Next step in photo quilting--use a digital camera to create fabulous, one-of-a-kind printed fabric. 8 projects, 25 techniques.
Lura Schwarz Smith
Lura Schwarz Smith, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art from San Francisco State University, has been producing art quilts for over thirty years. Before that, she was making very bad traditional bed quilts with her first quilting buddy, her mother, starting in the 1960s.
Originally showing in galleries in the 70s and 80s, over the past years she has shown quilts and received awards at regional, national and international quilt shows. One of her quilts was included in the 100 Best American Quilts of the 20th Century. Besides lately returning to her gallery roots, over the past few years she and her husband Kerby have enjoyed teaming up in teaching digital quilt classes and producing art using digital imagery for quilts. Of course, their best collaborative work resulted in their two children, Zoey and Gary.
Kerby C. Smith
Kerby's thirty years in journalism and ten years in marketing have honed the communications skills used to write, edit and produce magazines, television documentaries, commercials and advertising campaigns. He has worked as a free-lance journalist or photo-journalist for leading newspapers and magazines in America, and covered everything from riots during the Sixties to the first landing of the Space Shuttle at Edwards Air Force Base in California. While assignments for National Geographic Magazine have taken him around the world, he is most at home in America's West.
