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UNT student’s cutting-edge design wins at quilt show
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Naomi S. Adams is used to being one of the youngest people at quilting shows.
But at age 34, this graduate student in the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design is helping to shape the future of quilting as she earns worldwide recognition for her unusual designs. This November, Adams won the Future of Quilting Award at the 2010 International Quilt Festival in Houston. The award was sponsored by Tin Lizzie 18 and was part of the judged show — called “Quilts: A World of Beauty” — of the International Quilt Association. She earned $1,000 and travel and lodging expenses to attend the festival.
“It’s awesome,” she said. “This particular award is age limited to encourage younger quilters and artists to keep the quilting momentum going.”
Her quilts are not “functional” in the traditional sense, she said. She sleeps under a regular comforter — not one of her own creations — but she does have her quilts covering nearly every inch of the walls at her home. The only functional quilts she’s made are baby quilts for her sisters’ children, she said.
Adams graduated from Denton High School at the Ryan campus in 1994 before earning an undergraduate degree in interior design from Washington State University. She plans to graduate with a master of fine arts degree in studio arts from UNT in May 2012.
“It's a fabulous program, so I definitely found a good fit here,” she said.
Adams also won the Olfa Okada Young Designer Award at the American Quilters Society Show in 2008. In addition, her work will be shown at Quilt National 2011, a juried international art quilt exhibition, May 28 through Sept. 5 at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio.
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