STEM + Quilting With Kids:
Tessellations

by Marquetta Johnson

We are surrounded by shapes that interact with each other in amazing ways that display beauty and order. One way that finds itself repeated in every aspect of our lives is called Tessellation. Join teaching artist Marquetta Johnson in her series about applying science, technology, engineering, and math to quilting with kids.
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Marquetta Bell Johnson was born into a family of tailors and quilters.  Her family life provided a rich environment that fostered her creativity as a youth.  She is a self-taught artist, creating hand dyed textiles, quilts, and collectibles.  She has been fortunate because she has also benefited by the lessons she learned from other surface design artists and quilters.

Marquetta is also a teaching artist affiliated with many organizations such as The High Museum of Art -Atlanta, VSAarts of GA, the Atlanta Partnership for the Arts in Learning, and the Names Project Foundation-the AIDS Memorial Quilt. 

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