Art Gym: Reflection Quilts
As 2025 is winding down and preparations for the new year begin, we invite you to join us for our Free Annual Reflection Quilt Workshop. You deserve to set aside some time to pause and reflect on your year, so you can enter the new year feeling grounded and inspired.
In this session of Art Gym, Adam Ming and Katie Stack will lead you through an exercise to reflect on your year. You will study examples of quilts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Public Domain Review, and then create your own quilt illustration by sourcing inspiration from these various artworks as well as your own ideas.
Here are some beautiful quilts from last year’s workshop:
What You'll Learn:
How to create a visual reflection using an illustrated quilt
How to source images from the public domain (scroll down to Resources for links)
The value of sketching and gathering ideas for a final artwork
The Benefits:
An opportunity to pause and reflect on accomplishments and challenges
Learning about new ways to source inspiration to reference images
A chance to develop your personal style
A place to connect with other artists while sketching and learning together (we love seeing the art you share in the gallery!)
Why quilts?
Quilts tell stories, so we can use the quilt format to create a visual reflection of our years. After all, we’re artists so reflection through drawing makes sense!
+ Plus quilts create cozy imagery perfect for the end of the year, and the quilt layout offers flexibility for everyone to tell their own story. At the end of Art Gym, we’ll all have designed a quilt that is unique to our own stories and reflections.
So join us! From studying public domain images to creating your own mini quilt, you will have the opportunity to practice and play while reflecting on your year.
Art Gym Gallery
After you’ve complete your quilt (or while it’s still a work in progress!), we invite you to share your work in the gallery. Then enjoy scrolling through the gallery to see what others created during the workshop!
Reflection quilts by RachelBrokenicky , Teri Ciacchi, and Katie Stack
Especially after reflecting together during this workshop, we’re so looking forward to the next year with all of you, so grab your membership and we’ll see you at the Art Gym!
- Katie and Adam
