MARY BAJCZ portrait by Gerry Pas www.theartistsproject.com
I’ve made quilts for 30 years and am still delighted by the endless ways a myriad of fabrics can be combined into a beautiful and useful quilt - art that can keep you warm. I enjoy the serendipity in quilt making. I start out with an idea, assemble a pile of fabrics, start cutting and sewing and watch to see if good things happen.They usually do.
I also make smaller art pieces, reversible patchwork silk jackets and loads of handbags and totes. About five years ago, I discovered "Free Cut" piecing, a technique that lets me draw with my rotary cutter. I've found my artistic voice in this technique.
Professional Affiliations
Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild
Paradigm Art Quilters
Adventurous Quilters
Village Fine Arts Association
Needlework and Textile Guild of Michigan
Black Sheep Weavers and Fiber Guild
International Quilt Association
American Quilters Society
Fiber Art Network
Quilts in Exhibitions
World Quilt and Textile 2001
Gerald Ford Museum
Great Lakes Quilt Show, Judges Choice for Use of Color
Views and Visions, local show, Second Place, 2001 ,2004
Poetry Art Night, local show, many awards
Oakland County Quilt Guild, 2001 Most Innovative
Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild Challenge, 2001 Viewer's Choice
Michigan Quilt Artist Invitational, several years
Fiber Art Network "New Fibers" show 2004
IQA "Traditional Treasures" 2004 and 2005
IQA "Celebrate Spring" 2005-2007
Teaching Experience
JoAnn Stores - 7 years experience
Haberman Fabrics, Royal Oak
Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild, Quilt University, 2001 through 2007
Needlework and Textile Guild of Michigan
Evening Star Quilters of Davison
Melon Patchers of Howell
Black Sheep Weavers’ Fiber Guild
Capitol City Quilt Guild