Advisory Board

Advisory Board of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum

  • Current Advisory Board Members

    *Mariko Akizuki of Japan
    Representing Nihon Vogue company, Ltd.,a multifaceted company involved in publishing (publisher of Quilt Japan), education, and special events,and Executive Director of the Japan Handicraft Instructors' Association(JHIA). JHIA organizes the biennial Quilt Japan Exhibition.

    * Xenia Cord of Indiana
    Owner of Legacy Quilts, an antique quilts brokerage; historian, teacher, writer; partner and producer of Quilt America, a national convention for quilters held annually in Indianapolis from 1990-2000; past president of American Quilt Study Group.

    *Fiona Draper of York, United Kingdom
    Museum Director, Quilt Museum and Gallery

    * Marianne Fons of Iowa
    Publisher; quiltmaker; designer; television host, former co-editor of Fons and Porter Love of Quilting magazine.

    * Brenda Groelz of Utah
    Director of Marketing and Education,Handi Quilter Company; owner of Gray Wind Publishing, a quilt pattern company; author; teacher; lecturer; quilt tour planner and leader; founder of Nebraska State Quilt Guild.

    * Ralph James of Massachusetts
    Representative of Robert and Ardis James Foundation. Executive Director of Executive Education at Harvard Business School.

    * Robert James of Connecticut
    Collector; co-founder and benefactor of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum.

    *Gul Laporte of France
    Teacher, quiltmaker, author of Quilts from Europe, and free-lance writer.

    * George W. Neubert of Nebraska
    Director of the Flatwater Folk Art Museum; Fine art consultant in museum management, exhibition programming, collection development and public art policy; (former director of the San Antonio Museum of Art, Sheldon Art Gallery, former Associate Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art). Artist/Sculptor.

    * Linda Pumphrey of Nebraska
    National Sales Manager, AccuQuilt.

    *Herbert and Patricia Stoddard of Utah
    Patricia Stoddard is a leading expert in ralli quilt art and author of Ralli Quilts: Traditional Textiles of Pakistan and India.

    * John M. (Jack) Walsh III of New Jersey
    Collector and patron of the art quilt.

    * Alice Zrebiec of New Mexico
    Independent curator and consultant; consulting Curator of Textile Art for the Denver Art Museum; former curator of textiles in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; author and lecturer on diverse aspects of textiles and tapestries.

  • Ex-Officio Board Members

    * Patricia Crews
    Director, International Quilt Study Center & Museum; Willa Cather Professor, The Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

    * Michael James
    Chair, The Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

  • Former Board Members

    Mary Leman Austin
    Pascale Bebronne
    Janet Berlo
    Robert Cargo
    Sara Dillow (deceased)
    Raymond Dobard
    Annette Gero
    Bettina Havig
    Jonathan Holstein
    Mary Anne Jordan
    Geeta Khandelwal
    Soon-Hee Kim
    Felicitas Lampert
    Jean Ray Laury
    Bridget Long
    Ursula E McCracken (deceased)
    Penny McMorris
    Mieko Miyama
    Dorothy Osler
    Sue Prichard
    Yvonne Porcella
    Olga Prins-Lukowski
    Simon Prins
    Linda Pumphrey
    Anne Scott
    Nobuaki and Mariko Seto
    Tadanobu Seto
    Lotus Stack
    Patricia Steuert
    Maude Wahlman
    Donna Wilder