Cat Mailloux

Artist Bio

Cat Mailloux’s (she/her) is an American fiber artist working across quilting, sculpture, and installation. Mailloux is based in Columbus, OH, and serves as an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Cedarville University. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Ohio State University and a BFA in Sculpture and Art Education from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Her visual work has been exhibited in galleries across the country including Women Made Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, Skylab Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, and Coram Deo Gallery in Omaha, Nebraska. She has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Centers (Johnson, VT), PADA Studios (Barreiro, Portugal) and Walkaway House (North Adams, MA). She is the recipient of grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council, the VPA Office at Cedarville University, and The Ohio State University.  

Exhibition Title: Sun Passage

Sun Passage is a series of sewn paintings that track the movement of light across the walls of domestic and public spaces. Like a sundial or time keeping device, the works track the passage of time through shifting light and shadows. Expanding upon traditional North American quilting techniques, they disrupt and distort the conventional quilting grid to form constructed surfaces that are both paintings and objects. The quilts serve as time stamps, marking the temporal mark of light in various spaces like an abandoned building, the artist’s home, and the rose window of a church, locating proximities of time and presence.

Titles/Dimensions of Works:

Four to Six, 40 inches x 50 inches
Morning, 40 inches x 40 inches
Golden Hour, 40 inches x 30 inches
Rose Window, 24 inches x 18 inches
Sidewalk, 24 inches x 16 inches
Divine Light, 16 inches x 15 inches

Artist Workshop (“Bending the Block” alternative title)

The artist will lead a workshop focused on ways that a quilt block can be activated beyond the traditional grid. Working from techniques of English paper piecing, string blocks, and improvisational quilting, students will design and make color fabric collages that warp and bend the conventional quilt block.