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Joan Hug-Valeriote is a native and once again a resident of Guelph, Ontario,
after more than 40 years away. Joan has been sewing since early childhood and
quilting since 1977, while working in the film business and teaching French
in Toronto. She began creating art quilts in 1995 and is now an award-winning
professional quilt-artist and long-arm quilter, having had pieces juried
into shows such as Road to California and the Waterloo Quilt Festival
Ontario Juried Show, The Grand National and the Canadian Quilters Association
Juried Show. Her quilting has been influenced by international travel as well
as five years living in Switzerland, France and Spain, and four years in
California.
Joan began accepting commissions and doing computer-assisted quilt design
while in California. In 1999, after her return to Ontario, she started
teaching quilting classes and workshops and giving lectures. In 2002, she
began using a long-arm quilting machine. She is a Visiting Artist in
Education, receiving grants from the Ontario Arts Council, to go into
elementary schools to teach quilting. Joan is a member of the Royal City
Quilters' Guild, a founding member and past President of the East Toronto
Quilters Guild and she pioneered an art therapy quilting program for
teenage single mothers in Santa Ana, California.
She was President of the Canadian Machine Quilters’ Association in 2010-11, overseeing a series of workshops in longarm machine quilting, sponsored by the Ontario Arts Council and a national show on longarm machine-quilted works by members of the CMQA in London, during Quilt Ontario. She also shepherded the absorption of CMQA after ten years of existence, into the Canadian Quilters' Association. Her body of work includes traditional and contemporary pieces, including bed quilts, artistic wall hangings and wearable art. It ranges from small "almost Amish" pieces to Japanese quilted wall-hangings, as well as landscapes and framed textile art. Her "Contemporary Tumbling Blocks" and "Not Quite Escher's Birds in the Air" with its metamorphosis of a three-dimensional bird to a flat quilt block known traditionally as "Birds in the Air", epitomize her penchant for re-envisioning traditional designs in a contemporary manner. She re-interprets well-known and much-loved patterns and settings using saturated, bold colours and unconventional forms and placement. Adapting photographs into small (sometimes abstract) art quilts is a more recent development, after classes with Katie Pasquini-Masopust, Heather Stewart and Elaine Quehl in 2004, 2008 and 2011 respectively. Upcoming Solo Shows:
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Biography