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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 […]
Quilting Arts 2008 Calendar Contest Theme
Quilting Arts Magazine® is pleased to announce the seventh annual Quilting Arts Magazine® Calendar Contest.
The theme for the Quilting Arts Magazine® 2008 Calendar Contest is “A Novel Idea.” Show them in stitch, fabric, and embellishment how a favorite work of fiction has inspired you, influenced your life, changed you, made you laugh, or brought you […]
American Sewing Expo Contests
The American Sewing Expo will be held at the The Rock Financial Showplace, Novi, Michigan, from 28-30 September 2007. This year, among their many contests, will be a competition for the Art of the Quilt. The 2007 Art of the Quilt show and competition theme will be “Twirls, Swirls and Pearls.” Be creative. Think outside […]
18th Annual Quilt/Surface Design Symposium
The Quilt Surface Design Symposium (QSDS) has been critical to the non-traditional quilt movement since 1990 in providing education for all those interested in exploring their own potential in the medium. To this end, they have selected the very best teachers available worldwide to give workshops annually at a two-week conference in Columbus, Ohio.
They have […]
Quilts! Quilts! Quilts! Show Begins
The Museum of East Texas presents Quilts! Quilts! Quilts!, an exhibition featuring 52 quilts ranging from 1840 to Art Quilts created in 2007. The opening reception for Quilts! Quilts! Quilts! is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, 4 March. The exhibition is co-curated by C. James Haley, Jr. and J.P. McDonald. Quilts will be […]
Kentucky State Fair 2007
The KHQS (Kentucky Heritage Quilting Society) wants to know if you’ve ever considered entering a quilt into the Kentucky State Fair? There are a number of categories in which you may enter your quilts each year. Maybe you have a quilt already completed, or one in the process that you could enter in 2007!
Categories range […]
Virtual Quilt Show Call for Entries
That’s right! A virtual quilt show! The Ties That Bind Virtual Quilt show features eight categories. Among the categories is a special one for virtual quilt design. The Virtual Quilt show is open to any quilt guild member of the universe. If you have an Internet connection, you can enter the quilt show.
Sponsored by the […]
4 Guys Exhibit at MAQS Begins
At right: Glen Eyrie Castle, 50� x 51�, by Ricky Tims of LaVeta, CO©.
Find insight into the male mind during the exhibit 4 Guys and Their Quilts at the Museum of the American Quilter’s Society (MAQS)!
On exhibit 16 May - 12 August, these quilts combine the talents of four male award-winning quilters: John Flynn, Gerald […]
Katrina Quilt Show Begins
If you remember the post I put up earlier this month about the Katrina quilts, and if you missed them at the “Road to California” quilt show, you still might be in luck. The Huntsville Times (Alabama) states that four of these unique quilts will adorn the walls of the Huntsville Museum of Art, 300 […]
