops and community centers nationally, and has exhibited prolifically since 1987.
Since 1987 she has been published in seven internationally distributed quilting books, as well as many self-published books, and assorted textile magazines and other artists’ books. Her work is in many private collections, as well as the following: St Helena Hospital, St Helena CA, San Jose Museum Of Qu ... view more »
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Artist Type: Visual Arts: Textiles; quilter, fabric designer,continuous-line pattern designer, instructer and author
Artist Style: Visual: Decorative/Ornamental, Documentary, Illustrative, Land/Cityscape, Nature/Wildlife, Photo-Based Painting, Representational
Artist Medium: Visual Arts: Fiber/Fabric
