The third biennial symposium of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, held in March 2007, explored the full breadth of contexts, both formal and informal, in which the quiltmaker's art is learned, studied, applied and handed on. This included but was not limited to: historical to contemporary, local to global, mainstream to alternative, self-taught to apprentice, church group to cooperative, workshop to academic coursework. How quiltmakers teach and learn from quilts, how the tactile resonance of quilts influences the education of the women and men who work with them, how changing technology imposes changes in quilt and textile craft education -- these and other topic areas formed the core of "Traditions and Trajectories: Education and the Quiltmaker."
Symposium and Exhibition Sponsors
International Quilt Study Center
Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design
Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
Great Plains Art Museum, Center for Great Plains Studies
Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery
Friends of the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Byron and Sara Rhodes Dillow Excellence Fund
College of Education and Human Sciences
Who Might be Interested?
Symposia will be of special interest to:
- Art Historians
- Artists
- Collectors
- Cultural Anthropologists
- Cultural Theorists
- Historians
- Quilt and Other Textile Artists
- Textile Historians
- Women's Studies Scholars
