Design Resources

Ann and Laura talk about their work

An interview at the Dairy Barn, during SAQA’s Layered and Stitched: 50 Years of Innovative Art, 2022.

Critique Session

Part of SAQA’s critique series, Ann reviews work with 3 artists, helping them decide if their composition coveys the concept intended.

Analyze your Quilt Composition

Ann shares her design handout for you to use in critiquing your own work.

Ann’s Juror Comments

For the catalogue Shifting Tides: Convergence in Cloth, Art Quilts from seven SAQA Pacific Regions.

Ann Johnston at NMA 2019

See a video of Ann discussing her exhibit of The Contact at the Nevada Museum of Art.

Approaches to Design

Walk through led by curator Michael W. Monroe, at the Bellevue Arts Museum, 2017. Ann answers all their questions.

Jurors’ Comments for Journeys

Exhibit by members of High Fiber Diet 2020-21, a special interest group of Columbia Fiber Arts Guild, Oregon

Quilt National Juror Statement

Ann’s written comments as one of 3 jurors, 2015. Watch her discussion of her quilt Dry Lake in the exhibit at the Dairy Barn.

Understand Variety

SAQA Journal article about how to use contrast to improve your compositions, 2012.

Mounting an Exhibition

Jeannette and Ann’s 5-page article about curating, exhibiting, and publishing the catalogue for Speaking in Cloth: Six Quilters, Six Voices.

A short intro to color theory in a Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine article 2005.

Golden Bridge-The Story of a Quilt

Ann’s 4-page article about making a very large, functional art quilt as a wedding gift.