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Past editor of Art Quilt Quarterly (2016-2023) and a contemporary quilt artust specializing in cyanotype and other photographic processes since 1980, with a focus on techniques of embellishing with paint and thread.

My work in textile art thrives on connections. My cyanotypes begin with the process of sunlight streaming 93 million miles to print my images on cloth. I print cyantoypes outdoors, feeling nature all around me as I take note of wind and clouds when they come into play. The historical continuum of women makers pervades my art. I grew up in Appalachia, where quilts were the lodestone of creativity for my female relatives. Quilt culture and hand stitching have proved important for my series Past Present, in which cyanotype repurposes unfinished antique quilt tops into contemporary art. Color interaction and hand embellishment enliven my new series Diplomatic Dialogues, a multi-part work addressing the semiquincentennial year of the United States and the controversies unfolding. These works in the format of crib quilts are intended to memoralize the children killed and wounded in war.

In “Art Work” you will find my studio quilts in public collections as well as quilts currently available for purchase and exhibition. (All my art work is created in a non-smoking, pet-free environment.) You can also learn about my personal quilt history, including quilts by others that have been my collection. The “Publications” page documents my writing in fiber art and art history; publications that illustrate my studio quilts are listed in the CV within “Bio”. Some of the exhibitions for which I have served as juror or curator can be found in “Curatorial.” From 2019 through 2022, I taught History of Textiles in the MFA Textiles program for Parsons School of Design.The twelve volumes of The Studio Quilt publication series founded by me in 2010 can be purchased via Amazon.com. The series, which closed in 2013, documents a broad range of the quilt art genre, mainly monographs focusing on the work of individual artists.

Images below from the opening night of

USA@250: DIPLOMATIC DIALOGUES

NYC 2026 solo show at ARTIFACT, April 8 - 25

155 Suffolk Street

(machine quilting of all works by Jane Williams)

Diplomatic Dialogue 3: Ukraine

With Diplomatic Dialogue 4: Middle East on your left and Diplomatic

Diaglogue 2: Asia on your right

Diplomatic Dialogue 6: Southeast Asia (left) and Diplomatic Dialogue 7:

Africa (right)

With Ellen Pollan, the ceramic artist who mounted my cowrie shells on

polymer clay for Diplomatic Dialogue 7: Africa

Photo by Andrew Westphal

Photo by Diana Robinson

Women's Voices, Women's Votes, Women's Rights

The image at the top is from the art quilt by the Pixeladies (Kris Sazaki and Deb Cashatt), and the image at the bottom is from Nancy Turbitt's art quilt.

This invitational exhibition, including 18 art quilts, was on view at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock through April 30, 2023, presenting textile art along with numerous documents and artifacts pertaining to suffrage and other issues. The galleries' design palette of purple, yellow, and white represents the historically symbolic colors of suffragists in the United States. Dr. Allida Black and Allison Wilbur organized the exhibition at the request of Hillary Clinton.

**My piece "Right Is of No Sex, Truth Is of No Color": Frederick Douglass and the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments was created for the exhibition. This quilt is now owned by the Center.**