Austin Modern Quilt Guild - Connecting Threads at Dougherty Art Center

The Austin Modern Quilt Guild

Connecting Threads was on display at Dougherty Art Center from November 2025 - January 2026

Batty Banner, made by Austin Modern Quilt Guild members.
This banner is used at our monthly meetings and events to signify that our guild is uniquely Austin and open to all.

Connecting Threads at Dougherty Arts Center

Austin Modern Quilt Guild presented a quilt exhibit Connecting Threads at Dougherty Art Center from November 2025 - January 2026. There were 29 quilts made by AMQG members on display.

List of Quilts in the show & Full Artist Statements available here.

Photos of Quilts by Kristen Von Minden

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28 photo(s) Updated on: Friday, June 26, 2026

Faegheh Shirazi, Zero Waste

Faegheh Shirazi, Zero Waste
Blocks of small, colorful scraps of fabric are arranged together resembling a painted canvas.

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Andra Giunta & Juno Goodman, Eye of the Beholder

Andra Giunta & Juno Goodman, Eye of the Beholder
The Eye of the Beholder was a collaborative project with my daughter who is gifted in sketching, watercolor, and oil painting. Juno conceived the id

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Heather Robinson, Crumbs & Peels

Heather Robinson, Crumbs & Peels
In life we tend to throw away lots of perfectly usable items, including fabric and food waste. I set out to make this quilt from bits and pieces that I saved rather

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Sherri Lipman McCauley, Pastel Improv

Sherri Lipman McCauley, Pastel Improv
Pastel colors are woven amongst complementary solid colors. The improvisational curves are stitched amongst sections to create a contrast to the solid sections

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Amber Sarker, Just the way you are...

Amber Sarker, Just the way you are...
The theme “Connecting Threads” evoked feelings of cozy sweaters, which reminded me of when Mr. Rogers would wear the bright, intricate cardigans his mom made fo

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Maggie Buford, Does Anything Happen In Here

Maggie Buford, Does Anything Happen In Here
On a trip to celebrate love and practice ease, I visited The Rothko Chapel for the first time. I visualized many versions of a Rothko inspired quilt for t

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Nelia Karimi, Whatever

Nelia Karimi, Whatever
When I was a kid in the 1980’s the adults would get upset when kids would say “whatever”. For me as a GenXer, this word sums up my generation. I still say it.

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Melissa Cole, Strips of a Certain Size

Melissa Cole, Strips of a Certain Size
I found this bag of batiks and other scraps at an estate sale. I was inspired by the Connecting Threads theme to piece them together bringing this project to c

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Emily Chiyeko Weerts, Crystal City, Texas

Emily Chiyeko Weerts, Crystal City, Texas
At 18 years old, my grandmother, an American citizen, was incarcerated in Crystal City Family Internment Camp during WWII. This section of the map of the de

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Faegheh Shirazi, View from the Sea Shore

Faegheh Shirazi, View from the Sea Shore
Cotton and silk fabrics are used to create a range of 3D mountain, water, seashore/ beach with 3D rocks.

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Cathy Campbell, Improv Sunshine

Cathy Campbell, Improv Sunshine
I decided to play with geometric shapes and curves with a palette of four colors for this improvisationally-pieced quilt. I created separate elements of strips, half-

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Kelly Casey, Disco Ball -

Kelly Casey, Disco Ball -
My quilting community often jokes about trading the night lives of our youth for sewing circles. I was inspired by an image on social media and couldn't find a pattern so I

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Beth Chinderle, YOU GOT THIS!

Beth Chinderle, YOU GOT THIS!
In the quiet moments when love and strength feel distant, when the weight of life dims your light - let this be a reminder, let this be a promise, even in our darkest

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Faegheh Shirazi, Garnet Waves

Faegheh Shirazi, Garnet Waves
Six raised sections: three in garnet color and three sections in red, white, black and white batik (waxed technique) fabric. The idea is to create an image that makes

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Amy Nelson, Nebula

Amy Nelson, Nebula
From the smallest particle in the universe to the atoms that make up earth and all of the organic and inorganic matter living on it were born in the cauldron of the stars. I am f

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Tina Redheendran, Brutalist Ascent

Tina Redheendran, Brutalist Ascent
This quilt is a representation of the bright yellow stairs of the Southbank Centre in London. Built in the Brutalist architecture style, the stairs are connections

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Tessa Gonzales, There’s No Place Like Home

Tessa Gonzales, There’s No Place Like Home
This quilt reimagines the traditional Shaker House block by enlarging and mirroring it to create an otherworldly reflection. Using a rare neon pink agains

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Tina Redheendran, River’s Unraveling

Tina Redheendran, River’s Unraveling
This quilt is my artistic interpretation of the interconnectedness of the Grand Canyon. The quilts' angular, jagged composition is reminiscent of the canyon’s ge

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Anna Kehl, Lifted By Love

Anna Kehl, Lifted By Love
Ripples of Love is an improvisationally pieced quilt created from elements of a larger quilt in progress for my Love. Inspired by nature’s quiet beauty, it features organic

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Renee Hardin, Off The Wall

Renee Hardin, Off The Wall
Taking a shot at improv piecing, I wrote a few rules and threw all my solid fabrics in a bin. This is what I pulled out, one piece at a time.

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KC Shortes, Black Electric/Total Disaster

KC Shortes, Black Electric/Total Disaster
Black Electric combines the artist's love of black and bold color play with literal and visual tension to create an ever changing perspective for the viewer

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Amanda Ayala-Taylor, Southwest Sunshine

Amanda Ayala-Taylor, Southwest Sunshine
A summer roadtrip from Austin to LA was the inspiration behind this quilt; during which we spent time in New Mexico where the four-pronged Zia sun symbol is

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Jennifer Mason, My Dad

Jennifer Mason, My Dad
My Dad loved bright shirts. When he died I wanted to make a wall hanging that would help me feel his spirit using his favorite shirts and love of geometric designs. It needed

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Kelly Casey, Connecting Circles

Kelly Casey, Connecting Circles
Quilting is such a huge part of my life. I come from a family of quilters. Most of my social life is a community of quilters. I am aware of how those connections aff

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Janice Sneed, Pac-Man Redux

Janice Sneed, Pac-Man Redux
Pac-Man is an iconic video game character whose Japanese name is paku paku meaning chomp chomp. Pac-Man is always hungry as is my mini quilt, devouring everything in sight

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Amy Dement, Literally Trash

Amy Dement, Literally Trash
"Literally Trash!" transforms discarded scraps into connection. 288 hand-covered buttons and 800+ fragments—destined for trash cans—carry the collective stories of quilt

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Linda Jones, Lilies of the Valley

Linda Jones, Lilies of the Valley
This mini-quilt was designed from a sketch, artfully drawn by my son's girlfriend. The biggest challenge was making, attaching, and stitching around the flowers. I

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Sherri Lipman McCauley, Bright Improv

Sherri Lipman McCauley, Bright Improv
Bold colors and small pieces are pieced improvisational to create a connection with color, shapes and stitching. Each small piece is randomly selected to be sti

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“Connecting Threads”, where each quilt tells a unique story of interconnectedness. From traditional motifs to bold contemporary designs, witness the ways in which threads weave together narratives, cultures and communities. The characteristics of a modern quilt often include, but are not limited to the use of bold colors and prints, high contrast and graphic areas of solid color, improvisational piecing, minimalism, maximalism, expansive negative space and alternate grid work.

Dougherty Arts Center: Julia C. Butridge Gallery, 1110 Barton Springs Road, Austin TX

1605 E. 38 1/2 St. Austin, TX 78722