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The INTERNATIONAL QUILT
STUDY CENTER at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sponsors
a biennial symposium to provide a forum
for dialogue among a broad spectrum of individuals
interested in quilt design, the social and cultural
history of quiltmaking traditions and related
international textile traditions.
A world-wide audience has the opportunity to hear
keynote lectures, paper presentations and panel
discussions and visit a variety of quilt exhibitions.
Program
Thursday, February 24, 2005
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Behind-the-scenes tour of IQSC including storage
facility, curator highlights of the collection, and a
demonstration of the use of databases in quilt research
7:00-8:30 p.m. Opening Event
Guerrilla Girls 2005: Art Museums, Art History and Beyond
Guerrilla Girls, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 12 th and
R Streets
8:30-9:30 p.m.
Reception and viewing of "The Collector's Eye: Amish
Quilts from the IQSC", Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Friday, February 25, 2005
8:00-10:30 a.m. Registration
Concurrent Sessions
8:30-10:30 a.m. Session 1:
- Collecting Contexts: Contexts of Collecting Session
Chair: Wendy Katz
- Memory and Meaning in a Family Quilt. Collection Laurel
Horton Collecting Families, Collecting Quilts, Anne
Lambert
- Confessions of a Textile Conservator, Harold Mailand
- Seeing, Believing, and Understanding: Documenting
African American Quilting, Experiences
Rhonda Jones
Session 2:
- Wealth, Ambition & Decoration: Motivations for
Collecting, Session Chair: Diane Vigna
- Decorating with Quilts: Fashionable Interiors in the
Early 20 th Century, Linda Eaton
- Eloise Kruger: Documenting Textile History in
Miniature, Susan Curtis
- Concentric Circles in Collections, Joan Major Ciolino
- Rivals, Enemies & Other Collectors: Collecting as
Social Practice in Early Modern England
Kathryn James
10:30 a.m. Break
11:00 Keynote Address
From Hand to Hand, From Time to Time: Creating,
Collecting and Caring
Russell Belk, Eldon Tanner Professor of Business,
University of Utah
12:30 p.m. Lunch
2:00-3:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Session 1:
- Collectors as Outsiders: Cross-Cultural Collecting,
Session Chair: Wendy Weiss
- Collecting Ethnographic Textiles: The Process and
Meaning of Collecting, Sara Marcketti
- Ralli Quilts: Saga of a Collection, Patricia Stoddard
- I Didn't Set Out to Make a Collection: Shifting
Relationships and Gendered Meanings in a Textile
Collection, Susan Torntore
- Market Women and Carnival Ladies: Collecting Caribbean
and New Orleans Dolls, Edythe Ann Quinn
Session 2: Institutional Collecting: Shaping Cultural
Values
Session Chair: Marin Hanson
- The Production of Cultural Value: Implications of
Collecting Quilts and Other Craft Forms, Karin Peterson
- From Shotgun Shacks to Gallery Walls: Issues in
Collecting African American Quilts, Patricia Turner
- Collecting Collections: Trends Today in Quilt
Acquisition, Laura Fisher
- In the Dealer's Footsteps: A Hunt for Quilt
Documentation in Amish Country, Janneken Smucker
3:30 p.m. Break
4:00-5:00 p.m. Special Tour of "The
Collector's Eye: Amish Quilts from IQSC Collections"
Exhibition tour led by collectors Jonathan Holstein and
Henry Barber, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Dinner on Your Own
7:00 p.m. Panel Discussion
Artist, Collector, Institution: A Trilateral Synergy,
Moderator: Michael James
Ursula Ilse-Neuman; Robert Duncan; Terrie Hancock Mangat;
John M.Walsh, III
8:00-9:00 p.m. Reception and viewing of
contemporary quilts from the John M. Walsh III Collection
in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery
Saturday, February 26, 2005
8:00-9:15 a.m. Registration
8:30-10:30 a.m. Paper Presentations
Session 1: Quiltmakers as Collectors: Quilts as
Collections
Session Chair: Lynn White
- It's About the Stash: Quiltmalkers as Fabric Collectors
Maybeth Stalp
- Quiltmaking as Collecting: A New Way to Look at Crazy
Quilts-and at Collecting, Beverly Gordon
- Why Not Beg, Borrow, or Steal?: Tobacco Novelties,
Collecting Women and Conspicuous Thrift
Rachel Pannabecker, Collecting the Cloth, Bridget Long
11:00 a.m. Panel Discussion
Collecting Antique Quilts - Issues and Perspectives,
Moderator: Carolyn Ducey
Nancy Druckman; Jonathan Holstein; Shelly Zegart
12:30 p.m. Closing Remarks
1:00 p.m. Post-conference Opportunities
- Browse local antiques shops.
- View "Patchwork Lives" quilt exhibition at
the Museum of Nebraska History,15 th and P Streets.
- Tour the Nebraska State Capitol, at the intersection of
K Street and 14 th, Street. Guided tours are provided on
the hour M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
and 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday.
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