Linda Syverson Guild: Honoring My Father

Linda's art quilt series, “Honoring My Father,” honors the 100th anniversary of her father’s birth and his life up to the day he was buried in 2009. This series is an abstract commentary on memories fading—even when the core of the memory remains. It is inspired by images from his life that he took or were taken of him, his story, and three versions of photos of her parents’ Northern Minnesota farm on the cold December day of his funeral. Linda will talk about how a series is something that needs to begin as an internal inspiration and how it explodes from there.  

Artist Bio:

Quilt design is a natural transition for a professional architect who loves to manipulate fabric and has worked in various sectors of Design and Construction. The architect’s eye is beneficial when working with the layout and geometry of a new quilt just as it is for a new building. My…