Labyrinth related

Item Description

A beautiful hanging art quilt featuring 33 different cotton fabrics, organic cotton and bamboo batting, and embellishments of Austrian crystal rhinestones and buttons. 

This one-of-a-kind piece is created predominantly from fabrics designed by Australian Aboriginal artists, selected for their rounded and spiral motifs. The spiral is repeated in the golden tan border fabric, the brick-colored flannel fabric backing and binding, and the buttons.

Forty-nine squares, the square of seven, form the central area of the quilt.

The divine feminine is referenced by the number thirteen and the darker color of the squares forming the classical seed pattern, as well as the triple spiral button in the center.

Designed and made by Meryl Ann Butler aka Runs with Glitter, founding member of TLS. It is signed by the artist in the lower right hand area of the work.

Dimensions: 30 inches x 30 inches

Meryl Ann's more elaborate quilts have been appraised at $1500 per square foot. This art quilt is valued at $500.

Item Special Note

About the Artist

Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator, labyrinth builder, and founding member of TLS. She has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping stones toward joy-filled enlightenment for the past two decades. She is the author of scores of articles on a variety of topics from labyrinths to quantum physics to mothering, as well as the book, 90-Minute Quilts: 15+ Projects You Can Quilt in an Afternoon (Krause, 2006). Her fiber artwork has been featured in magazines and periodicals including Newsday, Traditional Quilter, Quilting Today, Crafts, Threads, Sew News, Quilting NOW, SQE Professional, HomeArts, and Quilters' Newsletter Magazine.

In the aftermath of the shooting at Virginia Tech in April 2007, Meryl Ann created a comforting quilt for her daughter, a VT student, and a quilted wall hanging for the university.

In 1993-94 she was faculty advisor and designer of the Anti-Apartheid: Love for All Mankind Quilt, which was in the collection of the late Hon. Nelson Mandela, and in 1987-88 she was project director of the First U.S. – Soviet Children's Peace Quilt Exchange Project, an historic and reciprocal exchange chronicled in the media of both countries.

Her quilted fiber art is in collections around the world, including those of His Holiness, the late Swami Satchidananda, the late Hon. Nelson Mandela, Dr. Carolyn Myss, Dr. Barbara King, Dr. Norman Shealy, the Hon. and Mrs. Dennis Kuchinich, The Findhorn Community (Scotland), City Hall (Moss Norway), The St. Petersburg Peace Committee (Russia), School 119 (Odessa, Ukraine), and the University of Peace in Costa Rica. She has built a variety of permanent and temporary labyrinths from coast to coast, and designs fine art painted labyrinths.  View more information at her websites: http://merylannbutler.com/

Provenance

This piece was originally donated to the TLS Gathering Silent Auction in 2009. It was purchased by Ellen and Larry Sheaffer, and hung in their living room. Due to a change in décor, they had to take it down and decided to donate it back to TLS for auction.