Linda Peetz Kramer, Artist and Quilter

As an artist, I have worked in various art media, including stained glass, pottery, bead work, photography, graphic arts, jewelry making, and silversmithing. I was introduced to contemporary quilting in 2003, and now I primarily work creating art quilts and hand-dyeing fabric for use in my work.

My quilts have been included in regional, national, and international juried shows and invitational exhibits. I have quilts in private and public collections. It was a pleasure and a challenge to coordinate an invitational quilt exhibit at the Oxford Community Arts Center. Another challenge gladly I accepted was to coordinate a quilt show of 40 quilts and a mini-quilt auction to accompany the musical “Quilters” also at the Oxford Community Arts Center, Oxford, OH.

In addition to quilting, I enjoy photography and have had photos in several juried shows, including the International Quilt Festival-Houston and the Fitton Center for Creative Arts in Hamilton, OH.

In September 2015, I retired as Director of Communications in the College of Engineering and Computing at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Prior to this, I was an art teacher in a public school system.

After retiring, I returned to teaching. However, this time, my teaching is about art quilting, fabric dying, color, kaleidoscopic quilts, and other fabric-related things I love. Giving talks about art quilting, how my quilts are made, and the inspirations for them is exciting and a pleasure.

You may notice a gap in my quilt exhibitions from 2019 until now. In late 2018, my husband and I were in a car crash and my life was forever changed. A distracted teenage driver ran a stop sign and T-boned me. I bore the brunt of impact and had numerous internal injuries including a severe concussion. I spent several months in concussion therapy trying to recover from post-traumatic concussion syndrome. I also had numerous painful spinal and hip procedures and surgery. My husband did not seem to be injured in the crash, just sore. However, a few months later he had a stroke, followed by a heart attack and onset dementia. He never completely recovered and passed away on May 1, 2021.  

During this difficult time, from the accident in 2018 until recently, I was unable to do art, quilting, drawing, designing, etc. I was in physical, mental, and emotional pain from the accident, being a caregiver, and my husband’s death. My mother also died during this time from a fall. I had lost my way and had no desire or ability to be creative. 

We lived in Oxford, OH for 45 years and I now live in Hamilton, OH (my hometown). I sold our home and moved to a wonderful retirement community. This was the change I needed to recover and get back being creative again. I AM BACK, I AM STRONG, I AM CREATIVE and I am now working on designing and making quilts, and will be teaching again this fall.

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