Katherine Westphal, designer

Katherine Westphal has used quilts and quilting among many other media and techniques during a lifetime of making art. She added a new dimension to the quilter's repertoire by hand printing her own fabrics -- perhaps inspired to do so by the ways in which, decades earlier, makers of crazy quilts used embroidery and paint in creating their works.

This quilted hanging was exhibited at Milan's 13th Triennale in 1969.