Denny Peterson

Denny Peterson is an award-winning art quilter and has been creating quilts since the 1990’s.  She started making traditional quilts, but found that she loves to artfully depict nature in her quilts by using fabric collage and other non-traditional techniques.  She uses reference photographs, pieces of fun fabrics, scissors, glue, and threads to create unique quilts showing wildlife and landscapes, primarily of the American southwest. 

Denny has been an artist in residence at Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Park on the Navajo Nation in Ganado, Arizona; Petrified Forest National Park near Holbrook, Arizona; and Fort Union National Monument near Las Vegas, New Mexico.  Quilts created by Denny that were inspired by those residencies are in the collections of the National Park Service.  Denny also received a Professional Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and is a member of the Studio Art Quilters Association and an Associate Member of Artists for Conservation.  Her quilts have been juried into exhibitions across the United States and are in private collections in the United States and Canada.  Denny’s quilts have also appeared in publications, calendars, and on posters.

Denny taught sewing and quilt classes at a quilt shop in Green Valley, Arizona.  She also helped Girl Scouts with their sewing and quilting projects.  She meets regularly with a quilter friend to work in the same space on their own projects to playfully encourage each other to keep moving them toward completion.