Jody Ohrt has been quilting since 1995. She completed "A Course in Judging Quilts and Wearable Art" sponsored by The Northern California Quilt Council (NCQC) in 2001. She has judged many quilting competitions including The Best of The Valley Quilt Show and Pacific International Quilt Festival. Heirloom machine quilting on antique linens is among the loves of Jody's quilting “hobby”. Her work is published in the American Quilting Sociaty book, Whole Cloth Linen Quilts, by Cindy Needham. Active in the Valley Quilt Guild in Yuba City, Jody has served on the Board of Directors and is involved in planning many guild projects including the chairmanship of the 2010 quilt show, “Threads of Friendship”. She was honored by her guild in 2009 by being selected as “Featured Quilter” for the 25th anniversary quilt show, “Silver Threads”. She lives in northern Yuba County, California with her husband and three dogs.
Dawn Licker is an avid quilter and quilt show judge. She is an American Quilting Society (AQS) certified quilt appraiser. She is also a co-owner of the
Quilters Corner quilt shop in Sacramento, California, and was actively involved
in the California Heritage Quilt Project. Her true love and quilting
speciality is folk art and Baltimore album applique, and she has studied with
numerous teachers including Elly Sienkiewicz. Dawn has also been involved
with fabric design for Kaufman Fabrics and Elly Sienkiewicz’s fabric line. Dawn
is active in the Northern California Quilt Council (NCQC), and in 2003 attended
NCQC’s judging course. She has judged quilts and wearable art at guild
shows, county fairs, and Pacific International Quilt Festival. Dawn
resides in Sacramento, California
Elizabeth
Marrs has been involved with quiltmaking since the 1970's. She combined her
passion for quilting with her earlier teaching experience and taught quilting
in Sacramento before opening a shop called Quilters' Corner there in 1981. She served as an active Board Member of the
Northern California Quilt Council (NCQC) for sixteen years.
Elizabeth
successfully completed the National Quilt Association's "Short Course on
Quilt Judging." She participated as a member of the NCQC committee that
compiled "Guidelines for Judged
Quilt Competitions," a manual for judges and sponsoring organizations.
Since 1991 she has been judging quilts at county fairs and quilt shows, the California State Fair, and
Pacific International Quilt Festival. From 1997 through 2003 Elizabeth and
Helen Powell presented the educational program “How Do Judges Judge?” She also served on the team that developed
and presented “A Course on Judging Quilts and Wearable Art” sponsored by NCQC
until 2003.
Diane Perin Hock made her first quilt when she was in junior high school, and has continued to play with fabric and quilts throughout her life. She had the good fortune to work in several fabric stores and learn quilt making and fiber art techniques from a talented array of teachers, including Karen Stone, Sue Benner, Freddy Moran, Judy Mathieson, Patty Hawkins and Carol Soderlund.
Diane founded the Artful Quilters Blog ring to connect blogging art quilters with each other, and is a member of several local quilt guilds and art groups. She also founded the Twelve by Twelve International Art Quilt Challenge group, and with that those quilt artists authored Twelve by Twelve: The International Art Quilt Challenge” published by Lark Crafts in 2011. Her art quilts have been exhibited at the International Quilt Festival in Houston TX and Long Beach, CA; Pacific International Quilt Festival in Santa Clara, CA; the Visions Art Gallery in San Diego, CA; the Northwest Quilting Expo in Portland, OR; the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne, Australia, the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, England, the Craft and Quilt Fair in Hamilton, New Zealand, as well as in other shows and galleries throughout the world. Diane is a lawyer and home-schooling mom by day and resides in Healdsburg, California with her husband, daughter, a rambunctious black lab and two cats. She blogs about her life at www.goingtopieces.blogspot.com, and her work with Twelve by Twelve can be seen at www.twelveby12.org.
Judy
Mullen is a 2001 graduate of the NCQC course "Judging Quilts and Wearable
Art". Since completing the course she has judged many shows and
fairs. An accomplished artist, Judy has won many awards for her wearable
art creations throughout her career. Judy has a line of self
published patterns, she teaches classes in wearable art and speaks to guilds
while sharing her trunk show.
