“One Quiltmaker, Many Voices” Quilts by Del Thomas
Feb 4, 2007 – April 11, 2007
Back Porch Fabrics and Quilt Gallery
157 Grand Ave (at Central Ave)
Pacific Grove, CA 831-375-4453
Don’t Miss “Quilts in a Material World: Selections from the Winterthur Museum”
Exhibition: March 10 – September 16, 2007
Conference: March 31, 2007 with workshops and tours on March 30 and April 1
Winterthur’s first quilt exhibition will feature approximately 50 quilts, outstanding documents of the history of their time and their makers. They range [...]
The Tri-Cities Quilter’s Guild (www.tcquilter.ourwest.com/frame.html) will hold their quilt show on Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31, 2007 at the TRAC facility in Pasco, Washington. The hours will be Friday from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Cost is a $4.00 donation at the door, and parking [...]
I am seeing some amazing embroidery. Considering these women lived in yurts with bad lighting, I am truly humbled. I still cannot find anyone that can tell me when the switch from embroidery to patchwork occurred but I suspoect it was in the early 1900’s. Now there textiles are full of plush. Kyrgyzs love [...]
I’m alive and well. However, I wanted to kiss the ground when I got out of the airplane in Osh. I have never been on a plane that vibrated so much that I could not understand the fligth attendant over the P.A. system. The door to the pilot kept coming open. Tray tables kept dropping [...]
I am so pleased to report that the opening of the first joint exhibition of American and Kyrgyz quilts was a HUGE hit. As I predicted, it was packed with several hundred people in attendance. The museum and the Embassy was surprised and we quickly ran out of food and drink and catalogs. It didn’t [...]
It took 34 hours door to door. Fortunately, the trip was pretty uneventful. The weather here is perfect in the 70’s with nice sunshine. I have been told that this will change quickly and that they will have snow by the end of the month. The mountains have snow on them all year round. [...]
I am honored to announce that “Connecting Cultures and Colors: First Kyrgyz-American Quilt Exhibit” will open on October 11 at the Museum of Fine Art in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The exhibit will be up for 3 weeks (I don’t have the offical day it will come down yet). The following artist will have quilts in the [...]
If you would like to listen to the wonderful New Zealand accent, tune in to the audio replay on New Zealand National Radio of a recent interview with leading quilt artists. At the Wellington (New Zealand’s capital city) Academy of Fine Arts, a quilt exhibition (Capital Quilters Exhibition) was held, which encompassed not only [...]
Forty-seven of the “Put a Roof Over Our Head” quilts are on their way to the Genesee Valley Quilt Club quilt show. I want to thank both Ruth Santos and Beth Davis for all their support and help with this. The quilts will be at the Webster Community Field House, 800 Five Mile Line Rd., [...]
On Thursday, August 24 in Rosemont, IL the opening ceremony for the 39-cent stamps for Gee’s Bend happened at The American Philatelic Society’s annual convention. While waiting in line to get in, I eavesdropped on a conversation by some of the Society’s members as they talked about the “strange world of quiltmakers” which made [...]
It is with great sadness that I must let you know that Hilary Fletcher died this morning about 2 a.m. Hilary has been the heartand soul of Quilt National. She had decided earlier this year to retire next year after the 2007 Quilt National. The funeral will be held in Athens, Ohio [...]
On August 4 and 5, Friday and Saturday (9-5) and August 6, Sunday (10-5), “Quilting Melodies” Asheville Quilt Show will be happening at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, North Carolina. Please visit www.main.nc.us/AQG for more details. I know that I am looking forward to seeinghte quilts and hope that I see you there too! [...]
Alliance Member Scott Murkin was interviewed by his local NPR radio station about his quilting and the episode aired on July 14. For anyone interested, you can hear the entire interview online or download it as a podcast. Go to www.wfdd.org and thenclick on “Voices and Viewpoints” where you will see the [...]
From Klara Schafler of Landesberg, Israel on July 18th
Thank you for your concern this night was the first we managed to sleep a few hours, we have spent the last days running in and out of the shelter. I could hear the hits close by. I live in a area surrounded by chemical [...]
In 2001, the Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, agreed to be the depostiory for Kathleen McCrady’s Quilt History Study Hall contents. The study hall was established in 1995 for the purpose of sharing quilt history with visual examples. A classroom in her backyard was used to exhibit the contents that [...]
“The Art of Comfort” brings 40 exquisite American wquilts and comforters from the collection of Gerald E. Roy and the lat Paul Pilgrim to the University of Kentucky Art Museum now until August 13, 2006. The quilts and comforters featured in “The Art of Comfort” are made from traditional materials, including cotton and wool, in [...]
Pamela Allen has received an Honorable Mention award for her quilt “My Best Friends in All of the World” at the International Quilt Festival in Chicago. Please join me in sending her a heartfelt congratulations! You go girl! All the best, Karen
Courtepointe Québec Quilts will be holding their Provincial Quilt Show, entitled “Salon 2006″ on June 1-4, 2006. Workshops, Quilt appraisals, Demonstrations, Vendors, Special Exhibit of Quebec Wool quilts and a Boutique. It will be held at Champlain College, 900 Riverside Drive, St-Lambert, Qc. Admission is $5.
Visit the CQQ website at www.cqq.ca, [...]
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER
Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2007 SYMPOSIUM, “Traditions and Trajectories: Education and the Quiltmaker”
March 1-3, 2007
We invite scholars and artists to submit proposals for papers and panel presentations that explore the full breadth of contexts, both formal and informal, in which the quiltmaker’s art is learned, studied, applied and [...]