{"id":1594095,"date":"2025-01-06T15:11:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T23:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quiltfolk.com\/?p=1594095"},"modified":"2025-01-07T16:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T00:13:42","slug":"vicki-conley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quiltfolk.com\/journal\/vicki-conley\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicki Conley: Stitching Stories of Nature and Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The natural world is a common denominator across Vicki Conley\u2019s artistic journey. From her command of clay through years of pottery making, to the flora and fauna in her quills, her artistry portrays a mindful consideration of the beauty of our environment. Vicki pivoted to quilting after 42 years as a studio potter. As the proprietor of Pinon Pottery, she specialized in stoneware items for the home and everyday use. However, pottery didn\u2019t offer the versatility and creative expansiveness that she now finds in quiltmaking. \u201cYou\u2019re throwing 10,000 pounds of clay a year, making the same things repeatedly, and it\u2019s very labor intensive,\u201d Vicki said. \u201cWhile it\u2019s gratifying that people want to collect it, it\u2019s not very fulfilling creatively.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>In 2022 she retired from pottery\u00a0<\/span>completely, now\u00a0<\/span>focusing on quilting full time.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Since her artistic pivot, she has become known for her art quilts, in particular her national parks poster quilts. Before developing this signature series, she simply quilted works derived from her experiences traveling to and camping in other public lands. After entering a call for \u201ctextile posters,\u201d she found a niche in representations of our national parks designed in the style of historic promotional posters, with additional inspiration from her own photographs and memories.<\/span><\/p>

Over the past 20 years, Vicki has developed a style that often involves abstracting figurative imagery and has grown to include hand dyeing\u2014one of the newer skills in her toolkit. She doesn\u2019t feel confined to one way of working, stating that \u201csometimes, you use the technique that is called for to express what you\u2019re trying to do for a certain piece.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Vicki Conley with Nature\u2019s Power (2022), one of the quilts in her national park series.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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She admittedly prefers to move on after completing a series, which usually features a minimum of three and a maximum of seven pieces. \u201cThere are some artists who stay in the same series for 40 years,\u201d she shared, \u201cand I feel like I already did that with the pots.\u201d Her national park quilts are the only exception, but she still doesn\u2019t anticipate quilting all 63 sites.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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From Vicki's national parks series, \"Preserve to Protect\" (2019).<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Eight quilts from Vicki's \"Preserve to Protect\" series.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Vicki especially takes pride in shying away from notions of precision and perfection in her quilting. \u201cI think it\u2019s really fun to take something that was a traditional medium like quilting and turn it into a more abstract form,\u201d she said. Her quilt of the Grand Prismatic Spring, for example, began as Ohio Star blocks that were later cut into hundreds of pieces that she rearranged into a new work. Possessing a deep appreciation for color, Vicki often prefers working with solids and gradients, and she even paints fabrics to achieve the hues she\u2019s looking for.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Vicki and her quilt Is This Goodbye? (2024), made in response to climate change as the ice melts the polar bears may lose their precious habitat.\n<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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She also experiments with thread to create added depth and emphasis within her quilts. \u201cI like a shiny embroidery, 40 weight thread that’s going to show up for my park quilts,\u201d Vicki shared. \u201cI usually use a finer thread, like a 50 weight, that\u2019s more matte with my abstract work.\u201d Freedom and experimentation are important facets of Vicki\u2019s self-expression through art quilting, and she passes this approach along to her students. Her pro tip is to \u201ctake every class you can take. Even if everything isn’t for you, you have it in your toolbox, and you may pull it out sometime and need that technique for something in the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Vicki stressed the importance of understanding the impacts of climate change and, as a result, the loss of species that is occurring in real time. While she is grateful that people find beauty within her quilts, she hopes that her work will invite others to reconsider public lands and the importance of the beautiful sites that have been set aside for future generations.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Sharbreon Plummer, PhD, began writing for Quiltfolk in 2021. She is an independent researcher, curator, and writer with 15 years of experience in the arts and culture sector. Her research focuses on textile traditions, artistic production, and folkways connected to Black life, especially within the South. She has facilitated and presented work at institutions such as Project Row Houses, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Rhode Island School of Design, Americans for the Arts, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Princeton University, and several others.\u00a0Find more of her work on her\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0and her\u00a0instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Vicki Conley\u2019s artistry celebrates the natural world, transitioning from the functional beauty of pottery to the boundless creativity of art quilting. Known for her vibrant national parks poster quilts, she combines abstraction, bold color, and innovative techniques to craft pieces that inspire appreciation for public lands. 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