2007

Artist:    Clairan Ferrono

Title:    Fashionista  

Medium:  Fiber

Dimensions:  34 x 28"

Retail Price:   $1,400

On Exhibit at Fibres, 607 Elm Pl., Highland Park, IL

In 1989, when my daughter was two, I learned how to quilt.  My mother’s family was from the hills of Kentucky, so I had heard stories of quilts and quilting all my life.  But I never knew these relatives, and my mother did not quilt. I had to find out on my own.  I discovered, enjoyed, and was quickly caught up in the quilt world.  In 1997, I attended the Quilt Surface Design Symposium in Columbus, Ohio.  In my family we call it “Quilt Camp.”   It changed my life.  I decided then to stop teaching and become a studio artist.