Artist's Bio

Bill Stearman, Quilt Maker

Bill Stearman, Quilt Maker

Arts Related Education and Training:

• Haliburton School of Art and Design
•  various summer courses in quilting and fabric dyeing

• Fibreworks Kingston
• assorted one day and weekend workshops and classes

• Workshops at Colour Vie Studios, Toronto, Ontario
• indigo dyeing and fabric painting

• Hyggeligt Fabric, St Marys
•  classes with Kaffe Fassett, Cheryl Arkison, and Jacquie Gering 

• Various Guilds and conventions
• classes with Jeannie Jenkins, Maggie Vanderweit, Bethany Garner, Joyce O'Connell, Mary Fons, Elizabeth Hartman, Victoria Findlay Wolfe

Exhibitions:

• Juried
• Quilt Canada, National Juried Show 2016, 2018, 2019  (seven quilts juried in)
•   Men's Show 2016, 2018, Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum -  Golden, Colorado (three quilts juried in)
• International Quilt Festival 2017-2019 - Chicago, Illinois & Houston Texas (six quilts juried in)
• Parrott Gallery, Various Exhibits, Belleville Ontario - 2016-2019 (seven quilts juried in)

• Non-Juried
• Quilts at the Creek, Black Creek Pioneer Village and York Heritage Quilters' Guild – Toronto, Ontario
• St Andrew's Presbyterian Church Gallery, Picton, Ontario
• PEC Quilters’ Guild Show, Wellington, Ontario
• Trent Valley Quilters' Guild Show, Brighton, Ontario
• 
  
• Gallery Exhibits
• 'Heart and Soul: two men tell their stories' - Parrott Gallery Belleville, Ontario - a shared gallery with my husband, Larry Tayler
• 'Textile Traditions' - Maison Depoivre - a group show featuring five of my quilts

Publications:

• Quilters' Newsletter, October/November, 2016 - one quilt featured in an article
• Sacred Threads Exhibition Book - 2017 & 2019 - three quilts featured in total
• County and Quinte Living Magazine, Winter, 2018 - an eleven page feature article about the work of my husband, and photographer, and I
• A Needle Pulling Thread, Issue 51 - an article featuring two of my quilts

Memberships:

• Prince Edward County Quilter's Guild
• Trent Valley Quilters' Guild
• Bay of Quinte Modern Quilt Guild
• Canadian Quilters' Association
• International Quilters' Association
• Studio Art Quilt Associates