https://www.ashevillequiltguild.org/programs-meetings Asheville Quilt Guild upcoming events Asheville Quilt Guild Wild Apricot - membership management software and more en Sat, 23 May 2026 19:59:51 GMT Sat, 23 May 2026 19:59:51 GMT Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:00:00 GMT <p align="center"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>Round Robins</strong></span></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>with Karen Stockwell</strong></span></font></p> <p style="line-height: 30px;" align="center"><a href="https://ashevillequiltguild.org/resources/Pictures/Karen%20photo.jpg" title="" target="_blank"><img src="https://ashevillequiltguild.org/resources/Pictures/Karen%20photo.jpg" alt="" border="0" width="241" height="276"></a></p> <p style="line-height: 30px;" align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 20px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif">An award-winning artist,&nbsp;Karen has been making art for most of her life, but the love of color and texture became her passion and she turned to textile art, often using her own hand-dyed silks and cottons in her pieces.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></font></p> <p style="line-height: 30px;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, serif" style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://ashevillequiltguild.org/resources/Pictures/Round%20Robin%201.jpg" title="" target="_blank"><img src="https://ashevillequiltguild.org/resources/Pictures/Round%20Robin%201.jpg" alt="" border="0" width="218" height="214" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-center;"></a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://ashevillequiltguild.org/resources/Pictures/Art%20Round%20Robin.jpg" title="" target="_blank"><img src="https://ashevillequiltguild.org/resources/Pictures/Art%20Round%20Robin.jpg" alt="" border="0" width="228" height="211"></a></font></p> <p style="line-height: 30px;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, serif"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 20px;">Her work has been in major national and international shows as well as being in corporate and private collections, books, magazines, calendar.&nbsp;&nbsp;She teaches &amp; lectures around the U.S., writes articles and designs patterns.&nbsp;&nbsp;She has also been a guest artist on many cruise ships, teaching jewelry, quilting and making teddy bears, most notably as&nbsp;artist-in-residence on Crystal Serenity for almost 5 months.&nbsp;&nbsp;Loving the travel, the colors and ethnic elements of places she’s visited have influenced her work.&nbsp; Lately, her art alternates between realistic wall pieces—landscapes, people, animals—and colorful graphic contemporary pieces.&nbsp;</font></font></p> <p style="line-height: 30px;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, serif"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 20px;">A Michigan transplant who was in FL for 40 years, she now lives in the mountains of Western NC, an area rich in creativity and art, with her husband, Van, and Sheltie, Rocky.</font></font></p> <p style="line-height: 30px;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, serif" style="font-size: 20px;"><br></font></p> <p style="font-size: 18px;"><br></p> https://ashevillequiltguild.org/event-6663245 https://ashevillequiltguild.org/event-6663245