"Put a Roof Over Our Head" Traveling Exhibition at Genesee Valley Quilt Club

September 21, 2006

Louisville, Kentucky, September 21, 2006 — Forty-seven of the quilts from the"Put a Roof Over Our Head" exhibition will be displayed at the Genesee Valley Quilt Club quilt show on October 7 and 8. The guild is celebrating its 70th anniversary. The show is being held at the Schroeder High School Field House, 800 Five Mile Rd., Webster, NY. Artists from around the U.S. and three foreign countries created 74 quilts for the"Put a Roof Over Our Head" contest and traveling exhibit for The Alliance for American Quilts. The quilts, all of which were donated to The Alliance by the artists, will travel around the country until December 2007 when they will be auctioned off. All proceeds will benefit the organization. A CD catalog of the exhibition will also be for sale at the quilt show. Details on the CD and future venues can be found on The Alliance's website www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/par/

The Alliance for American Quilts announced the winners of the"Put a Roof Over Our Head" contest on August 3, 2006. The announcement made by Karen Musgrave, curator and Alliance board member, was part of the celebrations around The Alliance's move to Asheville, North Carolina. Alliance members voted for the three winners from the 74 quilts entered into the contest. Third place winner Ellen Levine of Asheville won a Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories interview. Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories is one of The Alliance's oral history projects. Second place winner Ann Holmes, also of Asheville, won a complete software package donated by The Electric Quilt Company. The first place quilt was a group quilt made by Keti Kasrashvili, Irina Lavrinenko and Nino Chargeishvili of the Republic of Georgia. Their prize is a Bernina Aurora 440 QE sewing machine donated by Bernina USA.

The Alliance for American Quilts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, uniquely joins people who love, study, collect, and make quilts to ensure that our nation's great quilt heritage is documented, preserved and shared at the Center for the Quilt Online ,www.centerforthequilt.org .

For information on The Alliance for American Quilts,www.centerforthequilt.orgcontact The Alliance. For more information on"Put a Roof Over Our Head," contact Karen Musgrave, Curator.

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