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MAQS Staff Presenting at Symposium

The Museum of the American Quilter’s Society (MAQS) is proud to announce that Curator of Education Carrie Cox, PhD, and Curator of Collections/Registrar Judy Schwender, MA, will be presenting at the 2007 International Quilt Study Center Symposium at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

This year’s IQSC symposium, Traditions and Trajectories: Education and the Quiltmaker, is scheduled for 1-3 March. Scholars, artists, quilt makers and quilt enthusiasts will study and discuss how the quiltmaker’s art is learned, studied, applied and handed on.

Titled Quilt School: The Role of the Quilt Museum Cox and Schwender’s presentation delves into the quilt museums’ role in education. They will discuss the many avenues provided by quilt museums to transmit the traditions and possibilities for expression found in quilting and quiltmaking. Though relatively new, quilt museums are a growing source of information and inspiration to quilters and non-quilters.

Among the avenues explored will be the role of the quilt museum locally, providing arts enrichment for schools and children; the role of the quilt museum in providing workshops that reach a regional audience; the role of the quilt museum in creating exhibits that excite and inform national and international audiences; and the role of the quilt museum in stimulating quilters to try new techniques. In each of these cases Cox and Schwender will show that the museum truly functions as an educational conduit of quiltmaking skills and appreciation.

Every other year the IQSC at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln brings together over 150 individuals interested in quilt design and quilting traditions. A world-wide audience has the opportunity to hear lectures, paper presentations and panel discussions and visit a variety of quilt exhibitions. The goal of this gathering is to celebrate quilts and quiltmaking.

The Museum of the American Quilter’s Society is a non-profit institution located in downtown Paducah, KY. The Museum is open year-round Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. CST. The Museum is also open on Sundays 1-5 p.m. April - October. MAQS is accessible.

The Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency in the Commerce Cabinet, provides operational support funding for The Museum of the American Quilter’s Society with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

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