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