About

Joanna is a quilter and higher education professional whose work includes both original designs and pattern-based quilts. Her original work draws from personal experience, while her broader practice reflects more than fifteen years of experience with traditional piecing, raw-edge appliqué, hand embroidery, and text-based elements.

Her work has received recognition at regional quilt shows, including a Judge’s Choice award at the North Texas Quilt Festival. Work based on published patterns has been selected for the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show (2026), and recent pieces have been selected to tour with the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo across seven cities in the eastern United States (2025–2026).

She holds a PhD in English, where her research examined the relationship between text and image in self-sponsored writing practices. That background informs her attention to language, composition, and visual structure within her quilting practice.

She is originally from Oregon and is currently based in Texas and lives her husband and their Australian cattle dog.