Kate Stiassni is a nationally exhibited textile artist and quilt maker. Her expressive, painterly works owe as much to modern art as they do to historic quilts. In addition to fiber arts, Stiassni is involved with architectural design which she practices as a second career. She is a Principal of the residential design firm IMAGINE Design Co.

Stiassni’s textiles are in both private and public collections and have been shown in national juried exhibitions such as Quilts=Art=Quilts, The Studio Art Quilt Associates(SAQA) global exhibitions, Tactile Architecture, and The Modern Quilt Guild Showcase. Stiassni has had solo exhibitions at The Visions Art Museum in San Diego, CA and in galleries in Connecticut, New York City, and Vermont. Her work has been published in books including Quarantine Quilts: Creativity in the Midst of Chaos, Art Quilts International: Abstract and Geometric, The Ultimate Guide to Art Quilting and additionally in a number of peer reviewed textile journals.

Stiassni graduated from the University of Vermont and worked for CBS News as a journalist for 20 years. While launching careers in architecture and in the arts, she studied at the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University, at the Parsons New School of Design, and at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She has also studied with internationally renowned fiber artists Nancy Crow, Dorothy Caldwell, and Jan Myers-Newbury. She is a juried member of the Studio Art QuiltAssociates(SAQA), the Surface Design Association, and the Northwest Connecticut Arts Council.