The International Quilt Study Center & Museum is pleased to announce its fourth biennial symposium. The Global Quilt: Cultural Contexts will be held April 2-4, 2009 at Holiday Inn-Lincoln and the IQSC. The symposium will explore the full breadth of contexts in which the quiltmaker's art is expressed and transmitted among and across cultures, including the ways in which quilts communicate cultural values, reflect cross-cultural transmission of style or technique, serve as a medium for social connection or reflect and express environmental, artistic, scientific and technological influences of the society in which they were made.