Patti Quinn Hill was born in 1948 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is now residing on a wonderful farm in Weaverville, NC. Patti has been a basket maker since 1987. She is a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild and has been on the Board of Trustees for that organization and is a member of many national basket maker organizations. Her teaching experience consists of Penland School of Craft, Arrowmont School of Craft, National Basketry Organization, CraftSummer at Miami University of Ohio, Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Arts Academy, Tennessee Art Educators Association, American Craft Council Southeast Seminar, and teaching for private groups and guilds. She has been featured in many gallery exhibitions, books on basketmaking, as well as wreath making and beadwork. Patti has won awards for her baskets at gallery shows and fairs and national basket maker conventions. Her work can be found in many private and corporate collections around the world. Her contemporary style leans more to the artistic elements of design working in archival paper. Patti's woven vessels of paper can be acquired through Blue Spiral I Gallery, the Folk Art Center, and by commission.
