The International Quilt Study Center and Museum’s seventh biennial symposium, “Making and Mending: Quilts for Causes and Commemoration,” will be held April 16-18 at UNL.
The symposium will explore the way makers have used quilts to advocate their interests. Whether they made quilts to raise money for the Red Cross or to advocate peace, quiltmakers past and present support the causes and commemorate the lives important to them.
Presentations at this year’s symposium include:
“Piecing Grief, Making Claims: Commemorative Quilts and American Activism” by Erika Doss, professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame and author
“Stitch (in) a Community Together: How Historical Signature Quilts Informed a Series of New Collaborative Projects” by Lynn Setterington, British textile artist and scholar
“Civilians Face the War: Experiences on the Homefront” by Madelyn Shaw, independent curator specializing in textiles and dress in American history and culture
“Quilts: Making, Giving and Sharing JOY” by Victoria Findlay Wolfe, award winning quilter, designer, author and co-founder of New York City Modern Quilt Guild
Symposium attendees will be given curator-led tours of the Quilt House exhibitions “Covering the War: American Quilts in Times of Conflict,” “Signature Cloths” and “Reflections of the Exotic East in American Quilts.” While at Quilt House, the home of the IQSCM, attendees will also have an opportunity to see the latest progress on the new building expansion, which will double the size of the museum’s galleries and exhibition storage space.
On April 16, attendees will be invited to a special opening reception at the Great Plains Art Museum where they will see the final showing of “Homefront and Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War.”
Registration for the symposium is $150 for UNL faculty and staff members and $20 for students. The fee covers the cost of attending the lectures and tours as well as lunches and snacks.
For more information or to register, go to http://www.quiltstudy.org/ or call 402-472-6549.
