Sandra Sider | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | New York University Institute of Fine Arts, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Columbia University |
| Movement | Quilt art |
Sandra Sider (born 1949, in Alabama) is an American quilt artist, author, and curator. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, specializing in Renaissance studies. She also holds an M.A. in art history from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
Sider served as curator for the Texas Quilt Museum from 2012 until 2021, and as editor in chief of Art Quilt Quarterly from 2017 until 2023.
She has taught art history at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in New York City, and at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Adelphi University, and the University of Colorado online. From 2019 through 2022, she taught History of Textiles for the MFA Textiles program at Parsons School of Design. Her publications include several books and numerous articles pertaining to Renaissance history, visual culture, and contemporary quilt art, including Maps, Charts, Globes: Five Centuries of Exploration, published by The Hispanic Society of America, where she was Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books from 1985 until 1994; Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe, published by Facts on File in 2005, with an online second edition in 2023; Pioneering Quilt Artists, 1960–1980: A New Direction in American Art; her monograph series The Studio Quilt published via Amazon from 2010 to 2013; and, 1000 Quilt Inspirations, published by Quarry. Sider has also published translations of two Spanish poets: Journeys of a Mystic Soul in Poetry and Prose: Cecilia del Nacimiento: (ACMRS Press, 2012); and Selected Sonnets of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz(Peregrina Publishers, 1991). Her most recent book is Quarantine Quilts: Creativity in the Midst of Chaos (Schiffer 2021).