Cynthia England Resume

Cynthia England Resume
     
Graphic Artist:
   

Owner/designer and publisher of England Design
Graduate of The Art Institute of Houston, 1982
Staff Artist for Petroleum Management magazine, 1981-1986
Quilt Teacher and Lecturer since 1993
Quilt Judge since 1998
Guest on HGTV's Simply Quilts, episode 655, fall 2000
Guest on Kaye's Quilting Friends, episode 1400, December 2000

     
Notable Awards:
Piece and Quiet:
 
 

Named as one of "The Twentieth Century's Best American Quilts", 2000. See the Piece and Quiet gallery page for more details about this prestigious award.
Best of Show and Award of Excellence, AIQA, TX, 1993
Best of Show, Pride of Dallas, 1st, Dallas Quilt Celebration, 1994
1st Place and Viewer's Choice Wall Quilt, AQS, KY, 1994
Best of Show, 1st Place, People's Choice, Fabric of Our Cultures Show, Victoria, TX 1994
1st Place, Quilter's Heritage Celebration, PA, 1995
Juror's Choice, Tactile Architecture, Washington, D.C., 1994

     
Come Into the Light:
 
  1st Place and Viewer's Choice Wall Quilt, AQS, KY 1994
Best of Show, 1st Place, Viewer's Choice, Victoria, TX, 1994
1st Place, Quilter's Heritage Celebration, PA, 1995
     
Power of Houston:
    1st Place, Group Category, IQA, Houston, 2000
    On Permanent Exhibit in George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas
     
Open Season:
    1st Place Fabric of Our Cultures Show, TX, 2000
 
  Best of Show, IQA, TX, 2000
    Viewers Choice, AQS, KY, 2001
    1st Place, San Diego Quilt Show, CA, 2001
    Best of Show, Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XII, VA, 2001
    Best of Show, 1st Place, Oklahoma City Winter Quilt Show, OK, 2002
    Best of Show, Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, IN, 2002
    2nd Place, Viewers Choice, Three Rivers Quilt Festival, IN, 2002
   

2nd Place & Guards Choice, Quilting the Quilt, MN, 2002

    2nd Place, Quilters Heritage Celebration, IL, 2002
    Best of Show, Quilt Odyssey, PA, 2002
    Best of Show, Dallas Quilt Celebration, TX, 2003
    2nd Place, 28th Quilt Celebration, Rockhome Gardens, IL, 2003
    1st Place & Viewers Choice, Sew Near to My Heart, OH, 2003
     
Through Tuscany:
    Featured in the January/February 2009 issue of Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting Magazine.
    Included in the exhibit in the "New Beginnings: Quilts by Texas Quilt Artists" at the Irving Arts Center Galleries and Sculpture Garden in the Carpenter Performance Hall Lobby in Irving, Texas (from Sept 26, 2008 through April 1, 2009).
    Featured in the Quilter's Newsletter 2008 Calendar.
    Best of Fabric Manipulation, Oklahoma Winter Quilt Show, 2007
    2nd Place, Masters Category, Dallas Quilt Show, March 2007
    Juried into the International Quilt Association's show Quilts: A World of Beauty at the 2006 Fall International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX.
     
One Fine Day:
    Won First Place in the Pictorial Wall Quilts category at the 2009 Quilt Expo in Madison, Wisconsin.
     
Works in Magazines:
   

Ladies Circle Patchwork Quilts, September/October 1991
American International Quilter's Association Journal, 1993
Art Quilt Magazine, Premiere Issue, 1994
American International Quilter's Association Journal, article 1994
Quilting Today, February 1994
Ladies Circle Patchwork Quilts, May 1994, August 1994
Quilt World, September 1994
Traditional Quilter, March 1995, November 1995
American Patchwork & Quilting - Quilt Sampler, 1995
Popular Patchwork - United Kingdom, January/February 1996
Quilter's Newsletter, article, Winter 1996
The Quilting Quarterly, NQA, cover and article, Summer 1996
American Quilter, 1994, cover and article, Winter 1996
Quilter's Newsletter: March 1994, Sept 1994, Winter 1996, July 1997, July/Aug 1999, April 2001
Patchwork Quilt Tsushin, Japan, article, Spring 1998, January 2000
The Professional Quilter, Cover: Winter 2001
Quiltmania, France, Article: January/February 2001
Gallery of Quilt Art, 2001 Masterpieces: Quilts of the New Machine Age, 2001
Quilting Today, April 2002, No. 89
Quilting Today, May 2002, No. 90
Quilting Today, September, 2002, No. 94
Texas Journey AAA - Texas, September/October 2002
Quilts with Style, April 2004, Issue 45
Quilts with Style, December 2004, Issue 49
Quilts with Style, February 2005, Issue 50
Handmade (Taiwan magazine), Winter 2004, No. 5
Real Women Quilt website, Featured Quilter, July 2005. You can still see the article in the site's Featured Quilter Archives.
Quilts with Style, Article, September/October 2005 -
The article includes a free picture-piecing pattern of a ghost. For more information about this magazine, visit the Quilts with Style website.
Quilt, August / September 2007 #81 - Harris Publications - Through Tuscany appears on page 98 in the "Last Stitch" column.
$100,000 Quilting Challenge, cover and article, Issue #3 - 2007 - An All American Crafts Publication
Tuscany featured in Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting magazine, January/February 2009 issue

     
Works in Books:
   

Picture Piecing - Creating Dynamic Pictorial Quilts by Cynthia England, England Design Studio
An Expert's Guide to Foundation Piecing by Jane Hall, C&T Publications
Back Art on the Flipside
by Rafalovich and Pellman, Leone Publications
The Visual Dance, Creating Spectacular Quilts by Joen Wolfrom, C&T Pub.
The Busy Quilter's Survival Guide by Joyce Livingston, Good Life Treasures
Firm Foundations by Jane Hall and Dixie Haywood
Patchwork Persuasion by Joen Wolfrom, C&T Publications
Optical Illusions by Karen Combs
America From the Heart by Karey Bresenhan, C&T Publications
The Twentieth Century's Best American Quilts: Celebrating 100 years of art of quiltmaking, Edited by Mary Leman Austin , Primedia Special Interest Publications
Contemporary Quilting by Cindy Walter and Stevii Graves, KP Books

     
Special Recognition:
    Tuscany selected for 2008 Quilter's Newsletter Calendar
Piece and Quiet
in German exhibit, Quilt Expo 1994
Piece and Quiet selected for 1995 American Quilter's Society wall calendar
Piece and Quiet selected as one of the 20th Century's 100 Best American Quilts, 1999
Split Rail shown in Quilter's Newsletter exhibit, England 1995
Houston Chronicle, Lifestyle section, November 21, 1993
In the Southern Tradition exhibited in France, Quilt Expo 1996
     
Museum Venues:
   

Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, CO
Decatur House, Washington D.C.
New England Quilt Museum, MA
Traveling Exhibit "The Kiss"

     
Exhibitions:
    Tims Art Quilt Studio and Gallery at the Candlelight Carols and Christmas Quilts Exhibit - from December 17, 2005 to January 29, 2006.
    Power of Houston, TX, 2001; Installed in the permanent collection at the George R. Brown Convention Center
    Kobe International Quilt Week, 2001, Japan
    In the Southern Tradition, Germany, 2002