Patricia A. Montgomery has created paintings, sculptures, installations and textile works for exhibitions national and international. The art quilt titled “Cosmos Dance” received Juror’s Choice for Excellence in Design from the Professional Art Quilt Alliance – South. Her art work has been published in numerous publications such as American Style - February 2009; Somerset Home Volume 2 - August, 2007; and catalog: Quilting African-American Women’s History: Our Challenges, Creativity and Champions and Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project. This year the quilt titled “Alan’s Blues” was selected for the exhibition “Amazing Wonders: Quilts by African Americans in the Northern California Region” at the 40 Acres Art Gallery. This exhibition will celebrate the diversity of quilt-making today and will be accompany by a full-color catalogue. Also her art quilts are in several private collections in New York, Chicago and California. In 2000, she participated in the Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea held at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, Italy. Upon her return from Italy, she collaborated with the mural artist, Daniel Galvez to complete a commission public art project for the African-American Museum and Library in Oakland, California. This project was titled “A Journey of Promise” which honors the achievements of African American living in Northern California. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from John F. Kennedy University.

Color, texture and movement have always played a major role in the development of my work. These concepts have been applied to my paintings, ceramic sculptures, art quilts and mixed media installation projects. Currently, she is working on a series of fabric paintings entitled “Syncopation” that combines contemporary strip piecing with layers of free motion quilting. The art quilt titled “Syncopation IV” received the 2008 Juried All-Media Exhibition Award from the Palos Verdes Art Center in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.