About Rebekka
I started making quilts over 25 years ago when I learned that I was expecting my first child. Because my grandmother
had made quilts all her life, I thought that was something mothers were supposed to do. My grandmother taught me the
basics, but I left the traditional focus of my grandmother’s work to express my own personal view of the world through
my quilts. Applique, reverse applique and batik are the favored techniques in my work which has been included in
shows from Quilt National to Visions to The American Quilt Society’s annual competition where I have won awards 3 times.
I also represented the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the first great American Quilt Competition designed to honor the
centennial of the Statue of Liberty.
I spent 6 years creating a series of 13 quilts detailing the lives of inspiring women of the Twentieth
Century. That exhibit, entitled "Women's Work" has been showing in museums across the country since 2003 to wide
acclaim. I continue to create new works, exploring new techniques and materials. My quilts have taken me across the
country and to Northern Ireland where I was an artist-in-residence in 1995. I was chosen by the Governor of Kentucky
to create the 11 prizes given as the Governor’s Awards in the Arts for 2000. My work is included in many books on
contemporary quiltmaking and craft including Phyllis George’s books on Kentucky and American craft. You can find my work
in many private collections and in the collection of the Evansville Museum of Art and Science in Evansville, Indiana.