Mary Lachman

As a visual artist, my work explores the intricate relationships between color, line, and texture, drawing inspiration from the natural world's rhythms and patterns. For over 20 years, quilting has been my primary medium, offering both the comfort of familiar. cloth and the meditative practice of stitching.

I believe that my art is a calling, a way to contribute positively to the world by sharing both the process and the outcome. Every stitch and mark is an act of intention, a step towards making beauty and connection more tangible. My work seeks to bridge the internal and external, the personal and the collective, in an effort to inspire and uplift.

Exhibitions

Selected Juried Group and Invitational

2025, MIXMASTER 2025, Juried Members Show, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, Jan-Feb 2025
2025, Farmington River Quilt Project, Group Invitational, Farmington River Watershed Association, Simsbury, CT, first exhibit Winchester, CT, April 2025
2024 Solo, Unitarian Society of Hartford CT
2024 Annual Members' Juried Show, Connecticut Women Artists, Hartford, CT
2023 Town and Country Club, Group Invitational, Hartford, CT
2023 National Open Juried Exhibition, Connecticut Women Artists, Tunxis Community College, Farmington, CT
2023 Annual Members' Juried Show, Connecticut Women Artists, Art League of New Britain, CT
2020 Local Color 4: Rails, Roads and Rivers, Windsor Arts Center, Windsor CT
2019 Uncommon Beauty, Roche Diagnostics, Tucson, AZ
2018 Local Color 3: Inspired by Science, Windsor Arts Center, Windsor CT
2017 #IBelieveInWaterbury, Juried, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury CT, 2017
2016 Shuffle and Shake, Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery, Arts Council of Greater New Haven, CT
2015-2017 Threads, Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), National Traveling Show

awards

2020 Juror's Award, Connecticut Women Artists Online Juried Show

original publications

Under Glass (Finishing Line Press, 2019)
Moth at the Window: Poetry of G.W. Clayton and Recollections of Indiana (Xlibris, 2014)
Quilting Arts Magazine “Make a Mug Rug” 2015; “Felting Vintage Fibers: What’s Old is New Again” August-September 2013, p. 22-24.

journal/magazine/television

2018 Branford Public Broadcasting with Jan Doyle
2016 The Healing Art of Pathology, College of American Pathologists, Chicago 2016, cover art and feature article
2016 Fiber Art Almanac, Essays from the American Midwest;The Quilt Maker’s Story, Wildwood Press
2010 Natural Awakenings, “Community Spotlight: Expressing Creativity with Mary Lachman and Robin McCahill”, September, p. 34-35.

collections

Eastern Michigan State Museum, Ypsilanti, MI