Judy Gelzinis Donovan is an award-winning wearable art designer and quilter who has been practicing her craft for over 35 years.
Awards include 2nd prize in the 2022 Pacific International Wearable Art Festival, 1st and 2nd prizes in the Jacket Division at the 2019 Pacific International Wearable Art Competition, Best of Show at the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Wearable Art Competition, 2nd prize in the 2018 Stitches East Student Fashion show, Excellence in Surface Design in the Philadelphia Guild of Handweavers’ Celebration of Fibers exhibition, Most Innovative Design at the 2016 Pacific International Quilt Festival and Viewers’ Choice 2016 and Honorable Mention 2017 in the SewBatik! Fashion competitions. She designed for 3 invitational Bernina Fashion shows and 4 Fairfield Fashion shows and for a Philadelphia opera company. She has taught for Stitches at Home and for many Mancuso Quilt Festivals, both online and in-person. Most recently she was Keynote Speaker for the
Philadelphia Chapter of the American Sewing Guild. Judy is also a weaver, spinner, dyer and beadwork artist, who knits every day of her life. A former art & museum librarian, she lives in Philadelphia with her husband and Siamese twin cats.
