M.
Joan Lintault is an internationally renowned quilter who is one of among a handful of the original
art quilters. She has been involved in the Fibers
movement and has been exhibiting her work since
1965. In his book The Art Quilt, Robert
Shaw called her “...one of the most consistent
and original of all contemporary quilt makers”.The
work of Ms. Lintault has been exhibited at such
places as, The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian
Institution, The American Crafts Museum, The American
Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and the Museum
of American Crafts. She has shown her work in
over 300 exhibitions.
Her work can be found in such collections as the
American Crafts Museum, The State of Illinois,
Hoffman Estates Public Library, Schaumberg, Illinois,
Illinois State Museum, Evansville Courier, Evansville,
Indiana, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb,
IL. Pere Marquette State Park, State of Illinois,
Grafton, IL, Ardis and Robert James Quilt Collection,
International Quilt Study Center, University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, NE. and numerous public and
private collections.
Born in New York City, Ms. Lintault graduated
from the State University of New York at New Paltz
in 1960 with a bachelor’s degree in Art Education.
She has also earned a Master of Fine Arts degree
in Ceramics from Southern Illinois University
in 1962.
From 1963-1965, Ms. Lintault worked in the Peace
Corps in Quinua and Ayacucho, Peru, in crafts
development where she assisted weavers, knitters
and dyers to improve the quality of their work, |
introduce fast dyes, and set up a crafts cooperative.
Subsequently, she taught weaving at the Esquela
Artisano de Ayacucho where she designed a four-
harness loom, a tapestry loom, and built spinning
wheels.In 1978 Ms. Lintault received an Indo-American
Fellowship Research Grant for 9 months study in
India. The project was titled “Textile Co- operatives
and Processes of India”. She traveled extensively
in India in order to observe traditional textile
processes. She was also able to observe the function
and operation of textile co-operatives and their
effects on the craftspeople in the village life
of India.
In 1984-85 Ms. Lintault received a Fulbright Research
Grant for 9 months study in Kyoto, Japan. The
grant was titled “The Japanese Art of Kusaki-zome
(grass and tree dyes)”. The Fulbright research
included the historical background of traditional
Japanese dyes and their use with the textile resist
techniques of katazome, yuzen, and shibori.
She has taught and lectured on various surface
design techniques throughout the USA, Japan, India,
China, and Malaysia.
After teaching textile design at the University
level for 27 years, Ms. Lintault is currently
living and working in New York State. |
