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AAQ Description (49-words)

The Alliance for American Quilts, a national nonprofit organization, supports and develops projects to document, preserve, and share the history of quilts and quiltmakers. The Alliance brings together institutions and individuals from the creative, scholarly and business worlds of quiltmaking to advance the recognition of quilts in American culture.

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The Alliance for American Quilts, a national nonprofit organization, supports and develops projects to document, preserve, and share the history of quilts and quiltmakers.

Core Project Descriptions

The Quilt Index
A national online database of quilt images and records bringing together institutional and grassroots collections. Institutional partner: Michigan State University

Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories
Grassroots oral history project preserving the stories of today's quiltmakers from all over the US and abroad Archived at the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center

Quilt Treasures
Multi-media portraits profiling key quilt revival pioneers including quiltmakers, historians, collectors, teachers Institutional partner: Michigan State University

Boxes Under the Bed
Rescue and recovery efforts to save quilt ephemera, preserving items families and collectors find in boxes of quilts. Institutional partner: the University of Texas at Austin, Center for American History's, Winedale Center for the Quilt

Contact Information

For more information, visit our website at http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/

Or contact:

Amy E. Milne, Executive Director:
amy.milne[at]yahoo[dot]com

The Alliance for American Quilts
125 S. Lexington Avenue, Suite 101
Asheville, NC 28801

Phone: (828) 251-7073
Please call if you need to send a fax.