French quilt artist Sheila Frampton Cooper will deliver a First Friday lecture at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 2 at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum, 1523 N. 33rd St.

In the talk, “The Twisted Path of My Creative Journey,” Cooper will offer insight into her work, which is currently on display in the museum’s Pumphrey Family Gallery.

After channeling her artistic muse to painting, jewelry making and architectural photography for many years, Cooper plunged into abstract quiltmaking in 2010. Guided by no plan, no sketch and no agenda, but fed by intuition and inspired by nature’s palette, she speeds into journeys of revelation and surprise in her quilt studio. Her live intensity is apparent in the colors, lines and shapes of her improvisational textile works.

“Whether I’m painting, drawing or piecing a studio quilt, moving head first into the unknown fuels my creativity,” Cooper said. “I relish all the surprising discoveries along the way as the journey starts to reveal itself to me.”

In addition to the lecture, visitors are invited to tour the museum’s galleries free of charge from 4:30 to 7 p.m. as part of the First Friday Artwalk. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, including studio hours, click here.