Featured Artist 2024: LISA DODSON

Our Featured Artist for our 2025 show will be announced this summer. This year’s Featured Artist for the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show 2024 was Lisa Dodson.

Lisa Dodson Artist Bio:

When Lisa Dodson retired in late 2007 and moved back to Indiana, she wanted a new hobby that would satisfy her desire to create and meet new people. Her search led to a new role as a textile artist, and she could not have imagined how addictive quilting would be and how it would take over her life.

Lisa has honed her sewing skills since age 14, but the quilting world was brand new. By 2013, Lisa launched her small, home-based business, Lisa Loves to Quilt LLC, which gave her the opportunity to teach quilting classes, present lectures, and, exhibit and sell her work.

Flora and fauna are the only inspirations Lisa needs to create layered and stitched art. Acrylic paints, watercolors, paper, inks, embroidery threads, fabric dyes, and digital images also enhance her art quilts.

Lisa creates large pieces of fiber art for exhibits and walls, but small, quilted creations to tuck in a corner or on a shelf are also a hallmark of her artistic endeavors.  

Lisa has been a member of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) since 2015 and served as a SAQA IN Co-Regional Representative for six years. She also volunteers as Co-Coordinator for the SAQA Local Connections art quilt group that meets monthly in Bloomington. She has been a three-time recipient of Indiana Arts Commission Grants.  Lisa is currently serving alongside Lisa Ellis as the 2025 Sacred Threads Traveling Exhibit Coordinator that will be debuting at the Houston Quilt Festival in the fall of 2024.

Additional work can be found on her Facebook business webpage.