"Put a Roof Over Our Head" Contest Winners Announced

August 9, 2006

Asheville, North Carolina, August 9, 2006 — The Alliance for American Quilts announced the winners of the"Put a Roof Over Our Head" contest at the Asheville Quilt Guild show 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.
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. In celebration of The Alliance's move to Asheville, the quilts are presently exhibited in 20 galleries, businesses and government offices around downtown Asheville for the month of August. The quilts, all of which were donated to The Alliance by the artists, will travel around the country beginning September 2006 and will then be auctioned in December 2007. All proceeds will benefit the organization. A CD catalog of the exhibition is for sale. Details on the CD and future venues can be found on The Alliance's website (www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/par/).

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, Center for the Quilt Online, contact The Alliance (502/897-3819 Mon- Fri 9-6 Eastern).

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