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Trenton Times: Distinctive Quilt Marks School's New Name

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Trenton Times | April 2017

Artist Colleen Attara, left, presented a 48-square-foot altered book collaborative quilt to Hedgepeth/Williams Middle School of the Arts Friday as the first art installation to cel... Read more →


6ABC: Quilt Project Trenton Middle School

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TRENTON, N.J. (WPVI) - It's one work of art, filled with many others. A 48-square-foot altered-book quilt, carefully assembled by 180 students at Hedgepeth-Williams Middle School in Trenton. A myriad of little details, reflecting the many minds behind it... Read more →


Artists' Cafe: Sprinkling Hearts on Doorsteps

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Artist's Cafe | Winter 2016

How does a card line start? Mine started accidentally. I dropped a bin filled with a few thousand foam hearts in my doorway as I was walking into my house one afternoon last summer. Red hearts in an assortment of s... Read more →


The Paper Chronicles: New from Colleen Attara

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The Paper Chronicles | July 2016

To me, the best greeting cards look like no other — and there’s not a range I can think of that’s more distinctive than that carefully crafted by Colleen Attara. Read the full article...

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Real Woman: Work In Progress

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Real Woman | Spring 2016

Colleen Attara wasn’t a natural-born artistic ingénue. She wasn’t some kind of gifted savant of painting or drawing or sculpting. Instead, she had, from a very young age, an intense creative spirit and a desire to e... Read more →