Cynthia England's Résumé

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
  • Guest on The Quilt Show, Episode #610, May 2010
  • Guest on American Patchwork & Quilting Radio Show, February 2013
  • Guest on The Quilt Show, Episode #1412, June 2014

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

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
  • Quilter's Newsletter Magazine article "Texas Quilt Museum to Open in November", October/November 2011 issue (no. 424)

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
  • Lone Stars III: Texas Quilts Today by Karey Patterson Bresenhan and Nancy O'Bryant Puentes

Museum Venues

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

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
  • Texas Quiltmakers Exhibit, 2011 International Quilt Festival