Featured Alliance News
Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt from the Royal Alberta Museum Collection
Royal Alberta Museum Quilts Added to Quilt Index
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA and EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN
As it begins an ambitious new plan to add international quilts, The Quilt Index is happy to announce the first posting of historic quilts from the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton.
The Royal Alberta Museum boasts a fine collection of about 75 quilts related to the province's history, and so far about 45 of them have been posted to the Index's online archive. Eventually, many more of the vintage quilts in the museum's collection will be added, as well as other heritage quilts that are still being documented from regional museums and private collections. Read the full press release here.
Quilters Take Raleigh logo
Quilters Take Raleigh 2012
This summer Original Sewing & Quilt Expo will hold its first show at the new Raleigh Convention Center, featuring a benefit night for the Alliance for American Quilts (Quilt Alliance).
On Friday, June 22nd in Raleigh, North Carolina, Expo attendees can opt for a special package ticket ($45) that includes 1-day Expo admission and a ticket to the Quilters Take Raleigh dessert reception and program beginning at 7 pm. The event is sponsored by FreeSpirit and Rowan, the premier fabric brands of Westminster Lifestyle Fabrics headquartered in Charlotte, N.C. Read the full press release here.
Robert and Ardis James
James Foundation Grant Awarded for Q.S.O.S.
The Robert and Ardis James Foundation has awarded a grant of $30,000 to the Alliance for American Quilts to help grow its highly regarded oral history project, Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories (Q.S.O.S.).
This invaluable grant partially funds the first two years of an ambitious five-year plan to grow, diversify and sustain Q.S.O.S., the single largest grassroots oral history project about quiltmakers. Since 1999, volunteers have conducted more than 1,000 quiltmaker interviews, full transcripts of which are shared on the Alliance website and archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Read the full press release here.
Quilters Take Manhattan 2012
If you like quilts, and New York City, and quilt world stars Denyse Schmidt and Mark Lipinski, then mark September 15, 2012 in your calendar.
Quilters Take Manhattan logo You won't want to miss the second annual Quilters Take Manhattan events, two fun and educational events to benefit the only nonprofit solely dedicated to documenting and preserving the history of quilts and their makers. That would be the Alliance for American Quilts, which is based in Asheville, North Carolina, but whose chief resources are located online at AllianceforAmericanQuilts.org, freely available to every quilt-lover on the planet. Read the full press release here.
Join us in 2012!
The Alliance for American Quilts saves the stories of quilts and the people who make them, and our hundreds of members are people who feel strongly about preserving those stories.
During 2012, we are holding a super-charged member campaign with regular drawings for some spectacular prizes. Read the full press release here.
Other Recent Alliance News
Quilters Take Manhattan 2011
May 16, 2011
The nonprofit Alliance for American Quilts will present a special Big Apple fundraiser with three linked events in New York City on August 5 and 6, 2011. On Friday night, August 5, attend the event "Modern Stories: Documenting the Modern Quilt Movement" an intimate gathering at a Garment District loft. The evening includes a panel of in-the-know bloggers, fabric designers and A-list quilters discussing the Modern Quilt movement. Also, witness Victoria Findlay Wolfe (Bumble Beans Inc.), custom quiltmaker and co-founder of the New York City Metro Area Modern Quilt Guild and Bumble Beans Basics charity project getting interviewed for the Alliance's oral history project, Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories (Q.S.O.S.). Refreshments and door prizes. More
Volunteers Sought for Team Q.S.O.S.
September 26, 2011
This year at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas (November 3-6), a team of volunteers lead by the nonprofit Alliance for American Quilts will interview 64 Texas quiltmakers for the Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories (Q.S.O.S.) oral history project. More
Quilt Index To Go: A New App for Quilt Lovers
February 3, 2011
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA and EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN The largest online database of quilts in the world is now easier to access and share. The Quilt Index team has released Quilt Index To Go, a fun app that delivers a new Quilt Index quilt to the palm of your hand each day. The app is now available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad on the Apple App Store for 99 cents. All revenue will support Quilt Index expansion and sustainability. The Quilt Index website (www.QuiltIndex.org) provides centralized access to nearly 50,000 records, including quilts from state or regional documentation projects, museum and private collections. The Quilt Index, launched online in 2003, is a joint project of Michigan State University Museum; MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University; and the nonprofit Alliance for American Quilts. More