Valerie S. Goodwin is a practicing Architect and Professor who began designing and making quilts in 1998.  Her interest began as part of her involvement in teaching architectural design classes at Florida A & M University's School of Architecture.  Her students investigate parallels between architecture and quilting as an introduction to ideas about composition, ordering systems, color and pattern.

Her work as an artist uses architectural elements such as built form, city grid, mapping and composition as a source of inspiration.  These pieces are part of a continuing investigation of ideas that focus on geometrical relationships, patterns and ordering principles found in architecture.  Her work conveys these ideas abstractly, through the use of collage, layering, transparency, density, and improvisation.

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