Sue Wademan’s teaching background –
After many years of teaching children ART, in 1990, Sue began her quilt teaching career with a group of friends who met in her home to learn traditional hand piecing & quilting. This weekly class quickly developed into a community wide course for local quilters, and then progressed onto teaching fabric collage & design workshops for quilting groups around Australia.
Sue soon became well known for her unique fabric collage landscape style and was invited to write a workshop plan called ‘Collage for Art Quilts’, for QUILTSKILLS, a book published in Australia in 1997 and later went on to be published in America. It was a turning point for Sue’s international teaching career.
The book, coupled with Sue’s growing collection of award winning quilts, led to numerous invitations to teach her contemporary textile/quilting style around the world.
Sue has taught at the renowned ‘Houston Quilt Festival’ in Texas, and at a similar international quilting event in Hawaii. In 1999 she was head hunted to teach her Collage Landscapes workshop in eight cities across Japan, which was a fantastic cultural experience for Sue.
By 2000, Sue was organising her own international teaching tours, this time going to Europe and the UK, and on to South Africa, and then again in 2004 to England, Scotland & Ireland, France & Germany.
In between tours, Sue has taught at many New Zealand Quilt Symposiums, and works as a full time artist from her studio in Queenstown.
In 2011 Sue returned to the U.S by invitation of the American Sewing Guild, to teach in Nippono, California and for Crafters Quilters, MA. - https://www.asg.org/
In June 2012, Sue was invited to teach a 5 day fabric collage landscape class at the Abbruzzo School of Creative Art in Italy. www.abruzzoschoolofcreativeart.com
Sue soon became well known for her unique fabric collage landscape style and was invited to write a workshop plan called ‘Collage for Art Quilts’, for QUILTSKILLS, a book published in Australia in 1997 and later went on to be published in America. It was a turning point for Sue’s international teaching career.
The book, coupled with Sue’s growing collection of award winning quilts, led to numerous invitations to teach her contemporary textile/quilting style around the world.
Sue has taught at the renowned ‘Houston Quilt Festival’ in Texas, and at a similar international quilting event in Hawaii. In 1999 she was head hunted to teach her Collage Landscapes workshop in eight cities across Japan, which was a fantastic cultural experience for Sue.
By 2000, Sue was organising her own international teaching tours, this time going to Europe and the UK, and on to South Africa, and then again in 2004 to England, Scotland & Ireland, France & Germany.
In between tours, Sue has taught at many New Zealand Quilt Symposiums, and works as a full time artist from her studio in Queenstown.
In 2011 Sue returned to the U.S by invitation of the American Sewing Guild, to teach in Nippono, California and for Crafters Quilters, MA. - https://www.asg.org/
In June 2012, Sue was invited to teach a 5 day fabric collage landscape class at the Abbruzzo School of Creative Art in Italy. www.abruzzoschoolofcreativeart.com