Welcome

Squared Illusions 6
34 x 42"
© 2007

My passions include creating digital design on my Macintosh computers; quiltmaking and working with a variety of media such as pigment inks, paints, dyes, fabric, papers, and threads; and photography, using my cameras (I'm a Nikon junkie) and printers (Epson junkie).

I have authored or co-authored 14 books on quilting/computer and Internet-related topics, and my 15th book, Digital Essentials, is now available for purchase! I continue to write freelance on various tech-related topics, reviews, and so on. I write the tech column for The Professional Quilter magazine which I've written since 1996, a tech column for the National Quilting Association's journal, and other publications such as Quilting Arts and Craft Reports.

I am also co-founder of GloDerWorks, a full service Web company with offices in the US and UK where I work as a graphic designer and director. If you are considering a website, I invite you to look at the sites we've created to see if we can help you. We create customized content management systems to accompany each site we develop. This means you can update the content on your site as often as you want without having to know any HTML. It's very cool!

News

"Digital Essentials:
The Quilt Makers Must Have Guide to Images, Files, and More

Download a free PDF chapter "Image Protection, Can it Be Done?" and Table of Contents, read reviews, & more!

"Working with this book is like having a kindly expert sitting right beside you, guiding you through the digital maze." — Editors Pick in Quilting Arts Mazagine

"Whether you want to use your images to simply print, print on fabric, combine images, prepare a Power Point presentation, upload you quilt photos to a website or create image sizes which conform to the requirements for quilt show entries, Digital Essentials has the answer." — Machine Quilting Unlimited

2010 Exhibitions and Shows:

Juried into the Quilt Visions 2010: No Boundaries - October 24, 2010 through March 13, 2011
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California

Juried into the ITAB: International TECHstyle Art Biennial, which showcases art and technology, at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. — August 17 - October 31, 2010

Art Quilt Illuminations - March 26th - May 30
Durham Arts Council, NC - won the Honorable Mention award given by the curator of the Durham Arts Council.

American Quilters Society - April 21-24
Paducah, KY - won 2nd place in the small wallhanging division

The Quilt Fest of NJ VI - March 4 - 7th
Somerset, NJ - won Judge's Choice Award for "Lost in Illusion"

Transformations 09: Reflections - SAQA traveling exhibit
Witley Decay 1 displayed:
- premiere: Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, UK
- Alaska Fiber Festival: March 5-14, 2010;
- Guilford Art Center in Guilford, Connecticut: November 13 – January 3, 2010;
- Visions Gallery, San Diego, California: August 6 – October 10, 2010
- Grants Pass Museum, Grants Pass, Oregon: June-July 2010;

Of Interest:

My solo exhibit, "Advanced Geometry: Gloria Hansen" at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles has concluded. The show, called "Advanced Geometry: Gloria Hansen," opened April 1st and went through June 8, 2008 The write-up for the show is incredibly flattering ... in part it says,
"Advanced Geometry: Gloria Hansen is a selection of art quilts by one of the world’s foremost experts on computer-generated quilt design."– Deborah Corsini, Museum Curator

**" Blushing Triangles 3" has won the 2008 Best Wall quilt Award at the American Quilter's Society show in Paducah, Kentucky. This is a purchase award and now part of the permanent collection of The National Quilt Museum. Here's a picture

Squared Illusions 6" has won the Master Award for Innovative Artistry** at the 2007 International Quilt Festival held in Houston, Texas! Read more about it here.
I was selected as New Jersey's featured Artist of the Month for the month of August 2007 by the NJ State Council on the Arts/ ArtPride NJ.
Here's my exhibit page.

Selections from 2009:

Quilts = Art = Quilts - November 1 - January 10, 2010
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, NY
"Blushing Triangles 4 won Best Machine Workmanship"

International Quilt Festival - October
won 3rd place for Circle Collide in Digital Imagery &
honorable mention for Whitey Decay 2 in Digital Imagry

American Quilter's Society show, April 2009, -
Paducah, KY
"Blushing Triangles 4"
won 1st in the small machine wallhanging division

Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival - February
Hampton, Virginia
"Blushing Triangles 4" Won Best Wall Quilt

NJ Quilt Fest - March
Somerset, New Jersey
"Witley Decay" Won 2nd place

Selections from 2008:

November 1st - November 30, 2008
Focus on Fiber, The Hidden Gallery, Old Lyme, Conn.

October 30th - November 2, 2008
International Quilt Festival: A World of Beauty
Houston, Texas
Blushing Triangles 4 won 1st place in the Digital Imagery category

August 15 - September 13, 2008
Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts
Millville, New Jersey

24th Annual American Quilter's Society Show - Won Best Wall Quilt - this is a purchase award and the quilt is now part of the permanent collection of The National Quilting Museum of the United States (Blushing Triangles 3)
April 23-26, 2008
Paducah, Kentucky

Quilter's Heritage Celebration - Won 1st place wallhanging division (Blushing Triangles 3)
March 27-30, 2008
Lancaster, PA

The Quilt Fest of New Jersey IV – Won 2nd Place (Blusihing Triangles 3)
February 28 - March 2, 2008

Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XIX - Won Best Use of Color (Squared Illusions 6)
Williamsburg area, Virginia
February 21-24, 2008

Art & Photography

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