'10 Art Quilts From Studio Art Quilt Associates Brownsonn Gallery, Manhattanville College, 2900 Purchase Street, Purchase, (914) 323-5331.
Visitors can also learn to quilt in a drop-in studio or join the sewing circle of Marie Watt, an artist-in-residence, a Seneca Indian whose sculptures, made from blankets, will be shown nearby.
Gayle, a volunteer at the Sewing Studio, made a quilt out of the receiving blanket that Jennifer's granddaughter was swaddled in during her final hours.
Mr. Szczepanek's Sri Studio makes rugs, draperies, quilts and hangings inspired by Asian textiles, especially patchwork quilts from northern Japan and Korean wrapping cloths known as pojagi.
"I put a big naked cowboy in the middle of it, just because I could," he says, giggling over a quilt in his colorful downtown L.A. studio.
"Some people have collected 19th-century American, others have collected only studio-art quilts, others may have collected the quilts of India and Pakistan, but theirs reflected the entire tradition".
Working out of his Mission District studio, Venom is known for quilts made of heavy metal T-shirts.
The new multifunctional storage unit from Think Fabricate, a design studio in Brooklyn, is known as the Brooklyn TV Quilt, which might strike some as odd.
"It has the quality of a cozy quilt," said Adam Abraham, author of "When Magoo Flew: The Rise and Fall of Animation Studio UPA" (Wesleyan University Press).
Area's 2,000 square feet, complete with a mezzanine that doubles as Ms. Spets's design studio, showcases the full range of the company's bed linens — sheets, blankets and quilts (for adults and babies), as well as throw pillows, beds and bedside tables.
