Ellin Larimer: Fiber Artist




		My life is wonderful! I graduated from Whitman College and I have a MS Degree from Simmons College. I studied no art. I met and married my husband, Jim, a long time ago. We raised five children. They are raising five grandchildren. They are wonderful! After my husband’s corporate career and living a number of places around the country, we and another person bought a business that kept us very busy. Along the way I earned an instrument rated commercial pilot license; that, too, was wonderful! Eighteen years later, we sold the business and moved on to the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State across Admiralty Inlet from Whidbey Island and Everett beyond.
I don’t remember not sewing. I became interested in fabric and thread as art mediums a long time ago. I have always loved quilts; I became fascinated with the way traditional quilters were moving color through their quilts. The Art Quilt by Penny McMorris and Michael Kile opened the door to my next “wonderful life”. I had promised myself some art education when we retired and have taken classes at the community college level and painting classes from a number of instructors. It wasn’t until I walked through a Nancy Crow classroom at the Coupeville Art Center that I knew I could be taught to design art quilts. Finally, I was able to take my first class from Nancy in 1995. Many Nancy Crow classes later, along with classes from Liz Axford, Elizabeth Busch, Jane Dunnewold, Michael James, Ann Johnston, Carol Soderlund, David Walker, Ned Wert and others, I dye fabrics and make and exhibit art quilts. I continue living a truly wonderful life.


2008 Transforming the Elements, Artisans Center of Virginia, Waynesboro, VA CVG Show 2008, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA 2007 Quilts=Art=Quilts 2007, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY Evolution of the Art Quilt, Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, WA A Twist on Tradition, Artisans Center of Virginia, Waynesboro, WA Coming of Age, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA 2006 Quilt, for Art’s Sake V, Makeready’s Gallery 214 Artspace, Montclair, NJ Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY Ninth Annual Invitational, American Art Co., Tacoma, WA Expressions, The Art Quilt, Tims Art Quilt Studio and Gallery, La Veta, CO Quilts.Fiber.Art, Washington Center for Performing Arts, Olympia, WA 2005 Quilts=Art=Quilts,Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY Quilts For Art’s Sake IV, Makeready’s Gallery 214 Art Space, Montclair, NJ Contemporary View, Penn Cove Pottery, Coupeville, WA Eighth Annual Invitational, American Art Co., Tacoma, WA 2004 Fabrications, Northwind Gallery, Port Townsend, WA, September, 2004 Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters, Seattle, WA; Second Place, Innovative Pieced Quilts Art Quilts at the Whistler II, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA Imagination Takes Wing, Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA The Quilted Surface, Ronald L. Batt Gallery, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN 2003 Seventh Annual Invitational, American Art Co.,Tacoma, WA QSDS Invitational 2003, Columbus, OH Crafts National 2003, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA Quilt National 2003, Athens, OH 2002 Gifts to Gold Mountain, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters, Seattle, WA. Art Port Townsend, Port Townsend, WA; 2002, Merit Award 2001 Sixth Annual Invitational, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA International Quilt Association, Houston, TX Fiberart International 2001, Pittsburgh, PA 2000 Visual Rhythms, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM



	Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters Contemporary QuiltArt Association Studio Art Quilt Association, Inc. Cher Cartwright Janet Steadman David Walker

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