Advisory Board of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum
- Current Advisory Board Members
* Janet Berlo of New York
Art historian; Professor of Art History, University of Rochester. Berlo has taught at the University of Missouri, UCLA, Harvard and Yale universities. She is author of the award-winning book Wild by Design: Two Hundred Years of Innovation and Artistry in American Quilts.
* 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; newly elected president of American Quilt Study Group.
* Marianne Fons of Iowa
Publisher; quiltmaker; designer; television host, former co-editor of Fons and Porter Love of Quilting magazine.
* Brenda Groelz of Colorado
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 & Ardis James of New York
Collectors; founders and benefactors of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum.
* Soon-Hee Kim of Korea
Founder/Director, Chojun Textile and Quilt Art Museum, Seoul
*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.
*Sue Prichard of Great Britain
Curator of Contemporary Textiles, Victorian and Albert Museum.
* Nobuaki and Mariko Seto of Japan
Nobuaki Seto is president of 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.
*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, Dept. of Textiles, Clothing and Design, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
* Michael James
Chair, Department of Textiles, Clothing & Design, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Former Board Members
Mary Leman Austin
Pascale Bebronne
Robert Cargo
Sara Dillow (deceased)
Raymond Dobard
Annette Gero
Bettina Havig
Jonathan Holstein
Gita Khandelwal
Felicitas Lampert
Jean Ray Laury
Bridget Long
Ursula E McCracken (deceased)
Penny McMorris
Mieko Miyama
Dorothy Osler
Yvonne Porcella
Olga Prins-Lukowski
Simon Prins
Linda Pumphrey
Anne Scott
Tadanobu Seto
Lotus Stack
Patricia Steuert
Maude Wahlman
Donna Wilder

