Sharon Casey creates large quilted textiles often featuring a musical theme.
Her work is abstract and has been characterized as improvisational narrative. She gravitates toward black and white with lots of contrast and unexpected pops of color. Elements of whimsy and surprise appear in much of her work.
Awards / Juried Shows
2025 Quiltcon, “Graduation Day,” Phoenix, AZ
2024 Quiltcon, “Studio Time,” Atlanta, GA
2023 Black & White National Juried Exhibition “Meditation for Beginners,” Winner Juror Award, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023, 2019 International Quilt Festival, Houston, “Boogie Wonderland,” Second, “Boogie Brass Band,” Finalist, “Star Rider”
2020 Road to California, Riverside, CA “Boogie Brass Band,” Director’s Choice Award
Director’s Award
Road to California
2021 Road@Home Online Exhibition, “Precarious Times,” Second, What You Think You See
2023 – 2016 Best of the Valley “Studio Time” 2025 Chairman’s Award “Boogie Baby Grand” 2023 First, “Boogie Brass Band” 2019, “Serenity 10: Early Light,” First, 2017; “Serenity 2: Hidden Lake,” First, “Two Notes,” Judges Choice 2016
2020 Cotton Patch Quilters Guild, Bakersfield, CA, “Boogie Brass Band,” Best of Show
2018 Cottonpatch Quilters, Bakersfield, CA, “Crop Circles II,” First, Modern Quilting, “Crop Circles I,” First, Modern Piecing “Aperture,” Third, Modern Piecing
2018 Quilts Art Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, “Crop Circles”
Exhibitions
Art Quilts of California 2017
2017 Art Quilts of California “Serenity 2, Hidden Lake” at California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA; Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, CA
2016 – 2019 Concrete and Grasslands Traveling Exhibition “The Country” at Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grant’s Pass, OR: June 1 – July 29, 2016, 9th Asia Quilt Festival, Shanghai, China: September 22 – 24, 2017, The Spring Knitting & Stitching Show, London, UK: March 1- 4, 2018, Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, UK: August 9 -12, 2018, Knitting & Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace, London, UK: October 11-14, 2018, Knitting & Stitching Show: Harrogate, UK: November 22-25, 2018
2014-15 Oasis “Serenity 1: Oasis” at Palm Springs, CA, Pacific International Quilt Festival, CA
2014 Shades of Passion “Blue Immersion” and “Blue Cogs” at Poway Center for the Performing Arts, Poway, CA, CA
2012 Portraits “Faces 1” at Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, CA
2011 Pain, Let Me Live National Pain Foundation, event and video artwork, Golden, CO
2010 IC Hurts, Interstitial Cystitis Association, permanent exhibit, Rockville, MD
2008 Fragments, “Face 2,” Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2003 Sacred Threads, “Take the Steps,” Columbus, OH
Publications
2023 Black & White, Published by Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “Meditation for Beginners”
Quarantine Quilts, 2021
2021 Quarantine Quilts: Creativity in the Midst of Chaos, Sandra Sider, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., “Precarious Times”
2020 Simply Moderne, Magazine, Issue 20, IQA, “Boogie Wonderland”
2017 Art Quilts, SAQA (Studio Art Quilts Association) “Serenity 2, Hidden Lake”
2016-17 A Sharp Piece of Awesome, Published by Taft College, “Serenity Series”
2015 1000 Art Quilt Inspirations, Sandra Sider, Quarto Publications, “Blue Cogs”
2011 Voices of Pain, National Pain Foundation, “My Pain”
2010 IC Hurts, Interstitial Cystitis Association, quarterly publication, cover, winter edition
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