Welcome to my website! My name is Betty Busby. I am an artist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
I am a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where I majored in ceramics. After RISD, I founded a ceramic tile manufacturing studio in Los Angeles,
ran it for 18 years, and sold it to move to New Mexico. I am happy to say that it is still in business today.
I have been working full-time making fiber art and teaching since I moved to New Mexico in 1994. The Fiber Gallery and Collage Gallery contain full (and some detail) images.
For complete sale information, visit my Etsy shop:
http://www.bbusbyarts.etsy.com
I now have a blog to contain some random babblings: Betty Busby Blog
Ovum won first place at Art Quilts XVIII at the Chandler Center for the Arts, Arizona.
The Quilt Symposium Manatwatu website is now up, yes, I'm going to New Zealand in 2015!!
Quilt Symposium
Art Quilt Santa Fe 2014 was a rousing success- Here's Theresa, back for her fourth year in a row!
for registration for 2015, check artquilt santa fe
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Dendrite (detail below) has been accepted to the 2014 Art Quilt Elements in Wayne, Pa.
Amazing but true, I have been awarded Best in Show for the second year in a row at Form, Not Function at the Carnegie Center. I am very grateful!
Retia, 60x45"
Sand Dollar Spectrum won the Award for Creative Artistry in Fort Collins and was sold from the show.
Genesis: Colony was awarded the Whistler Prize at the Whistler Museum, Lowell MA 2013
Check out my article Quilting Arts in Stitches-
it has videos and everything!
Welcome to the Jungle was awarded Best Wall Quilt at the American Quilter's Society show in Knoxville.
It was chosen to represent the Natural World book in Houston and was sold from the show.
Christine Brown's interview with me is in the November issue of American Quilter.
String Theory appeared at the Arvada Center for the Arts in Colorado in the" SAQA: Structure" exhibit shown above, and was purchased from the exhibition..
Photo courtesy of Christi Beckmann
 
Fissure appeared in Artist as Quiltmaker in Oberlin Ohio
Fracture was Best in Show at the Carnegie Center.
Night Jungle on the cover!
Opposites Attract was selected to be a part of the 2011 Quilt National Show.
It was a privelige to attend the opening weekend, and meet the other artists from around the world.
Kudos and many thanks to Kathleen Dawson and staff, who did a fantastic job.
Deidre Adams has a great post about it on her blog, she really went out of her way to get photos of people with their work- Deidre Adams
we had a great time visiting the Texas Quilt Museum in October! |
Ginger Jar has been accepted to Form, Not Function at the Carnegie Center
Corrosion (detail) is in SAQA's Redirecting the Ordinary |
I am the featured artist in the spring 2014 SAQA Journal
Diatom II premiered in SAQA's "Sense of Scale" in Houston and was
sold from the show.
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 Voodoo Lily now appearing in Paducah |
My solo show at the Dunedin Fine Art Center in Florida in conjunction with Quilt National '11. www.dfac.org
See the whole article at the On View Magazine site-on view |
Secrets received an award at Q=A=Q 2013 in NY |
 
