2007 Symposium speakers included Jean Ray Laury, well-known California designer, quilter and writer; Stuart Kestenbaum, poet and director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine; and Paulette Peters, renowned Nebraska quilter and teacher.

• Abstracts of Papers from the 2007 Symposium
  
  

Highlights of the 2007 Schedule

• Opening Program: "Our Mothers' Knees" Jean Ray Laury, author of The Creative Woman's Getting-It-All-Together at Home Handbook, Imagery on Fabric, Quilts & Coverlets: A Contemporary Approach, and other books.
  
• Keynote Address: "The Ingenious and the Spiritual: How and Why We Make Things" by Stuart Kestenbaum, Director, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
  
• Closing Plenary Session: "Reflections of a Traveling Quiltmaker/Teacher: What Have We Learned?" Paulette Peters, quilt artist and past President of the Nebraska State Quilt Guild
  

Paper Presentations

• Inside Out and Outside In: Educational Trajectories in African American Quiltmaking Practices
  A Panel Discussion: Carolyn L. Mazloomi, Kyra E. Hicks, Patricia A. Turner, Denise M. Campbell
  
  
• The Alliance for American Quilts: Providing Tools for Quilt Education
  A Panel Discussion: Marybeth C. Stalp, Yvonne Porcella, Justine Richardson, Janneken Smucker
  
  
• Ethnicity and Textile Traditions
  
  • Cook Islands Mamas and the Cultural Transmission of Tivaevae Making, Suzanne MacAulay
  • Nigerian Quilting at the Nike Centre for Art & Culture, Victoria Scott
  • Local to Global, Coast to Shore, Hand to Hand Tracing the Course of African American Quilts, Pearlie Johnson
  • Experience, Place, Practice: Corn Mother and Childless Corn, Annie G. Ross
  
  
• How do you Teach Originality?: The Art Quilters Education
  
  • The Education and Influence of Ohios Non-Traditional Quiltmakers, Gayle Pritchard
  • Ohio Quilt Artists as Teachers, Mary Donatelli Schmitt
  • Learning from the IQSC: An Account from a 2005-2006 Visiting Scholar Fellow, Mary Anne Jordan
  • Design Piracy in a Quilting Community, Sara Marcketti
  
  
• Whats Art Got to do With It? Art Quilt Workshops
  A Panel Discussion: Sandra Sider, Elizabeth Barton, Nancy Erickson, Dominie Nash, Joy Saville
  
  
• Credentialed Quilting: The Professionalization of Quilt Training
  
  • Training for Life: Teaching Quilting as a Skill in the Classroom, Bridget Long
  • Quilting in the Classroom: The Influence of the Manual-Training Approach to Education, Virginia Gunn
  • Teaching the New Art in the Old Way: Educating Quiltmakers in Japan, Nao Nomura
  • Quilt School: The Role of the Quilt Museum, Judy Schwender and Carrie Cox
  
  
• Grassroots and Mass Culture
  
  • Quilt Education on TV: Baby Boomers Tune In and Turn On to Quiltmaking, LeAnn Larson Frobom
  • Beginning Quilters in Las Vegas 1995, Colleen R. Hall-Patton
  • East Texas Quilters, Linda L. Reynolds
  • Stitching Up Oxford Road, Lynn Setterington
  
  
• Teaching Kids to Quilt: Challenges and Opportunities
  
  • Making Quilts with Elementary School Students, Ellen Oppenheimer
  • Tiny Stitches: Teaching Kindergartners the Art of Piecing Quilts Through Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Suzi Yost Schulz
  • Quilt Quest, Diane Vigna
  • Textiles and Personal StorytellingMagical Moments as a Teaching Artist, Janie York
  
  
• The Quilts of Gees Bend in Context Project: Quilting the Academy
  A Panel Discussion: Alicia Carroll, Garnetta Chi Chi Lovett, Denise Davis Maye, Thereza Oleinick
  
  
• Quilt Arts/Curricular Arts: Teaching from the IQSC
  A Panel Discussion: Michael James and Margaret M. Latta, et al
  
  
• Quilt Education Now: A Conversation about Impacts, Challenges, and Future Roles
  Panel discussion moderated by Michael James with guest artists/educators
  
  
• The Quilt as Interdisciplinary Object: Quilting in the New Interdisciplinary Classroom
  
  • The Quilt as a Touchstone for General Education, Lisa Kriner
  • Reading Between the Stitches: Quilt Studies in the College Classroom, Marilyn Luecke
  • Text and Textile: Teaching the Literature of Quilting, Judy Elsley
  • Doing and Knowing: Links between Quilting and Teaching Biology, Maura Flannery
  
  
• The Passing of the Folk Model for Quilt Learning
  
  • Process and Product: the Dicohotomy of Quiltmaking, Xenia Cord
  • Lifes Precepts, from Nursery Rhymes to Zeitgeist Times: Has the Subject of Our Quilts Changed?, Annette Gero
  • Drawing the Lodge: Late-1800s Women Using Quilts to Decode Masonic Secrets, Aimee Newell
  • Patterns and Insight: The Work of Emily Webster, Hilary Anderson
  
  

Works-in-Progress. Open concurrent sessions for all interested symposium participants to share, discuss and solicit feedback Creative Work. To allow those with creative work underway to share their work in an informal setting Research. To allow those with research projects underway but not yet ready to present a formal paper to share information and solicit input Curricular Materials and Resources. To allow educators with curricular ideas that are not ready or intended for publication to share their experiences and solicit input in an informal setting.

Symposium and Related Exhibitions

Several textile exhibitions were held in Lincoln at the same time.

Give and Take featured quilts of artists who have been instructors or students at the annual Quilt Surface Design Symposium held in Ohio.

Other exhibitions included

• "Reading, Writing and a Rhythmic Stitch: Doll and Crib Quilts from the Ghormley Collection"
  
• "Quilts A to Z" Quilts from the International Quilt Study Center & Museum and Nebraska Historical Society
  
• "European Art Quilts IV"
• "Tactile Traces" Work by contemporary textile artists Katherine Allen, Eleanor McCain and Barbara Watler
  
• "Mapping the Surface" Works by textile artist Judith James