“And unlike other art forms, quilting is tactile. “There’s just something so special about giving someone something so personal,” adds Johnny Barfuss, a broad-shouldered, square-jawed 46-year-old male quilter from Salt Lake City. “I’m an engineer in my 9-to-5 job, so I enjoyed the math and geometry. He thought it’d be nice to make a quilt for his newborn niece, and “it just kinda clicked,” he says. His husband Chad is an avid knitter, and one day a few years ago, Joslyn accompanied Chad to the knitting supply store, only to discover the quilting shop next door.
In fact, the chairman of the Modern Quilt Guild is a 36-year-old bespectacled man from Philadelphia named Andrew Joslyn. “Quilting was domestic work, women’s work.” “It’s the history,” explains Riane Menardi Morrison, the guild’s communications manager. Yet, the craft remains predominantly female. Contemporary quilters, however, have elevated the craft into a form of modern art. It’s been passed down from mother to daughter ever since.
It flourished in the Great Plains states during the early 19th century because it was one of the only forms of artistic expression available to women of the era. Quilting is one of America’s oldest, most populist art forms. (The quilt took 20 yards of fabric, 2,000 yards of thread and more than 120 hours for him to complete.)Ī post shared by Dan Rouse on at 11:04am PDT More than 1,400 quilters submitted pieces for this year’s competition, and Rouse’s piece - a Warholian, duo-tone rendition of RuPaul - is one of the 300 that qualified for the jury round. He can’t go more than 15 minutes without random women - most of them strangers who know of him only through the internet - stopping him and congratulating him on inclusion in this year’s show. Founded in 2009, the guild already has more than 13,000 members in 200 chapters across 39 countries - and a whopping 98 percent of them are women.Īll of which makes Rouse impossible to miss - well, that and his towering 6-foot-4 frame. The gender disparity is also reflected in the membership of the Modern Quilt Guild, the group that hosts Quiltcon. Girls are taught to sew and boys aren’t.”Īnd so, at QuiltCon, the line for the women’s restroom is constant, while the men’s is non-existent. “Sewing and knitting, all that stuff, is seen as domestic work, and men aren’t encouraged to do it. “In general, the fiber arts are more for women,” Rouse tells me. He’s also one of the rare males with quiltwork on display this weekend. #quilting #quiltsofinstagram #quiltersofinstagram #quiltlife #quiltĪ post shared by John McDermott on at 10:47am PSTįor his part, Rouse looks like a tragically hip art school professor - blue floral shirt acid wash jeans glasses and an impeccably kept beard. I also wrote about competitive male quilters, and the link is in my bio if you’re so inclined. I attended #quiltcon2018, the world’s preeminent quilting exposition, over the weekend and found out quilts are cool as hell.
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