Barbara Dahlberg's Website and Galleries

                                          Welcome!

Picture
Rainforest 30" x 24" private collection
My quilts are a mix of traditional and art quilting techniques. I love color.  My designs are often inspired by the beauty of nature and the changing seasons.  I like to use shapes from nature and play with them, experimenting with color and texture.  Sometimes designs come from the fabrics I find and sometimes from just an idea, what would happen if I did...?  I enjoy learning new ways of doing things and changing things from what they were before.  Quilts are my passion, joy and connection to the creative spirit in all of us. 
Picture
Gail's Fantasyland 40" x 46" private collection
Picture
She's Always Liked Cats 18" x 22" collection of the artist. Design from an old photo, age 18 months. Custom work available from your photo.
Picture
Jaguar 24' x 24". Currently traveling with Inspired By Endangered Species curated by Donna DeSoto and is in the book Inspired By Endangered Species by Donna DeSoto published by Schiffer Publishing. Available from the publisher and on Amazon.
If you are interested in purchasing a quilt please contact Barbara for  availability and shipping costs. Inquiries for custom work are always welcome.

Click on this link to watch Jean Truelove's YouTube video on her visit to Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza in September 2019. She includes my Blue Guitar exhibit at 6:30 minutes.
             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WosW3Hog5xI


Click on this link to watch my Quilt Alliance YouTube video story from Sacred Threads 2015:
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faSo3llAt7U    

          Click on this link to visit my ETSY site:
             etsy.com/shop//BarbarasArtQuilts
         My online store featuring small art quilts, fiber and fabric bowls, fabric
                         postcards, fabric bookmarks, and fabric jewelry.                                      

                    Current and Upcoming Shows
​Working With The Muse, The Mansion At Strathmore, Bethesda, MD, February 29 - mid August, 2020. 
The Mansion is currently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. See the exhibition online  at https://www.strathmore.org/visual-arts/exhibitions/quilts.

Eye Contact, Virginia Quilt Museum, 301 South Main St., Harrisonburg, VA, July 15 - September 15, 2020, https://www.vaquiltmuseum.org.

Backyard Escape, Sacred Threads healing quilt exhibit, traveling to hospitals and venues nationally. My quilt It's A Beautiful Day is included in the first installation at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UChicagoMedicine) beginning July 2020. The entire collection will show at Sacred Threads in July 2021, 
https://www.sacredthreadsquilts.com/

​Inspired By Endangered Species. Here are the venues scheduled for the rest of the year.
​     August 1 - September 12, 2020: The Barns of Rose Hill (Berryville, VA) (entire collection)
     https://barnsofrosehill.org/visit/
     October 9, 2020 - January 12, 2021:
National Quilt Museum (Paducah, KY) (entire collection)
       https://quiltmuseum.org               

                         

     All images on this site are protected by copyright law and no image may be reproduced without permission.