Melinda Lowy

About the Artist

Melinda Lowy is a national award-winning quilter and is actively involved in local art quilt and critique groups. She has exhibited widely, including regionally and nationally. She is a member of Surface Design Association and Studio Art Quilt Associates, as well as locally of Potomac Fiber Arts Guild and Fiber Art Study Group. She is a native of Billings, MT and resides in Silver Spring, MD. She is retired from a full-time career at a non-profit scientific society, where she managed the higher education programs, although she continues to manage a small non-profit scientific society.

Artist's Statement

I am intrigued by different cultures, each with their own distinct customs, music, art, and textiles, yet borrowing from others and integrating the new within the existing. My fiber art reflects my study and love of textiles from all cultures and eras, whether whole or fragments only. I derive both tactile and visual stimulation from different fiber contents, textures and patterns. In my work I use a wide variety of fabrics together with surface design techniques as metaphors for and a celebration of those differing cultures and communities.