Terrie Mangat is an internationally known textile artist from Taos, New Mexico. Ms. Mangat has been generally credited with pioneering and popularizing embellishment on contemporary quilts since the early 1970’s. She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1970 with a degree in Art, and has exhibited and taught quilt making both around the US and abroad for 30 years. Her work has been shown in such venues as the San Jose Quilt Museum, the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in New York, the San Diego Historical Society and the International Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe. In 2000, "Dashboard Saints: In Memory of Saint Christopher, Who Lost His Magnetism" was named one of the Top 100 American Quilts of the 20th Century.

Ms. Mangat’s quilts are mixed media and often depict something that she has seen or observed. Due to mastery of her technique, she is equally comfortable with pictorial, traditional or abstract expressions. The subject matter of her work generally falls into the categories of personal experience, social and political philosophy, and cultural and ethnographic appreciation. In addition to being a world-recognized quilt maker, Ms. Mangat designs and prints fabric. She has created acclaimed designs for several commercial fabric houses. She also has constructed her own screen-printing studio where she practices the technical aspects of printing her hand drawn gouache designs on silk and cotton.

Kentucky
Born and raised in Cold Spring, Kentucky, Terrie Hancock Mangat has been sewing by hand and machine since the age of 6. During childhood, Terrie was heavily exposed to Kentucky's rich quiltmaking heritage, which formed her technical and aesthetic foundations for quiltmaking. She was inspired by Mrs. Earl B. Clay of Carlisle, Kentucky, and most of her quilts have been quilted by Sue Rule, also of Carlisle, Kentucky (pictured with Terrie at right).
Oklahoma
Following college, Terrie lived in Oklahoma with her husband Devinder, while he studied medicine at the University of Oklahoma. It was during this period that she made her famous "Oklahoma Quilt" featuring themes of oil wells and rodeo cowboys. During the Oklahoma years, she made her first visits to Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, which would play an important role in her later work.
Kenya
On a half-dozen occasions during the seventies and eighties, Terrie traveled to Africa with her husband, who was born in Kenya. These trips provided much inspiration, specifically around materials and embellishments. African cultural crafts and curios inspired her trademark use of beads, trinkets and other three-dimensional embellishments.
New Mexico
Terrie has incorporated themes of the southwest into her quilts and fabric designs, most notably in her acclaimed "Deer Dancer" and "Mexican Graveyard" pieces. Terrie's trips to the Pueblo country around Santa Fe and Taos during the eighties and nineties provided much of this inspiration. She has lived in Taos full-time since 1998.
Americana
Growing up near Cincinnati, which straddles the Mason-Dixon, Terrie gained a deep appreciation for southern and Midwestern culture. This blend of American influences is most evident in her landmark quilt, American Heritage Flea Market. Whether an Elvis Presley lamp or an Uncle Sam coin bank, Terrie has always been intrigued by the cultural oddities that represent "Americana".
Over-the-Rhine
In 1994, Terrie and her sister, Becky Hancock founded St. Theresa Textile Trove in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati , located in the inner city. The store was not only a commercial enterprise, but an intersection of art, culture and service. Along side the business, Terrie created after-school programs for latch-key children, providing an alternative to the perils of the street.