Joan Hug-Valeriote is a native and once again a resident of Guelph, Ontario,
after more than 40 years away. Joan has been sewing since early childhood
and quilting since 1977, while working in the film business and teaching
French in Toronto.
She began creating art quilts in 1995 and is now an award-winning professional
quilt-artist and long-arm quilter, having had pieces juried into shows
such as Road
to California and the Waterloo Quilt Festival Ontario Juried Show, The
Grand National and the Canadian Quilters Association Juried Show.
Her quilting has been influenced by international travel as well as
five years living in Switzerland, France and Spain, and four years in
California.
Joan began accepting commissions and
doing computer-assisted quilt design while in California. In 1999, after
her return to Ontario, she started teaching quilting classes and workshops
and giving lectures. In 2002, she began using a long-arm quilting machine.
She is a Visiting Artist in Education, receiving grants from the Ontario
Arts Council, to go into elementary schools to teach quilting. Joan is
a member of the Royal City Quilters' Guild, a founding member and past
President of the East Toronto Quilters Guild and she pioneered an art therapy
quilting program for teenage single mothers in Santa Ana, California.
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She was President of the Canadian Machine Quilters’ Association in 2010-11.
Her body of work includes traditional and contemporary pieces, including
bed quilts, artistic wall hangings and wearable art. She re-interprets
well-known and much-loved patterns and settings using saturated, bold colours
and unconventional forms and placement.
Pink Lady II
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Newfoundland #2
Sea Scape
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Round the Twist
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Neck Tie Vest for Elise
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African Nights
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African Huts
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Early Spring Woods #1
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Early Spring Woods #2
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To enjoy Joan's website, with a more complete
biography,
larger views of the quilts above,
and many more examples of her work, go to:
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