STATEMENT

The tactile nature of art quilts is explored and celebrated in Eileen Doughty's work. She loves the concept of "place" and so her preferred subject matter is the landscape. Her background in cartography has been useful in designing her art quilts, since both rely on understanding how people view and interpret colors and symbols.

She has been creating commissioned work since 1991. Currently her work focuses on exploring what makes textile art so unique: texture, freedom of shape of the "canvas" and employing three rather than two dimensions.

Eileen's quilts have been shown in numerous exhibitions. They are in private, government and corporate collections in the United States and Japan.

SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITS

2007

• "A Sense of Place 2007," Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia
• "New Art from an American Tradition," Hampton, Virginia and Williamsburg, Virginia

2006

• “Changing the World One Thread at a Time”, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, Arizona and International Competition of the European Meeting, Patchwork, Val d'Argent, France
• “Taking a Stand: Voices in Fiber” (Invitational), Translations Gallery, Denver, Colorado
• “Quilts of the Old Dominion” (Invitational), Virginia Hist. Soc. Museum, Richmond, Virginia

2005

• “Cartography 101”, Johnsonese Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• “Demise of Democracy”, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, Calif.

2004

• “Landscape Quilts”(invitational), Panorama Mesdag Museum, Den Haag, the Netherlands
• "Expressions", Gateway Comm. College, New Haven, Conn.; Surface Design Award

2003

• "Wrapped in Cloth", Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, Arizona
• "Small Works", Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• “Tribute to Fiber Artists”, Artists’ Museum, Washington, DC
• "Cake Mix", John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

2002

• “Topophilia: Mapping the Hidden Landscape”, Clayton St. Gallery, Athens, GA

• Surface Design Award, Expressions, Gateway Comm. College, New Haven, Conn, 2004

• Skaggs Addition, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana (2007)
• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2007)
• District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities – John Wilson Building (2006)
• Wagner Farm Visitor Center, Glenview Park District, Glenview, Illinois (2006)
• St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana (2006)
• Deaf Community Center, Taylorsville, Utah (Utah Public Art Program) (2002)
• White House Christmas Tree ornament (200 U.S. artists selected) (2001)
• City of Greeley, Colorado (gifted to city of Moriya, Japan) (2001)
• Red Cross headquarters, Washington, D.C. (1998)
• Harbor Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland (1995)

• “Growing Native Environmental Education Guide”, Potomac Conservancy, 2007
• "Exposure", Surface Design Journal, Summer 2005
• “See a Pattern”, Washington Business Journal, March 11, 2005
• Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, July/August 2006, March 2005, July/August 2004
• Illuminations 2005 Calendar, Mass. General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts
• "Simply Quilts", HGTV television network, first aired October 2004
• “BlackRock Unfolds Quilts to Wrap Around Your Eyes”, Gazette newspaper, July 7, 2004
• “Following the Threads”, Vienna Connection newspaper, April 21, 2004
• Cover art, Journal of Forestry, January/February 2004
• Cover art, Welcome Home, December 2003 and July 2000
• “Painting with Thread”, élan magazine, May 2002
• Art/Quilt Magazine, issue #12, 2000

• International Competition of the European Meeting Patchwork, Val d'Argent, France (2006)
• ART in Embassies Program, N'Djamena, Chad, Africa (2005 – 2007)
• “Landscape Quilts”(invitational), Panorama Mesdag Museum, Den Haag, the Netherlands (2004)
• US Embassy in Costa Rica; Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano (2003)