I am one of the featured artists in the Natural World, available on Amazon.com
and Nucleus is on the cover of Sense of Adventure
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Another successful SAQA show on the way, this time in the Capitol Rotunda Gallery in Santa Fe.
Fourteen pieces from the show have been selected by Dr. Sandra Sider for "Land of Enchantment- Art Quilts from New Mexico" at the Texas Quilt Museum from October 2 - January 31 2013 |
We're very proud to announce the publication of our first regional New Mexico catalog. It features works from multiple exhbitions: Enchanted Threads, A Walk in the Wild and New Mexico:Unfolded. The limited printing run will be available at the SAQA conference in Santa Fe.
Julie Filatoff did a magnificent job with the design and layout of the catalog- see her work here-http://www.jirafstudio.com, or on her blog, http://www.jirafstudio.blogspot.com.
Thank you Julie for your countless hours of work on this project!! |
String Theory appeared at the Arvada Center for the Arts in Colorado in the" SAQA: Structure" exhibit shown above, and was purchased from the exhibition.. |
Conundrum received a purchase prize from the City of Chandler at Art Quilts XVII |
Christine Brown's interview with me is in the November issue of American Quilter.
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Organelle was exhibited at Art Quilt: Elements at the Wayne Art Center. It was sold from the show. |
Flow received an award at New Fibers 2012 in Ypsilanti MI, and is included in the review of the show in Fiber Art Now magazine.
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Mourning Doves is on the post card for the show in Chandler Arizona and will be in Utah
for the Brigham City Museum's International Quilt Invitational Exhibition: July, 2014
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The premiere of our SAQA show Enchanted Threads here in Albuquerque was very well received.
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  Quilt Life has a feature on Cherry trees.
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Primordium's on the "Mad about Color" postcard. It won Best of Show and has been sold. |
5 pieces have been shipped to the Taiwan Art Quilt Exhibit for another wonderful show for Hsien-Chen!
Quilt Expo Beaujolais put on a small exhibit of my quilts this year. |
 
The Prescott College Art Gallery in Prescott AZ had an invitational fiber art exhibit titled "Common Threads". Cherry Trees sold from the show, and will also be featured in an article in
Quilting Life Magazine.
Images courtesy of PC Art Gallery at Sam Hill
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Ending/Beginning was shown in Sacred Threads 2011, and received an award at the Pennsylvania Quilt Expo. - more about this piece on my blog.
Push, in Quilt Visions in Oceanside, Ca, has been sold from the show to a private collector.
and Hill Country received the Texas Independance Award.
It was a wonderful Festival, visiting with old and new friends
The "Deep Spaces" show, curated by Larkin Van Horn, featured Medusa and Coral Spawn |
"La Luz" received an award in the "Good for You" special exhibit in the Houston Quilt show.
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The November 2009 issue of Machine Quilting Unlimited (below) features my work.
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Visit TAFA, the Textile and Fiber Art list- I'm a proud member! tafa |
The Whistler House Museum in Lowell, Mass, included Storm and Fracture in this summer's "Art Quilts at the Whistler"
"Art Quilts Lowell: The Sea" at the Brush Gallery featured Triggerfish and Garibald- which were both sold from the show.
Coral Sea is a prizewinner at the World Quilt Show and will travel to the other Mancuso shows in 2011,
Aloft will tour in 2012.
"The Art Quilt Experience" in Cazenovia, NY included Pod, which was sold from the show.
Layers of Memory opened at the World quilt Show in Manchester NH. Shattered was chosed to be a part of the exhibition. |
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"Sandia Mountain Spring" (above) was an award winner at IQA's "Wonders of the World" special exhibition and has been purchased by Karey Bresenhan. I am deeply honored!
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Magpies appeared in "For the Birds", an all media show at the Brush Gallery in Lowell, Mass: Brush Gallery The juror for the exhibition is David Allen Sibley, one of the foremost bird artists of our time: Sibley
A full color catalog of the show is available from the Brush Gallery.
Fish Eye View was Best Wall Quilt at the Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival, and has been sold. |
Eleanor Bailey was a beloved artist who passed away in February.
Her church presented me with the first annual arts award in her memory- I am truly honored.
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Plexus will appear in Interpretations 2011 at the Visions Gallery
The Beyond Benign Foundation in Wilmington, Massachusetts, featured Cytology, Metaphase, and Primordia in November as part of its Art Meets Science open house.
Beyond Benign is an educational foundation of Warner Babcock devoted to educating the public about the uses of green chemistry.
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My work has been selected for inclusion in Quilt Visions "Interpretations 2009." Click on the image at left for a printable poster.
Check out the August/
September 2009 issue of Quilting Arts Magazine. It's full of wonderful articles, including one by me on beaded trees.
Linda Faigen has published a profile of me on her blog. I have republished it here
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