About Sheila
Sheila Finzer is a Central Oregon native and a quilt artist currently focusing on landscape art quilts made in a fabric collage, dye painted or multiple technique processes.
She has sewn her whole life, from designing and making clothing, designing applique for clothing in her former national wholesale business "Sew Goes It! Inc.", and for the last twenty-three years she has focused on quilting.
Beyond her BS in Home Economics Education, Sheila has taken many art, and art quilting classes as well as studying on her own. The quilt instructors who have had a major influence on her are: Hollis Chatelain, Ruth McDowell, and Maurine Noble.
Since 2003 Sheila has shown her quilts in many regional and international juried shows. Some of her awards include:
"At the Waterhole": Second Place Innovative, Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA. Oct. 2016.
"Morning Over Lower Bridge": Judges Choice Award (Bobbie Berquist), Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA, Oct. 2011.
"Party Time!": Second Art Small, Pacific West Quilt Show, APWQ, Tacoma, WA, Aug. 2011.
"Circles du Soleil": Best Use of Color Award, Art, " 2008 Quiltfest", APNQ, Seattle, WA, Aug. 2008.
"Welcome to Kodiak!": Pictorial Winner, $100,000 Quilters' Challenge Magazine, Jan. 2007 issue.
"Welcome to Kodiak!: Viewer's Choice, and Honorable Mention, Pacific Northwest Quilt Festival 2006, APNQ, Seattle, WA; Aug. 2006.
Sheila has also shown her quilts in many other prestigious juried shows such as American Quilters Society, in Paducah, Kentucky, and International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas, Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters in Seattle, WA, Association of Pacific West Quilters in Tacoma, WA, and Pacific International Quilt Festival in Santa Clara, CA. She has also shown in many regional shows.
She belongs to SAQA (Studio Art Quilters Association) an international organization, Journeys' an art quilt group in Sisters, OR, and an Art Critique Group with Oregon members.
When not quilting, Sheila enjoys other creative activities, gardening, walking, reading, traveling and spending time with friends, family, her husband Steve, and especially her three grandchildren.
She has sewn her whole life, from designing and making clothing, designing applique for clothing in her former national wholesale business "Sew Goes It! Inc.", and for the last twenty-three years she has focused on quilting.
Beyond her BS in Home Economics Education, Sheila has taken many art, and art quilting classes as well as studying on her own. The quilt instructors who have had a major influence on her are: Hollis Chatelain, Ruth McDowell, and Maurine Noble.
Since 2003 Sheila has shown her quilts in many regional and international juried shows. Some of her awards include:
"At the Waterhole": Second Place Innovative, Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA. Oct. 2016.
"Morning Over Lower Bridge": Judges Choice Award (Bobbie Berquist), Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA, Oct. 2011.
"Party Time!": Second Art Small, Pacific West Quilt Show, APWQ, Tacoma, WA, Aug. 2011.
"Circles du Soleil": Best Use of Color Award, Art, " 2008 Quiltfest", APNQ, Seattle, WA, Aug. 2008.
"Welcome to Kodiak!": Pictorial Winner, $100,000 Quilters' Challenge Magazine, Jan. 2007 issue.
"Welcome to Kodiak!: Viewer's Choice, and Honorable Mention, Pacific Northwest Quilt Festival 2006, APNQ, Seattle, WA; Aug. 2006.
Sheila has also shown her quilts in many other prestigious juried shows such as American Quilters Society, in Paducah, Kentucky, and International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas, Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters in Seattle, WA, Association of Pacific West Quilters in Tacoma, WA, and Pacific International Quilt Festival in Santa Clara, CA. She has also shown in many regional shows.
She belongs to SAQA (Studio Art Quilters Association) an international organization, Journeys' an art quilt group in Sisters, OR, and an Art Critique Group with Oregon members.
When not quilting, Sheila enjoys other creative activities, gardening, walking, reading, traveling and spending time with friends, family, her husband Steve, and especially her three grandchildren.