After Angkor by Robert Leathers - 55 x 36 inches

Direct applique, machine embellished, machine quilted, hand dyed fabric by Judy Robertson

CREAM Award

The CREAM Award, (Cathy Rasmussen Emerging Artist Memorial Award) is awarded by The Studio Art Quilt Association, a non-profit national organization founded to serve artists working in the quilt medium and presented to an artist who has had their work in this exhibition for the first time. The CREAM Award is so named in memory of SAQA's first executive director, Cathy Rasmussen. The board of directors of SAQA has chosen Robert Leathers of San Diego, California, formerly of Ithaca, New York, as the recipient of this year's award for his work After Angkor.