Quilts from Anderson Artist Guild Member Heidi Wolko On Display at Electric City Playhouse

Growing up in post-war Hamburg, Germany, Heidi Wolko's home economics teacher came up with the bright idea to have all of the girls cut old clothing into strips and then hand-sew them into skirts to compensate for the lack of sewing machines that survived the war. Her mother was dead against this idea and would not allow her to participate believing that, while they were poor, her daughter would not run around in rags. If she knew what her daughter is into now, her mother would turn around in her grave.

Quilting is an absolute passion for Wolko. Her entire day is spent behind the sewing machine and hardly a day goes by that is not spent in her studio. Over the years, her interests have led her to become more interested in contemporary quilting (or art quilting), rather than traditional quilting. Her work has been exhibited at a select group of galleries, the Anderson Arts Center, as well as at the prestigious Quilt Exhibits of the American Quilter's Society in Nashville, TN and in Knoxville, TN. She has been invited by the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY to exhibit one of her pieces in their gallery from December 2010 to March 2011.

A large selection of her quilts will be on display at the Electric City Playhouse from April 1 through May 2. For more information please call (864) 224-4248 or email ecplayhouse@bellsouth.net.