You think you know quilting? Contemporary textiles artist Greg Climer is bringing male archetypes to a medium often reserved for traditional geometrical craftwork.

While quilting in itself has long been a container for historical, social, and cultural information, Climer is on a short but respected list of artists who are pushing the envelope within the art form. Combining fabrics with printed images, deconstructing and reassembling them into pixelated images (and even an animated film), Climer is dissecting the multitude of potentiality of quilts.

Climer received his BFA from Rollins College and an MFA from Parsons School of Design. Originally from Florida, he spent nearly 20 years in New York City before moving to the Bay Area in 2019, when he was offered a job at California College of

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